Anti-Israel Activists at Ithaca College Hold ‘Die-in’ Protest During Welcome Event for New Students
“When a land is occupied, resistance is justified.”
These protesters seem laser focused on ruining things for other people.
Campus Reform reports:
Anti-Israel activists hold ‘die-in’ during welcome event for admitted Ithaca students
Approximately two dozen students hosted a “die-in” protest at Ithaca College in upstate New York on March 23 to protest Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas.
According to The Ithacan, the demonstration was organized by Ithaca College Students for Palestine (ICSFP) who began the protest during the morning of Admitted Students Day on campus.
Demonstrators reportedly held pro-Palestine signs while chanting “Free Palestine,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “When a land is occupied, resistance is justified.”
Quincey Fireside, President of ICSFP, reportedly said during the demonstration that the protesters had three demands, including that the school’s administration release a pro-Palestine statement and apologize for not doing so quicker.
The students are also said to have demanded that the school allow a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) audit of Ithaca’s financial investments to determine the extent of its ties to Israel. Protesters allegedly demanded that the college even put an end to Birthright trips to Israel being run by “Hillel at IC.”
During the protest, demonstrators reportedly asked for Ithaca President La Jerne Cornish to attend in order to hear their demands in person. Cornish arrived shortly before 10:30 a.m., less than two hours after the protest started, according to The Ithacan.
“I will discuss [the demands] with my team,” Cornish said. “I am willing to have a subsequent meeting with [Fireside] and anybody else [Fireside chooses] to bring to that meeting to have further conversation, I am open to conversation.”
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“When a land is occupied, resistance is justified.”
And, when resistance arises, putting it down permanently is justified – to the gov’t. Which is why you only do this crap in an artificially constrained society.
Also, if I were a new student, I’d call Mom or Dad and say, “I don’t think I want to go here. The older students are stupider than I am, and that does not bode well.”
I’m old enough to remember when higher education was for higher education.
The music college at Ithaca used to be a major reason to attend – going back 70 years.
Media and theater have been its strong suits, and not surprisingly, it draws a very lefty bunch of people – although being Ithaca College, a bit dumber than at that other university in Ithaca
I’d find it interesting to see these demonstrators interviewed in about 2034.
I’d also like to know lhow many books these demonstrators will read about the Middle East (or anything else) in the months and years ahead
These supporters of Child Hostage Keepers and Rape Is Resistance Perpetrators may well know nothing more on graduation day than they do today.
smh
Respectfully, realistically, virtually nobody at Ithaca College is an “elite” academic.
So why do these kids and their parents pretend that a four-year degree from Ithaca College is worth the time and money involved? It’s really so ……… irrational.
Instead— consider spending the five years post-high school
(1) learning a marketable skill
and (2) learning to speak, say, spanish, to level B2 (Start on line, a couple hours a day, within a month or two progress is amazing)
Then, when you hit , say, 22 a few years from now, and can work doing HVAC or plumbing or welding or electrician or CDL or something else , then you’ll be able to take care of yourself. Maybe start your own business (can take some classes in bookkeeping, taxes, etc if need to)
And if you can function in espanol then you won’t have to limit yourself w.r.t. the people that you
-hire
-work with
-work for
Later on in life, if you still think you’d like to enroll courses at Ithaca College, then you still can — although winters in that area are pretty long, pretty cold, pretty dreary. Whatever.
But the point is — what really do you honestly realistically think the employees of Ithaca college can realistically teach you that is worth shelling out thousands and thousands and thousands of US dollars?
Think! People, think!!
I took my son to a campus tour/orientation at Rensselaer about 10 years ago and one of the admissions presentations was hijacked by a climate change student activist — until one of the other exasperated dads stood up and started yelling at the kid, who seemed shocked at the pushback.
Anyway, my kid didn’t end up going there – Troy NY seemed a bit grim.
Businesses and innovation and growth used to thrive in NY state.
That canal between Albany/Schenectady/Troy and Buffalo did much to open the interior of North America to the world.
Buffalo NY buildings are unique.
Rochester NY was once kinda like what Silicon Valley is today.
It wasn’t by accident that Ezra Cornell chose to put his university where he did.
But it’s all basically gone now. Most anything productive has moved overseas. Now all that’s left are some formerly relevant colleges scattered about—trying to hold on until retirement, or until they get converted to institutes of islamic law
Clearly, nothing important in the foreseeable future is ever again going to come out of NY state — nothing positive, anyway.
Oh well.
40-45 years ago, Rochester was booming – it was HQ for Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and Basuch and Lomb. Time and technology certainly killed the two bigger ones.
I went to school in upstate NY, and even though we were a distance from Ithaca College, it was known above all else for one thing – having the hottest female students around.
I went to school in upstate NY, within an hour or so of Ithaca. The women were covered up in near-hibernation mode from October until March. Sweaters. Sweatshirts. Parkas. Everybody packed on the pounds.
By the time it’s comfortable enough to walk around outdoors, it’s time for final exams. Then everyone goes home.
(Summers in upstate NY can’t be beat.)
If I had it to do over again, well I definitely would not attend college in NY