it’s all Astroturf…same as the ginned up Astroturfing around the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter mindwarp during the 2020 “Summer of Love” — the lead-in to the 2020 November Presidential Election…same this year, same bat channel…
PS…GeorgeSoros runs the human orgs (both sides)…watch for his exposure, which didn’t happened in 2020…Fight 4 Trump!!!
It’s not just “elite” schools. UCSB, Cal Poly, every college has Pro Terrorism “rallies”
A good portion of the people attending have no idea what the movement means exactly.
This is where we point and say “see we told you so, the education system is indoctrinating your child into the Cult”.
As to the Jews, well they vote Democrat no matter what. Local Jews still don’t understand that the Dems, Biden, has turned the world against them.
Jews voted for this treatment and most Jews I know will continue to vote Democrat.
Just like women’s rights and women’s sports. Where are the women protesting? Crickets.
As they say, you can lead the horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.
These Pro Terror groups, the Patriot Front Group(white supremists guised as Trumpers), BLM, Antifa, KKK, all are the same militant arm of the Democrat party. It’s all the same leaders creating violence and terror to control the people.
"My mother was in the entrance of the gas chamber; as I was approaching there was a guard. He said: “Get out! Pig, dog,” in German. My mother then said: “Run, run...” in Yiddish.
The comparison of American universities to Hitler Youth Camps is brilliant. Both serve to transform a society by freeing it from imaginary opression and both employ similar methods. I have not seen any significant pushback. Where are the demonstrations in support of Israel? The majority of Americans support Israel and support Jews. Bolsheviks were in the minority yet succeeded. Pay attention and push back are the most important words in this piece. Perhaps these very pages can spawn a pro Jew pro Israel demonstration right here in Santa Barbara. Count me in.
Bible believing Christians have a natural affinity with, and a love of Jewish people. We are told to bless them, and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. One of the biggest supporters of of Israel at this time in history is the Christian world, particularly evangelicals. Biblical teaching points out that followers of Jesus are grafted onto the root stock of the Jews. Jesus was Jewish, as were most of His early followers.
The descendants of Isaac and Ishmael have been at odds since
Abraham chose not to wait for Sarah to deliver Isaac,
God’s promised son. This does not mean that we despise the descendants of Ishmael. They are God’s creation, and the plan of salvation, based on the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross, applies to all mankind. No one should encourage discrimination against the descendants of either of
Yes we pray for the Jews, but we specifically pray for their conversion to the One True Faith. Judaism does not save, and modern Judaism is unlike the Judaism seen in the Old Testament, the Second Temple and a sacrificial priesthood are gone. The Kingdom of Isreal is gone, but Christians in communion with Christ's Church (his body) make up the "new" Israel.
The Ashkenazi Jews are Khazars, primarily from the area now known as Ukraine. Ukraine is being ethnically cleansed to make space for their return. The “Palestinians” are descendants of those of whom you speak.
My 1970 sociology of deviant behavior professor told us that the day would come during our life times when nihilists, anarchists would take control and no wall or gate would be high enough, and police would need to protect only their own families. She asked us to think hard and long about our civic duty, our individual obligation and responsibility to protect America, our community beyond our self-serving priorities. She had us outline our time management priorities: how much time would we budget earning, learning, engaging in public policy, getting involved, and getting to personally know our elected officials and those whose opinions/ lifestyles we did not share. Did we want all citizens to enjoy freedom or only a select few? Did the CIA/ FBI control the country? Look beyond what’s reported as what happened. How do so-called “deviants” enrich our society? In my 3 years of college, before grad school, I can only remember learning two things. Her words of wisdom being one of the two. She prepared us. At the end of the term, she shared her “deviancies”, reminding us tolerance is not acceptance but never to be self-righteous, ‘holier-than-thou’. (The second thing I learned on Chapman’s World Campus Afloat is there are very good reasons for countries, borders, cultural preservation, reduced immigration with accountable sponsorship, assimilation, and for less intervention in other country’s affairs. Libya a case in point— one of many.)
I went to an easy neighborhood CA Community College and then Valley State College Northridge (now CSUN) each for one year: 22-28 units a semester plus worked to pay for college expenses. CC Campus counseling staff along with campus faculty math dept employers got me a scholarship to Chapman’s World Campus Afloat and gifted me spending money hoping to forever get rid of me. It worked for 9 months. CA schools are not Cal Tech, or MIT where my son attended. ITS VERY SAD. Our 5th graders out test high school graduates in Montecito and parts of Santa Barbara. Consequently CA stopped allowing 10 year olds to enroll for classes in its some 116 neighborhood District community colleges, preferring foreigners
This article is a gross oversimplification of a complicated issue. Thousands of protestors in Israel are calling for an end to Netanyahu's government, are they also "anti-semites" who "hate Jews"? Terrorists killed people living in Israel on October 7, 2023. Not all of their victims were Jews or Israeli citizens. Netanyahu's right-wing government responded by bombing the hell out of Gaza, killing thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinians - mostly women and children, and cutting off their water and food. "Pro-Palestine" is not "Anti-Israel," their are even Jews among the protestors who are dismayed by Netanyahu's genocidal reaction to the horrific terrorist attack of October 7. If the death of 1,000+ people killed in Israel makes us all "Jewish", does not the deaths of 34,000+ people in Gaza also make us all "Palestinian"? The author traces anti-semitism to Hitler and the Nazis, but the Nazis developed their wickedness only after studying America's "Jim Crow" laws, treatment of Native Americans, and activities of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. When McCalmont points his finger at the Germans, he is pointing four fingers at our own country. There is no place for hate in a democracy. If you find yourself hating ANYONE and want your government to join you in your hatred, you are a FASCIST.
