If there is any "good" from all of this, it is the unequivocal and unambiguous proof of the depravity, immorality and worship of violence and non-reason from US universities.
Even if you are not a supporter of Israel, to not condemn the actions of Hamas is despicable.
I am a lifelong liberal but I am against men in women's sports so those on the far Left, likely some at Yale Law School, have said that I should die or be raped or lose my job for this point of view. The also say, and I quote, that "Misgendering is LITERAL violence."
Yet the slaughter of 1400 civilians and the kidnapping of over 220, including babies, is too "complex" for these great minds?
I have to admit, I don't get it. I've been struggling to understand this through others' point of view, but what Hamas did is so clearly a war crime that it has to be antisemitism under a thin layer of concern for injustice. Why they haven't had rallies for the 500,000 Muslims killed in Syria proves that this is more than concern for Palestinians. And I'm calling it out everywhere I can, even to the risk of my own well-being.
As Douglas Murray said, "Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is."
I'm not a black and white thinker but I'm 100% sure that the pro-Palestinians, who are really pro-Hamas, are on the wrong side: the side of terror.
It's no longer possible to deny that our most prominent institutions are captured by the kinds of DEI useful idiots that Bari Weiss describes in her "End DEI" piece. Some elderly professors surely have lost the plot, but for younger leaders there can be little excuse. As for the students, what can the admissions offices at these schools be thinking? They look to be admitting the worst sort of person. I'm re-reading John Robinson's farewell letter to the Pilgrims, in which he urges them to avoid people too "ready to take offense," and it's pretty good 400-year-old advice: "Neither have they ever proved sound and profitable members in societies, which have nourished this touchy humor." Not bad. Isn't there one adult left at Yale who's finally, at long last, sick of the churning turmoil over Halloween costumes and memorial windows? When you've abased yourselves over that nonsense but cower in the face of actual slaughter, it's hard to see what, exactly, the point of you is.
Silk replied that the center was still deciding whether to address the massacre. The situation, he said, was “complex.”
Sorry but when the people teaching our young students the law, temporize and cannot tell the difference between good and evil, what sort of lawyers do you think they'll produce? Certainly not honest or brave ones, or lawyers dedicated to our laws and Constitution. Bill Ackman was right. Don't entertain hiring any of these leftist apparatchiks in your company or law firm. In the end, all they will do is bring you dishonor and destroy you from within.
Gerken is a coward for not including the words Jewish or antisemitism. Silk is a coward for not responding. Hurst is a coward for not responding. And, it should be noted, Robert Hurst's father, Kurt Hurst, was a survivor, having been imprisoned in Auschwitz (he was my neighbor so I have personal knowledge of his story). That a law school of supposed high standing; that college administrators; that privileged American Jews will not speak is nit only sad, it's frightening! The "moral rot" goes far beyond the elite colleges. It's pervasive. It's steeped into nearly all intellectual cells throughout the West. Will these people stop supporting the alumni associations? Will they demand action from the overpaid administrators? Will they speak? No. Cowards are such because they don't face evil. It's definitional. They enjoy the freedoms that have been paid for in blood and fail to recognize their responsibility - the price we all must pay to ensure our freedoms. The reason our youth have no moral compass is because the so-called leaders have not taught them to develop a moral compass. Quite the opposite is the case. The Gerkens, Silks, and Hursts of the world have supported causes that have long sought to undermine and eventually destroy the Judeo-Christian values that undergird our society and promote an objective morality. Let's BDS colleges and universities! Cowardice does not merit our support.
I have never understood the white leftists fascination with Islam. Can someone please explain it to me? I am not being sarcastic. I am generally curious. Can an upper middle class ivy educated person explain it to me?
No, James Silk, it's not... "complicated". The global Left wants a "cease fire"? They already had one on October 6, to be followed by barbaric Hamas war crimes. The cries for a "cease fire" continue... would there be cries for a cease fire if Hamas and the Islamists were winning on the battlefield? "Cease Fire" they continue, with no mention of contingency on the release of 200+ Israeli and other citizens kidnapped and held by Hamas - why isn't there more pressure on Hamas to release all prisoners as a condition of a cease fire? The Gazan Palestinians voted for Hamas and cheer in the streets every time Israel suffers - I'm all for a cease fire where those peace-loving Gazan Palestinians out every single Hamas fighter and supporter in their ranks. If Hamas won't release all prisoners and Gazans won't reject Hamas openly and completely, what is the case for a cease fire?
