Earlier today an entire crowd of UPenn faculty and students chanted in Arabic, “Strike, strike, Tel Aviv. Abu Obeida, our beloved,”
This is a direct call to violence and references the Hamas spokesperson as “beloved.” At what point will Penn hold these people accountable? pic.twitter.com/jGp8GS3RUE
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 7, 2024
If this were a call to bomb a city in any other country, this rally would have been shut down. But hating Israel and wanting to see it destroyed is acceptable in American academic circles today. In fact, it’s fashionable.
somehistory says
Evidently none of these people, a.k.a. goons, a.k.a. terrorists, have heard, “What goes around, comes around.” or ‘Whatever one is sowing, that one will also reap.”
This is speech that should not be so “free”…as it calls for murdering innocent people.
Ram says
Appalling,shocking and disgusting.
Rick Gordon says
In olden days school administrators had the guts and other resources to stand down such behavior. Apparently in today’s liberal world the inmates are really running the asylum.
I cannot imagine donating fund to Penn or other institutions that allow hate to develop, grow, and destroy their university.
James Lincoln says
Parents:
Still want to send your child to an Ivy League college?
gravenimage says
UPenn: ‘Strike, strike Tel Aviv’
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Openly calling for attacks on civilians. Why are these thugs–if students–not expelled?
Wellington says
Penn has become abysmal. In a listing by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) of the worst American institutions of higher learning for free speech Penn was second worst in 2022 and 2023 and fourth worst in 2024 out of over 200 colleges and universities. No one of sense should go there. It used to be a truly great university but now it is nothing more than a monumental farce.
Rufolino says
So shocking, and so stupid.
If this is a university, makes you fear for the future of academia.
Nabil Bissada says
“UPenn: ‘Strike, strike Tel Aviv’”
This cannot be happened against Israel in any Arab countries in the Middle East.
If they are serious and not cowards, why they do not travel to the Middle East to strike Israel.
Muslims who are living in the western countries are sure and believe that their governments are cowards. And they cannot take any decision against them as arrested or deported.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims
OLD GUY says
I wonder how many of these so called student demonstrators are being PAID to show up. Or are not students at all?
Ben says
Strike, strike woke colleges like UPenn. That’s better.
somehistory says
Columbia….again…”Pro-Palestinian Columbia University group calls for armed resistance: ‘violence is the only path'”
“A group of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University are scaling up their rhetoric against Israel, calling for “liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance.”
In a statement posted to Instagram Tuesday, Columbia University Apartheid Divest rescinded its apology made in April on behalf of a member who told school officials, “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
“The student, Khymani James, issued an apology at the time, saying in a video shared by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, “Those words do not represent CUAD. They also do not represent me.”
Now, the protest group is apologizing to James.
“We caused irrevocable harm to you by contributing to the ostracization you
experienced from your fellow students, fellow organizers, the media, and the public,” the group wrote this week.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest kick-started student encampments at the school last spring to protest Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas. Groups at other universities across the country followed suit with their own encampments and protest movements.
On the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks, the Columbia student group disseminated newspaper copies with the headline, “One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood, Revolution Until Victory,” and posted an essay calling the assault a “moral, military and political victory,” the New York Times reported.
Several Jewish students at Columbia have spoken out online about the fear they now face on campus.
“If something violent (at Columbia) happens today, let me make it very clear: The administration is at fault,” senior Eliana Goldin wrote in a post on X Monday, Oct. 7. “They know the credible threat to Jewish students, and they’re still playing both-sidesism.”
Student-led protests have caused an uproar, creating backlash for school administrators who are navigating the right to free speech, while preventing threats of violence or antisemitism.
“Statements advocating for violence or harm are antithetical to the core principles upon which this institution was founded. Calls for violence have no place at Columbia or any university,” Columbia spokesperson, Ben Chang, said in a statement to USA TODAY.
But students protesting at Columbia are not softening their stance or language.”
“In the face of violence from the oppressor equipped with the most lethal military force on the planet,” they wrote this week, “where you’ve exhausted all peaceful means of resolution, violence is the only path forward.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro-palestinian-columbia-university-group-calls-for-armed-resistance-violence-is-the-only-path/ar-AA1s2yfT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=8b8d7d6416024f83b1349be1cd373a79&ei=17