While Obama judges empower campus terrorist supporters.
“The Court is dismayed by Cooper Union’s suggestion that the Jewish students should have hidden upstairs or left the building,” Judge John Cronan wrote, blasting the Manhattan college’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by Jewish students who were trapped in the library by a mob of terrorist supporters. “These events took place in 2023—not 1943—and Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themselves away in a proverbial attic.”
The strong language in the ruling was similar to how Judge Mark Scarsi had criticized UCLA.
“In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,” Judge Scarsi wrote in response to the university’s complicity in Hamas supporters setting up checkpoints and encampments to harass Jews.
The two federal judges who spoke forthrightly in defense of Jewish students had two things in common: both were conservatives associated with the Federalist Society.
And both men had been nominated by Trump.
To fully appreciate the moral courage of Judge Scarsi and Judge Cronan, compare them to their colleagues who had been nominated by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
When Jewish students at Harvard and MIT turned to Judge Richard Stearns, a Clinton nominee, he dismissed the MIT lawsuit entirely, claiming that MIT had not reacted “in a clearly unreasonable manner”, and dismissed the lawsuit charging that Harvard had discriminated and retaliated against Jewish students, but allowed the lawsuit accusing the university of maintaining a “hostile educational environment” to move forward.
He did concede that, “Harvard failed its Jewish students.”
Judge Fernando Olguin, an Obama appointee, however sneeringly dismissed a complaint by Jewish parents and students against the antisemitic Los Angeles ‘ethnic studies curriculum, claiming that he could not understand it. Olguin, who had worked for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a proponent of ethnic studies curriculums, proved to be one of the most unsympathetic judges yet.
In Pennsylvania, Judge W. Scott Hardy, a Trump appointee, refused a request by Carnegie Mellon to dismiss a lawsuit by a Jewish student who had been harassed by a professor over her Jewishness and Israel’s war on terror, upholding an allegation of “deliberate indifference” against the university.
Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr, an Obama appointee, however showed outright skepticism of a lawsuit against the California College of the Arts in San Francisco brought by a Jewish professor who had been put through the wringer at her school for challenging Students for Justice in Palestine’s pro-terrorist student activists.
Judge Gerald Austin McHugh Jr, another Obama appointee, dismissed a complaint by Jewish students against Haverford College, mocking it as a collection of “every frustration and disagreement of Jewish students and faculty” that “reads more as an opinion editorial’ and tipping his ideological hand, accused them of strategically “seeking to blur the line between Zionism as a political philosophy and Zionism as a component of Jewish identity, and in the process implicitly sweep any and all criticism of Israel into the basket of antisemitism.”
The handling of lawsuits filed by terrorist supporters also varied wildly by federal judges.
Judge Peter Messitte, a Clinton nominee who had worked in Yemen, issued a preliminary injunction requested by CAIR, which had supported the attacks of Oct 7, to allow a pro-terrorist event on Oct 7. Messitte, now deceased, had also insisted on blocking a Trump order during his first term allowing local officials to stop terrorist refugee resettlement in their communities.
By contrast, Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg, a Bush appointee, had rejected a lawsuit by the Faculty for Justice in Palestine group against the University of Pennsylvania trying to force the university not to cooperate with a congressional investigation of campus antisemitism.
In Texas however, Judge Robert Pitman, an Obama nominee and the “first openly gay judge” in the Fifth Circuit, backed a lawsuit by CAIR and Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group whose chapters cheered the Oct 7 attacks, against Gov. Abbott’s antisemitism policies.
And back in California, Judge James Donato, an Obama appointee who had waged a judicial war against the Trump administration, allowed pro-terrorist activists to help defend the University of Berkeley against Jewish students alleging campus antisemitism.
While much has been written about the direct actions by the Trump administration on behalf of Jewish students, President Trump’s judicial appointments are playing a significant role in challenging campus antisemitism. The moral clarity brought by Judge Scarsi redefined how judges could speak directly and succinctly about the state of hate on college campuses.
And Judge Cronan’s equally strong and forthright words show that is becoming the new norm.
Meanwhile the behavior of Obama appointees like Messitte, Olguin and Pitman show the other side of the equation, and what the stakes are for American Jews in federal judicial appointments. Trump appointees have stood up for the civil rights of Jewish students while Obama appointees, true to their president’s policy, have enabled campus antisemitism.
Democratic Jewish groups have warned about the alleged ‘extremism’ of President Trump’s judicial appointments and championed confirming Biden’s extremist judicial appointees..
“We urge the Senate to confirm President Biden’s judicial nominees and fill all 44 judicial vacancies before Trump and the GOP return to power,” the Jewish Democratic Council of America had pleaded.
That included Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who had served on a think tank that had promoted Islamic terrorist figures, calls for BDS and “vile antisemitic propaganda”. By contrast, fourteen conservative judges, most appointed by Trump, visited Israel after Oct 7.They included Judge Lee Rudofsky, a Trump appointee who had warned that he would reject any law clerks that supported Hamas.
