Are University Professors and students right to demand free speech? It depends. If they want free speech so as to be better able to pursue alethic research programs, then the answer is 'yes'. But if they have only entered the University to make money or wage war, then the answer is no. Back in the Sixties, the feeling was that the 'Military Industrial complex' wanted smart peeps, like Grothendieck, to work only on nuclear bombs. Yet, advances in pure mathematics would actually more than proportionately benefit both military and peaceful applications of new technology or new scientific theories.
At that time, it was plausible to believe that a guy like Edward Said, who was a genuine A-rab, might be able to tell us truthful things about his part of the world while WASP professors, paid by the Pentagon, would maintain that all A-rabs be kray kray and thus much more tax dollars should be spent on bombing them to buggery. Sadly, Said turned out to be a hysterical fool. Identity Politics & Grievance Studies, of his sort, were mischievous and counter-productive. Why? The answer is, if people doing a PhD or who were supervising PhDs thought their main purpose in life was to say 'boo to the rich!' of 'fuck the police!' or 'kill all the kikes!', then, clearly what they were studying or teaching had about as much alethic value as being an alcoholic, paranoid, nutjob.
Over the years, this blog has mentioned various Columbia University Professors whose stupidity, bigotry and ignorance suggest that several faculties there are not fit for purpose. They have no place in what is supposed to be an Institution of Higher Learning. They must either get rid of those ignorant 'activist' Professors and students or forfeit Federal funding.
One Columbia Emeritus Professor, Rashid Khalidi, on whose book I commented five years ago, now asks in the Guardian whether
Columbia still merits the name of a university?Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution.
It was never about eliminating antisemitism.
Which is why Khalidi was hired as 'Edward Said Professor' of Modern Arab- i.e. terrorist- Studies
It was always about silencing Palestine.
Which other Arab countries have done well enough- though, sadly, this sometimes has involved killing or chasing them away.
That is what the gagging of protesting students, and now the gagging of faculty, was always meant to lead to.
Nobody gives a toss about Palestinians, least of all the billionaires running Hamas. Interestingly, Khalidi seems wholly unconcerned with the uptick in casualties in Gaza where the death toll has risen above 50,000. He does not mention Huckabee's confirmation hearing, today. If he becomes Ambassador to Israel, many will see it as a signal that the 'two state solution' is off the table. Palestine has no right to exist. At that point, Khalidi will need to write an op-ed for the Guardian asking whether the US still merits the name of a nation. According to his logic, it would become a trans-Atlantic Vichy or, in the jargon of the far right, ZOG- Zionist Occupation Government. Hopefully, Khalidi will learn to chew tobacco and join a White militia in the Appalachian mountains.
While partisans of the Israeli-American mass slaughter in Gaza may have been offended by their protests, large numbers of the students whose rights of free speech have been infringed upon via draconian punishments were themselves Jewish.
Khalidi is well known for his tender concern for Jews. He often volunteers his services as a Shabbas Goy performing menial services for Jews so that they can properly observe their Sabbath.
Many of those faculty members who are about to be deprived of academic freedom and faculty governance, and perhaps fired, are themselves Jewish, indeed some are Israelis.
We should offer them refuge in tunnels built under Columbia University. Netanyahu is trying to get his hands on Jews whose freedom of speech Hamas is currently protecting. Yet, Zionist propaganda alleges that the Jews offered asylum by Hamas are 'hostages'!
If it were ever really about discrimination, the university would have taken action against the ceaseless harassment of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and faculty,
by a British-Egyptian lady who had previously run the LSE
and their allies and supporters, instead of endorsing and enabling it.
The University objected even to the occupation of its buildings! How many tunnels under it have the University funded? It does not even provide financial support for the kidnapping and killing of Jews. Thus, it can no longer call itself a 'University'. Just two years ago, a Columbia University Professor won the Nobel Prize for 'Chemistry'. Yet, Brus hasn't killed or even kidnapped a single Jew! How can Columbia call itself an Institute of Higher Learning when even Nobel Prize winning Professors there are too fucking stupid or lazy to kill Jews? This totally ignores the freedom of expression of Jews who should be screaming with pain as their heads are sawed off.
This was always about protecting the monstrous, transparent lies that a genocidal 17-month Israeli-American war
Biden & Harris are war-criminals! Why have they not been charged with genocide?
on the entire Palestinian people was just a war on Hamas, or that anything done on 7 October 2023
Hamas still has hostages. That justifies killing Gazans till those hostages are given up.
justifies the serial massacres of at least 50,000 people in Gaza, most of them women, children and old people, and the ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine from their homeland. These lies, generated by Israel and its enablers, which permeate our political system and our moneyed elites, were repeated ceaselessly by the Biden and Trump administrations, by the New York Times and Fox News, and have now been officially sanctioned by a once great university.
An American university acts in line with democratically elected American leaders. The question is whether it is justified in employing a Professor who thinks past American Presidents have engaged in genocidal war-crimes. Indeed, there is a question as to whether the naturalization of such Professors should be withdrawn.
These lies are rooted in blatant racism.
Khalidi & Co. were very happy to settle in the deeply racist 'Turtle Island'. They are part of a genocidal project and an illegal occupation of land which rightly belongs to the indigenous First Nations.
Frantz Fanon
whose native Martinique decided to remain part of France rather than become independent. The Lebanese wish France still ruled their country.
wrote that the Manichaenism of the colonist sometimes “goes to its logical conclusion and dehumanizes the native, or to speak plainly, it turns him into an animal”.
