Pro-Israel Politicians and Donors Assault Academic Freedom in America

Dec 14, 2023

Widespread student protests on the US campuses against Israel's genocidal war in Gaza are being labeled antisemitic by pro-Israel politicians and donors. They have now joined forces to intimidate the leadership of top American universities. President Liz MaGill of the University of Pennsylvania has already been forced out. Leaders at Harvard and MIT are also under threat. The Pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Brandeis Center have called on 200 college presidents to investigate pro-Palestinian student groups. Faculty members and instructors at several public and private colleges have either been placed on leave or fired for comments about the conflict, according to Bloomberg columnist Noah Feldman. These actions are a direct assault on the academic freedom in America, with long term negative consequences for the world's most admired institutions of higher education.

Pro-Palestine Protest at UCLA. Source: Daily Bruin

Academic Freedom:

Academic freedom is about free exchange of ideas on campus by students and faculty. It is considered essential for learning. Limiting this freedom hurts pursuit of excellence which has helped American colleges and universities become the envy of the world. This freedom must be defended by all Americans to maintain the excellence of institutions of higher learning in America.

US Congress:

GOP politicians see these pro-Palestine protests on US campuses as a fundraising opportunity. Harvard alumna Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) aggressively questioned presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT to score points with the Israel lobby. “At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?” asked — to which Gay twice responded that “it depends on the context.”

GOP politicians like Stefanik are deliberately conflating slogans such as "From the River to the Sea, Free Palestine Free" with call for genocide of Jews. In fact, this chant is only about ending the long brutal Israeli Occupation of Gaza (along the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (of the Jordan River).

Jewish Donors:

Several Jewish donors of major private sector universities have either cancelled their donations or threatened to do so over the Pro-Palestine protests. Investors Bill Ackman and Ross Stevens have been among the most vocal pro-Israel donors at Harvard and Penn. They both called for the ouster of the presidents of these universities over what they call "antisemitism" on campuses.

The aggressive behavior of Jewish donors is serving to reinforce the antisemitic stereotype of wealthy Jews. As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich put in a Guardian Op Ed: "As a Jew, I cannot help but worry, too, that the actions of these donors will fuel the very antisemitism they claim to oppose – based on the perilous stereotype of wealthy Jewish bankers controlling the world".

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

Some right-wing politicians and donors have attacked DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs as the cause of what they call "antisemitism" on campuses. These programs help bring in faculty and students from under-represented groups to colleges and universities that have traditionally been almost entirely white. They blame DEI because many new students from minority background tend to sympathize with Palestinians who they see as oppressed. Many of them see Israel as a "Western settler-colonialist oppressor par excellence", according to the Wall Street Journal.

Israel has long been seen as a settler colonial state . It was established by the displacement of the indigenous population of Palestinians and their replacement by Europeans, similar to places like America and Australia. This process of Israel's creation was endorsed by top British politicians like Winston Churchill.

“I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger,” former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the Peel Commission in 1937, “even though he may have lain there for a very long time.” He denied that “a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the Black people of Australia,” by their replacement with “a higher grade race.”

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Zachary Foster
@_ZachFoster
At Harvard University, students are allowed to call the US a racist endeavor. They can call Canada, Mexico, the UK, France or Germany racist countries. They can call every country in the world racist except for one. Israel. Welcome to Higher Education circa 2025.

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1885065984131686450

Jan 30
Riaz Haq

TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
She risked her freedom to expose the truth.

When other journalists backed away from the Epstein story:

Whitney Webb dug deeper and found disturbing intelligence connections.

Here's what she discovered in her 4-year investigation:

https://x.com/themarketsniper/status/1885010224995852395

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She risked her freedom to expose the truth.

When other journalists backed away from the Epstein story:

Whitney Webb dug deeper and found disturbing intelligence connections.

Here's what she discovered in her 4-year investigation:
TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
First, understand this:

Webb isn't your typical journalist churning out mainstream narratives.

She left mainstream media to pursue independent journalism, dedicated to uncovering the connections most are afraid to investigate.

The threats began immediately...

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
Her groundbreaking two-volume book "One Nation Under Blackmail" exposed America's most explosive hidden networks of power.

The death threats became so serious, she was forced to move her entire family out of the United States.

But that didn't stop her...

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
Webb's investigations reveal the hidden machinery that really controls our world.

From the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to intricate webs of financial manipulation.

She exposes connections that most journalists wouldn't dare touch.

And here's where it gets interesting:

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
Her research exposes how these networks operate:

• Using compromising information for control
• Leveraging financial systems for power
• Creating intricate webs of influence
• Silencing those who speak out

The implications are staggering...

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
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Her groundbreaking two-volume book "One Nation Under Blackmail" exposed America's most explosive hidden networks of power.

The death threats became so serious, she was forced to move her entire family out of the United States.

But that didn't stop her...
TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
·
23h
Webb's investigations reveal the hidden machinery that really controls our world.

From the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to intricate webs of financial manipulation.

She exposes connections that most journalists wouldn't dare touch.

And here's where it gets interesting:

TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
·
23h
Her research exposes how these networks operate:

• Using compromising information for control
• Leveraging financial systems for power
• Creating intricate webs of influence
• Silencing those who speak out

The implications are staggering...

TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
The connections aren't random.

They're systematic.

Organized.

And they link Jeffrey Epstein to powerful intelligence networks in ways that will make your head spin.

But there's something even more disturbing:

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
These networks don't just exist to make money.

They exist to control.

To manipulate.

To ensure certain people stay in power while others remain ignorant.

The pattern becomes clear when you look closer:

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TheMarketSniper - MBA, CMT, Trader, Teacher & TA
@themarketsniper
The same patterns Webb exposed?

They've been operating for decades, evolving and adapting.

Just like the financial markets show patterns, so does corruption.

And once you see it, you can't unsee it...

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald
US's leading universities -- at the behest of the Trump administration -- are implementing radically expanded "hate speech" codes to ban a range of criticisms about Israel and individual Jews.

The IHRA is one of the gravest state attacks on Americans' campus free speech rights.

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1945497307710906536

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald
Here are just some of the ideas banned under the IHRA. The GOP-led Congress, with ample Dem support, already tried implementing this censorship code to protect Israel into US law.

It's rapidly becoming required hate speech law at universities. IHRA examples of "anti-Semitism."

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1945497834934956224

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Zachary Foster
@_ZachFoster
Columbia University has just adopted
@TheIHRA
definition of anti-semitism into its anti-discrimination policies.

Meaning, Columbia students can call every country in the world "a racist endeavor" except for one country.

They can call the United States, Germany, France, Hungary, China, Egypt or any other country in the world a "racist endeavor."

But if they call Israel a "racist endeavor" -- the same Israel described as an apartheid state by every major human rights organization in the world (e.g.
@ICAHD
in 2010,
@UNESCWA
in 2017,
@YeshDin
in 2020,
@AdalahCenter
in 2020,
@btselem
in 2021,
@hrw
in 2021,
@fidh_en
in 2021,
@alhaq_org
in 2022,
@Addameer
in 2022,
@AlMezanCenter
in 2022
@cacalqudsuni
in 2022
@AdvocacyJlac
in 2022,
@miftahpal
in 2022, the
@UN
in 2022, the
@ICJ_org
in 2022,
@DAWNmenaorg
in 2022,
@amnesty
in 2022) -- they would be in violation of Columbia University policy.

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1945331723517952271

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