Students and Faculty Members at Penn Break Out in Tears After Police Clear Anti-Israel Encampment
“Yang and other faculty had tried to block police vans that held arrested students.”
This is just proof that some of these people are not well and have serious mental issues.
The College Fix reports:
Penn faculty, students break down in tears after cops sweep pro-Hamas encampment
After police from the University of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia “disbanded” Penn’s pro-Hamas encampment Friday morning, assorted faculty and students later gathered at the city’s famous LOVE Statue to express their grief.
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports “several speakers and audience members” broke down in tears while describing scuffles with law enforcement.
Sukaina Hirji, who teaches Ancient Greek, contemporary moral, and feminist philosophy, said she was “pretty shaken” and “very f**king angry” at the encampment’s dismantlement at which nine Penn students (33 protesters in total) were arrested.
English professor Chi-ming Yang, who specializes in “the literary and visual culture of race and empire,” said she “had made a pledge” that if law enforcement “touched any [Penn] students” she would “be there with them.”
Yang and other faculty had tried to block police vans that held arrested students.
Professor Huda Fakhreddine alleged that students were “brutalized” by the combined police forces and compared the situation to when Israeli forces had “invaded” her village in Lebanon when she was a child.
Hirji (pictured), Yang, and Fakhreddine all are members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine. Yang also is a member of Police Free Penn.
A Penn pro-Hamas encampment organizer told the LOVE Statue gathering that their protest is “the dawn of something much greater, much larger,” and added Penn is wrong to think it could thwart activists with “police brutality.”
Friday evening, about 150 pro-Hamas demonstrators took their cause to Penn Interim President Larry Jameson’s residence where “at least” a quartet of activists holding Palestinian flags breached the gates around the property with one actually knocking on the front door.
Demonstrators shouted “Larry, Larry you’re a liar, the students set the world on fire” all while setting off red, green, and black smoke. Penn professor Tamim Khaddash chimed in with “You are complicit in apartheid, you are complicit in genocide, f**k you Larry.”
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yes it is sad that the proper punishments were not dealt out to the wokesters
They are being taught to be unable to cope. They will probably never unlearn it. This is very bad for the long term.
Takes a heart of stone not to laugh at these play actors.
“I am a Professor” means “You should know better!!” Really, did a university employee who is bound contractually to follow university policy and procedure at the expense of their paycheck and benefits think that violating them would somehow gain an exemption? Good luck with that. Helping students to barricade buildings, cause mayhem and damage to university property and threatening students, faculty and staff isn’t quite covered under “academic freedom”, at least not in any faculty handbook I’ve ever seen—and I teach at three schools of medicine.
It used to be that a faculty member would not want to be cited publicly cursing out the president of his institution. It isn’t only our vocabulary that has been degraded in recent years; but apparently also our instinct for self-preservation.
Maybe if the Lebanese (or PLO operating freely in Lebanon, depending on when this occurred) had not attacked Israel, the Israelis would have stayed out of her village? Just a guess.
The professor shouting obscenities at Penn’s interim president is an interventional radiologist. Let that sink in.
PS, my spouse points out to me that there was a high % of PhDs among the SS.