Are American Jews better off with Judge Rudofsky or with Mangi on the bench?
rick says
Obama and Biden Judges see the 1940s as the “Golden Age” as far as how Jews were treated. Lucky to even be admitted to and accepted by an Ivy League College, so how can you blame them for siding with those who don’t like them on campus today. Their attitude is ..”when Jews learn you cannot utter the word “Israel” in any manner other than negative, they will be accepted”. Maybe. Maybe not.
Strange isn’t when Jews became great supporters of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, there still was an under current of Jewish hostility by blacks- not the Martin Luther King, Jr. people but by younger black men drawn to the Nation of Islam and new radical leaders like Stokley Carmichael.
But today when Jews are under fire for standing up for Israel, although there are wonderful black people who do stand with them, the crowd is not overwhelming.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning those American Universities and Colleges across the United States that have heads of those institutions ‘sold out” to the influence of the stealth jihadists, who are, no doubt, backed by oil rich nation as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, those places of “higher education” which have become more of indoctrination centers for Islam and Islamic causes rather than genuine places of advanced education.
This is betrayal of all those young people who entered into those universities and colleges who sincerely wanted an actual, real, education. This is also betrayal the true spirit of America.
For example the former United States President, William Howard Taft, who in a speech, wisely, declared, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Furthermore there should really no place in America for such un-American indoctrination centers, therefore such universities and colleges need to reform or closed down, For those places are now doing more harm than good.
As the other former US President Theodore Roosevelt, had, rightly, announced in a speech that “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
It’s sad and even tragic that those naïve and brainwashed young college and university students non–Muslims Americans, who are taking part in this Red/Green alliance, throughout the United States, who are protesting against the State of Israel and who likewise greatly favor Hamas are people who are ,rightly , described ,as the “useful idiots” of the leaders of Hamas and their jihadist members who are dedicated to the cause of conquest for the cause of Islam.
Those Americans who aren’t Muslims the stooges of those Hamas chefs and the other Muslim terrorist, For those of Hamas view all people who are not Muslims as inferior creatures to them and refer to them .
Behind their backs as , “Kafirs,” which is the Islamic derogatory term for “disbelievers.”
It’s tragic that those non-Muslims pro-Hamas America protesters against Israel are so very deluded by Hamas that this Islamic terror / murder organization so easily manipulates and uses them as their tools.
Those poor young people are ,truly, their useful idiots.
In addition, useful idiots those mislead young people ,actually, really are , For example , One example of this ignorance was revealed by a .Newsmax reporter walked over to one of those “student” protesters who was holding a sign that read “From the River to the Sea” and asked her “What river ?” and she replied “I don’t know.” Then the reporter asked her “Which sea ?” To that question, she answered “I don’t know.”
Harris Kange says
Your description is apt: “Useful idiots”.
Walter Sieruk says
Many of those poor misled young people universities and college who engage in “student protesters “ against the nation that is the Jewish State of Israel who how up the signs that read “Free Palestine” don’t know or understand that history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece and the Island of Crete They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
Jim Harmon says
A better name for them might be “Phoneystinians.”
Walter Sieruk says
There is obviously something terribly wrong with a those young people on campus who aren’t Muslim who nevertheless admire and support that vicious dangerous and deadly jihad entity ,Hamas. It might be that they had been deceived, as in lead astray by misinformation by the propagandists for Islam. ?
They, sadly, are confused or outright ignorant or both on the subject of Israel and the religion of Islam with its Muslim terrorist organizations.
Those people must not be aware of the wicked dangers of that demonic jihad entity, Hamas, with is jihadists, have no limits, at all, to its cruel heinous and vile horrendously horrific Islamic evils that it so maliciously and murderously commit.
Walter Sieruk says
Iran’s top Muslim cleric leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,is ,without doubt ,is very happy and glad those in high positions in institutions of “higher education” have accepted bribes by the stealth jihadists and have brainwashed and manipulated those poor naive and misinformed college young people to be his useful idiots to attempt to fulfill that Islamic goal of destroying the State of Israel and then replacing her with an Islamic “state.”
Another terrible harsh and tragic reality is that Khamenei,couldn’t care less about those American college people who he only uses as his stooges. that Ayatollah ,because of his religion shiite Islam even dislikes those non-Muslim youth who are his tools and he even hate those Sunni Muslims who are also they his tools.
Those college young people who have been led astray deceived and are now being used should not be scorned but instead they should be pitied.
Walter Sieruik says
Qatar supporting that Muslim terrorist organizations and it doesn’t stop with that insidious evil .Qatar has, the stealth jihad , has infiltrated and influenced many universities and colleges in the across the United States.
So now those “institutions of higher education” have indoctrinated many young impressionable students to be very anti-Jewish , ant-Israel and even pro- Hamas.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very obvious that those insidious stealth jihadists gaining power and influence of those high positions institutions of “higher education” must, obviously , be accepting “gifts”, bribes, from persons from foreign oil rich countries.
