Cornell’s Annual Student Festival To Feature Pro-Intifada Zionist-Bashing Performer
So much for unity of Slope Day: “Selection of a performer who openly supports an Intifada and war against Israel reflects a toxic campus culture that the administration has ignored”
The school is basically playing dumb on this person’s views. Professor Jacobson is quoted in the article.
From the New York Post:
Cornell claims it somehow didn’t know about Jew-bashing Kehlani’s anti-Israel stance — and says it’s too late to cancel performance
Cornell University gets an F in research.
School president Michael Kotlikoff claimed the upstate Ivy League school wasn’t aware of Jew-bashing musician Kehlani’s anti-Israel stance — despite the information being available with a simple online search.
Kotlikoff told the Cornell Student Assembly it was now “too late” to dump the singer-songwriter and switch to another performer for Slope Day, the university’s end-of-year celebration to be held on May 7.
“We found out about the social media of this performer roughly three weeks ago,” Kotlikoff said, according to the The Cornell Daily Sun.
“It’s too late to secure another performer that will be acceptable or appropriate for Slope Day,” he told students.
Kotlikoff claimed that university brass and organizers were unaware of Kehlani’s political views when beginning negotiations for her to perform last October.
But even basic research would have turned up her views on social media supporting violence against Israel, outraged students and faculty said Monday…
“Selection of a performer who openly supports an Intifada and war against Israel reflects a toxic campus culture that the administration has ignored,” said Cornell law professor William Jacobson, founder of the civil rights group EqualProtect.org.
StopAntisemitism, a Jewish advocacy group, urged Cornell brass to do the right thing by not promoting or condoning a hate-mongering entertainer.
“President Kotlikoff’s excuse that it’s `too late to cancel’ is a cowardly abdication of leadership. There is never a deadline on doing what is right,” said StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez.
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So Cornell is telling us yay a performer who advocates the destruction of Israel and violence against Jews IS acceptable or appropriate for Slope Day?
Yeah I get it. Stopping a known antisemite performer three weeks in advance – not enough time. Stopping a conservative speaker the day of the speech no problem. These people are so despicable they don’t even know how despicable they are.
Bingo.
I seem to remember a conservative woman who was cancelled after she had already walked in the door on the day of her speech, Don’t remember whether it was Ann Coulter, Riley Gaines, Candace Owens, or possibly someone else I’m missing.
“It’s too late to secure another performer that will be acceptable or appropriate for Slope Day,” he told students.
as if this one is acceptable or appropriate? Just have student-run entertainment or something. Kotlikoff seems worse than Martha. Seriously I don’t think this would have happened under Martha.
Cornell has massive funding from Qatar. I’m getting worried here about institutional capture.
suppose the idf shows up???
Cornell show not only should not receive any research grants from the Federal government. The Federal government should not support student loans for any student at Cornell. And it should lose its’ tax-exept status
Universities regularly find they can cancel non-Left speakers at any time. To say it’s too late to cancel a Leftist approved performer is simply an admission they have zero intent on cancelling anti-Semitism but recognise they can no longer explicitly say this.
Why does Cornell even have a Slope Day? Surely Oriental students must protest the name. Or is it not a reference to ‘slant-eyes’? On the other hand inviting an anti-Semite to Slant Day makes sense – embrace the power of racism!!! 😖
I saw Slope Day and that was the first thing that passed through my twisted mind.
“The university wasn’t aware….” Where have those words been heard before? Oh that’s right…Barack Obama and his Liberation Theology pastor that he supposedly knew for years…
Obama knew Wright and was a member of his church for over 20 years. Write married Obama and baptized his children. Obama stating that he didn’t know Write’s views was a bold faced lie, one of many. It is to their disgrace that the main stream media ignored this lie.
One of the ways that woke ideology spreads is through control of speakers and performers at university events. This involves glorifying proponents of the most extreme forms of identity politics and banning speakers and performers who oppose them.
Conservative students at DePaul University invited the Wire’s Ben Shapiro to speak and the school administration banned him from doing so. I was on a small committee proposing speakers for the college of Liberal Arts and Science graduation and I proposed inviting Pope Paul. The reaction was he’s too conservative.
In response to 9/11 the political science department held a public forum to explore the deeper causes of the attack. A panel of six professors delivered speeches, five of which blamed Israel and American foreign policy for the attacks. Un mentioned was that DePaul alumnus, Todd Beamer, had died on United 93, while rallying the passengers to try to retake the plane.
By the time I left Depaul, the largest Catholic University in the country, it had reinvented Catholicism as victim politics flavored with Marxism.
I almost expected it to be Joe Rogan. How is promotion of anti-Semites on college campuses any different from Joe Rogan promoting them on his show?
Update: Kehlani’s invitation to Slope Day has been rescinded. The reaction worked!
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/cornell-university-disinvites-anti-israel-performer-kehlani-after-wave-of-backlash/