April 26, 2024

RICH LOWRY: It’s Columbia 1968 — the antisemitic version.

Israel is to today’s radicals what the Pentagon was to 1968’s.

Just as the protesters back then demanded the university cut ties with a Defense Department outfit doing research for the Vietnam War, today’s radicals want the university to divest from Israel.

The essential argument is the same — that Columbia bears moral responsibility for crimes against humanity committed in an imperialist war.

Yesteryear’s agitators might have been surprised to learn that student demonstrators acting in the tradition of 1968 have been discomfiting and harassing Jews and expressing support for a horrific terrorist assault.

Here too, though, there are connections to 1968, at least its more extreme elements.

The famed Columbia protest leader Mark Rudd went on to become part of the violent Weather Underground.

The Weather Underground you say? A generation from now, who will emerge from these protests as having shaped American politics at the highest level?

Posted at 8:12 am by Ed Driscoll

BOB GRABOYES: Columbia Delenda Est.

Related:

There sure seems to be a lot of this stuff out there.

Posted at 8:02 am by Glenn Reynolds

GREAT MOMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Posted at 7:32 am by Glenn Reynolds

ELON MUSK vs. the Globalist Censors. “Australia’s top thoughtcop – let’s call a spade a spade – is one Julie Inman Grant. She has the power under the Online Safety Act 2021 to demand the removal of ‘Class 1 material’ from the internet. That’s anything that depicts ‘revolting or abhorrent phenomena [that] offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety’. The vast bulk of what gets wiped off the web is child porn. Sometimes clips of violence are culled, too. Right now, Ms Inman Grant is seeking to excise a video of a stabbing. But here’s the twist: she doesn’t only want to block Aussie eyes from seeing it, but everyone’s eyes. Everyone in the world. All of us. Tyrant much?”

Australia is basically reverting to its prison origins.

Posted at 7:16 am by Glenn Reynolds

TRUTH ISN’T A DEFENSE:  A judge on the Superior Court in San Diego has been disqualified from hearing cases under the Racial Justice Act on the ground of bias.  In part he is accused of having said:   “There is absolutely no evidence that … the proportion of persons in an ethnicity committing a crime must be the same as the proportion in the population.”  The problem, of course, is that statement is plainly true.

 

 

Posted at 7:07 am by Gail Heriot
“PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPTED AND SUCCESSFUL DISRUPTION WE HAVE SEEN RELATED TO THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN 2024.” In my latest for the Eternally Radical Idea I remind readers that this is the context in which the chaos currently unfolding on college campuses takes place & that colleges have failed in upholding the free speech rights or promises of their students and faculty for decades.
Posted at 6:32 am by Greg Lukianoff