The right wing agitator made me do it.

Take accountability ffs for what you said or did.

Is there a downside to genocide that is counter productive to peace in Palestine?

because. . .well, confirmation bias. It confirms what they, and apparently you, believe.

After the tens of thousands under rubble or in unmarked or mass graves are counted or their bodies found, others dying from lack of medical care and food/water - I wonder if people will still say it's confirmation bias or the numbers are somehow unreliable? Probably.

Hamas uses children and women as human shields - fake news
Hamas reports thousands dead - damn Israel.

I guess we should believe other terrorists like Xi Jinping when he says the CCP doesn't brutalize the people of Xinjiang, Putin who says Ukraine started the war, and Donald Trump when he says the election was stolen.

Oops, those are people the American left hates. But the American left hates Israel, so they believe EVERYTHING that makes Israel look bad even if comes from sources that are known liars.

Confirmation bias. . .my mind is made up, don't confuse me with other information. Just feed me what confirms my beliefs.

Hamas fighters just attacked the humanitarian aid pier according the the DoD. . .I guess they are liars too. Hamas are the only truth tellers. Oct 7 was an Israeli false flag.

Christ, these professional Israel bashers always use the same tactics, then move goalposts when proven wrong or proven they use Hamas information.

Here's the truth! HAMAS ATTACKED ISRAEL ON OCT 7th, the people of Gaza cheered it in the streets, and Israel finally said enough is enough after 75 years of terrorist attack after one killed 1200 people.

FAFO, Hamas. Like the Japanese FAFO after Pearl Harbor. And the Japanese people cheered the attack on Pearl Harbor too.

But keep up with the confirmation bias and forget that Hamas uses hospitals and schools to house their weapons. But that's Israel's fault too.

Palestinians cheered in the street on 9 11!!

should Jewish Americans be treated as they have been? I detest what Israel has done and I despise Netanyahu. I also detest Hamas and what they have done. This may have been a wag-the-dog thing by Netanyahu. He financed Hamas. However, blaming Biden who is doing what he can and violently protesting in college and other places is not the answer. These kids are also ruining their future lives. You get arrested. It is not like the old days. It will follow you forever.

You can go as far as Netanyahu and his trigger-happy Army. But leave Zionists out of your abuse.

He made the comment in January.

He didn't just "say something dumb" He said stuff for six minutes while he was in a disciplinary inquiry.
I don't believe he is sorry.

Link to tweet

I didn't know it was Ben Shapiro's site.
It was from a link in The Hill that was posted on DU.
I followed every link in the Hill article because I wanted to see for myself if what this guy was saying was true and it led me to the video.

Also the link is in the NY Times article in the OP here.

presence?

He's not sorry for what he said prove me wrong

... "Kill them!". No.

I think I has to be sitting under the conscious level, or said to one's self; for it to be said out loud.

Hideous!

He's already out there stoking up more crap and flapping his mouth again.

When people tell you who they are- BELIEVE THEM.

"He noted that he made these comments in January before he become involved with the protest movement and added that the leaders of the student protests did not condone the comments."

Who are these leaders? Why did they not condone his comments? And how did he become the leader of the protests himself after calling for extermination of an entire national group?

Some on DU might have called it incitement to commit genocide (((if it came from a different source))).

"Oops, my bad. I'm sorry"
NO. he was serious in that statement. Probably another big talker, sure, but today you NEVER KNOW

my Zionist ass. He’s a cowardly shit.

3 cups childish impulsiveness
4 cups social media instantaneous delivery

I weep for the present.

He is identified as a leader...

Palestinians with Hamas? You're doing the same thing that student did with his Zionist comments.

Did you just join to stir up trouble? Enjoy your short stay if that's the case.

And they also support the total elimination of Israel.

And its "equating" not "acquainting"

Oh that's right, Israel is the only place in the Middle East with a Gay Pride Parade

because your post is, at the very least, ridiculous, at the most, an outright lie.
Enjoy your stay.

in Muslim nations and territories?

Oh there aren’t any outside of Turkey?

