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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In May, the Biden administration released its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism which promoted a definition of antisemitism written by an anti-Israel activist who had defended Islamic terrorism against Jews. The administration partnered with CAIR, refused to acknowledge Islamic antisemitism, or address the worst cases of campus antisemitism at the government’s public universities like the University of California and City University of New York.
Earlier that month, Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a Students for Justice in Palestine activist, took the podium as the commencement speaker at CUNY Law’s graduation ceremony. Mohammed had previously tweeted, “i pray upon the death of the USA on a public platform” and delivered speeches celebrating violence against Jews. The anti-Israel activist had advocated segregating Jewish professors and students, urging, “”Demand that Zionist professors are not welcomed on your campus! Demand that Zionist students are not in spaces where Palestinian students are.“
Had any such remarks been directed at black or Latino students, Mohammed would never have been allowed to serve as commencement speaker and likely would have been expelled.
At the commencement address, Mohammed celebrated the “rage that fills this auditorium” and expressed hope that it would “fuel for the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world” and hailed those “who brought the ferocity of the violence” who will “carry the revolution”.
She praised CUNY Law’s support for BDS and described the Hamas fundraisers of HLF as “political prisoners”. That would presumably include Abdulrahman Odeh who had celebrated a bus stop suicide bombing as a “beautiful operation”.
CUNY is New York City’s public university system. Its money comes from the taxpayers of the city and the state. Its board of trustees are primarily appointed by the governor. CUNY’s chairman, William Thompson was the former city comptroller. Thompson and other officials responded to the outcry by belatedly condemning Mohammed’s rant as “hate speech” and “a public expression of hate toward people and communities based on their religion, race or political affiliation.” They did not however bother to define which people or religion might be the object of that hatred. Or promise to take any steps to prevent it from happening again. Most CUNY officials did not even sign that weak statement which did not mention antisemitism.
When Mohammed had concluded her address celebrating violence and denouncing Jews, CUNY officials, including Dean Sudha Narayana Setty, applauded the conclusion of her remarks. Some even rose to give her hatred a standing ovation.
This could not have come as much of a surprise since CUNY Law’s previous commencement speaker in 2022, Nerdeen Kiswani, was a leader of the same SJP linked group as Mohammed, and had used her time to accuse a Jewish community trip to Israel of normalizing the “murder of the Palestinian people” and claimed that she was “facing a campaign of Zionist harassment”.
Kiswani, like Mohammed, had called for the destruction of Israel and supported Islamic terrorist groups. At public events for the SJP group, she had declared, “I hope that a pop-pop is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime!”
CUNY Law had previously issued a statement that “the Law School supports the free speech rights of Nerdeen Kiswani, other Palestinian students” and that “criticism of Israel is protected speech” and “should not be tarred as anti-Semitic.”
The transformation of CUNY Law commencement addresses into Jihadist rallies are only the most visible expressions of a systemic antisemitism that has led to Title VI complaints by students and faculty, seen Jewish professors investigated after reporting campus antisemitism and triggered City Council hearings over patterns of antisemitism at every level of governance.
The Biden administration spends a great deal of time invoking systemic racism, yet its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism makes no meaningful reference to systemic antisemitism.
Unlike the “celebrities, athletes, and politicians” promoting antisemitism that the strategy spends time on, systemic antisemitism in government institutions and by government employees is actually within the legitimate scope of government. The government has no authority over Kyrie Irving or Kanye West, but does hold authority over CUNY and New York government officials .
CUNY is only one example of systemic antisemitism within New York. And the most egregious examples have yet to be addressed because they represent the widest expression of systemic government discrimination against a minority group since the civil rights movement.
During the pandemic, the Cuomo and De Blasio administrations singled out religious Jewish communities at the city and state level. Areas with a Jewish religious presence were specifically targeted for closures, fines, inspections and investigations by government officials.
Cuomo and DeBlasio did not bother to disguise the fact that they were targeting Jews.
Former Gov. Cuomo falsely claimed at one point that the COVID problem “is predominantly an ultra-orthodox cluster” and blamed them for “making other people sick”. The governor stated that he would “meet with members of the ultra-Orthodox community tomorrow,” to tell them that “we’ll close the institutions down”
Former Mayor DeBlasio issued a “message to the Jewish community, and all communities” that ”the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups.” This was the most blatant example of a stated intent to discriminate by a government official since the days of Bull Connor.
