Dean of Students at Northwestern U. Attends Protest Targeting Campus Jewish Community Center
“[Hillel] is one of the many ways in which this university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism”
Is it clear now what this movement is really all about? It certainly should be.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Northwestern University Dean of Students Attends Protest Targeting Campus Jewish Community Center
The dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti-Israel protest this week targeting Hillel, the school’s Jewish student community center, to defend the demonstrators’ “right to free speech.”
Dean of Students Mona Dugo said she showed up at the rally on Monday to support anti-Israel activists’ “right to protest” and to “protect the right to free speech,” according to the Daily Northwestern.
Protest organizers demanded that the university end its relationship with Hillel, a 100-year-old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses around the world, including Northwestern. The protest took place during Northwestern’s Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students to campus life.
“[Hillel] is one of the many ways in which this university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism,” one protest organizer said in a speech at the rally.
A leaflet handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of “funneling Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist ‘foundation for Jewish life.’” It also claimed the school “weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism on campus to silence pro-Palestinian activism.”
Protesters also accused Israel of “genocide” and called on Northwestern to end any relationships with “Zionist companies.”
The protest comes as alumni have accused Northwestern president Michael Schill of allowing anti-Semitism to proliferate on campus, where anti-Israel protesters have raised the Hamas flag at student demonstrations. During Northwestern’s Martin Luther King Jr. memorial ceremony in February, a speaker accused Israel of “genocide” as Schill sat silently in the audience, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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Mona Dugo, do go – to hell. President Schill, you are a shill – for the progleft. You continue to make me ashamed to be an alum (of the law school, which itself has pulled many leftist stunts).
I do believe that brilliant Dean of Students just gave Hillel a terrific weapon to yield in court against Northwestern University. She is an official of the university and her presence condones the protests making Jewish studentrs feel unsafe. It’s sad that our court systems are so darn slow, but, since universities are so concerned with safe spaces, their failure to provide such for Jewish students is particularly egregious. Luckily, Northwestern has lots and lots of money.
A member of the administration openly supporting anti-Semitism? Brilliant.
But will a lawsuit get seen by a non-Democrat judge? Or is it like the Third Reich where there were no crimes against Jews because Nazi judges never saw any crimes?
If it’s the latter then no justice is possible unless they can go way outside the normal system e.g. SCOTUS.
Northwestern is located in Evanston, IL, a wealthy, undoubtedly woke community. Which is right next door to Skokie, a smaller community founded after WWII and which attracted a lot of Jewish refugees. (Skokie was the site where the American Nazi Party initially wanted to hold a parade in the seventies, and the ACLU supported their right to do so. If you can remember back that far.) I’m sure there are not many Holocaust survivors left, but it is still about 28% Jewish. So, there is hope.
What ?!! A highly-paid senior position at an “elite” U. occupied by a non-white-male? I am SHOCKED! I thought that white males victimized non-white-males. I guess that Northwestern is extremely open-minded, allowing such an opportunity to this victim of The White Man. This is, thank goodness, one position the salary for which cannot be used by a white male to support a wife and family, thus helping to lower our already-below-replacement-level reproduction rate…and thereby justifying our open borders, allowing our population to be replaced by unvetted-but-problem-free “migrants”. See how the Woke policies all work together? It’s a thing of social reengineering beauty.
“Dean Dugo, I have a Lee Plakas on line 3.”
Clever! I had to look up Lee Plakas – represented the Gibsons against Oberlin,. for those of us who aren’t that clever.
What’s next- the president of the university burns an Israeli flag on campus?
My first question was whether part of the protest actually took place in front of the Hillel facility (apparently not). I examined a campus map of Northwestern online and found that the various locations mentioned for the protest are separate and away from the Hillel office. How far the walking distance is I can’t say. Wherever the demonstration took place, what is troubling is not necessarily that the dean of students was present, but why she was present according to her own statement.
Based on my own experiences and knowledge of the Orange County Hillel at UC Irvine, where I used to teach, they are set up on college campuses to support Jewish students and enhance their campus life with social and religious functions. As to what extent they support Israel varies from campus to campus and chapter to chapter. Within National Hillel in recent years, there has been an effort by some elements to establish “open Hillel” chapters that would admit Jewish students opposed to Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. In the last several years, the UC Irvine chapter has usually discouraged Jewish students from getting involved in Israel-related campus conflicts, preferring to keep a low profile and work with the university. The current president of Hillel at UC Irvine has attended some of the recent campus anti-Israel events, not to join in, but rather to observe and document what goes on. At any rate, I think it would be highly inappropriate to protest in front of any Hillel office on any campus. It would only lend credence to the widespread belief (including mine) that this entire movement is anti-Semitic.
As to Dugo’s presence at the protest itself, it is not unusual for such university officials to show up to observe the goings-on and ensure that order is maintained (not to ensure that the protesters’ free speech rights and right to protest are protected). Dugo’s words imply that she supported the protesters. At best, her words were awkward, and at worst, outrageous. I think she owes Hillel and Northwestern’s Jewish students either a clarification or an apology.