They dont realize they're showing their ignorance & likely affecting their future employment. Because I wouldnt hire ANY of these fools. And a lot of people in hiring positions have started saying the same thing.
Good luck, dipshits

Link to tweet

This is an absurd meme so confused by floating and mixed cultural references.

If you're a Jew, there's someone on EVERY side that hates you

Now he's gone, goodbye!

Now he can go on his trip to South America that he was blathering on about. What an ego!

Why did it take so long?

They only expelled him cuz it got public. He's been saying this for a long time, they knew it, and did nothing

I went through the 60s and 70s, most of 'em in Boston, a couple in DC. All it took to be a movement leader was to be male and jump up and shout something colossally stupid into a microphone. The mainstream press instantly crowned him a movement leader and tried to get him to say other stupid things to scare suburbia and sell more papers. It wasn't hard.

This guy's jackassery is going to follow him for a very long time. Meanwhile, the quiet people who did most of the organizing of an event dedicated to educating people about what's going on now and what needs to happen in the future have all had enough of these attention hogs but will have a tough time getting rid of them, those words will have smeared them all.

I know because I was there==different war, different rhetoric, same oafs and same gentlemen of the press.

History doesn't actually rpeat but it sure has a hell of a stutter.

Yep. Me too.

Common around the world at the time, the media needed their moment of sensationalism.

I remember what you describe there, the campus firebrands were declared leaders by the media, and every student on campus was branded with the same extremist/radical media brush.

Most of us were just trying to survive and make sense of the long tedious years of campus life, and had no interest in marching and shouting 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!!" in an anti-Vietnam war rally.

It was an entirely accurate statement.

If not, deport him.

People who talk like that, are almost always US citizens.

Damn. What a badass. lmao

I suppose we should think he represents the mindset of every protester?

I believe he was the one who said, "Here come the Zionists" and started harassing the Jewish students the other night.
If it was him, he was forcing them to denounce Israel as they walked near the pro-Palestinian protest camp.

And rightfully so
As for representing the mindset of EVERY protestor, well, I see TONS of signs reading "From the river to the sea", so yeah, he probably is mirroring many.

Israel may be "going too far" in Gaza, but some 'pro-Palestinians' are going too far in America...


Such are not helping their cause.

I'm "stuck in the middle with you".

The comments were made in January and as long as it wasn't getting any outside attention, they apparently did nothing about it. Once the optics made them look bad, they acted to expel him.

Edit: apparently he is banned from campus. Not clear if that means expulsion or not

Iran was the country most responsible for funding and providing assistance to the Oct. 7th attack. The fu%cking irony of this individual. Support Biden and his overtures for peace. Israel isn't going anywhere. Just my take

Allowing these religions to run rampant with hate???? Especially for each other.

If you believe in the God as an anthropomorphized personality with intent thing.

I am a nonbeliever.
I've been told that God is all knowing. Know you before birth and so on.
Why does he allow his true believers to be martyred? He supposedly knows these people aren't going to give up. Why is he testing them when he knows the answer.
Why does this same all powerful god allow his faithful to be killed?

None of it makes sense. So wars fought over these branches and twigs make no sense. Unless you realize that it just power lust.

Neither of us give any such agency to a supreme being. You, because you are a non-believer and me because I don’t think about god in this way. I was being somewhat tongue in cheek in my earlier response.

I resonate with Spinoza’s conception of there literally being only one substance (let’s label this “god”) with infinite attributes and extensions, and so the vast (the universe) and the minute (the lives of humans on one planet) are the unfolding of a process or mystery that we will never comprehend (transcendent of our ever knowing) yet is the explanation of my and your existence (imminent, or within us). I resonate hard with Joseph Campbell’s description of the perennial philosophy (progenitor to Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist thought) where with the astronomical observation by the ancients that the 7 visible spheres (sun, moon, mars, mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter) move in a mathematically calculable procession through the fixed backdrop of stars. This implies an impersonal cosmic order, no personality or “God”, but rather an ever unfolding process informed by the energies of the universe that is and will always be a mystery. It is up to us to recognize our oneness with the universe, that we are derived and inseparable from this process, and though it will always be a mystery, we can align with nature, harmonize with the process (as we do follow and live in accordance with such observable cycles such as the rise and fall of the day, the monthlong lunar cycle, the cycle of the seasons and the year, the great eon, etc.).

