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Monday, April 22, 2024

Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins. A rabbi linked to the university even urged Jewish students to stay home due to concerns about their safety as Passover, a major Jewish holiday, is set to begin Monday evening. Tensions at many universities have been high ever since the October 7 terror attack on Israel by Hamas. However, the situation at Columbia escalated in recent days after university officials testified before Congress last week about antisemitism on campus and pro-Palestinian protests on and near campus surged.

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"Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., daughter says she has nowhere to go and nothing to eat following her suspension from Barnard College after taking part in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last week. Isra Hirsi was among more than 100 people arrested and issued a summons for trespassing on Thursday after protests at Columbia University." www.msn.com

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-22 08:24 AM | Reply

Sounds like she's in danger.

Is she Jewish?

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 08:26 AM | Reply

"In his message, Buechler wrote recent events at the university "have made it clear that Columbia University's Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety."

The police have no duty to protect anyone.
But Columbia does?
LOL

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 08:39 AM | Reply

"Video shared on social media captured a protester Saturday holding a sign that said "Al-Qassam's next targets," referring to Hamas' military wing. An arrow on the sign pointed up to counter-protesters waving Israeli flags. New York Mayor Eric Adams described the sign in a statement Sunday and said the display, which he characterized as antisemitic, had him "horrified and disgusted." He also described chants of "we don't want no zionists here" as "hate speech."" www.yahoo.com

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-22 08:46 AM | Reply

When they claim the protests at @Columbia University are peaceful, show them this video.The coward with the covered face holds a sign that reads: "Al-Qasam's Next Targets" with an arrow pointing to students holding Israeli and American flags. Al-Qasam is the military arm of Hamas, the terror group that murdered, tortured, and raped 1,200 people in one day. pic.twitter.com/v8zDizxkP9" Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 21, 2024

#5 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-22 08:51 AM | Reply

I'm sure JeffJ will be along momentarily to defend their right to Free Speech.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 08:52 AM | Reply

Death to Al-Aqsa Brigades!

Are you really telling me that's hate speech?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 08:58 AM | Reply

"Columbia U tells Jews to go home"

Like, home to Israel, the Jewish Homeland created by White Nationalist European Jews?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 10:03 AM | Reply

Does anyone else smell a skunk?

#9 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-04-22 10:52 AM | Reply

Does anyone else smell a skunk?
#9 | Posted by redlightrobot

Sorry, I don't know what that means. Is that some sort of Palestinian/Hamas proverb?

#10 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-22 11:05 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

What do you expect from New York....the center of "tolerance"?

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 12:27 PM | Reply

Huh? New York is remarkably tolerant. Your comment sounds like a stereotype of what a country bumpkin says.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 12:34 PM | Reply

"New York is remarkably tolerant"

The significant anti-semitism leading to the suggestion Jews stay home or even leave the country says otherwise.

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 12:40 PM | Reply

What percentage of New York do you think Columbia University comprises?

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 12:43 PM | Reply

You could say the ultra Orthodox Jews in Bed-Stuy are not very tolerant, and you'd be right. But again, that's a small fraction, even of Jews in New York.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 12:45 PM | Reply

What percentage of New York do you think Columbia University comprises?
#14 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Trendlines... What happens in the university system is 5-10yrs ahead of what happens in general.

That's the whole point of the indoctrination.

What percentage of Columbia students were antisemitic in the 90s?

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-22 12:51 PM | Reply

Like, home to Israel, the Jewish Homeland created by White Nationalist European Jews?

#8 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Even though the majority of Jews who emigrated to Israel before its founding were Slavs and Russians ...

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2024-04-22 01:33 PM | Reply

Slavs and Russians are White Europeans.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:26 PM | Reply

Something happens in the south... DR: Buncha dumb hick rubes magamagamagamaga

Something happens in NY... DR: What percentage of them are of they of the total of NY.

DR: We don't have a bias.

f'n geniuses here I swear.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-04-22 02:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"What happens in the university system is 5-10yrs ahead of what happens in general."

Like how university students protested Apartheid, and then 5-10 years later the South African government ended Apartheid, that kind of thing?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:27 PM | Reply

"emigrated to Israel before its founding"

Golly, why did you pick a name from their future?

I guess "emigrated to British Occupied Mandatory Palestine" doesn't pack quite the same punch.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:30 PM | Reply

"Something happens in the south... DR: Buncha dumb hick rubes magamagamagamaga
Something happens in NY... DR: What percentage of them are of they of the total of NY."