The Supreme Court in its ruling in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo found that a pattern of discrimination existed. Nor has anyone bothered to credibly deny that all of this took place. Behavior that would otherwise have led to Department of Justice intervention was simply shrugged off by politicians and the media who also had engaged in it. And while Cuomo and DeBlasio are gone, the state and city officials who engaged in discrimination are still on the job.
The Biden administration does not want to investigate the systemic antisemitism of its political allies, whether at CUNY Law or in New York in general, because it’s complicit in it.
Among the co-signers of a defense of SJP antisemitism at CUNY was Ramzi Kassem, a CUNY Law professor and terror lawyer, who now serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council. The letter Kassem that signed accused Jews of “false claims of anti-Semitism used to suppress pro-Palestinian voices”.
Dr. Howard Zucker, who defended and led Cuomo’s pandemic response, and left under a cloud of scandal, has gone on to become the Deputy Director for Global Health at the CDC.
Taking part in systemic antisemitism doesn’t cost government employees their jobs, it gets them even better ones with an administration that talks about fighting public antisemitism from individuals, which it cannot do, while perpetuating systemic antisemitism inside its own house.
New York’s systemic antisemitism is a fundamental part of the Biden administration. The administration needs a national strategy to counter its own systemic antisemitism.
Another key to the success of Islam is that the mental illness caused by genetic damage from their inbreeding makes it easier for them to believe in the fantastic fairy tales of Islam.
Both the Bible and the Koran are filled with fantastic fairy tales.
Marxism, Nazism, and Wokism are filled with fantasy, magical thinking, fairy tales too. The Aryan Race is a magical-thinking fantasy, fairy tale. Almighty Society, a disembodied super-entity, superior, separate, and apart from REAL flesh and blood individuals, is a magical-thinking fantasy, fairy tale.
Whether in disguised, pseudo-scientific, form like Marxism or in religious form, magical-fantasy thinking is magical-fantasy thinking.
The antidote is reality and reason.
I guess all of those soldiers who gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy, on this day, were simply products magical-thinking fantasy, fairy tales.
But not you. Oh no. You are a clear thinking rationally selfish individual…..an example of the new reality and reason. You are the uber-mensch who will do nothing for anybody unless we manage the scale the heights of your religion………high enough to suit you.
Thank God for the soldiers who gave their lives, helped to defeat Nazism and Japanese Imperialism, so you can be a petty little tyrant, ranting and fuming everyday about your two Fuehrers, Rand and Peikoff, without any worry about being picked up and carted off to a re-education camp.
Gee, THX, you are sounding a little bitter today.
Find one rational argument in your response to Algo or anyone else. It is embarrassingly absent in one who professes to be rational. Do you know the difference between reason, fact and opinion?
You spout nothing but opinion, as though your naked opinion is reason and fact You might think highly of your opinions, but reasonable people will only respond to rational arguments. When you attempt facts, you either lie or distort them.
Example: Faith is belief without reason and a means to knowledge. Both assertions are patently false. Find one example in the scriptures to support your claims. Try searching the entire bible for the word “faith” or “believe” or “belief” or “trust” and find EVEN ONE passage that fits your contorted definition. If you can’t, have the dignity, humility and integrity to shut up and learn.
Further, you are off topic, not responding to points raised by Mr. Greenfield or Algo. The frequency with which you do this indicates a warping of mind, soul or both. Clearly you are not here to engage. Your off-topic comments almost invariably make the same unthinking point. For you, it must be nourishing, because all behavior continues so long as it is rewarding. For healthy people, it is strong evidence that you are unwell.
You are a parrot. Your usual comments are nothing more than “Polly want a cracker.”
“THX 1138” meets Winston Churchill’s definition of a fanatic as someone who can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject. Calling him out on it won’t change his behavior because, well, he’s a fanatic. My advice, just ignore his relentless attempts to take over comment threads to his own purposes.
I would normally agree with you but regarding someone like this, who is as relentless as he is, needs to be called out as often as possible.
For this fanatic not seeing any criticism would result in him thinking he is making progress.
Believing in the wisdom of the markettplace is magical-fantasy thinking.
Yet even as China and woke corporate elites are destroying American, liberatarians cling to the myth that some goddess of the market will fix everything.
In my simplistic view, it seems like the ChiComs never evolved from a Mercantilist way of thinking to the more modern economic theories.