Talk about a gross oversimplification, yours is Exhibit A.
The fact that not all the victims of Oct 7th were Jewish is immaterial. The terrorists were Arabs who wanted to kill Jews and anyone who happened to be there, too. Jews were the target.
What exactly is it that you don’t get about war? The Gazans were warned to get out of the war zone. Who, other than the Jews, has EVER been expected to accommodate their sworn enemy the ways Israel has? It’s utterly ridiculous. Even so, show me the war where there is no collateral damage. Israel can’t help the fact that no one else in the region wants these “Palestinians!” Both Egypt and Jordan know from firsthand experience that Palestinians can’t get along with each other, let alone anyone else.
"Pro-Palestine" is not "Anti-Israel,". I haven’t heard a single protestor state his/her love of Israel, and neither have you. “From the river to the sea” is a call for genocide and is not protected speech. I don’t think these morons know what genocide or apartheid means (and neither do you apparently), or they wouldn’t be repeating the false Leftist narrative. Same goes for “Death to America”…not protected speech.
“If you find yourself hating ANYONE and want your government to join you in your hatred, you are a FASCIST.” Add fascist to the list of words you throw around, the meaning of which you are obviously ignorant.
Except most Palestinians are ordinary men, women, and children who have been pushed into smaller settlements and have had their land forcefully seized by Israeli forces and occupied by settlers. Why is Palestine forced to constantly submit to the whims of invaders like the state of Israel?
Gazans have been officially inculcated throughout their entire culture from birth to hate Jews. That’s a fact, just as it is a fact that the vast majority do hate Jews. Most of them were perfectly willing to let Hamas live among them and rule them.
All of the disputed territory was taken by Israel when their enemies attacked them. Maybe their enemies shouldn’t have done that…ya think? Israel is not in any way an invader. That’s pure nonsense.
You don’t get to wage war on someone and then cry when you get your a$$ handed to you.
Israel turned Gaza over to them in 2005-2006 and what happened almost immediately? Israel had missiles lobbed their way. They should have taken Gaza back then and kicked every Arab out, but they didn’t, so they got Oct 7th. No one can share land with people whose main goal is to annihilate them. You wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t do it, and neither should Israel.
Israel invaded Palestine which had belonged to the Palestinians for centuries in mid 1900's.
Prove that Gazans are a taught to hate Israeli's from birth. And whether or not any animosity is from alleged brainwashing and propaganda or seeing that Israel wants them gone at best, or dead at worst.
The proof has been all over social media with pictures of schoolchildren depicting killing Jews. Where have you been? It’s not propaganda.
How many of these Arabs were allowed to live and work in Israel prior to Oct 11? (thousands) and how many Jews were ever allowed into Gaza for ANY reason? Zero. There’s your proof that Arabs are the problem, not Israel.
Yeah I don't use social media, it's of no use to anyone and anyone can post whatever they want online, that doesn't indicate what an entire group of people thinks. Jews did live in Palestine as a minority even before the Zionist movement took flight, so I don't see why Jews who actually did live in Palestine for centuries wouldn't be allowed.
Land tenure is a very tricky argument. Centuries vs eons of occupation? Who decides primacy of rights. It is said possession is 9/10th of the law. But what about the missing 1/10th.
You own, what you can defend. You own, what you can take, for as long as you can hold it. You abide by recorded deeds of property recorded by a mutually agreed legal entity. (An Anglo-American tradition)
You abide by treaties, whether you were a signatory or not. You take possession as spoils of war. Until there is another war. Even the Romans who salted the earth of Carthage so it would never rise again, no longer exist nor own Tunisia.
We are a young nation. We have not given a lot of thought to this topic, but we do seem very willing to inflict our rather views on others. Irredentism - the confounding factor that runs deep in this part of the world.
They are indeed destiny, so why should we be okay with Israelis displacing Palestinians for decades yet be against illegal economic migrants flooding the Southern border? Some of these migrants may have ancestral claims to this land becausr of any Mexican/Spanish heritage, does this somehow entitle them to come into America and not only not assimilate but also actively promote and glorify their own culture here?
So what if Israel had ancestors that live in Palestine? Why do we concern ourselves with a nation that doesn't care for us and that take billions of dollars in aid?
You should be more informed, that is pure propaganda. BB warned all citizens when and where they were going to send bomb etc. If there were civilian casualties, those people chose to stay or the terrorists would not allow them to leave. Wherever you are getting your information is truly anti-Jew, anti Israel. Sounds like mainstream propoganda
It is not an-Jewish to be against the state of Israel committinghorrible acts against civilians. An Orthodox Christian Church was bombed despite the fact that it's completely asinine to assume that a Christian Church would cooperate with Hamas, the Idf was also responsible for killing two Christian women back in December. Israel has bombed hospitals and the like. Not everyone has the privilege to leave and what happens then, the Israelis move in to claim all the land now abandoned and the Palestinians are left without any place to call home?
"On 16 December 2023, two Palestinian Christians, Naheda Anton and her daughter Samr Anton, were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church to go to the bathroom during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said: “Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister’s Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Seven more people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others inside the church compound. No warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents.”Hamas and the Patriarchate said an Israeli sniper killed the women.