As the explanation for my existence, yours, Palestinians, Israelis, the New England Patriots, trees, rocks, seas, chemical reactions, the Renaissance, Mars, orbiting moons, spinning galaxies, black holes, worm holes, etc. all derive from the same underlying process that will never be understood by our simplistic minds - this mystery I label as “god” for lack of a better term, and one which has no agency or anthropomorphized concern for the existence of one speck of dust such as myself in one moment (in the face of eternal time) or place (in the face of infinite space), to name but two dimensions.

So, I believe in god insofar as I use this as a label to describe the phenomenon that I believe I exist and think and feel and I believe you do too; that you and I are a tiny manifestation of THE cosmic mystery that informs the energies of the universe. My wife does yoga and the greeting “Satnam”, I believe, means the infinite in me acknowledges the infinite in you, that we are material beings whose bodies will come and go, but for a moment in time (an individual life) carries the energy of the universe from which it was derived.

Probably a bit more than you asked for…

It puts the focus on what stupid thing you just said rather than your cause. The cause of Palestinian lives is an uphill battle because the media doesn’t even view Palestinians as people. There’s way more concern for stray dogs. We don’t need to also fight these idiotic statements. And, no, it shouldn’t be like that but it is.

Any others who take part in disrupting or assaulting others; same thing. Expell them. Keep the tuition.

Israeli crowds chant racist slogans and taunt Palestinians during contentious Jerusalem march

Some of the youths wore clothing identifying themselves as members of Lehava — a far-right Jewish supremacist group.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-police-jerusalem-march-palestinians-rcna85018

By Associated Press

Thousands of Jewish nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs” and other racist slogans, paraded on Thursday through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem’s Old City, in an annual display that caused new friction between Jews and Palestinians in the tense city.

The marchers, who were overwhelmingly male Orthodox teens and young men, were celebrating “Jerusalem Day,” which marks Israel’s capture of the Old City 56 years ago. The Palestinians see the event as a provocation. Two years ago, the parade helped fuel an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

Throughout the afternoon, dozens of groups hoisting blue and white Israeli flags streamed through Damascus Gate — the entry to the area’s Muslim Quarter — as they made their way across the Old City to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. The area is normally bustling on Thursday afternoons with Palestinians doing their errands ahead of the weekend.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com › at-jerusalem-flag-march-chants-of-death-to-arabs-and-assaults-on-palestinians
At Jerusalem Flag March, chants of 'Death to ... - The Times of Israel
May 18, 2023Thousands of Israelis took part in the Jerusalem Flag March on Thursday, with the highly controversial annual event again featuring racist chants and scuffles with Palestinian residents as the ...

https://www.politico.com › news › 2022 › 05 › 29 › israel-jerusalem-march-death-arabs-00035862
'Death to Arabs' chanted in Jerusalem march - POLITICO
May 29, 202205/29/2022 12:38 PM EDT. JERUSALEM — Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting "Death to Arabs," paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem ...

https://www.huffpost.com › entry › israel-extremists-heighten-tensions-palestine-jerusalem_n_6085e94ce4b0ccb91c25d0fc
Israeli Extremist Group Chants 'Death To Arabs' During Jerusalem ...
But the group's leader is a disciple of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who promoted the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Holy Land. Although police kept the sides apart, Lehava protesters chanted "Death to Arabs" and "Arabs Get Out.". Early Saturday, Gaza militants responded by firing 36 rockets into Israel, the most intense ...

https://www.nytimes.com › 2023 › 11 › 15 › world › middleeast › israel-gaza-war-rhetoric.html
'Erase Gaza': War Unleashes Incendiary Rhetoric in Israel
Nov 15, 2023Nov. 15, 2023. Shock, grief and pain have cascaded across Israel since Hamas gunmen poured out of Gaza to kill an estimated 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers on Oct. 7. So have anger and a ...

