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BECAUSE THEY’RE RUN BY AWFUL, GREEDY PEOPLE: Why Are the Universities Cesspits of Anti-Semitism? “These international students, the large majority from countries with little freedom of speech and little or no tradition of academic freedom, are the shock troops of anti-Semitism. True, they bring some leftist students along with them. But the most anti-Semitic universities, like Harvard, Penn and MIT, are also the ones with the most foreign students from anti-Semitic countries. This was illustrated by the fact that when violently anti-Semitic students assaulted Jewish students at MIT, isolating them in the library and trying to break down the doors to get at them, MIT declined to expel the anti-Semitic thugs. Why? For fear that they would be deported. There are a number of reasons for the corruption of higher education; this is by no means the only one. But it is an important part of the explanation of why our allegedly top universities have gone so completely off the rails. This story in the London Times relates to the U.K., where reliance on foreign students is even more extreme than in the U.S. But it sheds a lot of light on why British universities are so tolerant of anti-Semitism and other left-wing outrages.”

WHY ARE BLUE CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF HATRED, RACISM, AND BIGOTRY?

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT MONOPOLY COLLEGE CAMPUSES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM? Sammy Tweedy, son of Wilco frontman, became a ‘pariah’ on his college campus after speaking up for Israel.

Some young adults who say they were handed a one-sided perspective on Israel have gotten involved in criticizing the country from a Jewish point of view. IfNotNow, for example, was founded in 2014 by graduates of Jewish day schools and summer camps to oppose Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its war on Gaza at the time.

Tweedy went a different direction. After his Birthright trip, he enrolled in history classes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and found himself defending Israel. When students in class argued that “the Jewish connection to the land of Israel is completely fabricated,” he would speak up, offering historical perspective about the Jewish history in the region that dates back to biblical times. He says he was soon labeled a “racist” around campus.

“I was like, ‘What did I say that was racist? Why are they saying that?’ It’s because ‘you said Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.’ And I was like, that’s not f—ing racist. That doesn’t mean that Palestinians shouldn’t be able to live in that land or call it Palestine or whatever,” he said.

Tweedy also felt dismayed when the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter endorsed “armed struggle” against Israel and honored Khaire Alkam — who shot and killed seven Israelis at a synagogue — on a “wall of martyrs” in a campus building shortly after the attack this past January.

As word got around about his views, Tweedy was hit with a wave of social media messages from fellow students calling him out. Since Hamas’ attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, the barrage increased. One post shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency read “the blood of gaza is on your hands.” In another, a student admitted to harassing him. He sometimes joined in arguments, as shown in messages he shared with JTA.

He filed a bias incident report to administrators on Nov. 11, after he saw the campus SJP charter say in an online post that U.S. media is “controlled by Zionists.” He said the school determined that the use of the word “Zionist” made the post acceptable.

A Sarah Lawrence spokesperson told JTA that the school does not share information on students with the media.

But Tweedy is far from the first Jewish Sarah Lawrence student to complain about the school’s handling of reported antisemitic incidents. On Oct. 31, Hillels of Westchester — representing chapters at Sarah Lawrence and a handful of other nearby schools — sent a letter to Sarah Lawrence President Cristle Collins Judd alleging that since at least 2014, Jewish students have been “harassed, intimidated, bullied, and ‘canceled’ for simply expressing themselves as Jews, or discussing or identifying with Israel.”

Flashback: Shocked by the Jew-Hate on College Campuses? I Wasn’t.

WHY ARE LEFTY NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH CESSPITS OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY?

WHY ARE BLUE STATE GOVERNMENTS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE? Chief of staff to NY AG Letitia James resigns after allegations of sexual harassment. “There must be something in the water. Back in 2018, New York’s Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman resigned after being accused of violence by at least four women. And then last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned after being accused of sexual harassment by a series of women. Today, Ibrahim Khan, the chief of staff to current Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, has resigned after allegations of sexual harassment.”

Plus: “Leititia James was just reelected last month. No doubt this would have proved embarrassing if it had come out sooner.”

WHY ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? ‘Anti-racist’ professor calls Herschel Walker ‘subliterate,’ uses racial slur.

Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is “coonish” and “subliterate,” according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor who is also an “anti-racist” consultant.

Walker is “incompetent, subliterate and coonish,” Professor Sundiata Cha-Jua, a history and African-American studies professor, wrote in The News-Gazette in his regular column on October 23. “Coon” is a racial slur that refers to depictions of black individuals as lazy or dumb.

His column focused on black Republicans and how they are actually “MAGA Black White supremacists.”

So basically he’s a bigot AND an idiot.

WHY ARE LEFTY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Yowza: L.A. city council members caught on leaked audio making racist, mocking comments about colleagues.

UPDATE: “If you think your town or city is badly governed, remember that it could be worse: you could live in Los Angeles. Appalling ignorance, racism, corruption and political greed came to light when someone recorded a conversation among three members of the Los Angeles City Council and the city’s most powerful labor leader. The Los Angeles Times covers a story that must be painful for the paper, since everyone involved is a Democrat.”

WHY ARE LEFTY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE? Vegetarian Food Giant Amy’s Kitchen Accused of Mishandling Sexual Harassment.

And that’s not all: “The document alleged that employees weren’t able to freely use the bathroom or access clean drinking water, among other workplace safety violations. OSHA subsequently conducted an inspection of the facility, and earlier this month California authorities fined the company $25,000 for 13 health and safety violations found at the Santa Rosa production plant. It’s not the first time: Between 2014 and 2019, Amy’s Kitchen has apparently paid penalties upward of $120,000 for violations that include an instance when a worker’s finger was amputated on the manufacturing line.”

WHY ARE LEFTIST MONOPOLY AREAS SUCH CESSPITS? Crime, Grime, and Greed at BART. Key Recommendations to Improve the Bay Area Rapid Transit System.

WHY ARE BLUE JURISDICTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTI-ASIAN HATE? Virginia School Board Members Acknowledged Anti-Asian Bias in Admissions, Texts Show. “It was absolutely motivated by anti-Asian racism.”

Plus: “Anti-Asian discrimination has become a problem in higher education as well. Under former president Donald Trump, the Justice Department sued Yale University over alleged anti-Asian bias in its admissions process. The Biden administration dropped the case last year.”