Disorientation, dislocation, provocation, - no one can leave the Jewish Museum in Berlin without being touched profoundly at every sensory level. The building's intentional design creates a non-verbal transformative experience, no matter how often the well-known story of Jews in Germany is told. Today's events demonstrates this history demands a constant re-telling. Do not miss this deep experience of remembrance when visiting Berlin. https://www.jmberlin.de/en/libeskind-building
Yes, visiting the Wannsee Conference museum building on the edge of Lake Wannsee and being confronted with the utter banality of the NAZI German logistical planning cuts to the quick as well. I can't shake either experience, now years later.
This is so crazy that Columbia University would be doing this. New York is such a Jewish city. I should know- I grew up there. We even had the Jewish holidays off because so many Jews taught and attended our public schools. Our NY culture is permeated with Jewish sayings, attitudes and speech patterns. How different it is today.
What an absolutely absurd piece. While Israel is literally committing genocide, with over 15,000 children killed in the last six months in Gaza, funded with OUR tax dollars, you are focused on discomfort on US campuses over student protests decrying US complicity in genocide? You have this incredibly backwards. Please search within your heart for some compassion.
I recommend reading South Africa's complaint to the ICJ. What Israel's leaders have consistently said since the Oct 7 attacks about their overt intent to flatten Gaza and basically kill all Gazans isn't a more clear statement of genocidal intent than we've ever found in the modern era.
Ridiculous. If Israel wanted to kill every Gazan, they certainly could have. Show me the video of any Israeli leader saying any such thing. After October 7, they’d be fools NOT to have flattened Gaza. The Gazans started this, not Israel.
"they'd be fools not to have flattened Gaza" >> this is the definition of genocide. Genocide doesn't require that all people of the targeted group are killed. Read the links I sent.
I suggest you read a bit about the laws of war and int'l humanitarian law. Targeting civilians is specifically disallowed and (of course) killing entire groups of people is the highest of crimes and that which we calll genocide. So you are explicitly defending genocide here.
and your comment reveals that you don't care a whit about Gazans, including the 34,000 killed so far, the vast majority of whom are women and children. That is the definition of tribalism and brutality, and the modern laws of war and int'l humanitarian law were designed specifically to avoid this kind of tribalism and brutality happening ever again, after the horrors of WWII and I.
No, I don’t care about the Gazans. I think the vast majority brought all this on themselves and they’re getting exactly what they deserve. They knew Hamas was building tunnels under hospitals and using them as human shields. Most of them count it an honor if it will mean the death of a Jew. Of course, you say nothing about International Law when they do that.
It doesn't matter if women make up the majority of deaths alongside children, the lives of Palestinian men are equally valuable and should not be discarded because of a Y chromosome. All deaths among civilian men, women, and children are tragic.
It's also no surprise ... most are the same ones who are uninformed on all the other national and international topics discussed on SBC.
One point David made, which seems to be lost: We Are All Jews Now!
You can hate Jews all you like - and blame Israel for the crimes of Hamas ...
... but the Left hates us all. (They hate the Muslims too, but they're too useful.)
You are a Jew too.
Now that the fertilizer has hit the ventilating device, the Jews are getting a lesson in what it's like to be on the Left's business end. The rest of us deplorable knuckle-draggers already know.
Learn the lesson: You are a Jew too.
When they come for you, what are you going to do? Tell 'em you voted for Brandon? Put on your mask? Show 'em your jab card or your Tesla or your COEXIST bumper sticker? Tell 'em you hate America and God and Trump?
Trust me ... none of that will matter when reality comes to your door.
This is a reductive and deeply harmful comparison to make. Failing to acknowledge the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitutes an erasure of the numerous Jewish organizations and individuals that have stood against the ongoing genocide. This article also fails to mention (or, more likely, knowingly omits) the many student protestors who have been suspended, barred from their universities, or met with violence and opposition by the police. A quick internet search can clear this up.
As of April 24th, the death tolls stand at 34,262 Palestinian and 1,410 Israeli lives. It takes only a shred of humanity to recognize the atrocities and injustices that have been committed in this ongoing genocide of Palestine, and anyone really opposed to fascism or a totalitarian state should be able to see it.
Thank you for speaking out. It is only by doing so that this absolute tragedy may end. I am organizing a war tax protest movement b/c it seems that the only way US complicity in genocide may end is by a widespread tax revolt wherein compassionate people refuse to fund murder and genocide any more. Enough is enough.
Tam: you must not be a female. Why do you wish females including those desiring to serve in military to be imprisoned in one state?
Why do you wish taxpayers in Blue states to pay for pregnancy related services including abortions for the hundreds of desperate females coming from Red states? I’d like to understand your logic. Californians are paying for many many more dangerous pregnancies including abortions rather than the woman’s state of residency.
Oh, are you a Medicare for all national health care advocate?
We can be opposed to both, I am Catholic Christian and not some lefty chanting slogans on a university campus. We can stand up for both the unborn and Palestinians being dehumanizing as well, especially given how Palestinian Christians are facing annihilation with this present war.
ForTheMartyrs reported some 1300 or so Palestinian Christians threatened by the conflict in Gaza. Near the beginning of the conflict an Orthodox Church was bombed and more recently 2 Christian women were killed by the IDF. This is unjust, Israel isn't even targeting any alleged terrorists they're just attacking innocent Christians.
