Stanford U Suspends Student Co-op for Allegedly Targeting Jewish Students
“No student should be subject to this kind of discrimination, whatever their identity”
After what we have witnessed on college campuses over the last two years, this is easy to believe.
The Jewish News Syndicate reports:
Stanford suspends student co-op for targeting Jewish students
Stanford University suspended the student-run Kairos co-op for the upcoming academic year, after receiving reports that Jewish students were targeted, a spokeswoman for the private California school told JNS.
Students taking part “in an extracurricular activity were asked to leave the house and told that, among other things, the presence of ‘Zionists’ in the group was making residents of the house uncomfortable,” Dee Mostofi, assistant vice president of external communications at Stanford, told JNS.
Rabbi Jessica Kirschner, executive director of Hillel at Stanford, told JNS that “students had permission from the residents to be in the building to work on a group project,” and “some residents realized some of the visiting students were Jewish and therefore assumed to be Zionists.”
The residents “decided their presence made residents ‘unsafe’ and told the group to leave, which they eventually did,” Kirschner told JNS.
The Kairos website, which includes a land acknowledgement, states that the more than 35-year-old residence “has been a welcoming space for art enthusiasts of all varieties.” It adds that Kairos “builds intentional community, wherein members both put in the work to help each other thrive and enjoy the authentic connections to each other that result.”
Mostofi told JNS that an investigation by Stanford’s Title VI office found that “the extracurricular project had nothing to do with the Middle East and that none of the students present had shared their political beliefs.”
“Students were targeted based on their perceived Jewish identity,” Mostofi said. “It is simply not acceptable that Jewish students would be excluded from a university space, or asked to explain their political beliefs to remain in that space.”
“No student should be subject to this kind of discrimination, whatever their identity,” she added.
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Suspension of the co-op should remain in force until all current members have left the university.
This is what winning looks like thank you Donald Trump
HOWEVER
Was Trump lying when he said I would get tired of winning? I am somewhat split on that issue of did Trump lie to me? I am used to politicians lying of course so I shouldn’t complain if he knew I wouldn’t get tired of winning.
I wouldn’t call this a win, or chalk it up to fear of Trump. These people crossed a line their own side drew. They forgot that they’re supposed to pretend “anti-zionism” isn’t a mere euphemism for “antisemitism”, and that they’re supposed to carefully draw that nonexistent distinction.
“Anti-zionism” is like saying “We have nothing against black people, we’re only against those who are uppity and think they have rights; we have no problem with black people who defer to their betters and would be willing to go back into slavery if asked to.” That only “works” if you carefully ascertain that each black person you encounter is uppity; you have to wait until they open their mouths and dare to speak to a white person as an equal before you can hate them. If you just assume it because they’re black, then you’re unacceptably racist.
Letting students run their own dorms “lord of the flies” style probably isn’t the greatest idea anyway. Letting small minded bigoted lefties run their own even less so.
That is a fair assumption. Almost all Jews, and certainly almost all sane Jews, are zionists, by the definition the anti-zionists use. The orthodox Jews who loudly proclaim their anti-zionism are the most zionist of all, by any definition but their own. They oppose zionism only because they use a more accurate definition of the term, and find it not zionist enough; like communists who oppose mere socialism from the left. So yes, “Jew” is a good proxy for “zionist”, and therefore “anti-zionism” is a mere euphemism for “antisemitism”.
And if they had? That wouldn’t have made it any better.
“The orthodox Jews who loudly proclaim their anti-zionism are the most zionist of all, by any definition but their own.”
They’re also at least likely to attend college, especially if that means living in a dorm there are certainly orthodontic use in college, but not from that segment of orthodoxy.