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At Rutgers, an attempt is being made to educate “the campus community” about antisemitism. Of course, the antisemites at Rutgers don’t want to learn about antisemitism; they know all there is to know about it, and they are quite sure that they are not antisemites. They just don’t like the “genocidal” Jewish state and will do everything they possibly can to make it disappear, to be replaced by a twenty-third Arab state. What’s antisemitic about that?
More on this madhouse in New Jersey can be found here: “Rutgers University Residential Assistants Reject Mandatory Antisemitism Training Session,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, September 4, 2024:
Rutgers University’s attempts at educating its students about antisemitism are being resisted by residential assistants (RA) who refuse to accept that Hamas is an anti-Jewish terrorist organization, the school’s campus newspaper, The Daily Targum, reported recently.
According to the paper, late last month Rutgers required its RAs, whose job is to supervise students living in on-campus housing, to participate in a “bystander intervention” course aimed at training them to identify antisemitism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. Several of the RAs, however, abruptly left the virtual session after a Jewish speaker explained that Hamas’s antisemitism and desire to destroy the world’s only Jewish state precipitated the Oct. 7 massacre, which resulted in the largest loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust.
The paper added that the RAs took issue with the program’s citing a definition of antisemitism offered by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). After walking out, they reportedly contacted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which proceeded to author, on the RAs’ behalf, a series of Instagram posts denouncing the antisemitism trainings as racist and upholding white supremacy.
I still can’t figure out why training in how to recognize, and respond to, manifestations of antisemitism in words and deeds, can be thought of as “upholding white supremacy.” There are an awful lot of Jews — and not just the Ethiopian Jews, or Falashas — who are distinctly brown-skinned. See the Yemenite Jews, the Egyptian Jews, the Tripolitanian and Moroccan Jews. They are as brown as the Arabs who expelled them from their lands.
“The mandated training program organized by the Office of Residence Life requires RAs to learn about DEI, restorative justice, community engagement, and more — all of these are inspired by Indigenous practices meant to unpack systems of white supremacy,” SJP said. “On the contrary, this specific session worked to perpetuate Zionism, racism, and white supremacy.”
How does learning about antisemitism “perpetuate Zionism”? Is every Jew a “Zionist”? Surely the members of Jewish Voice For Peace are as anti-Zionist as all get out, enough to warm the hearts of Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour. And let’s not forget Bernie Sanders. How does learning about antisemitism perpetuate “racism”? What race, exactly, is being diminished by such lessons in identifying what constitutes antisemitism? Could it be Muslims, or Arabs? But Muslims are not a race. Arabs are not a race. Let’s try not to engage in hysterical hyperbole.
SJP’s post included comments from the RAs who involved them in the controversy. One of them, who claimed to be Jewish, said, “I am tired of the word antisemitism being used to talk over genocide, I am tired of antisemitism being inflated.” The RA added, “I fear that when the Nazis and radicals come once again for the Jews that no one will believe us … it will be your fault.”
You see — you Jews who get so hot and bothered about nonexistent “antisemitism” are just like the boy who cried wolf. Someday the real Nazis will show up, and then where will you be? No one will believe you. Don’t tell us that Hamas is like the Nazis, just because 6,000 members of Hamas smashed into Israel on October 7 and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder Jewish babies, children, men, and women. More Jews were killed on October 7 than on any day since the Holocaust. Don’t forget, the Nazis didn’t have a good reason for what they did to the Jews. But the Hamas men were driven to desperate measures by “76 years” of Israeli “occupation” of their land. True, there hasn’t been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2005, but the Jews won’t let the Gazans into Israel, and that’s what makes for an “occupation.”
Another who took issue with the Israeli nationality of one of the course’s presenters said, “One of the facilitators even identified as ‘Israeli’ and made mention of this multiple times. He justified his authority on the topic by citing his 12 plus years spent in ’48 Palestine, going so far as to call ‘Israel’ [sic] a ‘beautiful land.’”
