The Ivy
Is Still Poison
We all remember the disastrous testimony of three presidents of the Ivy League
when testifying before Congress at the end of last year about their schools’ dismal
response to the recent, massive rise of campus antisemitism. Two of them, the University
of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, and Harvard’s Claudine Gay, have since resigned.
The primary reason was their uniquely repulsive remarks regarding the safety
and status of Jews at their respective schools. Magill resigned quickly. Gay
refused to resign, doing so only after repeated revelations about her total
lack of qualifications for the post, and her tendency (some would say “need”)
to plagiarize.
This followed weeks of antisemitic incidents on campuses across the nation,
many occurring across the Ivy League. I wrote about it back in December.
I can’t help but think, based on what I’ve personally observed, that for most
Americans it was the end of the issue. Or, at the very least, the perception is
that the two sacrificial resignations (both Magill and Gay remain as faculty,
both retaining HUGE salaries), must have been the beginning of an end to such
open toleration of Jew hatred.
If that is what you think: you think wrong.
Every single day, there are reports of incidents against Jewish students at
universities across America. But recently, there were two that really caught my
eye. One is egregious, and the other is egregious, heinous, and a lot of other really negative
adjectives.
The nation just celebrated another Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I’m old enough
to remember one of my elementary school teachers playing the “I Have Dream”
speech on vinyl during class (this was in the very old days, before vinyl had
any kind of retro cache). It, literally, gave me chills. The ideas that this
great man so charismatically espoused, like the idea that people should be
judged by the content of their character, not their skin color, pierced my
elementary school consciousness. That was true of the other lofty ideals the
speech is correctly revered for.
Little did I know that decades later, in another century, a prestigious, elite
university would be giving something called the “MLK Jr. Social Justice Award”
to someone that hates Israel, and would absolutely judge me by my religion,
ethnicity, and undoubtedly for the color of my skin.
In fact, in his speech, King expressed longing for the day when “God's
children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics, will be able to join hands…”
So giving an award to an antisemite would seem to be the opposite of King’s
message. That’s obvious.
At least it’s obvious if you have a functioning mind, capable of critical
thought, and aren’t suffering the brain decaying condition known as “wokeness.”
That condition robs you of any ability to be intellectually honest and
substitutes any sense of honor, integrity, or aversion to hypocrisy, with a
cultish devotion to its contradictory dictates.
The University of Pennsylvania gave this award to a woman named Dorothy Roberts. She is a professor of
sociology and law.
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| Dorothy Roberts (Wikimedia Commons) |
The announcement for
the event said that “The 23rd Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lecture in Social Justice proudly presents Dorothy Roberts as she reflects on
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Among others, it was sponsored by the Center
for Africana Studies and the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society.
You can guess the ideological leanings of the organizers.
Roberts, just 11 days after the Hamas massacres of 10/7, tweeted:
’Collective punishment of two million civilians, nearly
half of them children, is a moral catastrophe to which current U.S. policy
critically contributes.’ I was morally compelled to sign this US legal
scholars’ letter.
What was this letter?
Signed by 178 members of the faculties of America’s law
schools, it claimed that Israel was committing “internationally supported genocide,”
referred to Israel as “an apartheid regime whose occupation is in clear
violation of international law," claimed that Gazans "face genocide
and ethnic cleansing,” and repeated the lie that the population of Gaza was
being deprived of the “basic means of survival,” including water, food and
electricity.”
Amazingly, this letter was written on October 16, 11 days before Israel’s
ground offensive against Gaza began.
If you’re the kind of person who is fascinated by stupidity, you can read the full
letter here.
Previously, Roberts had expressed her support of the antisemitic Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions idiocy (BDS) movement (even if she can’t spell, see
the link), and claimed that Jews are white because we
supposedly all have power, or run the world, or the banks…or something.
The bottom line is that this obvious bigot hates Jews and shouldn’t have been
allowed anywhere near anything with MLK’s name on it. Or be allowed near any
classroom in the future.
Oh, and she opposes adoption because she thinks…wait
for it… it’s “racist”!
Of course she does.
The entire thing was, as I said, egregious.
Another one is, also as promised, egregious and heinous.
Heinously disgusting.