While I agree ... we are all Jews now ... if we are pro-American Americans, anti-crime, anti-murder, anti-endless-war, etc., etc., etc. ...
Two quibbles: One ... no the Jews are not always first.
Since WW2, the enemy has recognized "the West" (a euphemism to avoid triggering people) ... as their enemy. And while we've been taught to be doormats and apologize for their crimes - and also for crimes they made up as smears ...
They have been destroying us from within. Now I know some of you know, but most of us don't know. Even pro-American, patriotic, rational adults do not know. The schemes and scams rolling out here and there, now and then, for them or zim, and so on ... confuses the normies.
And the goal is to discredit leaders - and silence them - and defeat them.
There is NO WAY we could have gotten here now if the Jews were "first."
We are at a beginning: But it is the opening chapter of the LAST movie. The enemy has learned from its mistakes, and it made sure to render the tiger caged and toothless BEFORE this moment.
Second quibble: Some might say we're being "decolonized." But the truth is we're being colonized. The invasion of our southern border, the anarcho-tyranny (a Leftist tactic before it was a Nastie tactic), and the special privileges for the super-citizens who happen to be foreigners - while criminals funded by enemies foreign and domestic fill our leadership spots -
... are all tactics and strategies familiar to anyone paying attention - both to history and to current events. Along with 'color revolutions' and 'mockingbird' media ... all of these tactics have been used against innocent foreign nations.
Almost ALL foreign nations are now cesspools of Leftist sewage. The exceptions are not far behind. This is NOT because foreigners are just ignorant, lazy, criminal, or stupid. Albeit there is plenty to criticize in foreign cultures and plenty to praise in our own ... it is OUR Leftists using OUR money and OUR power that has torn foreign nations to pieces. Many believe this is to 'exploit' their resources for 'our' benefit ... but ... if it's to 'exploit' their resources for 'our' benefit ... where are the resources and who benefited? ... Hint: See all the mansions circling Washington DC and the surrounding 'burbs.
Otherwise ... yes. We're all Jews now. And it's not obvious to me how we're going to solve it. Cause we cannot shoot our way out - the Left would like nothing more than to provoke a violent uprising - and it does not look like we can vote our way out. There were non-violent strategies and tactics to fight back, but we've reached a point where discussing those ... could lead to a knock on your door ... or worse, they could just bust your door down and shoot your dog.
As a Jew, I of course agree with just about everything David wrote in this article. However, I hope everyone who is like-minded will also support vital American military assistance for Israel's existential battle against the evil medieval reactionary forces with which they are currently engaged. Supporting Israel verbally and yet cutting them off from the weapons they need is not helpful in the long run.
I lived through world war 2 as a young boy in England. I had almost black hair and a big nose. Throughout my years in high school, I was regarded as a Jew by other male students and I was constantly harassed by them almost daily with insults and threats. At first, I tried to ignore them and tried to explain that I was a Catholic. That only made things worse. Their attacks on me become physical. They started to literally push me around from one to another.
One week end at home, I decided that I had to do something to stop what was now making me want to stop going to school, but what? I was outnumbered.
In the end I decided that I had to stop being afraid. I was not that big and I was asthmatic. My only way out of this was to pick a target at the next encounter with my tormentors and attack him with fury, using my fists with punches as fast as I could throw them.
It worked, the shock to the gang was immence. They had never expected to be on the receiving end of retaliation from me. After that, they left me alone.
At the age of 15. I learned two lessons.
Until that time I had never thought much about what was like to be a Jew. I knew a little of the atrocities enacted by the Germans against Jews, but I did not expect to find enmity against Jewish children in English schools. My experience cannot be compared to what was happening to Jewish people then and now. But, it was a lesson that has stayed with me all my life. It helped me understand more clearly what my Jewish friends have told me over the years
The second lesson is that it is absolutely necessary to fight back against intimidations, the earlier, the better. Too often, we leave it too late.
I think it’s important to note that the people attacking Jews on campuses are not “white supremacists.”
The people marching and fighting cops every day are not “white supremacists.”
The people chanting DEATH TO ISRAEL are not “white supremacists.”
And they’re not MAGA republicans either.
THEY’RE 100% BIDEN VOTERS.
it’s all Astroturf…same as the ginned up Astroturfing around the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter mindwarp during the 2020 “Summer of Love” — the lead-in to the 2020 November Presidential Election…same this year, same bat channel…
PS…GeorgeSoros runs the human orgs (both sides)…watch for his exposure, which didn’t happened in 2020…Fight 4 Trump!!!
It’s not just “elite” schools. UCSB, Cal Poly, every college has Pro Terrorism “rallies”
A good portion of the people attending have no idea what the movement means exactly.
This is where we point and say “see we told you so, the education system is indoctrinating your child into the Cult”.
As to the Jews, well they vote Democrat no matter what. Local Jews still don’t understand that the Dems, Biden, has turned the world against them.
Jews voted for this treatment and most Jews I know will continue to vote Democrat.
Just like women’s rights and women’s sports. Where are the women protesting? Crickets.
As they say, you can lead the horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.
These Pro Terror groups, the Patriot Front Group(white supremists guised as Trumpers), BLM, Antifa, KKK, all are the same militant arm of the Democrat party. It’s all the same leaders creating violence and terror to control the people.
