First I would like to wish all those that celebrate the day a Happy May Day.
There is a new piece of junk legislation heading through the US House….this one is a piece of disguised crap to protect Israel’s reputation…..
A bill introduced in the House by Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) would create “antisemitism monitors” at colleges funded by the US federal government, a reaction to widespread pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have falsely been labeled antisemitic.
The protests against the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza have led some members of Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), to call for President Biden to send in the National Guard, and the prime minister of Israel has also called for a crackdown. The bill from Torres and Mawler takes a different approach to combat the protests.
According to a press release from Torres and Lawler, the legislation, known as the College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability (COLUMBIA) Act, would “empower the federal Department of Education to impose a third-party antisemitism monitor on any college or university receiving federal funding.”
“The monitor would be appointed by the Secretary of Education, the terms and conditions of the monitorship would be set by the Secretary, and the expenses of the monitorship would be paid by the particular college or university that has been selected for monitorship,” the press release said. “Failure to comply with the monitorship would result in the loss of federal funds.”
The demonstrations are being labeled antisemitic by Israeli supporters in the US despite the fact that many Jewish students are participating in the demonstrations, including in the encampment at Columbia University in New York City. Many of the protests across the country are demanding their universities divest from Israel or companies profiting from Israel’s genocidal war.
(antiwar.com)
School monitors?
Seriously? Where are these monitors and the hate around others on campuses? Blacks, women’s rights, Asians, etc. Where?
Let’s be real here….this is more about trying to cover Israel’s ass than some warped crap about religion.
Support for Israel is waning….a majority say enough carnage….this is nothing but a ploy to divert attention from what Israel is actually doing.
Israel spends lots of cash on Congress to do this very thing.
Money well spent!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
So.. we create the appearance of quasi “secret police” for the purpose of ratting on institutions of learning that don’t control anti-Semitism? We’ve got far more important issues that need attention than trying to impose social morality for a single race/religion. The problem isn’t to just prevent anti-Semitism alone but the greater issue of hate toward any race/religion.
Now.. this is MY free speech… somehow I am a bit disturbed as an American in seeing in my country two opposing groups of (allegedly) fellow Americans waving flags of other countries while they vandalize institutions in our country. Seems we do ok here flying OUR own flag in violent demonstrations to prove a point, we surely don’t need flags from other countries doing the same thing here. (It looks like the damn Middle East here!)
Just a hint to those favoring the Palestinian cause (and I am not disputing the reasons).. we already have a problem here in our country with the traditional optics of what the typical Middle East terrorist looks like.. the table-cloth head garb. All you need is an AK-47. Seems if you want to support your cause, try not looking like the people who hate American infidels. But that’s just me.
I hate ‘hall monitors’! My 3rd grade self. chuq
I WAS a hall monitor… and I was corrupt as hell back in the day. 🙂
Most were. chuq
Just like these will be…agenda driven….chuq
Meanwhile, while they’re so worried about antisemitism, they’re eliminating funding for for educational programs and staff which are devoted to trying to help alleviate racism on campuses. The state legislature here just withheld $30 million in funding for the state university system until the university eliminated all diversity programs and staff. Same thing is going on in Florida and dozens of other states. So on the one hand they’re deliberately killing funding for anti-racism programs while demanding the schools somehow stop antisemitic behavior… Okay…
Same in my state……a self-induced conundrum. chuq
I agree with you. If they are going to have ‘Hate monitors’, then that should be for all the hate, not just anti-Israeli hate. And yet again, they are using antisemitism to replace being anti-Israel as a country, as opposed to the religion.
Best wishes, Pete.
It is a deflection from the barbarity of Israel chuq
and the world goes tooling ahead—
Spiraling downward is more accurate. chuq