I started this thread is 2023 -- well before Trump became President. It outlined idiots getting well deserved consequences for their support of anti-semitic hate. These episodes primarily involved protestors at U.S. campuses and the universities lack of action and coddling of these protestors. The proper recourse for students who are abused or intimidated on campus due to their religion or race is to file a formal complaint with the federal Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Justice (DOJ). The Jewish students on these campuses filed these official complaints. The Biden administration took minor actions - telling the universities to properly apply their policies and fined small amounts to a few for their inaction. The alumni of these institutions (during Biden's time in office) were more aggressive in their response. Many wealthy donors loudly demanded the resignations of top university officials and immediate stop to these obviously anti-semitic protests on the campuses. A good number withheld donations -- you can see this in the large-scale drop of funding from alumni in the yearly reports from some university endowments. These Jewish students also filed lawsuits to stop the intimidation on campus. I will note that they won nearly all of these suits. However despite the universities losing nearly all these lawsuits, the actions of the Biden DOJ & DOE, and donor pressure -- many of the "elite" universities changed very little and the intimidation of Jewish students continued. Obviously stronger action was required by the federal government. When Trump was elected he straight-out told these universities that he was coming after them hard-core for their anti-semitic support. They had months before he took office to take action and reform their practices; they can't say they were not warned. Now the universities are reaping what they sowed. At Columbia and Yale, pro-Hamas protests continue to this very day (complete with video above in post #425) and Jews are blocked from walking across campus. Do you think this is "free speech"? Do you think this does not violate the rights of Jewish students? Has the Trump administration gone overboard in blocking hundreds of millions in grants due to universities not following his DEI executive orders? Yes, in my opinion it has. However the DEI actions are separate the DOJ actions to hold these universities accountable for their "failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment" (actions started under the Biden administration BTW). By taking away particular grants from these universities, the Trump administration is simply going for the maximum allowed punishment. Is Trump trying to force universities under his thumb and make them bend at the knee to follow his DEI guidelines? Yes. Do I support the Trump administration taking away large amounts of money including scientific grants to pressure these universities to follow his DEI Executive Orders? No. Note once again that these DEI actions are separate than the enforcement of federal law to hold these universities accountable for allowing the intimidation and threats against Jewish students -- actions started under the Biden administration. Allowing protestors to march around campus shouting "Kill the Jews" and "From the river to the sea" can only be construed as straight-up anti-semitic hate. And I will note -- if Muslim students were being harassed on campuses with large hate-filled protests filled and being prevented from walking across campus then I would also support large federal fines against these universities to force them into compliance in obeying civil rights laws. However it appears that the administrators at these "elite" universities view that intimidating Muslim students is unacceptable while intimidating Jewish students is perfectly acceptable. I do support the Trump administration levying large financial consequences to force these universities to stop allowing Jewish students to be harassed and intimidated. All the previous steps did not work (small fines, directive DOE letters, etc.)-- these universities are still allowing the abuse of Jewish students to actively continue. Now these "elite " universities are learning the harsh consequences of their inaction and their decisions not to protect the civil rights of their students.
The president does not have hte right to withhold federal funds because he does not like the messaging or way the university addresses DEI issues on campus..... period. THe response is not the DOE, it is hiring a lawyer and suing the university.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can withhold federal grants to universities in response to the DEI policies at universities. If you have an issue with it with it then take it up with the U.S. Supreme Court. The question now is not if the Trump administration can legally stop grants due to a university's DEI policies, but if they should be. Once again. do not conflate the stopping of grants due to DEI policies with the enforcement of Title VI and IX civil rights laws that universities must not allow the intimidation of students. The violations of federal law involving the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students on campus -- and the universities failure to take action to stop it has nothing to due with DEI; it involves the violations of Title VI and IX civil rights laws. The Biden administration held universities financially accountable for violating the civil rights of Jewish students in several actions related to the campus "protests". Are you saying that it is allowable for the Biden administration to hold universities accountable for the threats against Jewish students but not acceptable for the Trump administration to do so? Or are you saying the larger financial penalties put in place by the Trump administration for violating civil rights laws are not acceptable but the smaller penalties from the Biden administration are just fine? Or are you saying that the federal government should not hold universities accountable for violating the civil rights of students -- and Title VI and IX are void? In this case it would be perfectly acceptable to target any group on campus. The neo-Nazis could freely march around campus shouting "Kill the blacks" (or some variation of this) -- if your solution is that universities should not be held accountable for allowing the violation of the civil rights of their students.