Don’t be afraid to speak up, don’t be silent.
I read this very good article by David Samuel McCalmont "We are all Jews Now"
Ten of my family members (uncles) enlisted and fougth the Nazis during WWII.
I come from a German Family who went to fight pure evil..... Hitler. That evil is
now in the United States and rigth here in Santa Barbara. I recommend every
person to go down to the SB Jewish Federation and introduce yourself and go thru thier
small Holocaust rememberence room. Talk to Rabbi Debi Lewis and ask thier opinion
on what is going on in the US and the blantant discrimination rigth here in SB.
https://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/
SB Jewish Federation Survivors of the Holocaust
https://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/survivor-stories
Read and Remember Judith Meisel Holocaust Survivor
https://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/portraits-of-survival/survivor-stories/judith-meisel
"My mother was in the entrance of the gas chamber; as I was approaching there was a guard. He said: “Get out! Pig, dog,” in German. My mother then said: “Run, run...” in Yiddish.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
The comparison of American universities to Hitler Youth Camps is brilliant. Both serve to transform a society by freeing it from imaginary opression and both employ similar methods. I have not seen any significant pushback. Where are the demonstrations in support of Israel? The majority of Americans support Israel and support Jews. Bolsheviks were in the minority yet succeeded. Pay attention and push back are the most important words in this piece. Perhaps these very pages can spawn a pro Jew pro Israel demonstration right here in Santa Barbara. Count me in.
Don’t forget how Mao mobilized angry youth to pull off the Cultural Revolution
Produces and thinkers were killed or sent to plant rice, never to return
Bible believing Christians have a natural affinity with, and a love of Jewish people. We are told to bless them, and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. One of the biggest supporters of of Israel at this time in history is the Christian world, particularly evangelicals. Biblical teaching points out that followers of Jesus are grafted onto the root stock of the Jews. Jesus was Jewish, as were most of His early followers.
The descendants of Isaac and Ishmael have been at odds since
Abraham chose not to wait for Sarah to deliver Isaac,
God’s promised son. This does not mean that we despise the descendants of Ishmael. They are God’s creation, and the plan of salvation, based on the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross, applies to all mankind. No one should encourage discrimination against the descendants of either of
Abraham’s sons.
Yes we pray for the Jews, but we specifically pray for their conversion to the One True Faith. Judaism does not save, and modern Judaism is unlike the Judaism seen in the Old Testament, the Second Temple and a sacrificial priesthood are gone. The Kingdom of Isreal is gone, but Christians in communion with Christ's Church (his body) make up the "new" Israel.
The Ashkenazi Jews are Khazars, primarily from the area now known as Ukraine. Ukraine is being ethnically cleansed to make space for their return. The “Palestinians” are descendants of those of whom you speak.
My 1970 sociology of deviant behavior professor told us that the day would come during our life times when nihilists, anarchists would take control and no wall or gate would be high enough, and police would need to protect only their own families. She asked us to think hard and long about our civic duty, our individual obligation and responsibility to protect America, our community beyond our self-serving priorities. She had us outline our time management priorities: how much time would we budget earning, learning, engaging in public policy, getting involved, and getting to personally know our elected officials and those whose opinions/ lifestyles we did not share. Did we want all citizens to enjoy freedom or only a select few? Did the CIA/ FBI control the country? Look beyond what’s reported as what happened. How do so-called “deviants” enrich our society? In my 3 years of college, before grad school, I can only remember learning two things. Her words of wisdom being one of the two. She prepared us. At the end of the term, she shared her “deviancies”, reminding us tolerance is not acceptance but never to be self-righteous, ‘holier-than-thou’. (The second thing I learned on Chapman’s World Campus Afloat is there are very good reasons for countries, borders, cultural preservation, reduced immigration with accountable sponsorship, assimilation, and for less intervention in other country’s affairs. Libya a case in point— one of many.)
Wow, undergrad at the harried pace of three years. I was on the more deliberate pace of six years six months.
I went to an easy neighborhood CA Community College and then Valley State College Northridge (now CSUN) each for one year: 22-28 units a semester plus worked to pay for college expenses. CC Campus counseling staff along with campus faculty math dept employers got me a scholarship to Chapman’s World Campus Afloat and gifted me spending money hoping to forever get rid of me. It worked for 9 months. CA schools are not Cal Tech, or MIT where my son attended. ITS VERY SAD. Our 5th graders out test high school graduates in Montecito and parts of Santa Barbara. Consequently CA stopped allowing 10 year olds to enroll for classes in its some 116 neighborhood District community colleges, preferring foreigners
This article is a gross oversimplification of a complicated issue. Thousands of protestors in Israel are calling for an end to Netanyahu's government, are they also "anti-semites" who "hate Jews"? Terrorists killed people living in Israel on October 7, 2023. Not all of their victims were Jews or Israeli citizens. Netanyahu's right-wing government responded by bombing the hell out of Gaza, killing thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinians - mostly women and children, and cutting off their water and food. "Pro-Palestine" is not "Anti-Israel," their are even Jews among the protestors who are dismayed by Netanyahu's genocidal reaction to the horrific terrorist attack of October 7. If the death of 1,000+ people killed in Israel makes us all "Jewish", does not the deaths of 34,000+ people in Gaza also make us all "Palestinian"? The author traces anti-semitism to Hitler and the Nazis, but the Nazis developed their wickedness only after studying America's "Jim Crow" laws, treatment of Native Americans, and activities of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. When McCalmont points his finger at the Germans, he is pointing four fingers at our own country. There is no place for hate in a democracy. If you find yourself hating ANYONE and want your government to join you in your hatred, you are a FASCIST.