Many universities and colleges across the United States and in the United Kingdom have been thoroughly infiltrated and influenced by the insidious stealth jihadists.
There may be little doubt that those stealth jihadists are backed and funded by Qatar as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia.
somehistory says
“University Whose Students Invited Terrorist To Campus Also Enrolled Former Hamas Official”
“Georgetown University scrubbed online evidence it enrolled a former Hamas official and daughter of a terrorist leader after a watchdog group’s inquiry.
The Washington, D.C., school wiped the profile of graduate student Mapheze Saleh, who worked for Hamas’s foreign ministry, from its website when the pro-Israel group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) contacted it about her terrorist ties, the group wrote Thursday. The revelation comes days after Georgetown began investigating anti-Israel students who alarmed the public by inviting a convicted terrorist to campus.
“Through her professional experiences, Mapheze has developed an expertise in regional and international relations with an emphasis on conflict resolution and security studies, and also solidified her commitment to public discourse and cross-cultural communication,” reads Georgetown’s deleted profile of Saleh. It acknowledges she has worked for “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza” controlled by the Hamas terrorist group that ignited war with Israel in October 2023 by slaughtering more than 1,100 people, raping women en masse and taking hostages.
Saleh has disclosed publicly that she is the daughter of “senior adviser to the Hamas Foreign Ministry” Ahmed Yousef, according to CAMERA’sreport, which cited Arabic media translations and Saleh’s social media posts.
Saleh did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/university-whose-students-invited-terrorist-to-campus-also-enrolled-former-hamas-official/ar-AA1z05St?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=82936e33a0db4865ed55c1b6048a8335&ei=47
David M says
Your system in the US of judges being political is all wrong, they are coming to decisions based on the ideology of one political party, not the law. Here is Australia judges are apolitical, we don’t know the political leanings of judges at all, & they are not allowed to disclose what views they have.
Judges in the US should be appointed by an independent body, not a political party, that’s how it is here.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Problem w/ that approach is the accountability factor. Members of the executive and legislative branches of government are elected, and ultimately accountable by the people. Whereas Judges are self-selected, and in an elite club all by themselves, accountable to nobody
Not sure how it is in Australia, but in India, which has a Judicial Collegium which selects and appoints the judges, there has been plenty of judicial activism. Particularly b’cos they are very heavily influenced by US Ivy League schools like Harvard, and the woke ideologies that emanate out of there has found its way to these institutions. They too have tried to arrogate to themselves the power to create new laws, and have been a source of judicial tyranny there:
⮞ They have been pushing for the recognition of Gay marriage, despite the fact that there is no support for it either in the population at large, nor from any of the political parties anywhere in the country
⮞ They have been particularly harsh on men in domestic issues, ruling that even if a man is poorer than his wife or even unemployed, he still has to pay her alimony, even by begging or stealing
⮞ They have ruled against Hindu temples having the right to require that only Hindu vendors can service any stores in their vicinity. Forcing them to allow muslims, who take delight in desecrating temples and are known to do things like spitting on food, urinating on flowers offered in the temples, and so on
No, the way the US has it is good. Normally, it should be easy to impeach corrupt judges, but in the current divided climate where both parties have almost 50:50 hold on various legislatures, that is almost impossible
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Would you support, say, four-year terms for all judges in the USA?
After that, depending upon their performance, they could be reappointed for another four-year term…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
4 years would be too short. I would just support mandatory retirement ages at 80. I daresay most 80 year-olds would not be like President Trump, so we shouldn’t use him as an yardstick for picking the retirement ages
I have nothing against the lifetime appointment of judges here in the US, since they are appointed by at least one elected official and voted up or down by 50+ others. My objection was to Commonwealth countries which have a totally closed loop for electing judges. Yeah, they are untouched by either politicians nor elected themselves, but that’s a double edged sword, and there are no checks or balances
My only issue in the US is that there isn’t a political consensus to remove judges who are corrupt, or break the law in the process of interpreting it
James Lincoln says
Thank you for your informative reply, Infidel.
somehistory says
By U.S. Law, judges are not allowed to tell how they vote. Nor are they allowed to campaign, endorse, etc.
The good judges **do** follow the law, but in every group of people, there are the outlaws.
And it is fairly difficult for ever the most honest person to step outside what they *want* to be and what the Law says.
Furthermore, some laws, written by other imperfect humans, are just plain wrong.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good for these judges. Incidentally, watching the Judicial activism by judges opposing DOGE, one who even had a conflict of interests since his wife worked at USAID, it’s time that the Senate Judicial Committee fast-tracked any Trump judges for various Federal and Circuit courts. just like Mitch did when he had all his marbles
Oh, and one more thing: this time, I hope Trump doesn’t depend on just the Federalist Society for his choices, but widens the net. He seems to have had a mixed bag w/ judges, w/ even some of his own appointees being lukewarm about the lawfare against him over the last 4 years. And in SCOTUS, Gorsuch has been the only stand-up judge. We need more people like Thomas and Alito, particularly if those two retire, but even otherwise