Whitman College Students Protest Board of Trustees Demanding Divestment From Israel
“What do want? Divestment. When do we want it? Now.”
It’s amazing that the students doing this at various schools think they’re the good guys.
Campus Reform reports:
Whitman College students chant to ‘shut down the college’ for lack of divestment
Anti-Israel students in Washington recently protested a board of trustees meeting with chants to “shut down the college” over the lack of divestment it has authorized against Israel.
On Thursday, approximately 50 students at Whitman College hosted a “die-in” protest against the board’s meeting at Memorial Hall, as reported by The Whitman Wire.
After reportedly walking out of classes at 11 a.m., the students gathered at Ankeny Field to chant, “What do want? Divestment. When do we want it? Now. What will we do if we don’t get it? Shut the college down!” By the time the students reached Memorial Hall, about 75 students were said to have participated in the demonstration.
A day before the students’ protest, an email was sent to university members indicating that the board meeting was to be relocated to a site about an hour from campus for the purpose of “avoiding disruption,” according to The Whitman Wire.
The “die-in” demonstration was led by the college’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.
”During this morning die-in in front of the bus, Whitman Security made sure to ‘protect’ the Board of Trustees members only, despite the peaceful nature of student protesters,” the SJP chapter said in a statement to The Whitman Wire.
”Yet, when students staged a die-in in front of Memorial Hall, Whitman Security wasn’t around,” the group continued. “Community members slowed their cars, one even got out of the vehicle, presenting a clear danger to students. In light of an incoming Trump Presidency, which has promised to clamp down on student activism, and threatens minority students, Whitman College must protect its students with more than words.”
The SJP chapter also claimed that a new Trump administration “only reinvigorates concerns about reactionary violence against all students.”
”The Board’s refusal to engage with students – going so far as to remove themselves from Walla Walla – is yet another reminder of the incommensurability between students and those charged with representing us,” the group added. “It is clear that Whitman will ‘protect’ the BOT from its own students, which are protesting peacefully, before protecting students facing the threat of fascism on the ground.”
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Somehow students have gotten the idea that they run (or should run) the colleges. Administrators must grow some cojones and remind the students that they are there only temporarily for four years, and they are there to learn and not to run the place. This will require suspending and expelling students who take over and destroy college property, and who interfere with the educational process for other students.
There is always some kind of political scene that students like to protest: the Vietnam war, apartheid in South Africa, etc. But I’m sickened by their current focus, on hating Jews and wanting to see the Jewish homeland destroyed. There are some disturbing similarities between the college SJP chapters and the Hitler Youth of the 1930’s.
Never quite understood that mentality. I understand consumerism in education when it comes to access to facilities, availability of mandatory classes, faculty being available for student assistance, etc. Students thinking that they run the institution or somehow own it and have a say in the governance of the endowment funds, now that is something I wouldn’t even dream of considering to be consumerist—but downright Marxist if not just completely batshit insane. An average college student only knows vaguely what a stock or bond yield is, and surely doesn’t know enough about how entangled a multinational corporation is or how its enterprise is involved across multiple footprints and levels of a global economy. Most American college students don’t even know how to buy groceries!
(Whitman College Students Protest Board of Trustees) Demanding Divestment From Israel
Whitman College Students Protest (Board of Trustees Demanding Divestment From Israel)
Another fatally ambiguous headline. You’re better than this.
as an alum from a small college whose trustees mismanaged funds for YEARS, and this is all coming out now after the shock closure and absolute mess of a closing (Wells College), these students should be very very careful what they wish for. The students who had to rush transfer are having a hard time adjusting to new colleges, and new graduation requirements.
The closing of Wells makes me sad. My cousin went there.
I have known it was coming for YEARS, somewhere deep inside me, I knew, and I sorrowed. But the way the finally did close, makes me LIVID. There was so much they could have done to prepare the students, the faculty, the campus, the Alumnae. But they did not, in fact fundraising emails went out the week before it was announced (but already decided).
Has anyone asked these well-to-do young adults, “OK, let’s destroy Israel. OK, what do you think will happen next?”
Do these Whitman-eers imagine that what-comes-next for them and for Walla Walla will bear any resemblance to “Live and let live?”
Or Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards All
Or Equality Under The Law
Do these Whitman-eers realize that the BDS advocates will then impose a system that give females almost zero rights?
And homosexuality gets the death penalty?
One wonders what the effect would be if — theoretically — these good Whitman-errs were required to live in the Mideast for a month before they went around advocating for BDS.
Or for a week.
Or for a day.
Maybe somebody could explain to these good Whitman-eers what it’s like to try to be Christian in Egypt.
Or in Saudi
Or in Iran
A few years ago, a couple of young adult females from Europe traveled to Morocco with the intention of demonstrating that “We’re all alike. We’re all humans sharing this planet.”
You might call it a Whitman-eer view of reality.
These good young ladies were murdered shortly after arrival.
To all you good Whitman-eers
Faculty, students, parents, alumni:
Go to Dearborn, Michigan and announce your belief that Christ is king.
Go to Dearborn, Michigan and try to get a building permit for a House Of Worship. Any House Of Worship.
Prominent BDS advocates originators:
Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Dearborn, Qatar, Turkiye
Are these the places that the Whitman-eers want the communities where they live to emulate?
Legal age of sexual intercourse for females – age 9. I’m not making this up.
Is this what they want?
Are these their role models?
In Hamas-ruled Gaza, it was illegal for a female to ride a motorbike straddled. Why? Because the vibration may result in impure thoughts. I’m not making this up. Are these their role models?
In these places if a female dates the wrong guy, the family is obligated to murder her. Literally. I’m not making this up.
Are these their role models?
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In the run-up to The French Revolution and the mass beheadings …… it was the French equivalent of today’s Whitman-eers who felt least threatened by what was coming.
And these were the people who suffered the worst during LA TERREUR that followed.