There's more bias in the South than NYC, and if you have spent any time in to both of those places, you would already know that.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You couldn't make my point any stronger than right there... classic.

#24 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-04-22 02:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Your point is just you whining.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Serious question:

How much time have you spent being black in The South, vs how much time have you spent being black in New York?

If you have stories, do tell!

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:38 PM | Reply

How much time have you spent being a Jew in The South, vs how much time have you spent being a Jew in New York?

Go Ahead. Make my Sabbath.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:38 PM | Reply

Punk.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:39 PM | Reply

Did I say that it doesn't? What percentage of people though? It exists so you broadbrush them all... but This hate, at Cambridge... That you won't. It's not a hard point.

Those you agree with normally you'll ignore when wrong, but those you don't you are fine using as an example to define the whole.

You keep just giving examples thinking you're countering a point, but you're only proving my point. Keep going!!!

#29 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-04-22 02:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Cambridge"

Columbia.

Calling it hate shows you're not doing much listening to what they are saying.

It's like saying pro choice people hate fetuses. Which you probably say.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 02:46 PM | Reply

f'n geniuses here I swear.

#20 | POSTED BY KWRX25

and hope nobody notices....

NYC has been a powder keg of anti-semitism for nearly a century.

en.wikipedia.org

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

And what's with the "are you black or a jew? Then STFU" crap.

---- right off with all of that.

nobody here is a black in the south and I've read 1,000,000,000,000 comments about blacks living in the south.

But now we're talking about racism in New York and everyone needs to STFU about New York.

LOL

#33 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:03 PM | Reply

There's more bias in the South than NYC, and if you have spent any time in to both of those places, you would already know that.

#23 | Posted by snoofy

Totally not true and I have spent time in both places. The bias in NYC is DIFFERENT than in the South. Usually it isn't as much out in the open in NYC. What's funny in the South is all these people telling you they aren't racist, but... (insert bigotry here.) To go even further there is bias anywhere and everywhere you go in gobs, especially since trump. He ripped the veneer off a lot of it.

#34 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-04-22 03:05 PM | Reply

www.timesofisrael.com

It's a little out in the open......

I'm not making a point except to bother people who pretend New York is so tolerant and would be rubbing one out over something going on in rural Oklahoma.

#35 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:08 PM | Reply

I remember when I was working in Georgia around spring break. We were talking on Friday about going to Savannah and maybe the beach. One of the guys we were talking to us said DO NOT go to the beach because Orange Crush is going on. And went on to tell us what sounded pretty bigoted about it was all the black people going to be there and us as young white guys would most likely get mobbed and beat up. What is sad is he wasn't wrong at all.

#36 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-04-22 03:09 PM | Reply

"NYC has been a powder keg of anti-semitism for nearly a century."

On the other side of that coin, there are more Jews living in New York than Israel.

On a less serious note, "nearly a century" is some Johnny Come Lately stuff in terms on anti-Semitism.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"there are more Jews living in New York than Israel."

You don't say? Think that might have something to do with the anti-semitism occurring in NY?

sort of like the racism against blacks in the South?

Thanks, Capt. Obvious.

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:23 PM | Reply

"Think that might have something to do with the anti-semitism occurring in NY?"

What do you mean by "the anti-Semitism?" Protesting the war isn't really anti-Semitism.

The point you're making is the South is most racist because that's where there's the most Black people.

Sounds a lot like, electing a Black President caused racism because suddenly there was a Black where one never was before.

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:34 PM | Reply

"Calling it hate shows you're not doing much listening to what they are saying."

I've heard what they're saying... actions speak louder though... what do you think about protestors blocking jewish students from entering the campus buildings? Or is that another percentage answer?

#40 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-04-22 03:35 PM | Reply

It's hilarious to me that the Rabbi saying
Jews Go Home
Isn't the one being accused anti-Semitism here.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:37 PM | Reply

-What do you mean by "the anti-Semitism?"

The actual anti-semitism that occurrs in New York.

If Jews are being advised to stay home or go back to Israel because they are in that much danger.....well, that sounds like a pretty antisemitic environment.

And I'm not bagging on New York or calling them a bunch of racists.

It is what it is.....and they're dealing with it.

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:39 PM | Reply

"what do you think about protestors blocking jewish students from entering the campus buildings?"

That shouldn't be happening. If you're going to block people, you should block everybody. Blocking Jews just for being Jews is anti-Semitic.

I think the intention of these protesters, for the most part, is anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic. That's not to say there aren't opportunists.