I don't think he has ever been to Israel or Palestine.

He just hates "Zionists", yet I doubt he was ever personally threatened by "Zionists" .

His last name is Jones, so I don't think he is Arab or has any connection to Palestinians. He just hates "Zionists".

Is that OK???

Is it OK for someone in the US to request that an entire group of people die??


He literally says:

"Nazis, white supremacist, Zionists, these are all the same people, the existence of them and all the projects they have built, ie Israel, are all antithetical to peace, so I feel very comfortable calling for these people to die"

He wants people who support Israel to die...(BTW this would be Joe Biden)


Is that OK???

This is hate speech...

Anyone who states they want to wipe out a group of people is engaging in hate speech.

Just because Israel is bombing Gaza to bits and just because many justifiably think it's genocide. It does not justify a retaliation genocide of Israel.

And just because there are bad people in Israel, just wishing for their death is plain old nuts.

you'd think an ivy league student would be smarter than he was.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-says-banned-khymani-james-protester-said-zionists-rcna149642

Columbia is probably hoping this will quell any criticism for now, and they will re instate him once people forget about it.

Even though the interview in January was done in a formal interview with college staff, they only suspended him after it became public three months later.

he may be entitled to a hearing etc before being expelled,but either way i expect hes done at columbia

Hang Mike Pence!

Everyone's on a crusade of righteousness.

What he means is "Jews."

They say global elites - they mean Jews
They say Hollywood elites - they mean Jews
They say East Coast liberals - they mean Jews
They say banksters - they mean Jews
They say shadow governments - they mean Jews
They say behind the scenes power brokers - they mean Jews
They say Wall Street - they mean Jews

We Jews, for being such a small number of people in the world, surely wield immense power. I wish I had some of it.

Not much of an apology there. More like a CYA non-apology apology because if you were offended or got upset, that's your fault, you damn Jews.

Are we going to advocate killing all Republicans next? Democracy is based on tolerating peoples' right to hold an opinion we don't like.

We can't go around talking about killing people because we disagree with them. Shame on Columbia for waiting months to deal with this - they had a person ideating and encouraging mass murder on their campus and did nothing!

But does this come as a surprise to anybody? Did this guy ever express gratitude that "Zionists" weren't "going out" looking to murder him, or did it not occur to him that no one expressed any interest in that?

Maybe someone can get away with that kind of talk at KKK University in Killajew, Alabama, but Columbia is a slightly more cosmopolitain environment.

He was head of Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
He said this months ago and it drew the attention of Columbia admins who scheduled a disciplinary Zoom interview with him.

In the interview he doubled down on his hate speech and went on and on.
Columbia did nothing.

Dufus recorded his interview and posted it on instagram. It was eventually found and posted on Twitter two days ago.

It's now trendy among the left to call those that you don't like "Zionists".

When you live and work in Europe, ugly crap like that can pass you by. One of my nephews went to Columbia undergrad, but he then went to Stanford for his grad studies and stayed out there. His younger brother went to Columbia for his Master's Degree in International relations, but that was years ago, too. He has since been stationed in northern Nigeria and is now living in Kyiv. Not that two half-Japanese (my brother's wife is from Japan) guys stand much of a chance of being called "Zionists," even in New York.

You can watch the video here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143231725#post13

He obviously doesn't have a low IQ, but he is nonetheless not playing with a full deck.

Someone made a comment earlier upthread about the irony that hardcore Muslim societies would reject him (at best!) for being gay. Most Jews that I know couldn't care less. He doesn't just bite the hand that feeds him, he wants to bite it off at the elbow.

He's so immature he doesn't have a clue what he's saying. When I watch some of these kids I think about what hell it would be to be their work colleague and have to count on them for anything.

They come across as spoiled brats who've never worked a day in their lives.

I have no problem with people protesting but threatening to kill any person or group of people should never be tolerated.

Was your father emotionally distant? Show me on the doll where a "Zionist" touched you inappropriately. Why the obsession with violence? Let's explore this.