Thank you for these interviews! We need to have more of these voices become part of our national conversations.
I hope their suit is successful. They are absolutely right that the university has a responsibility to prevent vandalism and the harassment of workers.
Columbia President Minouche Shafik is competing against Claudine Gay for worst freshman year. She is a case study on how to fail at crisis leadership and destroy an institution. Like the NPR CEO, her resume is full of demoralized globalist institutions: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/commissar-Minouche-shafik-columbia-president
It's clear that that's the composite of the job candidate the woke hiring committees were looking for.Search for first round interview based on looks: non-male, non-white. Second round: Subscribes to all woke doctrines, as evidenced by past employment positions. Final requirement: sign and provide a DEI statement, the modern day ritual of taking a blood oath.
Manouche Shafik is muslim. That means that she has an obligation due to her ideology which is called a religion, to support militants seeking or allied with carrying out the diktats of quran, ha'dith and sira (the 3 source texts of islam) to conquer, kill, or enslave, all others. Those "blessed" means include deception, torture (specifically including burning alive as the "prophet" commanded to find out where the gold was), rape, pillage, assassination, mass murder of prisonersof war, and "every stratagem of war".
Islam is a war cult, not a religion. Manouche Shafik is carrying out her duty. She should be criminally charged at minimum. occupiers.
This is also why Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib always support such. The women in islam are the worst because within their war cult women can escape from their oppressive lives in anything contributing to war.
AOC must be allied because of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist affiliation.
You may be right about Shafik but I do not get the same impression of her. I see her as a highly intelligent, well educated, well meaning, and westernized person who is likely more or less agnostic or atheist. I think that the DEI faction at Columbia has more or less controlled her like a puppet. I could be wrong.
I see Shafik's level of intelligence and lack of commitment to Islam much closer to that of someone like Fareed Zakaria (very smart and nonreligious) than someone like Ilhan Omar (unintelligent and adheres to illiberal doctrine).
I could however be wrong - I would be interested to learn more about Shafik.
Based on polls of Muslims in Western countries about what they want, I often wonder now if that's actually true. For example, nearly 50% of British Muslims support Hamas, and the vast majority don't think Oct 7 happened.
My oldest son was 9 when 9/11 happened. He'd had a close friend from school whose family was Muslim. After 9/11, his parents put the kibosh on their friendship and banned my son from coming to their apartment.
At the time, I wondered if they were simply afraid (as if a 9-year-old was a danger--but fear isn't rational). Looking back now, I wonder if they were afraid that he might see or hear something about the attitude to 9/11 in their household that they wouldn't want their neighbors to know.
My high school graduating class was about a third middle eastern, most of them Muslim. There were many factors at play that created levels of how observant/strict they were: which country, when was the immigration, Shia, Sunni, something else, which neighborhood did they move to, what their parents did for a living, do they travel frequently back and forth, etc.
After the Danish Cartoon crisis led to the murder of a completely unrelated Catholic priest in Turkey, I discussed the events with many of my Muslim co-workers, who were all educated, religiously moderate professionals enjoying the Western lifestyle. I was shocked to realize that every single one of them felt that the murder of the priest was completely justified because someone in a different country had drawn a cartoon depiction of Mohammed. Every single one of them.
That's what a lot of this is all about. Open borders and flooding the campuses with international student activists. We're either not supposed to notice or fall backwards in gratitude.
Well. The trust fund boy and most of the rest aren't foreign. This is the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists that backed Occupy, then BLM, and now these so-called protests.
These are revolutionary actions. Their goal is to provoke "helter-skelter" for the sake of the revolution. That's why what you see is a lot of off-campus participants/partners and paid revolutionaries who taught, organized and trained the occupiiers.
The middle aged trust funder hasn't been in campus classrooms since the sixties. It's always been about radicalizing and exploiting the change in demographics. They couldn't do it with the middle class in the US. This is trite but they had to do it with identity groups so they kept adding to the identity groups. They are framing it that way: oppressors vs oppressed.
Qatar leads the list of countries donated to US colleges, Including my alma mater, Northwestern University, who caved to the protestors big time, promising scholarships to Palestinians and academic appointments as well. This is a HUGE problem in academia.
Yes, I get that sentiment , and to some degree, there may some degree of truth to it, however, in this case , I believe that the vast majority of these perpetrators are native born. Either garden variety white folx who just want to get in on the latest far left progressive “cause” (and ain’t it fun to destroy some property while you’re at it) or native born first or possibly second generation people of foreign descent.
Not quite nothing to see here. You've got the same old anarchists, we knew that, but there seems, optics-wise a disproportionate number of visa or recent immigrants and as you say, second generation, in which Europe found radicalization. This is about replacing our flag with that of Palestine. That's new.
