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A Night Different From Others as Campus Protests Break for Seder Pro-Palestinian protesters, many of whom are Jewish, prepared Seder dinners at college protest encampments,
New York Times ^ | 22 April 2024 | By Sharon Otterman, Eliza Fawcett and Liset Cruz

Posted on 04/23/2024 2:14:53 AM PDT by Cronos

On the first night of Passover, the singsong of the Four Questions echoed from Jewish homes and gatherings around the world, including from unlikely, contested spaces: the center of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia and other universities where demonstrations are taking place.

As evening fell over Columbia’s tent encampment on Monday, about 100 students and faculty gathered in a circle around a blue tarp heaped with boxes of matzo and food they had prepared in a kosher kitchen. Some students wore kaffiyehs, the traditional Palestinian scarf, while others wore Jewish skullcaps. They distributed handmade Haggadahs — prayer books for the Passover holiday — and read prayers in Hebrew, keeping to the traditional order.

But there were also changes and additions, like a watermelon on the Seder plate to represent the flag of Palestine. There were repeated references to the suffering of the Palestinian people and the need to ensure their liberation. There was grape juice instead of wine to respect the alcohol-free encampment, which was started last Wednesday and, despite a police crackdown last week, was stretching into its sixth day.

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At other pro-Palestinian encampments and protests that have cropped up this week, similar scenes played out. Some protest organizers and participants are anti-Zionist Jewish students, and at Columbia, roughly 15 of the students who have been suspended for their involvement in the encampment are Jewish, organizers said.

...Surrounding the Seder, students held banners that read, “Our Seder plates are empty stop starving Gaza” and “Another Jew for a free Palestine.”

...“Tonight, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, not in spite of our Judaism, but because of it,” Miriam Levine, a 22-year-old Yale student who helped organize the Seder, told the crowd through a microphone. “Tonight we proclaim that our liberation is intertwined.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel
KEYWORDS: columbia; domesticenemies; education
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1 posted on 04/23/2024 2:14:53 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

These morons are clamoring for their own destruction.


2 posted on 04/23/2024 2:30:15 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Cronos

And they replied, we have no king but Ceaser,


3 posted on 04/23/2024 2:40:25 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Cronos

Painful levels of self-hatred.


4 posted on 04/23/2024 2:41:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Cronos

These people are nuts!

They sound more like Unitarians. 😆


5 posted on 04/23/2024 2:49:52 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Cronos

WTH are they talking about?

This is unbelievable,


6 posted on 04/23/2024 3:00:15 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: All

Winston Churchill was right when he said that Jews are either Bolsheviks or Zionists


7 posted on 04/23/2024 3:02:15 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Apparatchik

That’s assuming they are actually Jews, you’re right.
There are two kinds of Jews that resent Israel. The atheistic one and the one that believes that Israel should not exist unless the Messiah has actually come and set it up Himself.


8 posted on 04/23/2024 3:25:53 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Raycpa

Caesar.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 3:27:59 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: Cronos

Unbeliev a ble.


10 posted on 04/23/2024 3:38:50 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Cronos

F’n schmucks. How soon they forgot Oct,7.


11 posted on 04/23/2024 3:48:50 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Apparatchik

“These morons are clamoring for their own destruction.”

I, as a Jew thought I would never say this, but after experiencing Jewish liberalism over the last 60 years and its destructive impact on society, here it goes. These were the Jewish people Hitler despised and exterminated. The rest of us Jews were collateral damage.


12 posted on 04/23/2024 3:50:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (If it's Boeing, I ain't going!c)
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To: escapefromboston

“...Jews are either Bolsheviks or Zionists...”

They are Satanic Golden Calf worshipers, descended from the Canaanite tribe.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he saw what they had erected. Moses had delivered them from centuries of bondage and this was their filthy gratitude. And so Moses cursed them and threw the tablets onto their idle.

To this day, these Golden Calf worshippers run the entire world. They are burrowed in the Deep State, in Banking, in the Motion Picture Industry, in Universities, in the Judiciary.

They call themselves Jewish while at the same time spitting on the nation of Israel and the God of Abraham. They are the scum of the earth.


13 posted on 04/23/2024 4:05:21 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Cronos

NYT takes a picture of a couple people going through the motions of a Jewish tradition...and wants its readers to extrapolate it to some kind of generization.


14 posted on 04/23/2024 4:07:40 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: Cronos

Lotsa Jews view non Jews as Goy, to be targeted with hate
Lotsa Mooselimbs view non Mooselimbs as kafirs, to be targeted with hate

I am buying moar popcorn this day


15 posted on 04/23/2024 4:24:32 AM PDT by Steven Tyler (Who in their )
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To: AndyTheBear

The NYT likely invented this entire story. “Everything is fine, there is no anti-semitism on the left. Trump is a Russian Agent. Nothing to see here”.


16 posted on 04/23/2024 4:34:05 AM PDT by brookwood (Anti-semitism is a predictable result of efforts to create "diversity, equity, and inclusion".)
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To: escapefromboston; SJackson
escape Winston Churchill was right when he said that Jews are either Bolsheviks or Zionists

Churchill never said that

He never wrote that either - what he DID write was And article in LONDON’S ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY HERALD of February 8, 1920 called "Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People"

And he oversimplified the situation of Jews in the period from 1791 to 1945

After the French revolution you had the creation of nation-states. Prior to that, it was fine for person to live in the Kingdom of France and never speak French, but just hold allegiance to the Bourbon kings. OR in Poland where you would have a person writing that he was "a Lithuanian of the Polish nation of the Jewish race" - which doesn't make any sense to us today, but did then

After the French revolution, you had to be FRENCH speaking, and culturally French to be "a french citizen". This led to forced franconization - obliterating occitan, breton etc.

Other European countries followed suit - with Anglicization in the early 1800s and then Germanization, Russification and Turkicization in the late 1800s.

For Jews, they HAD (pre 1947) 4 options

  1. Nationalization - Assimilation - become French, German etc. - you had Disraeli, a British PM of Sephardic Jewish background etc. etc.

  2. Nationalization - Zionism: since every other "nation" said "this is our land and only people of this nation should live here"

  3. Internationalization - Socialism: this offered the message that your nation didn't matter

  4. Localization: keep things as they are, locally

Today Jews just have 2 - Assimilation or Zionism. Socialism is another dimension to those two

17 posted on 04/23/2024 4:49:39 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Suicidal Jews more than willing to walk into extermination camps administered by the very people they support.


18 posted on 04/23/2024 4:50:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
EQ These were the Jewish people Hitler despised and exterminated. The rest of us Jews were collateral damage.

That is false - Hitler's entire conceptual idea was based on Darwinism. He felt that the German "race" was superior, but at the same time under threat from the "Jewish race"

It had nothing to do with Jewish religiousity or not, with Jewish assimilation or socialism etc. --> He murdered Jewish socialists, Jewish German patriots, Jewish-origin Catholic nuns, etc. etc. - it didn't matter.

You were to be exterminated for your "race" - which is a batsh!t crazy idea based on another batsh!t crazy idea of "Race"

He also exterminated gypsies, despite acknowledging that they (the gypsies) were pure Aryans.

19 posted on 04/23/2024 4:52:45 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

Protestor encampments?

Another occupy?

WTH... send in the riot platoon and the bulldozers. This is a university campus not a battlefield. Expell the offenders on all sides.


20 posted on 04/23/2024 4:54:21 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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