Talk about a gross oversimplification, yours is Exhibit A.
The fact that not all the victims of Oct 7th were Jewish is immaterial. The terrorists were Arabs who wanted to kill Jews and anyone who happened to be there, too. Jews were the target.
What exactly is it that you don’t get about war? The Gazans were warned to get out of the war zone. Who, other than the Jews, has EVER been expected to accommodate their sworn enemy the ways Israel has? It’s utterly ridiculous. Even so, show me the war where there is no collateral damage. Israel can’t help the fact that no one else in the region wants these “Palestinians!” Both Egypt and Jordan know from firsthand experience that Palestinians can’t get along with each other, let alone anyone else.
"Pro-Palestine" is not "Anti-Israel,". I haven’t heard a single protestor state his/her love of Israel, and neither have you. “From the river to the sea” is a call for genocide and is not protected speech. I don’t think these morons know what genocide or apartheid means (and neither do you apparently), or they wouldn’t be repeating the false Leftist narrative. Same goes for “Death to America”…not protected speech.
“If you find yourself hating ANYONE and want your government to join you in your hatred, you are a FASCIST.” Add fascist to the list of words you throw around, the meaning of which you are obviously ignorant.
Excellent response!! How are so many so clueless?
Willful ignorance I’d say
Except most Palestinians are ordinary men, women, and children who have been pushed into smaller settlements and have had their land forcefully seized by Israeli forces and occupied by settlers. Why is Palestine forced to constantly submit to the whims of invaders like the state of Israel?
Gazans have been officially inculcated throughout their entire culture from birth to hate Jews. That’s a fact, just as it is a fact that the vast majority do hate Jews. Most of them were perfectly willing to let Hamas live among them and rule them.
All of the disputed territory was taken by Israel when their enemies attacked them. Maybe their enemies shouldn’t have done that…ya think? Israel is not in any way an invader. That’s pure nonsense.
You don’t get to wage war on someone and then cry when you get your a$$ handed to you.
Israel turned Gaza over to them in 2005-2006 and what happened almost immediately? Israel had missiles lobbed their way. They should have taken Gaza back then and kicked every Arab out, but they didn’t, so they got Oct 7th. No one can share land with people whose main goal is to annihilate them. You wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t do it, and neither should Israel.
This is HATE SPEECH and you are spreading lies. Learn the truth.
Nope
Israel invaded Palestine which had belonged to the Palestinians for centuries in mid 1900's.
Prove that Gazans are a taught to hate Israeli's from birth. And whether or not any animosity is from alleged brainwashing and propaganda or seeing that Israel wants them gone at best, or dead at worst.
The proof has been all over social media with pictures of schoolchildren depicting killing Jews. Where have you been? It’s not propaganda.
How many of these Arabs were allowed to live and work in Israel prior to Oct 11? (thousands) and how many Jews were ever allowed into Gaza for ANY reason? Zero. There’s your proof that Arabs are the problem, not Israel.
Yeah I don't use social media, it's of no use to anyone and anyone can post whatever they want online, that doesn't indicate what an entire group of people thinks. Jews did live in Palestine as a minority even before the Zionist movement took flight, so I don't see why Jews who actually did live in Palestine for centuries wouldn't be allowed.
Land tenure is a very tricky argument. Centuries vs eons of occupation? Who decides primacy of rights. It is said possession is 9/10th of the law. But what about the missing 1/10th.
You own, what you can defend. You own, what you can take, for as long as you can hold it. You abide by recorded deeds of property recorded by a mutually agreed legal entity. (An Anglo-American tradition)
You abide by treaties, whether you were a signatory or not. You take possession as spoils of war. Until there is another war. Even the Romans who salted the earth of Carthage so it would never rise again, no longer exist nor own Tunisia.
We are a young nation. We have not given a lot of thought to this topic, but we do seem very willing to inflict our rather views on others. Irredentism - the confounding factor that runs deep in this part of the world.
Israel was there first. Ask Father Abraham.
The Kingdom of Israel is no more. The current Israel is the Catholic Church and not the state of Israel.
Very high birth rates have made their protected areas "smaller". Demographics is destiny.
They are indeed destiny, so why should we be okay with Israelis displacing Palestinians for decades yet be against illegal economic migrants flooding the Southern border? Some of these migrants may have ancestral claims to this land becausr of any Mexican/Spanish heritage, does this somehow entitle them to come into America and not only not assimilate but also actively promote and glorify their own culture here?
Almost all land today was occupied by someone else at one time. So what.
So what if Israel had ancestors that live in Palestine? Why do we concern ourselves with a nation that doesn't care for us and that take billions of dollars in aid?
The US currently operates under a system of recorded property ownership. Now you know why. What would you like to see changed?
Nothing, so because there isn't such a system in Palestine we should be okay with whatever happens there?