I think Zionists have convinced far too many people those are the same thing.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:45 PM | Reply

we don't require a form to be completed with enough boxes checked to call someone a name like an antisemite.

or a homophobe, or a sexist, or a racist, or anti-trans,

There is no critera....just the accusation.

It would be nice if there were......but it doesn't exist.

#44 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:49 PM | Reply

You're pro rape?
Not surprising.
POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Geez...I forgot to add "pro-rapist".

Thanks, Clown.

#45 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 03:51 PM | Reply

Zionism and MAGA are very similar cults.

One good example of this is how Zionists hate on fellow Jews unless they too are Zionists
And MAGA hates on fellow Republicans unless they too are MAGA.

It's also ironic when some Democrats call out one but embrace the other. They must be so confused.

#46 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-04-22 03:51 PM | Reply

"If Jews are being advised to stay home or go back to Israel because they are in that much danger.....well, that sounds like a pretty antisemitic environment."

It also sounds like fear-mongering by a Zionist Rabbi playing the anti-Semitic card when what's actually being protested isn't the existence of Jews, but the Zionist expansionist war that's killed 30,000 Palestinian civilians.

Is it anti-Semitic to think the Jewish State should return to its 1967 borders?

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:53 PM | Reply

"Is it anti-Semitic to think the Jewish State should return to its 1967 borders?"

If you can't answer this question you can't have this conversation.

#48 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 03:56 PM | Reply

"It also sounds like fear-mongering by a Zionist Rabbi"

If you decide to be pro-Israel, you are encouraged to read the New Zionist Handbook in order to learn how to defend your belief system. It is like one of those old "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. No matter what choices you make, you always end up on the page near the end where you call another person who doesn't share your ethnocentric, genocidal worldview an "Anti-Semite"

#49 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-04-22 04:00 PM | Reply

"playing the anti-Semitic card"

I bought that deck. 54 cards and they are all identical- even the 2 jokers. What a rip.

#50 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-04-22 04:03 PM | Reply

#37 | Posted by snoofy

Factually speaking not true... 1.9 million in New York-Newark-Jersey City and over 7 in Israel. Just sayin...

#51 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-04-22 04:10 PM | Reply

#51 Fair point. Maybe the saying was, there are more Jews in New York City than Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv, or something like that. I heard it all the time from my Jewish friends when I lived outside of New York, around the time Trump was sniffing coke at Studio 54.

#52 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 04:17 PM | Reply

You know, back when Jesse Jackson called NYC "Hymietown."

#53 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 04:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Wherever there's an opportunity to focus the narrative away from ongoing death and destruction and place it instead on the feelings being felt by the politically convenient group of people enabling it, the mainstream media fall all over themselves to do so with such pretentiousness and fulsome enthusiasm.

#54 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-04-22 07:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1


If you decide to be pro-Israel, you are encouraged to read the New Zionist Handbook in order to learn how to defend your belief system.

If you decide to be pro-Hamas, you are encouraged to read the Koran in order to learn how to defend your belief system.

#55 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-22 09:44 PM | Reply

This is going to be an interesting election season (aside of the redeaux) with Team Biden(TM) playing both of the sides of the fence with this one.

#56 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-22 11:17 PM | Reply

Huh? New York is remarkably tolerant.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 12:34 PM | Reply |

For sure... That's why these folks had to be sent home in the name of "safety"

You've always been a crackpot, but I can remember when you, at least, pretended to have a lick of sense.

#57 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-22 11:21 PM | Reply

"That's why these folks had to be sent home in the name of "safety"

You listened to the Rabbi?

That's funny!

#58 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:22 PM | Reply

"That's why these folks had to be sent home in the name of "safety"

How bad is it?

Should the people who are a clear and present danger have their guns taken away, in the name of safety?

Or is it okay for the Hamas Terrorists to have guns?

Let us know.

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:30 PM | Reply

-You listened to the Rabbi?

The lying Jew?

#60 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 11:35 PM | Reply

That's why these folks had to be sent home in the name of "safety"

Who sent them home? Who paid?

#61 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-04-22 11:38 PM | Reply

You listened to the Rabbi?

That's funny!

#58 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:22 PM | Reply | Flag

And you honestly believe that the university wants this kind of publicity?

I could be wrong, but everything says this would have been swept under the rug if it were possible.

#62 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-22 11:38 PM | Reply

Why do you hat Rabbis? I didn't think Rcade tolerated antisemitism...

