Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread jimfarmelant
In case anybody was still wondering as to how university administrators would respond to a new wave of McCarthyism. After the last few months, there is no need to wonder anymore.  Today's university administrators have shown themselves to be every bit as cowardly and craven as their

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student | Democracy Now! | | | | | | | | | | | Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech... Amid widespread repression of pro-Palestinian voices on campuses

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread jimfarmelant
Dave, even this Zionist writer in The Forward agrees with you. https://forward.com/opinion/columnists/603640/usc-valedictorian-cancelled-dont-blame-jews-asna-tabassum/ (

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread Dave Lindorff
USC has indelibly shamed itself.Gutless and intellectually dishonest. University bureaucrats have taken the cowardly way out by banning the graduation speech of this year's top graduate. Shame! On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 10:54 AM Michael Meeropol via groups.io wrote: > WOW -- what an incredible

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Meeropol
WOW -- what an incredible young woman --- I hope she publishes the text of the speech she would have given --- it will get more play than if she had just given it to her classmates and visitors On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:08 AM jimfarmelant via groups.io wrote: > >

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread jimfarmelant

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-16 Thread Marv Gandall
The Naked Capitalism website recently referred to this Jerusalem Post article. I don’t know if it reflects the thinking of the Chabad or some other screwball religious sect, but the scriptural references to Iran as “Amalek” and the need to sacrifice red cows to purify the al-Aqsa mosque has

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-16 Thread jimfarmelant
Chabad has had politically reactionary tendencies from the time of their founding in the late 18th century. The founder of Chabad, R' Shneur Zalman, at the time of the Napoleonic wars, supported the Czar over Napoleon. Indeed, at one point, he encouraged one of his disciples, Rabbi Moshe

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-16 Thread Barry Brooks
> Chabad I once had a friend living next to a Chabad chapter. When meeting them on the street, none of them would ever say hello, or ever seemed to see me pass a few feet away on the sidewalk. After a few years of that, I finally asked my Jewish friend why, He explained that they are crazy

[marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-16 Thread jimfarmelant
https://forward.com/fast-forward/603016/usc-asna-tabassum-commencement-valedictorian-israel-palestinian-instagram/ (