He never learned Arabic. His widow demanded that the publisher of 'Wretched' omit Sartre's preface because of Sartre's support for Israel's right to exist in 1967. Later, having become disillusioned with Arab regimes, she killed herself in Algiers.
Indeed, Israeli minister of defense, Yoav Gallant, in October 2023 called Palestinians “human animals”. Benjamin Netanyahu said of them: “I don’t call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals.”
Trump says worse about those he considers to be illegal migrants. The problem is that he may now cancel not just Green Cards but also Naturalizations and deport 'activists' of all sorts. Some Indians have already been sent packing. The problem with Palestinian Americans is that no country will take them.
In this colonial war,
in which, this nutter says Biden & Harris were active belligerents
through this lens, Palestinian lives, like other brown and Black lives,
not to mention the lives of transgender people
are rendered a worthless, faceless, dehumanized mass, while other lives are uplifted and individually cherished and mourned.
Why is Khalidi considered worthless whereas some 'Chemist' gets a fucking Nobel Prize? Is it coz Khalidi is a disabled Transgender person of Colour?
We should hold on to these thoughts as long as we can, because in the dystopian world we have entered, simple mention of race and racism are, or will soon be, violations of the perverse current reading of federal law.
Even denouncing America and demanding the overthrow of the illegal ZOG may, perversely, lead to charges of sedition or even the cancelling of Green Cards or Naturalization papers.
Once the quislings
i.e. Nazi collaborators- like Grand Mufi Husseini. Sadly, he escaped justice at Nuremberg.
who run Columbia University have implemented the diktats of their masters in Washington and on the board of trustees, once these diktats have spread to other universities under threat, teaching and even quoting Fanon will be perilous indeed,
No. He was banging on about how fucking horrible it is to be bleck just as De Boudoir was banging on about how fucking horrible it is to have a vagina. That shite can continue. Support for terrorists who kill Americans may, however, get you incarcerated or deported.
as will be mere mention of race and racism, not to speak of gender, disability and much else. We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over, and faculty and staff fired.
Pinochet systematically sodomised dissident goats. Many of those goats protested to the UN but Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary General at that time, slut-shamed those goats. Sadly, Fanon's widow refused to publicize their plight because, as she pointed out, those goats looked a bit Jewy. Even more sadly, her dead husband refused to return to life to beat her in the manner to which she had become accustomed during her years of domestic bliss. I need hardly point out that both these outcomes were the direct result of Neo-Liberalism which is totes evil.
We should not mourn what Columbia has become, for as great as it may have been,
back when Jim Crow was sound law
none of this is entirely new. Before the current expulsions and suspension, Columbia once in its history expelled a student for non-violent protest: in 1936 for protesting against offering a platform to Nazis. In 1953 its president signed a letter pronouncing communists unfit to teach. Columbia trustees fired two faculty members for opposing the first world war on pacifist grounds, while student conscientious objectors were arrested and jailed.
So, the place did sensible things at a time when it was rising up. It can do so once again. The woke nutters have shat the bed and can be removed from Campus. Indeed, some will be removed from the country unless, like Ranjani Srinivasan, a PhD student at Columbia, they 'self-deport' after their visa is revoked.
Columbia has long been run
properly, rather than as a terrorist organization
more like the vast, wealthy business and real estate empire
in other words, it is professionally run.
that it is, than as an educational institution.
I suppose, Khalidi thinks 'educational institutions' should focus on killing, or at least kidnapping, Jews, Americans and other such Kaffir scum.
It is a place where trustees, donors and powerful professional schools dictate its policy, not the rest of its faculty.
I don't suppose the Chemistry faculty has any complaints. That is because Chemistry is useful. What Khalidi does is not useful. It is simply a way to pretend to fight for Palestine while remaining safe and secure.
In the spring of 2024, two-thirds of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
which was three quarters shit.
voted no confidence in a president who bowed to outside pressure, threw her faculty under the bus, and called in the NYPD for the first time since 1968.
Faculties may hate Trump, but Trump is POTUS and SCOTUS is dominated by his appointees.
Her successor has outdone her, further garlanding Columbia’s already rich repressive traditions with groveling obeisance to government dictates that were promoted and eagerly seconded by shameless collaborators within the university.
Will this nutter resign from Columbia and deport himself from 'Turtle Island'. No. He will continue to grovel to the ZOG and finance its genocide by dutifully paying his taxes. This man is a shameless collaborator with Pinochet's brutal program of sodomizing and slut shaming dissident transgender goats.
After Friday’s capitulation, Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching and scholarship on the Middle East,
which is as shit as its 'teaching and scholarship' on America or Europe or everywhere else. On the other hand, the Chemistry department is good.
and soon much else, will soon be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda.
As opposed to Hamas propaganda. Sad.
Partisans of Israel, infuriated that scholarship on Palestine had found a place at Columbia, once named it “Bir Zeit on the Hudson”.
that's a Palestinian Christian- i.e. Kaffir- University which, no doubt, the good folks of Hamas will shut down.
But if it any longer merits the name of a university, it should be called Vichy on the Hudson.
This man has Vichy water on the brain. I'm kidding. It is obvious that Khalidi got Generative AI to write this for him. Say what you like, Palestinians are smart people. Sadly, the only growth industry Hamas will permit in Gaza is 'Pay for Slay'.
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