Pro-Palestinian ‘Occupation’ Protest at Cornell Issues Demands
“Unlike SJP, CML is not a registered student organization, so officer and membership information is not publicly accessible.”
This article notes that the leadership of the ‘Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation’ is basically the same as Students for Justice in Palestine.
From the Cornell Review:
The Pro-Palestinian “Occupation” Protest Makes Outlandish Demands
On December 1, a group calling itself “The Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation” (CML) held a demonstration in front of Day Hall and later “occupied” Willard Straight Hall and Klarman Hall.
CML’s demands include selling any stock that Cornell may own in three companies, ending Cornell’s role in the joint Technion-Cornell Jacobs Institute on Roosevelt Island, adopting a new “anti-doxing policy,” and redefining “anti-semitism.”
Who is the Coalition for Mutual Liberation?
According to pro-Israel critics, the CML’s leadership seems to be almost identical to the Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) leadership. The CML spokesperson claims that “Some people in SJP are in CML. Right now, SJP’s role is kind of just promoting the events. I think the behind-the-scenes and the back-end organization was done by CML.”
Unlike SJP, CML is not a registered student organization, so officer and membership information is not publicly accessible.
The national SJP organization has been accused of allegedly supporting Hamas. This, together with violating rules on other campuses, has led to a number of universities banning their local SJP chapters. Cornell demonstration leaders have not adequately explained the shift from SJP to CML.
What is the Urgency?
SJP has been pushing the Boycott, Sanctions and Divest (BDS) movement for more than a decade. The BDS movement dates back to 2005, and the Cornell community has repeatedly rejected their demands.
In response to the October 7 Hamas attack, pro-Israel advocates have been putting emphasis on the safe return of the hostages (including Americans) taken by Hamas. In response, the BDS movement restarted their campaign to oppose the use of military force as leverage for the return of the hostages. This includes demonstrations, as well as tearing down hostage and other pro-Israel posters.
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Dear Jews of Cornell:
Leave.
You have options.
But obviously it’s not going to get better at Cornell before it gets worse.
No whimpering.
“But it’s not fair. I worked so hard to get here. I love it here. What about my plans for the future….”
Nobody cares.
“Unlike SJP, CML is not a registered student organization”
So why should Cornell listen to their “demands” at all?
Can the local Elks club stand outside the admin building and make “demands?”
You are correct. What happens in the typical DEI pattern is that a self-defined “group” of students “occuples” a building lobby. They condition their departure upon meeting with the President or other administrators. They present “demands.” (Classically, these demands were things within the control of the University.) The administration does not want to be seen as insensitive or out of touch with students in general, so they meet with the demonstrators.
Many times, the “demands” include amnesty for the transgressions involved in the “occupation.”
I honestly believe that nobody wants such situations to end in violence, and that is the primary motive for college administration responses.
So, your question should be restated, “Can the local Elks Club stand inside the admin building and make “demands”?
lawgrad, You have accurately and precisely described the situation. Thank you! This is exactly what happened at Cornell in 1969. Many people don’t understand this.
Who put the muzzie wingnuts in charge?
Tell them to take their protest to the sidewalk across the street from campus, or their personal FB page. If they bring the protest on campus, rusticate them for 1st offense. For 2nd offense expel them. Make it public notice on 2nd page of school website so nobody can say they didn’t know the policy.
LOL@liberals suddenly concerned about doxxing.
I thought that was the most ironic thing I had read all day.
Shades of Cornell ’69.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/04/campus-takeover-symbolized-era-change
Where are the adults?
Why is SJP concerned about justice for the “Palestinians”? It looks like Israel is giving it to them. Good and hard.
Be careful what you wish for.
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It seems to me that the threat and/or fear of violence is what maintains order just about everywhere order exists.
Violence has been an integral part of the rise of RAINBOW FASCISM on campus. For reasons that are unclear to me, for years college administrators have been appeasing violent disruptions by growing the DEI bureaucracy as well as the numerous studies departments and like minded institutes.
During the summer of George Floyd violence, campuses accelerated their genuflection to anything woke. This isn’t about Marxists taking over American institutions. It certainly isn’t about the proletariat marching through the institutions. The nature of power in America hasn’t changed. Only its mask is new.
We now have a collection of new rich and powerful oligarchs in technology, entertainment, sports, media, finance allied with a credentialed privileged aristocracy in academia and the professions and aligned with the growing number of government employees, all of whom have benefited immensely from the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us.
The class conflict is between the well to do elites and the working class and the small business owners. The rich have changed teams politically to where the Democrats are the party of the privileged ten percent and the Republicans are the party of those who have been left behind and are struggling. Class conflict is experienced by the privileged as condescension and contempt for the less successful and by the less wealthy as resentment toward Hollywood, the media and so called liberal politicians.