Northwestern President Won't Commit To
Excluding Anti-Semites From Anti-Semitism
Task Force
Washington Free Beacon [D.C.],
by
Alana Goodman
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/24/2024 10:33:03 AM
Northwestern University president Michael Schill refused to say he wouldn’t appoint anti-Semites to the school’s committee to combat anti-Semitism during a congressional hearing on Thursday.
Northwestern’s task force to combat anti-Semitism was appointed by Schill last fall in response to concerns about rising anti-Jewish sentiment at the school. The committee was recently disbanded after seven Jewish members resigned in protest over the university's decision to negotiate with anti-Israel protesters.
Schill was questioned by lawmakers about his decision to appoint several members who advocated anti-Israel boycotts, supported the eliminationist "From the River to the Sea" chant, and defended a Palestinian terrorist who murdered college students.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PostAway 5/24/2024 10:56:56 AM (No. 1723952)
Northwestern has turned out to be a con job diploma mill. Like sand when the tide rolls out we can clearly see what lives and thrives there. And I used to be a season ticket holder for their football games.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
singermom9 5/24/2024 11:10:12 AM (No. 1723959)
How abt we have an ANTI-gay or ANTI-trans or maybe just ANTI-stupid jackass people in general like him.
I would spend tens of thousands to be hated by all on campus. S/O
I bet you could BUY a diploma from them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/24/2024 11:13:53 AM (No. 1723962)
There should be someone on every committee to play devils advocate. If your anti-racism committee is staffed with nothing but left wing grievance mongers, then everything is declared racist. Oh wait......
My point is that there is value to hearing what the other side thinks and has to say. And who is deciding what is and isn't anti-Semitic? Lately, criticizing that Nazi helping left wing loon has been declared anti-Semitic. Sometimes, someone may have a valid criticism that might otherwise be labeled anti-Semitic.
The Jewish people survived the Persians, the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, the Middle Ages Catholic Church, the Germans, Russians and now the islamists. They/we are tough people and don't need to be protected from every trigger word
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
padiva 5/24/2024 11:35:36 AM (No. 1723973)
weasel
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56 5/24/2024 11:37:27 AM (No. 1723975)
Maybe the esteemed college grand poobah can find some of those Nazis who paraded in Skokie back on the 70s to serve on his anti-Semetic committee.
In the words of that great philosopher, Bugs Bunny, "What A Maroon!:
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 5/24/2024 11:37:45 AM (No. 1723976)
I think we need to define our terms here. What exactly is an anti-semite? Is it someone who fails to automatically fall to their knees whenever Israel is mentioned? Is it someone who genuinely doesn't care one way or the other about Israel? Is it someone who wishes bad things to happen to Israel? Or is it maybe someone who is tired of being browbeaten for not liking someone who has done nothing to be liked for?
When laws are passed making it a crime to not like someone, thats an alarm bell.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PostAway 5/24/2024 12:21:29 PM (No. 1724007)
Anti-semitism means more than simple non-preference for Jews. On Oct. 7 we all saw exactly the actions anti-semites on American college campuses support and there should be no tolerance for them let alone giving them a voice in any serious discussion of anything. They are amoral, weak and thoroughly dishonest. Predictably they will claim great injustices visited upon the most retrograde and inbred of Arabs - the so-called Palestinians but they will gloss over what their kind did to innocent Israeli’s just seven short months ago.
Recently I heard a biblical scholar say that he doesn’t think we’re close to the end times but in them. Watching the rapidity at which the unthinkable of a few years ago is being embraced I wonder if he may be right.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/24/2024 12:28:14 PM (No. 1724011)
I remember back when Northwestern was considered a prestigious institute of higher learning.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 5/24/2024 12:34:51 PM (No. 1724017)
At one point in North Western's existence it was affiliated with the Methodist Church. Now that they have left that association they have lost any moral compass they ever used. There is no need for a committee. Any people saying hurtful terms or attacking someone for their beliefs should be expelled and their record should clearly state why for any other college or employer they might want to use the school as a reference.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
privateer 5/24/2024 12:50:22 PM (No. 1724031)
This is Wikipedia, so grain of salt: Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. Thus, as used by this committee Antisemitic is no longer is accurate. The new term should be Jew Haters, Jew Baiters, or in the case of Palestinians, Jew Killers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ironchefw 5/24/2024 5:51:57 PM (No. 1724142)
As I have posted before, rename the "university" North Middle Eastern University.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/24/2024 6:43:39 PM (No. 1724159)
Northwestern used to be considered to be a good school.
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