I keep seeing "Free Press" articles being quoted on broadcast news shows breaking stories they (the broadcast media) used to break. KEEP IT UP FREE PRESS
Free Palestine but hey let’s be completely indifferent to the Americans who work for a living. I so hope that union sues Colombia to annihilation. Here’s a chant : From the Hudson to the sea, Columbia will no longer be”. Has a ring to it!
Wilson added, “It felt like they didn’t even care. They were just worried about the protesters—don’t hurt the protesters. What about the safety and security of the workers that’s working in the building under these conditions?”
Hey Wilson... news flash buddy... These are Democrats. They DON'T care. They just say they do.
Yep. And they do only care about the protestors, because God forbid they get accused of Islamaphobia. It's getting to be like being accused of transphobia. Both are mortal sins in the woke bible.
Obamawasafool, The Democrats MUST protect the“protesters,” because Biden NEEDS their votes! It’s why he’s promised to pay off their college loans! It’s also why the WOKE DAs aren’t even charging most (if any?) who are arrested.
In LA, they released those arrested without them even having to appear before a Judge, AND they were all given a breakfast as they left the police station!
Isn't the union going to be a) politically compromised, and b) pressured by the left? Alan Dershowitz offered to represent Mario "with the best" lawyers, but didn't know Mario's name and asked people how to reach him. I'd choose him in a nanosecond.
There's a lesson in this whole, sorry mess: the craven administrators, complicit faculty, the only stand-up guy is the janitor. He stood his ground, he "protected the building," - no matter what.
The cowards in keffiyehs need a direct flight to Gaza or Iran. Shame on Columbia for not protecting these valuable employees. I hope they win their case.
What will happen is a settlement will be reached and non-disclosures signed. The only one that will feel the financial pain will be Columbia but not the actual perpetrators. Both should be held accountable, not just the school.
It would be great if these workers sue the individuals involved with keeping them hostage. How about all of these very wealthy "Marxists" that are leading these protests? They have deep pockets. These proletariats should go after the Hamas Bourgeoisie Brigade!
Columbia is being sued by both students and working-class employees, its donors are closing their checkbooks and its president has been exposed as an incompetent administrator and an academic fraud. What next?
Except for Qatari money. So Columbia is now more dependent than ever. Declare Qatar a foreign adversary. (like what was done to Russia, although Russia is not.) Force Columbia to disgorge all Qatari originated donations.
Is there any American institution that isn't compromised at this point? Menendez and Cuellar. Numerous universities that have enormous, and often hidden, ties to foreign governments. Even these student organizations likely have ties to international anti-American groups.
With some sorrow, I have to wonder if this is emblematic of the "Progressive" mindset. Caring for the privileged little darlings of the elite, and not giving a damn about the little people who are actually making sure that the campus is habitable.
The underwriters of these campaigns have been ID’d in countless stories. Their pockets are lined with scads of cash. Hmmm. Wonder why the unions don’t name them in their suits. Oh, right. The Transport Workers Union and groups like Columbia University Apartheid Divest are siblings spawned by the Progressive Left, and none of their leaders gives two hoots about Mario Torres, Lester Wilson, or Jesse Wynn’s. Never mind.
- Were there any encampments in January? - Apparently not: maybe too chilly?
- Are any medical students involved in the protests? - Unlikely. They don't have the leisure time that other students enjoy.
- Do any of the protestors have jobs? - Probably not. You can't be a 24-hour SJW if you have work responsibilities - or any other responsibilities.
- If young people who work stacking shelves in grocery stores made encampments, broke into buildings, vandalized rooms and assaulted custodians, would they be treated with the leniency that most of the students are receiving? - No. Only people with the privileged status of 'students' are protected from the consequences of their actions.
Thank you for these interviews! We need to have more of these voices become part of our national conversations.
I hope their suit is successful. They are absolutely right that the university has a responsibility to prevent vandalism and the harassment of workers.
How about suing the 30-40 year trustafarian Marxists that led these protests?
And the people funding them.
That will never happen. "They" have been funding these kind of uprisings for decades and have never been exposed.
Like like double like. Hit 'em in the wallet. Effing larpers caused actual damage with their revolutionary cosplay.
Yes, I'm really glad TFP is giving the voice and attention when no one else is thinking of them.
time for Shafiq to go
Columbia President Minouche Shafik is competing against Claudine Gay for worst freshman year. She is a case study on how to fail at crisis leadership and destroy an institution. Like the NPR CEO, her resume is full of demoralized globalist institutions: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/commissar-Minouche-shafik-columbia-president
It's clear that that's the composite of the job candidate the woke hiring committees were looking for.Search for first round interview based on looks: non-male, non-white. Second round: Subscribes to all woke doctrines, as evidenced by past employment positions. Final requirement: sign and provide a DEI statement, the modern day ritual of taking a blood oath.
