The three deans include Cristen Kromm, the former dean of undergraduate student life; Matthew Patashnick, the former associate dean for student and family support; and Susan Chang-Kim, the former vice dean and chief administrative officer.
The suspension of the deans is the latest example of how Ivy League schools have moved to squash any speech critical of Israel or simply challenging the view that students who express pro-Palestinian sentiment are inciting antisemitism.
Columbia has been the spotlight of the student protest movement in solidarity with Gaza over the past several months.
Would you say that about any other term regarding bigotry? Would you be willing to give up the word ‘homophobia’ if there were some sort of LGBT+ group that committed atrocities and claimed that homophobia is the same as disagreeing with them even if the news started doing it? I doubt it.
Israel wants you to think Israeli = Jew and Jew = Israeli and you are going along with it.
Why does this news article need to tell you what the banner said in the headline just because you have decided that the word ‘antisemitic’ means ‘criticism of Zionists?’
https://www.wlwt.com/article/antisemitic-banner-columbia-parkway-cincinnati-police/60235930
How about this one?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/01/us/jewish-communities-antisemitism-israel-hamas-war/index.html
Does it need to list all the incidents in the headline? Because there’s more than one and it includes someone painting FUCK JEWS in huge green letters on the side of a building. I assume you don’t think that’s someone innocently protesting Israel. Am I wrong to assume that?
Here’s another example for you since you are claiming that the news has co-opted the word ‘antisemitism.’ Note these are all recent articles.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-area-plagued-antisemitic-attacks-tsunami-hate/story?id=105623842
Tell me which one of these three details from the article is the one that belongs in the headline and how you would write that headline:
Glad to see your so passionate and have energy. I’m not changing my position on the word having lost its original meaning.
Keep up the good fight, but not with me.