You should be more informed, that is pure propaganda. BB warned all citizens when and where they were going to send bomb etc. If there were civilian casualties, those people chose to stay or the terrorists would not allow them to leave. Wherever you are getting your information is truly anti-Jew, anti Israel. Sounds like mainstream propoganda
It is not an-Jewish to be against the state of Israel committinghorrible acts against civilians. An Orthodox Christian Church was bombed despite the fact that it's completely asinine to assume that a Christian Church would cooperate with Hamas, the Idf was also responsible for killing two Christian women back in December. Israel has bombed hospitals and the like. Not everyone has the privilege to leave and what happens then, the Israelis move in to claim all the land now abandoned and the Palestinians are left without any place to call home?
"On 16 December 2023, two Palestinian Christians, Naheda Anton and her daughter Samr Anton, were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church to go to the bathroom during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said: “Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister’s Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Seven more people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others inside the church compound. No warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents.”Hamas and the Patriarchate said an Israeli sniper killed the women.
Disorientation, dislocation, provocation, - no one can leave the Jewish Museum in Berlin without being touched profoundly at every sensory level. The building's intentional design creates a non-verbal transformative experience, no matter how often the well-known story of Jews in Germany is told. Today's events demonstrates this history demands a constant re-telling. Do not miss this deep experience of remembrance when visiting Berlin. https://www.jmberlin.de/en/libeskind-building
Yes, visiting the Wannsee Conference museum building on the edge of Lake Wannsee and being confronted with the utter banality of the NAZI German logistical planning cuts to the quick as well. I can't shake either experience, now years later.
Ridiculous comparison.
This is so crazy that Columbia University would be doing this. New York is such a Jewish city. I should know- I grew up there. We even had the Jewish holidays off because so many Jews taught and attended our public schools. Our NY culture is permeated with Jewish sayings, attitudes and speech patterns. How different it is today.
What an absolutely absurd piece. While Israel is literally committing genocide, with over 15,000 children killed in the last six months in Gaza, funded with OUR tax dollars, you are focused on discomfort on US campuses over student protests decrying US complicity in genocide? You have this incredibly backwards. Please search within your heart for some compassion.
It is absurd to call this genocide
I guess you missed this: https://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/05/the-icjs-findings-on-plausible-genocide-in-gaza-and-its-implications-for-the-international-criminal-court/
I recommend reading South Africa's complaint to the ICJ. What Israel's leaders have consistently said since the Oct 7 attacks about their overt intent to flatten Gaza and basically kill all Gazans isn't a more clear statement of genocidal intent than we've ever found in the modern era.
Ridiculous. If Israel wanted to kill every Gazan, they certainly could have. Show me the video of any Israeli leader saying any such thing. After October 7, they’d be fools NOT to have flattened Gaza. The Gazans started this, not Israel.
"they'd be fools not to have flattened Gaza" >> this is the definition of genocide. Genocide doesn't require that all people of the targeted group are killed. Read the links I sent.
No, that is not the definition of genocide. Israel is engaged in self defense against a declared enemy.
I suggest you read a bit about the laws of war and int'l humanitarian law. Targeting civilians is specifically disallowed and (of course) killing entire groups of people is the highest of crimes and that which we calll genocide. So you are explicitly defending genocide here.
and your comment reveals that you don't care a whit about Gazans, including the 34,000 killed so far, the vast majority of whom are women and children. That is the definition of tribalism and brutality, and the modern laws of war and int'l humanitarian law were designed specifically to avoid this kind of tribalism and brutality happening ever again, after the horrors of WWII and I.
No, I don’t care about the Gazans. I think the vast majority brought all this on themselves and they’re getting exactly what they deserve. They knew Hamas was building tunnels under hospitals and using them as human shields. Most of them count it an honor if it will mean the death of a Jew. Of course, you say nothing about International Law when they do that.
It doesn't matter if women make up the majority of deaths alongside children, the lives of Palestinian men are equally valuable and should not be discarded because of a Y chromosome. All deaths among civilian men, women, and children are tragic.
Not surprised the Jew haters are out in force.
It's also no surprise ... most are the same ones who are uninformed on all the other national and international topics discussed on SBC.
One point David made, which seems to be lost: We Are All Jews Now!
You can hate Jews all you like - and blame Israel for the crimes of Hamas ...
... but the Left hates us all. (They hate the Muslims too, but they're too useful.)
You are a Jew too.
Now that the fertilizer has hit the ventilating device, the Jews are getting a lesson in what it's like to be on the Left's business end. The rest of us deplorable knuckle-draggers already know.
Learn the lesson: You are a Jew too.
When they come for you, what are you going to do? Tell 'em you voted for Brandon? Put on your mask? Show 'em your jab card or your Tesla or your COEXIST bumper sticker? Tell 'em you hate America and God and Trump?
Trust me ... none of that will matter when reality comes to your door.
This is a reductive and deeply harmful comparison to make. Failing to acknowledge the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitutes an erasure of the numerous Jewish organizations and individuals that have stood against the ongoing genocide. This article also fails to mention (or, more likely, knowingly omits) the many student protestors who have been suspended, barred from their universities, or met with violence and opposition by the police. A quick internet search can clear this up.
As of April 24th, the death tolls stand at 34,262 Palestinian and 1,410 Israeli lives. It takes only a shred of humanity to recognize the atrocities and injustices that have been committed in this ongoing genocide of Palestine, and anyone really opposed to fascism or a totalitarian state should be able to see it.
Thank you for speaking out. It is only by doing so that this absolute tragedy may end. I am organizing a war tax protest movement b/c it seems that the only way US complicity in genocide may end is by a widespread tax revolt wherein compassionate people refuse to fund murder and genocide any more. Enough is enough.