Manouche Shafik is muslim. That means that she has an obligation due to her ideology which is called a religion, to support militants seeking or allied with carrying out the diktats of quran, ha'dith and sira (the 3 source texts of islam) to conquer, kill, or enslave, all others. Those "blessed" means include deception, torture (specifically including burning alive as the "prophet" commanded to find out where the gold was), rape, pillage, assassination, mass murder of prisonersof war, and "every stratagem of war".
Islam is a war cult, not a religion. Manouche Shafik is carrying out her duty. She should be criminally charged at minimum. occupiers.
This is also why Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib always support such. The women in islam are the worst because within their war cult women can escape from their oppressive lives in anything contributing to war.
AOC must be allied because of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist affiliation.
You may be right about Shafik but I do not get the same impression of her. I see her as a highly intelligent, well educated, well meaning, and westernized person who is likely more or less agnostic or atheist. I think that the DEI faction at Columbia has more or less controlled her like a puppet. I could be wrong.
I see Shafik's level of intelligence and lack of commitment to Islam much closer to that of someone like Fareed Zakaria (very smart and nonreligious) than someone like Ilhan Omar (unintelligent and adheres to illiberal doctrine).
I could however be wrong - I would be interested to learn more about Shafik.
I've seen some confusion about whether Shafik is Muslim or Coptic Christian. But her parents were Muslims. Could she convert without being murdered?
Yes. There is a huge gap between "Islamist" and "Islamic."
Based on polls of Muslims in Western countries about what they want, I often wonder now if that's actually true. For example, nearly 50% of British Muslims support Hamas, and the vast majority don't think Oct 7 happened.
My oldest son was 9 when 9/11 happened. He'd had a close friend from school whose family was Muslim. After 9/11, his parents put the kibosh on their friendship and banned my son from coming to their apartment.
At the time, I wondered if they were simply afraid (as if a 9-year-old was a danger--but fear isn't rational). Looking back now, I wonder if they were afraid that he might see or hear something about the attitude to 9/11 in their household that they wouldn't want their neighbors to know.
My high school graduating class was about a third middle eastern, most of them Muslim. There were many factors at play that created levels of how observant/strict they were: which country, when was the immigration, Shia, Sunni, something else, which neighborhood did they move to, what their parents did for a living, do they travel frequently back and forth, etc.
After the Danish Cartoon crisis led to the murder of a completely unrelated Catholic priest in Turkey, I discussed the events with many of my Muslim co-workers, who were all educated, religiously moderate professionals enjoying the Western lifestyle. I was shocked to realize that every single one of them felt that the murder of the priest was completely justified because someone in a different country had drawn a cartoon depiction of Mohammed. Every single one of them.
That's what a lot of this is all about. Open borders and flooding the campuses with international student activists. We're either not supposed to notice or fall backwards in gratitude.
Well. The trust fund boy and most of the rest aren't foreign. This is the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists that backed Occupy, then BLM, and now these so-called protests.
These are revolutionary actions. Their goal is to provoke "helter-skelter" for the sake of the revolution. That's why what you see is a lot of off-campus participants/partners and paid revolutionaries who taught, organized and trained the occupiiers.
The middle aged trust funder hasn't been in campus classrooms since the sixties. It's always been about radicalizing and exploiting the change in demographics. They couldn't do it with the middle class in the US. This is trite but they had to do it with identity groups so they kept adding to the identity groups. They are framing it that way: oppressors vs oppressed.
But you are right.
Agreed.
Don't forget Arab countries, including Hamas ally Qatar, giving billions to our leading universities. We are now seeing what that money paid for.
Qatar leads the list of countries donated to US colleges, Including my alma mater, Northwestern University, who caved to the protestors big time, promising scholarships to Palestinians and academic appointments as well. This is a HUGE problem in academia.
Yes, I get that sentiment , and to some degree, there may some degree of truth to it, however, in this case , I believe that the vast majority of these perpetrators are native born. Either garden variety white folx who just want to get in on the latest far left progressive “cause” (and ain’t it fun to destroy some property while you’re at it) or native born first or possibly second generation people of foreign descent.
Not quite nothing to see here. You've got the same old anarchists, we knew that, but there seems, optics-wise a disproportionate number of visa or recent immigrants and as you say, second generation, in which Europe found radicalization. This is about replacing our flag with that of Palestine. That's new.
I doubt she cares. She's laughing all the way to the bank with the payroll she's getting from middle eastern "donors."
I keep seeing "Free Press" articles being quoted on broadcast news shows breaking stories they (the broadcast media) used to break. KEEP IT UP FREE PRESS
Dana Perino obviously loves the FP. She mentions it a couple times weekly.