How could he dare? This Israeli referred to “Palestine” as “Israel,” and had the gall to call it his country, forgetting who the Jews stole it from. Why was an Israeli chosen to talk about “antisemitism”? Rutgers should have asked the people who have suffered from Zionist oppression; they’re the ones who can explain why Jews are hated. And so-called “antisemitism” has nothing to do with it.
Time to totally cut off all Funding to these leftists run campuses by 100% and save the money for more Police and American Security like a Boarder Wall
Rutgers has no right to exist.
Students at Rutgers have no right to claim diplomas.
Employers have no right to hire Rutgers grads.
They are already on our HR’s list of CVs to round file.
Every time I hear about incidents like these, I have these same thoughts:
The three thing’s that colleges and universities understand above all else are money, attendance, and publicity. These incidents won’t stop until and unless concerned people, both Jewish and Gentile, hit where it hurts here.
If you are alumni of any of these schools:
-Don’t donate one cent to them. If you already are a regular donor, stop donating.
-Don’t recommend that students attend these schools.
-Don’t attend any events, buy any merchandise, etc.
If you are parents or guardians of children of pre-college age:
-Don’’t recommend these schools to your kids.
-Talk to your kids’ teachers and counselors about what’s going on at these schools.
-Ask college administrators what they’re doing to keep students safe.
If you have kids going to these schools:
-Strongly encourage them to leave and go to a school where the administration looks out for their safety.
-Write letters to the school administrators and to the media.
Bottom line: Things will change only when colleges and universities lose money, lose students, and lose their reputation over these incidents.
There are MANY EASY FIXES for this crap! One in particular is to simply state “All PERSONS are to be treated with DIGNITY and RESPECT for their BELIEFS”! Any deviations by ANYONE should be considered a violation of School Rules and appropriate actions taken! Students (if you can actually call some of them that) should be going to College to LEARN a TRADE that will enable them to be a USEFUL MEMBER OF SOCIETY and support themselves and their families! Maybe it’s time for Colleges to just declare there will be NO POLITICS whatsoever on Campus!
But, we’re way past the “Politics” here – it’s more like ORGANIZED TERRORIST TRAINING! There are agitators who are not students but probably well paid outsiders imbedded in the school solely to disrupt. THOSE should be readily identified and dismissed and FORBIDDEN to return to Campus!
One thing for sure, EMPLOYERS need to access the RECORDS of Students’ political and social activities before offering employment!! No need to hire someone who will DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS!
Isn’t Rutgers where Mr. Magoo went to college? :-/
Since you can convert to being a Jew there are many different races, ethnicity’s and color of people who can be Jews. But, the overwhelming amount of Jews, by far, are the white Jews of Europe.
Back in the day, Jews had no such problem at Rutgers. Something changed in admissions, admin in general and faculty.
Call it the Rutger’s Rot. Do they offer courses in The Art of being an Anti-Semite like they offer courses in The Future of Queer Literature ?
Those are the same course…..and YES.
The overall course is called “Be a slave to current fashions”.
I hardly think, at this point, they can stop a juggernaut of Israel-hate with little obligatory lectures..
Ah, yes. Dear old Rutgers!
Also – Ozzie Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet TV series, and noted lawyer, singer, and communist Paul Robeson.
Anti-Semitism — rutting at Rutgers.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!!!!
As a past Alumna (1981) I am thoroughly disgusted and actually sickened by the current state of affairs! Please continue to expose this darkness and evil to the light and hope funding to this and the rest of these has been halls of higher learning will be removed! These institutions need to revamp or be left to fade away and perish!
Rutgers’ paper is called The Daily Targum? That’s funny. Targum means “translation,” in Aramaic and refers especially to the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible.
I used to think that the answer to the problem described in the article would be education about the history of modern Israel, but I’ve learned that these anti-Jewish protesters are immune and even hostile to facts. Somehow, their whole identity is tied with opposing Jews and the Israel nation. In fact, they are opposed to Western civilization as whole, even though the alternatives we see being played out in places like Haiti are certainly not attractive. The official state religion of Haiti is voodoo. The religion of these protesters is anti-semitism.