Yesterday 80 pro-Hamas protestors at Columbia were arrested after taking over campus buildings. It's time to start deporting these criminals. The sooner, the better. Trump Admin 'Reviewing' Visas After Arrest of Dozens of Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Columbia https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-protestors-arrested-marco-rubio
Another idiot in NYC learning a harsh lesson. This is the typical idiot found at campus protests. I can only hope that Tarek Bazrouk is not a U.S. citizen and they can deport him after he serves hard time. ‘Jew hater,’ 20, arrested by feds for allegedly assaulting Jewish victims in NYC hate crime attacks https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-ne...ing-jewish-victims-in-nyc-hate-crime-attacks/ A rabble-rousing “Jew hater” was arrested by the feds Wednesday for allegedly assaulting multiple Jewish victims in a spate of vicious hate crime attacks across the Big Apple — including one where he allegedly snatched an Israeli flag and spewed pro-Nazi venom, The Post has learned. Tarek Bazrouk, 20, was picked up by the feds on three hate crime charges early Wednesday morning over the string of alleged antisemitic attacks at various Israel-Gaza war protests dating back to April last year, federal prosecutors said. In a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, the feds detailed how Bazrouk — who has already been repeatedly arrested by the NYPD over the alleged hate-filled antics — had pro-Hamas propaganda on his phone and a barrage of texts describing himself as a “Jew hater.” Bazrouk also allegedly once told a friend that he was “mad happy” to have learned that certain relatives overseas were part of Hamas, prosecutors said. “The FBI will pursue violent criminals who assault Jewish citizens. Today’s arrest sends a clear message that we are not backing down,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “Thank you to our FBI teams and partners for their diligent work in this case.” Bazrouk “deliberately set out to harm Jewish New Yorkers — targeting them at protests, singling them out, and assaulting them for nothing more than their identity,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement. “The NYPD worked closely with the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office to track him down and ensure he faces real consequences. Antisemitism and all forms of bigotry have no home here in New York — period. “New Yorkers of all faiths are welcome to live and worship in our city freely, and we will never stop fighting to protect that right.” Bazrouk’s alleged crime streak stretches back to April 15, 2024, when he assaulted three Jewish people at a war protest outside the New York Stock Exchange. In that incident, Bazrouk — who was wearing a green headband typically worn by Hamas terrorists — allegedly lunged at a group carrying Israeli flags, according to the federal filing. As he was being hauled away by cops, Bazrouk allegedly kicked a Jewish college student in the stomach. He is also accused of slugging a Jewish Columbia University student in the face while allegedly ranting about Hitler and the Nazis in an unhinged flag-snatching tantrum near the Ivy League campus on Dec. 9. The victim in that ordeal, 22-year-old Jonathan Lederer, told The Post at the time that Bazrouk allegedly stole his brother’s flag and then decked him for trying to intervene. One month later, Bazrouk again targeted a protester with an Israeli flag draped on his shoulders at a protest near Union Square on Jan. 6, prosecutors allege. Bazrouk, who was wearing a keffiyeh on his face, allegedly punched the victim in the face with a closed fist. Investigators probing the alleged violence later uncovered the trove of antisemitic bias on his phone, according to prosecutors. In texts to friends, Bazrouk allegedly labeled Jews as “worthless,” called an acquaintance a “f–king Jew,” and told one to “slap that bitch” in reference to a woman with an Israeli sticker on her laptop. Bazrouk has already been arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on a host of assault, hate crime and harassment charges. In addition to local charges, Bazrouk is now charged with three counts of committing hate crimes, which each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. He is slated to appear before US Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron later on Wednesday. (Article has many pictures)
Suspending these masked criminals is not enough, the Federal government needs to immediately deport any of these terrorist supporters who are not U.S. citizens. Columbia suspends anti-Israel agitators after takeover, spreading of pamphlets glorifying alleged terrorist Police arrested 80 anti-Israel agitators who disrupted students studying for final exams at Columbia University https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia...eading-pamphlets-glorifying-alleged-terrorist
Firing all the Jewish professors as your "response to anti-semitism" is not very smart -- and is going to cost Queens College (part of the City University of New York system) quite a bit of money shortly. Queens College ‘cleans house’ of Jewish accounting professors after ‘antisemitic hate’ erupts on campus: lawsuit Queens College purged its accounting department of Jewish adjunct professors after “antisemitic hate speech and violence” erupted on campus following the Hamas terror attack on Israel, according to a lawsuit. https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-ne...ans-house-of-jewish-accounting-profs-lawsuit/