And while we're at it what is the case for continued immigration of Muslims into Europe? Humanitarian reasons? Give me a break.
And let me also add that this type of nonsense went on at the Stanford Law School as I am sure most readers know. The poison is being delivered not by IV but by rocket at these schools. Every Jewish alum and anyone who has given money should immediately withdraw all funds and Jewish students at Yale ought to find somewhere else to study law.
Voices crying in the wilderness. You cannot compromise with someone who wants you dead. A successful compromise for them would be for you to commit suicide.
If you have graduated from any of these antisemitic institutions, please sign the $1 pledge and write them out of your wills/trusts. "Never Again" is a comment I put on my $1 check.
Yale has been a bastion of fanatical intolerance for some time now. The students who harangued Nicholas Christakis were actually given awards for their misconduct. Yale actually had a speech titled 'The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind'. It gets worse, in that speech, the speaker fantasized about killing white people.
US universities ran by DEI presidents are now indoctrination/Jihad centers. From discriminating Asians to vilifying white males and now Jewish students.
Notice how none of these DEI Presidents have a strong pulse...
If there is any "good" from all of this, it is the unequivocal and unambiguous proof of the depravity, immorality and worship of violence and non-reason from US universities.
Even if you are not a supporter of Israel, to not condemn the actions of Hamas is despicable.
Oh, I get it.
The Yale Law School Center for International Human Rights cannot deal with situations that it deems to be "complex." That's too hard.
Yale University can't be expected to address problems that it thinks are hard. That's no fair. Give it something easier.
I am a lifelong liberal but I am against men in women's sports so those on the far Left, likely some at Yale Law School, have said that I should die or be raped or lose my job for this point of view. The also say, and I quote, that "Misgendering is LITERAL violence."
Yet the slaughter of 1400 civilians and the kidnapping of over 220, including babies, is too "complex" for these great minds?
I have to admit, I don't get it. I've been struggling to understand this through others' point of view, but what Hamas did is so clearly a war crime that it has to be antisemitism under a thin layer of concern for injustice. Why they haven't had rallies for the 500,000 Muslims killed in Syria proves that this is more than concern for Palestinians. And I'm calling it out everywhere I can, even to the risk of my own well-being.
As Douglas Murray said, "Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is."
I'm not a black and white thinker but I'm 100% sure that the pro-Palestinians, who are really pro-Hamas, are on the wrong side: the side of terror.
It's no longer possible to deny that our most prominent institutions are captured by the kinds of DEI useful idiots that Bari Weiss describes in her "End DEI" piece. Some elderly professors surely have lost the plot, but for younger leaders there can be little excuse. As for the students, what can the admissions offices at these schools be thinking? They look to be admitting the worst sort of person. I'm re-reading John Robinson's farewell letter to the Pilgrims, in which he urges them to avoid people too "ready to take offense," and it's pretty good 400-year-old advice: "Neither have they ever proved sound and profitable members in societies, which have nourished this touchy humor." Not bad. Isn't there one adult left at Yale who's finally, at long last, sick of the churning turmoil over Halloween costumes and memorial windows? When you've abased yourselves over that nonsense but cower in the face of actual slaughter, it's hard to see what, exactly, the point of you is.
Silk replied that the center was still deciding whether to address the massacre. The situation, he said, was “complex.”
Sorry but when the people teaching our young students the law, temporize and cannot tell the difference between good and evil, what sort of lawyers do you think they'll produce? Certainly not honest or brave ones, or lawyers dedicated to our laws and Constitution. Bill Ackman was right. Don't entertain hiring any of these leftist apparatchiks in your company or law firm. In the end, all they will do is bring you dishonor and destroy you from within.
Gerken is a coward for not including the words Jewish or antisemitism. Silk is a coward for not responding. Hurst is a coward for not responding. And, it should be noted, Robert Hurst's father, Kurt Hurst, was a survivor, having been imprisoned in Auschwitz (he was my neighbor so I have personal knowledge of his story). That a law school of supposed high standing; that college administrators; that privileged American Jews will not speak is nit only sad, it's frightening! The "moral rot" goes far beyond the elite colleges. It's pervasive. It's steeped into nearly all intellectual cells throughout the West. Will these people stop supporting the alumni associations? Will they demand action from the overpaid administrators? Will they speak? No. Cowards are such because they don't face evil. It's definitional. They enjoy the freedoms that have been paid for in blood and fail to recognize their responsibility - the price we all must pay to ensure our freedoms. The reason our youth have no moral compass is because the so-called leaders have not taught them to develop a moral compass. Quite the opposite is the case. The Gerkens, Silks, and Hursts of the world have supported causes that have long sought to undermine and eventually destroy the Judeo-Christian values that undergird our society and promote an objective morality. Let's BDS colleges and universities! Cowardice does not merit our support.
