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Harvard suspends the Palestine Solidarity Committee

Townhall comments on how Harvard had to suspend the Palestine Solidarity Committee.

Harvard College suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee for the remainder of the Spring semester and threatened permanent expulsion if they fail to “cease all organizational activities,” The Harvard Crimson reports.

The move comes as pro-terrorist demonstrations have overtaken parts of campuses at Columbia and Yale Universities.

PSC, which has been on probation since March, was notified via email of the temporary suspension for failing to register a protest and violating use-of-space guidelines.

The PSC was one of several student organizations, including some unrecognized student organizations, to stage a rally in Harvard Yard on Friday in solidarity with student activists at Columbia, more than 100 of whom were arrested on Thursday by the New York City Police Department.

During the rally, attendees marched and chanted outside the offices of administrators in the Yard, concluding on the steps of Widener Library.

The group also found itself at the center of controversy in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, when the PSC published a statement co-signed by more than 30 other student groups that stated it held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” from Hamas’ attack. (The Harvard Crimson)

“The organization will not be recognized and will not have access to university benefits and services during this time, including but not limited to use of campus space and appropriate use of the Harvard name,” the email reads. “If the organization continues to operate and commits additional violations during this suspension, the organization risks permanent expulsion, as provided in the Resource Guide.”

(Read more at Townhall)

Thankfully, Harvard administrators may have started to wake up from wokeness

While there is no guarantee of liberation from liberalism in the Ivy League, it may be that the people in charge of receiving funds and hearing from alumni may have started to return to sanity. Maybe.

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UH students on the student council use deceptive means to silence a Jewish voice, and then report themselves as “freedom fighters”

The Daily Cougar of the University of Houston tells how their student council voted to support the “Palestinian cause.”

On Thursday afternoon, Students for Justice in Palestine HTX held a protest at UH in support of Palestine.

SJP, along with other student supporters, called for divestment on campus and demanded UH get rid of companies which they say are complicit in genocide.

The protest took place on the North Lawn of Student Center North and the protestors chanted slogans like, “Renu Khator you will see, Palestine will be free” and “while you’re learning, Gaza’s burning.”

(Read more leftist repetition of talking points at The Daily Cougar)

Not mentioned by the little leftists was the exclusion of the opposition

iHeart Media’s KTRH news radio reports that the debate over the pro-Palestine measure was held by the University of Houston student council at a time that Jewish students on the council could not attend.

Last night, the University of Houston student government association debated a resolution condemning Israel, an antisemitic resolution on the evening of the holiday of Passover, when none of the Jewish students would be able to speak out against the antisemitic resolution” Rabbi Weiss told KTRH, “That type of behavior is just unconscionable, and inexcusable.”

But apparently acceptable on college campuses all across the country.

“There is a time, place, and manner for protests on college campuses” noted Weiss, “But this is neither the time, the place, nor the manner in which to have these types of protests.”

(Read more at KTRH)

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Not the “peaceful protest” mentioned by Democrats AOC and Biden: NYU students bash NYPD officers as over a hundred are arrested

The National Review notes the tone set by NYU students as NYPD officers broke up their protest (and it wasn’t the “peaceful protest” referred to by AOC and Joe Biden).

New York University students slammed New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in a rally in Washington Square Park on Tuesday, a day after police cleared out an anti-Israel encampment in an outdoor campus plaza.

The students, who staged a “walk-out” and congregated in the park, directed their ire toward the NYPD officers who arrested 133 students, faculty members, and outside agitators Monday.

“It is right to rebel,” the protesters chanted, “NYPD, go to hell.”

(Read more at the National Review)

If AOC, Sanders, and Biden can claim this to be peaceful, why isn’t the same latitude given to President Trump

Despite the evidence of students taking over the campuses of Berkley, Harvard, Columbia, and many other institutions of leftist indoctrination, AOC is quoted in the Daily Mail as claiming the protests which center around chants of “from the river to the sea” (meaning the extermination of Jews) to be “peaceful.” (Bolding is mine for emphasis)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is backing ‘nonviolent’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have disrupted Columbia University by setting up an encampment on the campus grounds in protest of U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza.

The New York progressive denounced Columbia President Minouche Shafik for allegedly threatening to call in the National Guard to disperse the group of demonstrators who call themselves the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

‘Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act,’ AOC wrote on X.

She added: ‘It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.’

Shafik gave up on her midnight deadline after the group ignored the demand to break up and extended it for another 48 hours after they reportedly pledged to remove a ‘significant’ number of tents and non-students from the demonstration.

AOC (D-N.Y.) says the Manhattan Ivy League school is wrong to try and stop the demonstrators from besieging the campus.

It isn’t the first time AOC has praised protesters who oppose Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas terrorists in Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

The squad member applauded pro-Palestinian protesters when opening for President Joe Biden at an Earth Day event in Virginia on Monday.

Alongside fellow progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey, AOC told the crowd: ‘It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping this country today, of all days, as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student-led protests on campuses like Columbia and Yale and Berkeley and many others.’

(Read more at the Daily Mail)

Never mind that

• There have been physical attacks against Jewish students.
• The whole of the most recent war stems from Hamas murdering at least 1,139 Israeli and American citizens on 7 October 2023 and an additional 661 in the next six months.
• Some 34,262 Palestinians have been used as human sheilds by Hamas.

Still, we are supposed to believe that (since Democrats are supporting this) it is all peaceful — just like the “summer of peace” with BLM.

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Some U.S. senators issue a warning to chaos-backing universities

Townhall points out how some senators have gone to the campuses (just as a few went to the border) and now the senators seem willing to take action on the state of the campuses.

Now, more than 25 members of the United States Senate led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) are demanding that schools allowing, tolerating, or encouraging such shocking and often unlawful displays of anti-Jew and anti-Israel hate face accountability and a loss of taxpayer funds. The letter was also signed by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).

.@SenTomCotton calls for the Biden administration to deport foreign students who are engaging in anti-Semitic protests on college campuses:

"They certainly have no right to be here spewing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel filth." pic.twitter.com/emfSCHs539

— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) April 23, 2024

In their letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the cadre of upper chamber lawmakers demand action in response to the “outbreak of anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs on college campuses” that have “effectively shut down college campuses and have literally chased Jewish students away from our schools.”

(Read more and see the letter at Townhall)

I am glad to see this action; however, don’t forget how we got here.

Least we forget how we got here, we :

• Opened our borders within the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and (to a lesser degree) Donald Trump years to a stream of immigrants whose foundation does not center on “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
• Likewise have turned from the 1950’s forward to a more socialistic model. Initialy, SSI was meant to take care of widows and orphans. Then it became a resource for both men and women in their final years. Then the government got involved in providing medical benefits to the poor and aged. Now we have Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, and numerous other programs the government has no business in being so meddlesome.
• Therefore, we (the citizens) have our hands out. And, adding to that, Democrats have decided to buy votes by importing some 12 million and counting illegal aliens (who they have handed debit cards).
• Have become the target of regimes like Iran (and, to a degree, their allies like Biden and Obama) who would love to take us down.
• Have a main stream press that only reports items beneficial to Joe Biden and the most liberal of Democrats.

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