Free Palestine but hey let’s be completely indifferent to the Americans who work for a living. I so hope that union sues Colombia to annihilation. Here’s a chant : From the Hudson to the sea, Columbia will no longer be”. Has a ring to it!
👍👏
That's a good one. How about,
"From the Hudson to the drink, throw the trust funders in the clink!"
"From the Hudson to the sea make the trust fund Marxistas flee!"
Wilson added, “It felt like they didn’t even care. They were just worried about the protesters—don’t hurt the protesters. What about the safety and security of the workers that’s working in the building under these conditions?”
Hey Wilson... news flash buddy... These are Democrats. They DON'T care. They just say they do.
Yep. And they do only care about the protestors, because God forbid they get accused of Islamaphobia. It's getting to be like being accused of transphobia. Both are mortal sins in the woke bible.
Obamawasafool, The Democrats MUST protect the“protesters,” because Biden NEEDS their votes! It’s why he’s promised to pay off their college loans! It’s also why the WOKE DAs aren’t even charging most (if any?) who are arrested.
In LA, they released those arrested without them even having to appear before a Judge, AND they were all given a breakfast as they left the police station!
You can’t make this insanity up!
And many won’t even go that far.
Isn't the union going to be a) politically compromised, and b) pressured by the left? Alan Dershowitz offered to represent Mario "with the best" lawyers, but didn't know Mario's name and asked people how to reach him. I'd choose him in a nanosecond.
There's a lesson in this whole, sorry mess: the craven administrators, complicit faculty, the only stand-up guy is the janitor. He stood his ground, he "protected the building," - no matter what.
Hopk Mario up!
Columbia won't repair their reputation for decades....if ever.
It's the Home of Hamas.
I wonder if the administrators know how much damage they have done or are they in their bubble, saying they are doing the right things???
Bubble.
"From the sea and to the river, grind Hamas to fertilizer!"
Bubble or Desired Outcome?
Why aren't those protesters being charged with kidnapping?
Yes. 100%. If they were not free to leave, then they were held - and unlawful detention and intimidation is supposed to get you serious jail time.
I didn’t read about this in the NYT. I’m shocked. Shocked.
The cowards in keffiyehs need a direct flight to Gaza or Iran. Shame on Columbia for not protecting these valuable employees. I hope they win their case.
What will happen is a settlement will be reached and non-disclosures signed. The only one that will feel the financial pain will be Columbia but not the actual perpetrators. Both should be held accountable, not just the school.
It would be great if these workers sue the individuals involved with keeping them hostage. How about all of these very wealthy "Marxists" that are leading these protests? They have deep pockets. These proletariats should go after the Hamas Bourgeoisie Brigade!
I hear there is a $2.3 million brown stone might be available
Columbia is being sued by both students and working-class employees, its donors are closing their checkbooks and its president has been exposed as an incompetent administrator and an academic fraud. What next?
Expropriate their Endowment.
Except for Qatari money. So Columbia is now more dependent than ever. Declare Qatar a foreign adversary. (like what was done to Russia, although Russia is not.) Force Columbia to disgorge all Qatari originated donations.
Is there any American institution that isn't compromised at this point? Menendez and Cuellar. Numerous universities that have enormous, and often hidden, ties to foreign governments. Even these student organizations likely have ties to international anti-American groups.
And why isn’t that millionaire outside instigator brat in jail? Of never mind AG Garland is too busy going after Christians and Trump.
With some sorrow, I have to wonder if this is emblematic of the "Progressive" mindset. Caring for the privileged little darlings of the elite, and not giving a damn about the little people who are actually making sure that the campus is habitable.
They’ll pander to the them but they’ll never actually do anything for them.
The underwriters of these campaigns have been ID’d in countless stories. Their pockets are lined with scads of cash. Hmmm. Wonder why the unions don’t name them in their suits. Oh, right. The Transport Workers Union and groups like Columbia University Apartheid Divest are siblings spawned by the Progressive Left, and none of their leaders gives two hoots about Mario Torres, Lester Wilson, or Jesse Wynn’s. Never mind.
Some points:
- Were there any encampments in January? - Apparently not: maybe too chilly?
- Are any medical students involved in the protests? - Unlikely. They don't have the leisure time that other students enjoy.
- Do any of the protestors have jobs? - Probably not. You can't be a 24-hour SJW if you have work responsibilities - or any other responsibilities.
- If young people who work stacking shelves in grocery stores made encampments, broke into buildings, vandalized rooms and assaulted custodians, would they be treated with the leniency that most of the students are receiving? - No. Only people with the privileged status of 'students' are protected from the consequences of their actions.
Ironically, your comment highlights how debt is used as population control