I hope the dozens of white shoe law firms who said they will not hire from schools that condone or ignore antisemitism stick to their word
Dear Deans,
Everyone at our law firms is entitled to be treated with respect and be free of any conduct that
targets their identity and is offensive, hostile, intimidating or inconsistent with their personal
dignity and rights. We prohibit any form of harassment, whether verbal, visual or physical.
Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment,
vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and
the elimination of the State of Israel. Such anti-Semitic activities would not be tolerated at any of
our firms. We also would not tolerate outside groups engaging in acts of harassment and threats
of violence, as has also been occurring on many of your campuses.
As educators at institutions of higher learning, it is imperative that you provide your students
with the tools and guidance to engage in the free exchange of ideas, even on emotionally charged
issues, in a manner that affirms the values we all hold dear and rejects unreservedly that which is
antithetical to those values. There is no room for anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism or any
other form of violence, hatred or bigotry on your campuses, in our workplaces or our
communities.
As employers who recruit from each of your law schools, we look to you to ensure your students
who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace
communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment,
much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses.
We trust you will take the same unequivocal stance against such activities as we do, and we look
forward to a respectful dialogue with you to understand how you are addressing with urgency
this serious situation at your law schools.
Very truly yours,
Akerman LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Benesch, Friedland Coplan & Aronoff LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cozen O'Connor
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis + Gilbert LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Dentons US LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Fenwick & West LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Haynes and Boone LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Irell & Manella LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Jones Day
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Locke Lord LLP
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Meland Budwick, P.A.
Milbank LLP
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz
Perkins Coie LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
Schulte Roth + Zabel LLP
Seiden Law LLP
Seward & Kissel LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
Thompson Coburn LLP
Vedder Price
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C.
Winston & Strawn LLP
I have never understood the white leftists fascination with Islam. Can someone please explain it to me? I am not being sarcastic. I am generally curious. Can an upper middle class ivy educated person explain it to me?
No, James Silk, it's not... "complicated". The global Left wants a "cease fire"? They already had one on October 6, to be followed by barbaric Hamas war crimes. The cries for a "cease fire" continue... would there be cries for a cease fire if Hamas and the Islamists were winning on the battlefield? "Cease Fire" they continue, with no mention of contingency on the release of 200+ Israeli and other citizens kidnapped and held by Hamas - why isn't there more pressure on Hamas to release all prisoners as a condition of a cease fire? The Gazan Palestinians voted for Hamas and cheer in the streets every time Israel suffers - I'm all for a cease fire where those peace-loving Gazan Palestinians out every single Hamas fighter and supporter in their ranks. If Hamas won't release all prisoners and Gazans won't reject Hamas openly and completely, what is the case for a cease fire?
And while we're at it what is the case for continued immigration of Muslims into Europe? Humanitarian reasons? Give me a break.
And let me also add that this type of nonsense went on at the Stanford Law School as I am sure most readers know. The poison is being delivered not by IV but by rocket at these schools. Every Jewish alum and anyone who has given money should immediately withdraw all funds and Jewish students at Yale ought to find somewhere else to study law.
It certainly appears that Yale, and the rest of the Ivy League, has become like Mos Eisley (from Star Wars) a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Voices crying in the wilderness. You cannot compromise with someone who wants you dead. A successful compromise for them would be for you to commit suicide.
Why isn't Mr. Hurst standing up and telling Ms. Kimura, " We are pulling your scholarship." ?
If you have graduated from any of these antisemitic institutions, please sign the $1 pledge and write them out of your wills/trusts. "Never Again" is a comment I put on my $1 check.
Yale has been a bastion of fanatical intolerance for some time now. The students who harangued Nicholas Christakis were actually given awards for their misconduct. Yale actually had a speech titled 'The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind'. It gets worse, in that speech, the speaker fantasized about killing white people.
US universities ran by DEI presidents are now indoctrination/Jihad centers. From discriminating Asians to vilifying white males and now Jewish students.
Notice how none of these DEI Presidents have a strong pulse...