Posted on 11/03/2023 11:47:36 AM PDT by grundle
I’m a 40-year-old Columbia University professor and last month I found myself crying in front of dozens of strangers on campus.
I wasn’t planning on crying. The tears just came out when I spoke about the danger of antisemitism on US campuses in a video that has since gone viral. Judging from the thousands of supportive messages I’ve received, it seems that Jewish Americans around the country have been crying with me. It was a cry of despair — a howl, really — that took on the purest form of human pain. A cry that arose from the darkest, deepest and most primal of fears. A cry that has been consuming me for weeks, urging me to speak up.
Following the horrific massacre in Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, I felt an intense, relentless grief. Grief for the thousands of civilians shot, murdered, mutilated, raped and beheaded. Grief for the intentional killing of babies, some burned beyond recognition. Grief for the confused children dragged at gun point by violent men into captivity in Gaza.
Yet there was a deeper, darker grief. A grief that seeped from a wound I’d thought was healed. A grief that comes from the trauma hiding at the bottom of every Jewish person’s heart. A grief that comes from seeing, once again, Jewish people targeted in their homes and communities.
Soon, this darkest of griefs was joined by intense fear. I feared not only for the future of innocent Israeli and Palestinian children, but for the future of my family here, in New York City.
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I’m not a Jewish professor and I wouldn’t allow my children to go to Columbia. That’s not a recent decision.
Leftist Jews helped foster this environment in the USA. Better late than never, but ALL leftist Jews need to be shamed and ridiculed for ANY continued support of leftist causes, especially by other Jews.
Go Woke - go broke
Go Woke - get abused
Where have you been, Prof? There’s always Jew hatred at the ivy league diploma mills. One of my mother’s cousins, upon returning home after a stint in the Army after WW2 had to change his name to be accepted because it sounded a little too “exotic”.
“Don’t cry for me co lum bee ya.”
But he will still vote straight Dem.
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Does anyone think this guy will be voting democrat in future elections? I don’t. Lots of Jews will be walking away from the left.
30 Years Too Late, So I Don't Care.
Even a dumbass Redneck like me could figure this out
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Oh. Wait, ... No I Don't.
You took the words right out of my mouth. And here, from the mouth of a Lebanese Jew, is your exact sentiment. He’s also a professor at Concordia University in Montreal.
https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1720219000792035564
70 Years and 10 Amendments Too Late.
That’s the downside of universities wanting to be global, rather than American. The downside, too, of their wanting to divide the country, rather than to serve its interests.
As a higher level of protest he should do so, unless he feels that with tenure (If he has it), he is better serving his beliefs from within the school.
But I bet she still votes for the party of Omar and Tlaib.
Rednecks are not Dumb, nor are they Asses, they just work in the sunlight instead of the shadows.
I went to columbia and man do I ever regret that decision.
Absolutely agree. I have watched leftists, disproportionately peopled by jews support many causes that led to the downfall of the country.
Never understood it.
No they won’t
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