Miriam Emery

Listener up there? What have you to confide in me?... Do I contradict myself. Well then, I contradict myself. I am Iarge. (I contain multitudes...)

[Retsef Levi @RetsefL]

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.

This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.

Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.

Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.

MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus.

The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.

Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.

Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.

At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.

As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration's guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.

Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.

We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid.

Signed,

The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

Even our most prestigious institutions seem incapable of calling out antisemitism with the same conviction that they bring to nearly every other social issue. To win the war against antisemitism, we need leaders to speak out right here, right now on this issue.

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

Join us to take a stand against hate and terror on Tuesday, Nov. 14th in DC as we #MarchForIsrael, #MarchAgainstAntisemitism and tell the world enough is enough - it's time to #BringThemHome. @ADL will be there. Will you? https://t.co/vtaJLWyWDZ

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

Bravo @BrandeisU for shutting down their SJP chapter. As President Liebowitz wrote, when you support violence against Jews or the annihilation of the state of Israel, you forfeit the privilege of official recognition on campus. Let's hope more universities follow this example.

[Dr Walid Phares @WalidPhares]

Reports from West #Darfur received today unveil that 773 African civilians including mostly teenagers, but women and elderly as well, have been massacred by the Jihadi #Janjaweed in the #Geneina area. Reports talks about hundreds burned and many detained and brutalized on their way for exodus. The Janjaweed are allies to a network of militias in the Middle East and North Africa that includes #Hamas and #Hezbollah. Voices from Darfur are urging the US and Europe, as well as the Arab League to intervene at once.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump's testimony today in his civil fraud trial is a reminder that his entire candidacy was based on a lie — the myth that he was a successful businessman rather than an over-leveraged charlatan who drove his businesses into bankruptcy 6 times.

[Jeff Zients Archived @WHCOS46Archive]

Every day @POTUS is making life better for Americans. He is announcing new investments that will make your commute faster. And create union jobs to get it done.

‘Amtrak Joe’ Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects https://t.co/muvdK8Csuh

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

In light of John Eastman’s appearance on 60 Minutes, it’s a good time to remember the facts: Trump had been told repeatedly before 1/6 that his plan to overturn the election was illegal. He did it anyway. Here is what one of Trump’s own White House lawyers told Eastman on 1/7:

[Mondaire Jones @MondaireJones]

The phrase "from the river to the sea" is in the Hamas charter and is a widely understood call for the destruction of Israel. This language is not only deeply hurtful, but incites violence against the Jewish community and undermines the prospects for peace and a two-state solution. It was reckless of Rep. Tlaib to use this language.

[Harris Sultan @TheHarrisSultan]

My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?'

He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel.

I replied, 'I empathize with the suffering, and it's not easy for me either.'

Then I showed him a photo, and we both agreed on the gravity of the situation in Palestine.

I then informed him that the photo was actually of a Yemeni child pulled from the rubble resulting from a Saudi bombing in Yemen.

I pointed out that Israel has allegedly killed 7,000 Palestinians, while the Saudis have killed at least 150,000 Yemeni Muslims. Some estimates suggest upto 300,000.

How can we call the current conflict a 'genocide' when what the Saudis did is hardly even discussed by Muslims? Don’t get me started on 200,000 Muslims killed by Bashar Al Asad in Syria.

He responded that if that's the case, he also disagrees with what the Saudis did. I replied, 'How convenient. Nearly half a MILLION fellow Muslims have been killed by other Muslims, and you didn't even know about it. Yet when Israel retaliates against a terrorist organization that has killed, raped, and maimed 1,500 of its citizens, the whole Muslim world reacts?'

It seems to have less to do with preserving Muslim lives and more to do with a religious fantasy of hostility toward Jews.

[Kekius Supportus @dinym]

@yhazony If Israel was actually "occupying" Gaza then how were Hamas able to build ~500km of tunnels? Did Hamas have money, time and freedom of movement within Gaza? If so then why didn't they make the city a beautiful "prison" instead of building tunnels?

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

The German Chancellor:
https://t.co/xiSSBdRTKY

[Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk]

It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize the Israeli government.

It’s not anti-Semitic to put the current conflict in historical context.

It’s not anti-Semitic to mourn the death of Palestinian civilians.

But if you describe the slaughter of 1,400 civilians as “military action” or call for a ceasefire without mentioning the toddlers who are still in the clutches of a terrorist organization, people will rightly wonder why you don’t seem to give a single shit about the lives of innocent Jews.

[Lynn @Lynn818373312]

@WalshFreedom I notice Palestinian women in Israel serve in the Knesset, whilePalestinian women in
Hamas land serve tied to bomb sites. Conflating civilization with premodern brutes is equity gone mad. It feels like knowledge is disappearing and a new dark ages is coming.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I’ve noticed something these past few weeks. Many progressive talkers & thinkers who’ve become really well known in this age of Trump have been really quiet these past few weeks. These progressive talkers made a name for themselves calling out Trump & Trumpism. But since the horrific October 7th terror attack and the subsequent rise of mass antisemitism coming from the left all over the world, these progressive talkers have gone quiet, at best voicing tepid support for Israel and, even worse, they’ve been afraid to call out all this antisemitism on the left.

A reminder that it’s very, very easy to call out the bad on the other side. It takes courage to call out the bad on your side. I know this personally.

[David Collier @mishtal]

3. So we have a march organised by Islamist groups who have had clear ties to Hamas - they put 100,000 on the street - everyone is singing about the destruction of Israel - and the BBC etc want to lie to us and tell us it is peaceful...

[David Collier @mishtal]

Why are Sky, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 *ALL* ignoring this vitally important fact. Can you imagine - for a second - them describing a march organised by far-right groups as 'peaceful' without referencing the political extremism of the organisers? It would never happen.

[David Collier @mishtal]

If the people are calling for the destruction of Israel - why is our media calling it peaceful? Or pretending they only want a ceasefire? Why is everyone running scared of upsetting Islamist groups - even to the point of hiding their extremism?

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

@cooperunion @NYPDnews 11. This is a terrible DERELICTION OF DUTY on behalf of @cooperunion to protect its Jewish students from physical harm, a failure to provide them with a safe space, and the university must be held accountable for creating a HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT. HEADS NEED TO ROLL.

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

@cooperunion @NYPDnews 10. Jewish students have dropped classes at @cooperunion because they feel bullied, and the students who were barricaded in the library are traumatized, and said they “will never walk in there feeling alright
again.”