Cornell University has a PhD student instructor named Alyiah Gonzales. I am
sure that the irony, and cultural appropriation, of her first name escapes her
completely.
This fine specimen of intersectionally driven achievement said recently that
Israelis should "rot in the deepest darkest pits of hell.”
More recently, she cancelled her “English” class in “"race, writing, and power”
(of course).
Why?
In her words it was: “in solidarity with collective calls for a Global Strike
for Palestine.” She went on to say that she "mourn[s] the fact that all
universities in Gaza have been destroyed or demolished by Israeli military
forces." In lieu of class, she asked her students to write an essay on
"the relationship between writing, power, and systems of oppression."
Blah, blah, blah. They all sound exactly the same.
This is the same Cornell at which a junior was arrested for posting messages
saying that he was going to "bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot
all you pig Jews." That was in October.
Another Cornell professor named Rusty Rickford, a history teacher, praised the Hamas massacre of Oct.
7, while saying that it was “exhilarating” and “energizing.”
Rickford was not formally punished, but instead “went on leave.”
Will the same thing happen to Gonzales? I would say no. She is higher up the
DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) hierarchy. I don’t think they will touch
her. I hope that I am wrong.
In fact, the only recognition of Gonzales’ behavior came from the provost of
Cornell, Michael Kotlikoff. He issued the usual weak, meaningless, jargon
laden, uselessness saying “Canceling classes as a political call to action, or
using one's role in instruction to promote a personal or political belief,
diminishes our role as educators."
Once again, the statement has nothing to do with Jews, Israel or “hate speech,”
and instead is about their own narcissism and fear that they will be pressured
to go the Liz Magill route (again, she resigned but is still on salary, and
teaching at the school).
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Alyiah Gonzales (Cornell University English Department) - Of course she is holding a book by known Israel hater Toni Morrison. Resembling Little Richard does nothing to change her odiousness.
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Even more concerning than her call to cancel class, and Cornell’s refusal to
treat it as what it is: an attempt to draw her students into her own web of
antisemitism, is the fact that Gonzales was ever hired in the first place, and
wasn’t fired long before this point.
Just since Oct. 7 she has posted a series of deeply antisemitic posts. These include saying "Me, personally, I
think the fuck ass settler state of Israel and all those complicit in genocide
and occupation can rot in the deepest darkest pits of hell…”
Remember, this person is teaching English.
In November she said “If you've been silent and wallowing in ignorance … wake
up and stand tf up, I will forever stand in solidarity with the Palestinian
peoples—land back means LAND BACK, period. … WHERE IS YOUR RAGE? RESIST.
RESIST. RESIST.”
Gonzales also has a history of posting antisemitic words/images on Instagram. Two
examples, of many, are below.
In one she refers to the worst attacks on Jews since the Holocaust as
“decolonization.” In the other, she posted an image of a Hamas paraglider, the
type used on Oct. 7, and said “Freedom has only ever been achieved through
resistance. Stand with the Palestinian resistance.”
I don’t know about you, but I am so sick of these little twerps referring to
the mass murder of Jews as “resistance.” They are narcistic, arrogant, pretentious
people playacting at adulthood.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Gonzales’
Cornell bio claims that she is “dedicated to the queer, coalitional, and
transformative possibilities of literature written by, for, and about Black
womxn,” and her “research” is in "Black feminism," "Black
womxn's literature," "queer theory," and "intersectionality
studies."
Note the absurd, cultish, use of the letter “x” in women.
In her spare time, again according to her own bio, she likes to write “fantasy
novels” and also write about herself in the third person. She says that she is “an
unhinged zillenial who spends most of their time escaping into fantasy through
both reading and writing,” and that “Iced Coffees, mean cats, and colorful hair
make up the bulk of Alyiah's life.”
Most of “their” time. It's all so insufferable.
These are not intelligent people.
The only valid resistance here is forceful resistance to people like Roberts
and Gonzales, their insanity, their bigotry, their dishonesty, and their
ability to spread ideologically driven crap through our schools, turning kids
across America into antisemitic, unthinking, ignorant members, not of a
productive society, but of a dangerously obedient cult.
Never give in. Never give up.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
