Isn’t it lovely that President Trump is so dedicated to Israel, he’d dismantle Harvard to please it?
This sort of loyalty is truly rare.
I’m being sarcastic, just in case.
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Isn’t it lovely that President Trump is so dedicated to Israel, he’d dismantle Harvard to please it?
This sort of loyalty is truly rare.
I’m being sarcastic, just in case.
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But the exact target of your sarcasm is unclear – is it the idea that it’s wonderful, or is it the idea that he’s doing it for Israel?
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He’s totally doing it for Israel. And I’m getting very tired of everything that is being done for Israel.
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“everything that is being done for Israel”
Just remember: there’s no such thing as an Israeli lobby…. or else….
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He is doing it because his son with Melania did not get accepted into Harvard.
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I understand that some people can only process reality at the level of gossip magazines but it’s sad.
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pure inference, Clarissa. You don’t think Trump would take revenge on Harvard for rejecting his son?
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His actions against Columbia might have been for Israel, in part, temporarily. Those against Harvard certainly aren’t. At any rate, all of his attacks against antisemitism are made in bad faith, as the easiest way to undermine institutions.
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God, I did not look for several days and now your conservatism is in danger.
So there are too many immigrants unless they immigrate through Harvard? And the generators of wokeness should be reigned in, but not if they are Harvard? You are on a slippery slope, my friend… 🙂
As far as justifying its action with antisemitism goes, maybe Israel is involved, or maybe Trump administration is simply exercising the conservative version of the cancel culture… Are there any other strong cancel-culture worthy accusations left to the conservatives?
More seriously, assuming that the goal of the corporations that control this administration is to replace as many workers as possible with AI, including the white collar workers, it makes sense to reduce all kinds of immigration. And then why not also kill two more birds with the same stone – please the base by the spectacle of “fighting wokeness” and please Israel?
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There’s no mass immigration happening through Harvard, that’s for sure.
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I thought the deal with Harvard was they could have all their fedgov privileges back (funding, permission to arrange foreign student visas) if they stop discriminating against white men?
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That’s one of several demands. Mist of the demands are about students engaged in “conduct violations”, meaning pro-Palestinian protests.
I despise those protests but we are going a bit too far in preventing them.
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Is this “conduct violations” meaning nonviolent nondestructive protest on campus, or is this “conduct violations” where students harass, threaten, and attack other students, collaborate with actual terrorist organizations, and destroy property, and admin looks the other way?
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—I’m trying to figure out if this is or isn’t comparable to the campus scandals when I was much younger, where the campus having its own police meant they were basically running cover for students who committed actual crimes, so that they could keep their numbers looking nice for prospective students/parents. Some of it was overblown, but there were actual problems.
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I agree that the protesters are crap. It’s not them or even Harvard I’m worried about. I’m worried we’ll get into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel. I’m also worried that we are getting too subservient to Israel in general.
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Yeah, I don’t want a war with Iran either.
But I suspect that whatever the stated rationale is, it’s not about Israel, it’s about Harvard being a putrescent boil of intrigue, corruption, and financial malfeasance that needs to be lanced.
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When Israel came out of Egypt the Torah teaches the prophetic mussar that Amalek-Anti-Semitism attacked the weary weak stragglers of Israel. Next the Torah defines these “Israelites” as lacking fear of Elohim. A reference to “Baal Shem Tov or Master of the Good Name. Not the Hassidic founder that goes by this Title, but a reference to the obligation of the Israelites to strive to protect and maintain their Good Name reputations. Hence the term “Fear of Heaven”.
The 2nd Sinai commandment: do not worship other Gods. The Monotheism preached by the Av tumah avoda zarah of Islam decapitates the 2nd Commandment of the Sinai revelation. If only One God then impossible to worship other Gods; like in the case of Par’o and Egypt. Therefore, what caused or generated the Torah curse of Amalek? Answer: Jewish avoda zarah – the direct 2nd Sinai commandment! How does the Torah define the 2nd commandment? Through the precedent negative commandments (1) Do not ask how the Goyim worship their Gods, that Israel might to likewise. This negative commandment interpreted to mean (A) Do not assimilate the cultures and Customs of the Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, like as both Xtianity and Islam clearly do. Neither the bible nor the koran counterfeit faiths ever once bring or mention the Name revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment. Translating the Divine Presence Spirit, revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment to other words; in Hebrew the Sin of the Golden Calf – these are the אלהים/Gods who brought you out of Egypt. Hence since nothing in the Heavens, Earth, or Seas compares to the revelation of the Spirit Name revealed in the First Sinai commandment, therefore translating this Spirit Name to other words, such as Allah or Jesus or Father etc — herein defines the k’vanna of the substitute theology of the sin of the Golden Calf.
Consequently, when Israelites violated the 2nd Sinai commandment – the result of their assimilation to the customs and culture of Egypt and intermarried with Egyptians ie ערב רב/mixed multitudes – this avoda zarah destroyed their Good Name reputations making them “weak exhausted stragglers”. Not physically weak and exhausted but spiritually weak and exhausted! Who brought Israel out of Egypt HaShem or the strong and mighty hand of Israel? The Torah teaches the prophetic mussar that HaShem brought Israel out of Egypt! Hence whenever Jews assimilate and embrace the cultures and customs practiced by Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, as do Xtians and Muslim religions, Amalek the Torah curse plagues Israel like as did the 10 plagues which cursed Egypt and Par’o. Jewish avoda zarah caused the Torah curse of Amalek in all generations.
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Because of my feed, I see posts from physicist-bloggers at Columbia and Harvard, and they both believe this is about something far broader than antisemitism on campus.
They don’t put it this starkly, but it’s more like, Trump 2.0 is trying to stamp out leftism within academia and/or its influence on American society. Maybe someone like Chris Rufo would have a more precise expression of the goals.
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It seems a reasonable strategy, given that the left has fortified itself in public institutions, supporting itself on public money, in order to subvert the public and grant itself more power, money, and influence.
Trump got elected to do something about that.
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