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A Jewish professor at USC confronted pro-Palestinian students. He’s now barred from campus
LA Times ^ | 26 Nov 2023 | Matt Hamilton

Posted on 11/26/2023 8:01:51 PM PST by Rummyfan

Until recently, USC professor John Strauss was known mostly for his research on the economics of developing countries, with decades of fieldwork in Indonesia and China.

That changed Nov. 9, when Strauss stopped before students staging a walkout and protest calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and holding a memorial to thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

The economics professor’s interactions with students that day ended with the 72-year-old Strauss, who is Jewish, declaring: “Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one should be killed, and I hope they all are killed.”

Students captured those remarks on their cellphones, almost instantly seeming to recognize a viral moment. “Can you say that for the camera?” one pressed.

A man wearing glasses and a green plaid shirt faces three young men John Strauss, a USC economics professor, was captured on camera telling students he wanted Hamas killed.

(Handout) Within hours, Strauss’ comments were posted online, shared and reshared on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

As his remarks raced across the internet, his condemnation of Hamas was often excised, leaving only his “hope” for “all” to be killed. Captions and comments online framed his demand for “every one” to be killed in myriad, at times deceptive, ways. One Instagram post shared to millions of users claimed falsely that Strauss told the students, “[I] hope you get killed....”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; domesticenemies; donatefreerepublic; education; jimknows; palestinkians; usc
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Always referred to USC as the University of Spoiled Children. Now I suppose it is the University of Spoiled Terrorist-Supportimg Children.

THIS SH*T HAS GOT TO STOP! EVERYWHERE!

1 posted on 11/26/2023 8:01:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

So, his first amendment rights are not usable? Can’t they handle the truth that some people may have a different opinion than they have? The University should be ashamed of disciplining this professor for speaking up.


2 posted on 11/26/2023 8:03:32 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Rummyfan

I wonder what percentage of funds from Jewish alumni these schools are going to lose?


3 posted on 11/26/2023 8:04:23 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Rummyfan

And it starts at home, with the parents or legal guardians, assuming they are even around.


4 posted on 11/26/2023 8:04:58 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan

UC-Gaza.


5 posted on 11/26/2023 8:09:11 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Rummyfan

Fascist little punk ass kids.


6 posted on 11/26/2023 8:22:17 PM PST by SCConservative58
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To: Rummyfan

Jews may soon have to flee the US.


7 posted on 11/26/2023 8:29:30 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve The bad guys are willing to protest and riot while we email.)
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To: Rummyfan

Biden is in the White House and it isn’t stopping.


8 posted on 11/26/2023 8:30:30 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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And considering this is California Gavin Newsom is in Sacramento and this isn’t going to stop.


9 posted on 11/26/2023 8:31:29 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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USC used to be a paragon of academic excellence where all points of view could be freely expressed and, indeed, were encouraged. But it began to move left in the 1980s after James Zumberge assumed the presidency, and its current administration is out-and-out woke.

At the inauguration of our current president Carol Folt, the invocation invoked pagan gods of some East Asian culture--at a school that was founded by Methodists, whose administrators were Methodist clergy and whose football team was called the Methodists. Soon afterwards, political correctness came to the campus. The statue of Rufus von KleinSmid, the president who turned USC into a world-class institution, was removed because someone discovered that he once wrote an article supporting eugenics, and his name was taken off of the Von KleinSmid Center where I took many a class.

I hope Professor Strauss does not apologize for what he said and that he will take some sort of legal action against the administration.

10 posted on 11/26/2023 8:35:27 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Rummyfan

No free speech on college campus.


11 posted on 11/26/2023 8:38:28 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: PLMerite

USC is private. It is not part of the UC system.


12 posted on 11/26/2023 8:56:37 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Rummyfan

He’s right; every member of Hamas needs to be killed. They are irredeemable inbred barbarians and murderers.

I don’t know anything about this professor, he’s likely a leftist tool in many respects, given where he’s been employed. But in this case at least he is entirely correct.


13 posted on 11/26/2023 9:01:17 PM PST by servo1969
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To: NoLibZone

I think that since 1948 the Jews haven’t been running too much.


14 posted on 11/26/2023 9:04:53 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Rummyfan
"THIS SH*T HAS GOT TO STOP! EVERYWHERE!"

Actually, it probably will...
We are experiencing the endgame of a 135 year-old defined Marxist (Fabians) strategy that was implemented as the "only way that capitalism in the United States could be eliminated"...
That strategy required gaining control of the educational system and then gradually educating many generations to abhor capitalism and accept Marxist dogma...

The Fabian strategy has been successfully implemented and operated... The current young generation is the culmination of strict communist control of the education system for the past several decades...

All that remains, after the 2024 swindle is accomplished, will be the elimination of the former Constitution which, although it has largely been raped and mutilated over the past 100 years, needs to be put into the historical trash dump, permanently...

Reagan warned us... No one acted...
Welcome to the opening years of the longest & darkest tyranny the planet has ever known..

15 posted on 11/26/2023 9:05:14 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Fiji Hill
Westerners who have read the print versions of the Holy Quran sold in the USA in the last few decades believe Islam is a "religion of peace" because the translations have been radically changed to make it appear to be.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16955

This is a link to a free book on Gutenberg.org, three translations by 3 Imams of the Holy Quran side by side.

Anyone who reads this will understand what is going on and what will be going on.

16 posted on 11/26/2023 9:18:29 PM PST by Mogger
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To: Mogger

The West is in denial.


17 posted on 11/26/2023 9:35:13 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Nextrush

And considering this is California Gavin Newsom is in Sacramento and this isn’t going to stop.


Going by the last 2 elections, I can already see what is going to happen next year. Going into the final month of the presidential election republicans will double down on abortion and make it the number 1 issue. The unmotivated down in the dumps democrats will instantly be energized and they will turn out in droves, putting Gavin Newsom over the top and making him the next president of the United States.

And we’ll all be here on FR AGAIN asking, WHA HAPPENED??????

Just remember, Gavin is worse than biden. As a CA resident, I know that gavin is worse than Kamala. He is an evil SOB and he will push everything we’ve experienced the last 3 years even harder. I hope everyone realizes what Gavin Newsom is.


18 posted on 11/26/2023 9:48:58 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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I hope everyone realizes what Gavin Newsom is.

I learned everything I needed to know about twosome newsom when he pushed gay marriage as SanFransicko's mayor.
19 posted on 11/26/2023 10:04:45 PM PST by Chani ( )
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To: hillarys cankles

I guess you could say Gavin has performed an abortion on California.

Joe Biden has aborted the US economy.


20 posted on 11/26/2023 10:41:59 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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