How do you feel about abortion? Now, THAT’S genocide.
This is one of the few areas I agree with Trump and the current Supreme Court: abortion should be left for each state to decide.
The question was how to *you* feel about voluntary infanticide.
So genocide is acceptable to you in this case, huh? Deep thinker you are.
Tam: you must not be a female. Why do you wish females including those desiring to serve in military to be imprisoned in one state?
Why do you wish taxpayers in Blue states to pay for pregnancy related services including abortions for the hundreds of desperate females coming from Red states? I’d like to understand your logic. Californians are paying for many many more dangerous pregnancies including abortions rather than the woman’s state of residency.
Oh, are you a Medicare for all national health care advocate?
Huh? CSchmidt there’s no comparison.
Correct. One is a genocide (abortion) and the other (Gazans) is not.
We can be opposed to both, I am Catholic Christian and not some lefty chanting slogans on a university campus. We can stand up for both the unborn and Palestinians being dehumanizing as well, especially given how Palestinian Christians are facing annihilation with this present war.
Palestinian Christians. How many do you think there are? As the Bible says, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.
ForTheMartyrs reported some 1300 or so Palestinian Christians threatened by the conflict in Gaza. Near the beginning of the conflict an Orthodox Church was bombed and more recently 2 Christian women were killed by the IDF. This is unjust, Israel isn't even targeting any alleged terrorists they're just attacking innocent Christians.
That’s just stupid. Innocents are not being targeted.
While I agree ... we are all Jews now ... if we are pro-American Americans, anti-crime, anti-murder, anti-endless-war, etc., etc., etc. ...
Two quibbles: One ... no the Jews are not always first.
Since WW2, the enemy has recognized "the West" (a euphemism to avoid triggering people) ... as their enemy. And while we've been taught to be doormats and apologize for their crimes - and also for crimes they made up as smears ...
They have been destroying us from within. Now I know some of you know, but most of us don't know. Even pro-American, patriotic, rational adults do not know. The schemes and scams rolling out here and there, now and then, for them or zim, and so on ... confuses the normies.
And the goal is to discredit leaders - and silence them - and defeat them.
There is NO WAY we could have gotten here now if the Jews were "first."
We are at a beginning: But it is the opening chapter of the LAST movie. The enemy has learned from its mistakes, and it made sure to render the tiger caged and toothless BEFORE this moment.
Second quibble: Some might say we're being "decolonized." But the truth is we're being colonized. The invasion of our southern border, the anarcho-tyranny (a Leftist tactic before it was a Nastie tactic), and the special privileges for the super-citizens who happen to be foreigners - while criminals funded by enemies foreign and domestic fill our leadership spots -
... are all tactics and strategies familiar to anyone paying attention - both to history and to current events. Along with 'color revolutions' and 'mockingbird' media ... all of these tactics have been used against innocent foreign nations.
Almost ALL foreign nations are now cesspools of Leftist sewage. The exceptions are not far behind. This is NOT because foreigners are just ignorant, lazy, criminal, or stupid. Albeit there is plenty to criticize in foreign cultures and plenty to praise in our own ... it is OUR Leftists using OUR money and OUR power that has torn foreign nations to pieces. Many believe this is to 'exploit' their resources for 'our' benefit ... but ... if it's to 'exploit' their resources for 'our' benefit ... where are the resources and who benefited? ... Hint: See all the mansions circling Washington DC and the surrounding 'burbs.
Otherwise ... yes. We're all Jews now. And it's not obvious to me how we're going to solve it. Cause we cannot shoot our way out - the Left would like nothing more than to provoke a violent uprising - and it does not look like we can vote our way out. There were non-violent strategies and tactics to fight back, but we've reached a point where discussing those ... could lead to a knock on your door ... or worse, they could just bust your door down and shoot your dog.
Just clarifiyin'
As a Jew, I of course agree with just about everything David wrote in this article. However, I hope everyone who is like-minded will also support vital American military assistance for Israel's existential battle against the evil medieval reactionary forces with which they are currently engaged. Supporting Israel verbally and yet cutting them off from the weapons they need is not helpful in the long run.
I lived through world war 2 as a young boy in England. I had almost black hair and a big nose. Throughout my years in high school, I was regarded as a Jew by other male students and I was constantly harassed by them almost daily with insults and threats. At first, I tried to ignore them and tried to explain that I was a Catholic. That only made things worse. Their attacks on me become physical. They started to literally push me around from one to another.
One week end at home, I decided that I had to do something to stop what was now making me want to stop going to school, but what? I was outnumbered.
In the end I decided that I had to stop being afraid. I was not that big and I was asthmatic. My only way out of this was to pick a target at the next encounter with my tormentors and attack him with fury, using my fists with punches as fast as I could throw them.
It worked, the shock to the gang was immence. They had never expected to be on the receiving end of retaliation from me. After that, they left me alone.
At the age of 15. I learned two lessons.
Until that time I had never thought much about what was like to be a Jew. I knew a little of the atrocities enacted by the Germans against Jews, but I did not expect to find enmity against Jewish children in English schools. My experience cannot be compared to what was happening to Jewish people then and now. But, it was a lesson that has stayed with me all my life. It helped me understand more clearly what my Jewish friends have told me over the years
The second lesson is that it is absolutely necessary to fight back against intimidations, the earlier, the better. Too often, we leave it too late.