This is why a growing number of people despise Harvard. Two Harvard students who assaulted Jewish peer receive honors, $65,000 fellowship In October 2023, Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo surrounded a Jewish student named Yoav Segev and covered him with keffiyehs while shouting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-855490
Northwestern hired a terrorist professor to appease pro-Hamas students. It's time for a house cleaning and deportations. Meet the Professor Northwestern Hired As Part of Deal With Student Radicals Mkhaimar Abusada serves on boards of organizations that regularly partner with Hamas and the PFLP https://freebeacon.com/campus/meet-...-hired-as-part-of-deal-with-student-radicals/ A Northwestern University professor—hired as part of a deal with anti-Israel groups to end last year’s encampment—sits on the boards of two organizations that were founded by and frequently partner with Palestinian terrorists, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Last year, Northwestern president Michael Schill struck a deal with radical student groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), to end their encampment, agreeing to recruit two Palestinian professors and provide full rides to five students from Gaza. Northwestern tapped Mkhaimar Abusada last fall as a visiting associate professor of political science to fill the first of those faculty slots, teaching a weekly undergraduate course on the "Palestinian National Movement." Abusada also serves on the boards of two organizations that present themselves as human rights groups—the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)—that, in reality, maintain close ties to terrorists. ICHR has praised Hamas and met with the terror group’s leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, while PCHR has Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members on its payroll—with one serving as its leader. NGO Monitor president Gerald Steinberg condemned Northwestern for hiring Abusada. "His employment as a faculty member is a heinous violation of basic academic norms and moral principles," he said. Scholars for Peace in the Middle East executive director Asaf Romirowsky echoed that sentiment. "When you're signing an agreement with SJP and their sympathizers, they're going to find people who are in agreement with their echo chamber of individuals," he said. "The number one issue is that the institutions are doing no background checks," Romirowsky added. "This is not a matter of academic freedom. This is a matter of national security. This is a matter of threats to the universities themselves. And there needs to be clear red lines." Neither Abusada nor Northwestern responded to multiple requests for comment. Hiring Abusada could serve as a thorn in the university’s side as it faces pressure to rein in campus anti-Semitism. Last month, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern amid a civil rights investigation into alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus. West Bank-based ICHR was established by former Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, whom Romirowsky described as the "grandfather of all terrorists." The group purports to ensure that the "State of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organization meet the requirements for safeguarding human rights," but its members have repeatedly hosted and met with Hamas and PFLP members. In December 2018, for example, ICHR touted a meeting between its staff and Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader Israel assassinated last year. The group shared photos in a Facebook post that said Haniyeh "affirmed Hamas’ commitment to the values of human rights and the legal principles governing rights and freedoms," according to the platform’s autotranslation. Haniyeh later celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, assault and called for more attacks. Other terror leaders in ICHR’s orbit include Khalil Al-Haya, who serves on Hamas’s leadership committee, and Alam Ka’abi, a PFLP Prisoners Committee official who was sentenced to nine life sentences in 2004 by an Israeli court for his role in enlisting terrorists behind a string of lethal attacks. Romirowsky and Steinberg said ICHR effectively exploits the term "human rights" to paper over political propaganda. "It's not a coincidence that they have used the word ‘human rights.’ When you use the word human rights, you get a pass, because the perception is that this gives it an aura of legitimacy. This is all part of the facade to make that happen, and give the illusion that Yasser Arafat was involved and cared about human rights," Romirowsky told the Free Beacon. "The accusations waged against Israel are all centered on so-called human rights violations. The fact that the PLO and Arafat created these silos of so-called independent commissions on human rights, and the fact that they're the ones who are delivering these messages is all by design." Steinberg added that "ICHR officials have applauded heinous terror attacks, including the October 7 atrocities, and the recruitment of Palestinian minors—the exact opposite of the moral principles associated with human rights." Abusada also serves as deputy chairman for PCHR’s board of directors. The Gaza-based group wages lawfare against Israel, such as filing lawsuits with the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants of Jewish state leaders it accuses of "genocide." It was founded by Raji Sourani, a PFLP member who served a three-year prison sentence in Israel for his PFLP membership. In 2012, he was denied a U.S. entry visa because of his links to terrorism. According to Sourani, the goal of PCHR is to "inundate the [Israeli] occupation with hundreds and thousands of legal suits that will incriminate and convict it." Two years later, the PFLP honored Sourani with a ceremony in Gaza after he received the "Alternative Nobel Prize," an award given by the Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation to recognize "the actions of brave visionaries working for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world for all." During the event, Sourani told the attendees, "we are proud that once we were members of [the PFLP] and we fought in its ranks," according to NGO Monitor. Rabah Muhana, a member of the PFLP’s Political Bureau who has called for "escalation of resistance in general and armed struggle in particular against the Zionist enemy," also spoke. Abusada’s predecessor as deputy chair, Jaber Wishah, headed PFLP’s military wing in Gaza. Steinberg said PCHR, like ICHR, calls itself a human rights group to win over sympathizers. "Although labeled as an NGO, it would not be able to exist or operate without the approval and cooperation of Hamas," he told the Free Beacon. "Sourani realized that by using the ‘human rights’ label, he and other PFLP members would be able to get funds and be welcomed in the UN by gullible government officials, university faculty and journalists who don't bother to check the details." "Using this ruse, PCHR has been a leading voice in promoting demonization of Israel and the Palestinian mythology, while keeping their PFLP terror links in the background," Steinberg added. He also pointed to Abusada’s Arabic-language interviews, telling the Free Beacon, "He has frequently expressed support for what he calls the ‘brave Palestinian resistance’ and often echoes Hamas slogans." For instance, "In January 2023, after the murder of seven Israeli civilians outside a Jerusalem synagogue, Abusada told an Arabic media interviewer ‘the flame of Palestinian resistance shall not end.’" Jason Curtis Anderson, cofounder of the good government group One City Rising, was unsurprised by Abusada’s board positions. "We’ve turned a blind eye to terror-linked nonprofits for far too long, allowing them to infiltrate academia, student groups, and the broader nonprofit sector," he said. "So no, I’m not surprised to hear about a professor sitting on the board of an organization with direct ties to terrorism. For these individuals, winning over young minds is part of a long-term strategy to elect more anti-Israel politicians and secure more votes for BDS resolutions." Before moving to the United States, Abusada taught political science at Al-Azhar University, a Gazan school Hamas used to store weapons. And in 2019, he co-moderated a session during the Masarat Center’s annual conference, which included speakers like senior Hamas official Basem Naim, senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khalid al-Batsh, and senior PFLP member Khalida Jarrar. He and Jarrar spoke at the same conference in 2014, as did senior Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
Since I had this as impartial as possible, AI generated response the other day: Discursive Laundering: How a Professor Became a “Terrorist” Mkhaimar Abusada is a political science professor from Gaza. He’s spent years explaining the complex politics of the region — including sharp criticism of Hamas. In January, he was quoted in Haaretz offering insight into the mindset of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader. The article was not sympathetic to Hamas. If anything, it was chilling. But that didn’t stop the New York Post and others from twisting Abusada’s presence at Harvard into a scandal. He was branded a “terrorist professor” by GWBtrading — not because he promotes violence, but because he tries to explain it. That distinction matters. Abusada also has a long academic history in the U.S., including a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri and years teaching and researching in American institutions. None of this mattered in the media storm. This is a textbook example of discursive laundering: when careful analysis is scrubbed of its nuance and repackaged as support for extremism. First, quote someone explaining a difficult reality. Then, strip the context. Add fear-inducing labels. Finally, present the whole thing as proof that universities are siding with terrorists. It’s dishonest — and it’s working. Abusada is not a terrorist. He’s not a Hamas member. He’s a political scientist doing what good scholars do: helping people understand power, conflict, and human behavior. Turning that into a crime is not just bad faith. It’s dangerous.