#63 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-22 11:40 PM | Reply

The Sky Is Falling Jew work better for you?

#64 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:40 PM | Reply

"Why do you hat Rabbis?"

Because they're supposed to wear a yarmulke!

Any more questions from the IQ 80 contingent?

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:41 PM | Reply

"And you honestly believe that the university wants this kind of publicity?"

I honestly believe Zionists are the kind of leaders who never let a crisis go to waste.

Exhibit A: Netanyahu's failed leadership that got 1200 Jews murdered created a crisis which prompted Israel to kill 30,000 Palestinians.

Let me know if you can see how that's related to what's going on at Columbia, or if you need me to explain it.

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:45 PM | Reply

I think one of the big disconnects here is you people who never went to college don't know that protests are common on college campus.

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:46 PM | Reply

Another big disconnect is not being able to acknowledge that Netanyahu's failed leadership that got 1200 Jews murdered.

If you can't acknowledge that, then you don't understand what's happening.

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:48 PM | Reply

Snoofy thinks it's totally normal to stab a person in the eye with a flag pole at a protest.

#69 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-04-22 11:49 PM | Reply

JeffJ thinks it's not the biggest failure in Jewish leadership since the Holocaust when Netanyahu let 1200 Jews get murdered.

#70 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-22 11:52 PM | Reply

"you people who never went to college don't know that protests are common on college campus."

What did you protest, big guy?

#71 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-22 11:58 PM | Reply

I protested the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the war in Iraq in 2003.

They were great experiences and I made friends with some great people.

#72 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-23 12:01 AM | Reply

"I honestly believe Zionists are the kind of leaders who never let a crisis go to waste."

Reminds me of a few dozen contributors on this site over the past couple decades.

#73 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-23 12:03 AM | Reply

#72

Afghanistan, you protested? Why?

Iraq makes sense... But don't understand the Afghanistan protest.

But we're there many that protested?

#74 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-23 12:11 AM | Reply

I played ball
Studied
Drank beer
Girls

Not much protesting.

Once, I was the victim of an injustice.

I didn't protest.

Instead I asked for a meeting with the president. Got one.

And got what I wanted.

Sort of realized at that point I could sell.

#75 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-23 12:19 AM | Reply

Afghanistan, you protested? Why?

Possibly because it was a stupid thing to do?

#76 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-04-23 01:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I was ignoring that idiot.

But yes.

I protested the war because it was a stupid response.

Especially when it was carried out by a bunch of Saudis.

Then there's everything else about it that I don't want to spend time getting into.

#77 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-23 02:08 AM | Reply

By the lefts logic only 1 stabbing in the eye is still a mostly peaceful protest.

#78 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-04-23 09:10 AM | Reply

"A keffiyeh on an American college campus is just a hipster swastika "

and those idiot children threatening and calling for death of Jews is more 'nazi'...

than any GD lie any of you lying sack of shtz ever lied about maga.

#79 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-04-23 12:22 PM | Reply

How bad is it?
Should the people who are a clear and present danger have their guns taken away, in the name of safety?
Or is it okay for the Hamas Terrorists to have guns?
Let us know.

#59 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-04-22 11:30 PM | FLAG:

Great example in the ineffectiveness of gun control. You can throw an army, navy, airforce, and spies at it and still can't stop a flow of guns even when you know which direction they're flowing from.

#80 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-23 12:32 PM | Reply

"By the lefts logic only 1 stabbing in the eye is still a mostly peaceful protest"

Almost as logical as the Zionist apologist's assertion that 70+ years of oppression, physical and psychological torture, maiming, annihilation of social infrastructure, and murder of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people is not a Genocide.

#81 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2024-04-23 12:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

70+ years of oppression, physical and psychological torture, maiming, annihilation of social infrastructure, and murder

This is what people who cry about October 7th are completely ignoring.

They're picturing the conflict as two countries fighting each other.

Instead of realizing the actions of October 7th are actually prison inmates striking out at their POs.

The Palestinians need their own nation.

I believe it will greatly diminish the power Hamas has.

#82 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-23 01:01 PM | Reply

Almost as logical as the Zionist apologist's assertion that 70+ years of oppression, physical and psychological torture, maiming, annihilation of social infrastructure, and murder of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people is not a Genocide. #81 | Posted by pumpkinhead

Hey, it's not all bad.

You guys are now the proud owners of some really nifty tunnels. Will significantly cut down on traffic time for those rush-hour commutes to Israeli music festivals.

#83 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-23 05:06 PM | Reply

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