Posted on 05/31/2024 8:48:42 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers defends pro-Hamas campus occupations as 'peacefully demonstrating' The American Federation of Teachers led by Randi Weingarten claimed that anti-Israel protesters on college campuses were simply "peacefully demonstrating."
The American Federation of Teachers led by Randi Weingarten claimed that anti-Israel protesters on college campuses were simply “peacefully demonstrating.”
The Tuesday statement from the AFT came in response to a hearing last week from the House Education and the Workforce Committee where leaders of Northwestern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Los Angeles, were grilled regarding their response to campus anti-Israel encampments.
”AFT members and leaders acknowledged the threat of antisemitism as well as Islamophobia but held strong to support for students—and faculty and staff who have joined them—who are peacefully demonstrating,” the AFT wrote in the press release.
Weingarten wrote that “We have to be able to be against hate and against violence … and stand up for academic freedom and free expression.”
However, May’s anti-Israel occupations, some of which are still ongoing, have largely not been peaceful.
At Columbia University, students broke into a campus building and vandalized it. A university spokesperson said that the anti-Israel protesters broke doors, windows, and blockaded entry into the building.
Anti-Israel protesters at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt caused over $1 million in costs, including damage, to the institution after they took over a portion of campus and several buildings.
At the UCLA anti-Israel encampment, which the AFT described as a “peaceful protest,” Jewish students were blocked by activists from using certain portions of campus to get to class.
Mia McIver, president of the California Federation of Teachers Universities Council, wrote that the hearings “were a shameful farce...They are fruit of a decadeslong attack on higher ed.”
Exactly!
An old childless lesbian in that position.
And they got their boy Obama into the White House.
She’s pretty safe with most any statement she makes now that most colleges are out for the summer. Some have been out for weeks.
MY DICTIONARY DOESN’T AGREE.
there must be some honest unions, too.
but some aren’t
Weingarten showed herself as a good little Nazi during the pandemic so this is not surprising.
Circa 2012, Randi Weingarten served on the Board of the National Democratic Institute, a US affiliate of the Socialist International.
National Democratic Institute is listed as an associate organization of the Socialist International.
Socialist International aligned itself with Yasir Arafat and the PLO. It was also comfortable maintaining close fraternal relations with the communist dictatorships of the Warsaw Pact, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Nicaragua’s Sandinista regimes were SI favorites
Socialist International longest serving president was Willy Brandt, a communist agent of the Soviet KGB/East German Stasi.
Randi is red.
Eric Clapton was one of my favorites. Disappointed, outraged but not surprised. Roger Waters, we don’t need HIS “education” 🤬
Swinegarten is an admitted communist and a devout vagitarian..
A lesbian Communist Jew who Hamas would decapitate in a heart beat defends her killers.
Why did an uncle of mine almost lose his life in 1945 fighting for idiots like this?
I rarely listen to Pink Floyd, it’s been that way for years, mostly due to the overbearing pile of dung that is The Wall. When I do listen it is to early stuff, like “Arnold Layne”, “Interstellar Overdrive”, “See Emily Play”, and “Wish You Were Here”. I’m pretty sure it’s been a solid five years since I have.
My favorite Clapton number is “The Core” from, hmm, Slowhand? It’s on the same album as the execrable “Lay Down Sally”. I also enjoy “Let it Flow” and “Let it Rain”. Peter Frampton and, hmm, maybe the Doobies did a “COVID Shutdown” tribute to him with “Let it Rain”. I’ve never been sure if they were needling him because of his COVID skepticism, or were making a daring statement of support for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Dm77k-tZo
The PBS Frontline documentary, “Crisis on Campus,” examines how university leaders, some of whom have faced congressional hearings, navigated the challenges of responding to heated rhetoric and division on their campuses and balancing free speech with the need to prevent harassment and discrimination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESNxDn6Efs
Thanks T4L.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4243951/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4244017/posts
Teachers’ unions destroying our country one child at a time.
One of the biggest problems our country faces and nothing has been done about it except in a couple of states, and even then it’s half hearted.
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