China and most of the rest of the world never evolved in thinking. That’s mostly a western thing.
Muslim inbreeding is so de rigueur that Mark Steyn documented it in his exceptional book “After America”.
This report and strategy is fatally flawed by its linkage of anti Semitism the oldest social disease on the planet with the nonexistent diseases of systemic racism and Islamaphobia
The reaction of the Jewish establishment is eerily similar to its failure to confront FDR about the Holocaust
That’s a good analogy. We’ve been discussing FDR and the Holocaust some elsewhere.
It’s a combination of cowardice and the French Popular Front’s motto, “(There are) no enemies on the Left.” That is, no one on the left should criticize any other person or group on the left – a precursor to Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance.”
That concept is the reason for my naming one AOCnoevilontheleft.
The establishment is liberal first and Jewish maybe 2nd, 3rd or 4th. Its primary interest is in being part of whatever social club the elite are in. It will stand up for Jews only to the extent necessary to fool the Jewish community into empowering it to speak on their behalf.
See this excellent and trenchant critique of this document here https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/national-antisemitisim-strategy-has-no-clothes You don’;t engage in dialogue and build coalitions with Hamas fronts
Get back to us all when a majorityJewish Americans stop voting for and fully enabling the people who hate and abuse them. Until then, my sympathy meter remains at zero.
A majority of Americans voted for Obama and Clinton. Doesn’t mean that we should give up on the country or the American people.
This applies to all groups of voters.
unfortunately true or we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in
It’s noteworthy how leftists are so bitter and perpetually angry that they givenothing but pure bullshit hectoring rants – never inspiring or uplifting speeches like conservatives do (on the rare occasions they’re even invited.)
I thought that Oprah’s commencement speech was the most rancid (*Biden’s speech was too sleepy & disjointed to take the gold medal). Then I heard this human refuse named Fatima nearly choke on her own bile.
This vile bitch will no doubt tap an activist firm to inflict law-fare garbage on America. (The only question is if taxpayer dollars will support it like they did for ACORN.)
When I read that the singer Tony Bennett suffers from Alzheimer’s but, nevertheless, remembers all his songs and can still perform them and practices every day, I realized that it doesn’t matter how much Biden’s cognitive function deteriorates, Biden will always be able to remember the political buzz words and make a campaign speech.
The tone and construction of his every statement have the feel of campaign rhetoric.
He is incapable of answering a question off the cuff that can’t be answered with a stock, tart and self-congratulatory retort generated by this campaign memory in his brain.
His gaffs reading from a tele prompter indicate a problem with reading comprehension; but he can still read. He can still read the words.
Suppose, one day, text of a truly effective strategy to end anti-Semitism in government and universities mysteriously appears on Biden’s tele-prompter. And circumstances are such that no staffer can get to him to stop him from reading it. Over national tv. What would happen? Would it be an Edward R Murrow moment?
Biden always lied, even when fully in command of his faculties.
He has also always been profoundly stupid.
Biden is running on autopilot, but so is much of the political establishment on both sides of the aisle.
Any professional politician usually starts sounding like a tape-recording of himself in less than a decade.
We saw this same phenomenon live with both Clinton and Obama. Biden has been at it much longer and he’s just an echo of a doppler shadow of a Memorex tape of the man he was thirty years ago when he had some sort of coherent agenda beyond warming a seat and feeding his ego.
Alzheimer’s mainly affects short term memory, the long term memories may still be there, kind of hard-wired into the brain.
Fatima Mousa Mohammed should be black-balled and not allowed to practice law anywhere in the U.S. Send her to the Middle East.
Let her go back home and practice law in Yemen 🙂
CUNY is a good college. Let’s not pick on CUNY
It was until about forty years ago. Now, most campuses are leftwing, Jew hating cesspools. I know – worked in CUNY for decades.
In the late 1990’s someone in Silicone Valley mocked CUNY…totally ignorant that the top paid Corporate Executive in US was from CUNY for several years…yahoo!
It WAS a good college, once upon a time.
Simply Shut It Down…similar to Yeshiva Univ. in NYC with the clubs and Title IX
It is not complicated
Send her by air drop.
Immigration is how Democrat anti-semitism acts against Jews. Enormous numbers of Muslims have been imported into our Universities and our country for that matter and they bring their hatred of Jews with them. Making Ramzi Kassem an immigration advisor is how the anti-Semites set the stage for attacks on Jews.