REPOST: Yona T. Sperling-Milner, "Oops! We Did It Again"
I'm not done calling out universities that perpetuate hate towards Jews. Losing funding from Jewish allies isn't enough. It's time to call them out. The U.S. has an unchecked education system, where students can take courses on "Palestine" but are really learning "Arab Victimhood 101"—completely ignoring historical context like Ottoman rule, the Grand Mufti and Nazi relations, KGB involvement with Arafat, ties to the Red Army etc. We need to keep speaking up until accredited universities start hiring Arabs who fled Islamist persecution, rather than self-hating Jews who failed in Israeli academia.
A quick recap: I've written about how Israel should partner with HBCUs and Tribal Colleges instead of engaging with those who scapegoat Israel and Jews while studying our contributions: Read here. Between wars, I warned about CUNY's untenable state: Read here. I've discussed Harvard’s DEI failures, which have since faced more scrutiny: Read here. I also posted a take from a Columbia student: Read here, a UC Berkeley "activist" who promotes violence under the guise of peace: Read here, and UCLA’s disastrous handling of DEI in its medical school: Read here. I've shared the voices of real-life Gaza refugees who decry the protests glorifying violence: Read here.
Now, I return to Harvard, often touted as the most prestigious university in the U.S. Before I share the post, it's worth reiterating two key points about Harvard from a Tablet piece I'm not reposting: Read here.
Harvard introduced explicit Jewish quotas in 1922. President A. Lawrence Lowell claimed they were limiting Jewish admissions to combat antisemitism. Yes, he actually said that. Though these quotas were officially banned in the 1950s, they hardly vanished. In the 1970s, Jews made up roughly 25% of Harvard’s student body; today, that number is estimated to be below 5%.
Harvard is currently facing a lawsuit for failing to protect Jewish students. The university has spent more effort fighting that lawsuit than they ever did protecting Jews on campus.
Here’s the original link to the Crimson article: Read here.
It’s reassuring to see at least one intelligent student at Harvard calling out the madness the school has fostered. I reached out to her on LinkedIn and hope to get official permission to repost this.
It's crucial that the Crimson publishes pieces like this because they frequently print racist, violence-glorifying content. In fact, they even ran an article justifying the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a call for the elimination of Jews from Israel, while paradoxically accusing Jews of being the racists.
Oops! We Did It Again
By Yona T. Sperling-Milner; Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27 is a sophomore in Cabot House studying Social Studies. She writes pieces like these because they really help her make friends with the other kids in her major; October 10, 2024
Oh, hey there. Did you miss us?
We know it’s been a while since you’ve had some edgy student activism spicing up your life. And since no one else on campus ever seems to take the time to disrupt classes, skip lunch for a 12-hour hunger strike, or plan epic sleepover parties on other people’s property, we knew it was time for your friendly neighborhood conglomeration of pro-Palestine activist groups to step once more into the breach.
And if we’re being honest? We’ve missed you, too.
Not a lot of people know this about us, but we have really strong main character energy, and when Sidechat isn’t all about us we start to feel a little empty inside. There’s just something so darn validating about being the focus of constant campus attention. (Except when The Crimson publishes the name of a speaker at one of our public events. That’s just mean.)
So yeah. When at 5 p.m. on a Monday afternoon, we were weighing what next to post to our historically uncontroversial and politically effective Instagram feed, we knew it was time to give the people what they want: A righteous defense of the occasional need to kill Jewish people.
Because cheering on freedom fighters never goes out of style — not even on days that the Jews are mourning their various co-conspirators of the Zionist oppressor entity. We even threw in a call to escalate the student intifada, since everyone loves when we use that word.
Now, we know some of you are tired, and “pro-Palestinian campus organization posts something crazy on their Instagram” is getting a little stale. But don’t worry, we’re proposing a game to keep you on your toes: Take a shot every time you read “activists charge Alan Garber with genocide, on the basis of potential links between the Harvard endowment and some Airbnbs.” Take another for every instance of “administrative response provokes howls from student activists who cannot believe anyone would actually enforce rules at a time like this.”
Are you drunk enough to understand our logic? Great. Now get the alcohol poisoning hotline on speed dial, because baby, it’s escalation time.
We are asking you — begging you — don’t look away. From us. Or like a five-year-old whose mommy isn’t looking at her art project, we will dump all the glitter on the floor, smear glue on the kitchen cabinets, and throw the entire campus into a state of perpetual strife.
Because nothing says “committed to effectively shifting hearts toward our cause” quite like glorifying massacres and calling everyone who disagrees with your methods a genocide apologist. As is our First Amendment* right, you Palestine-exception-to-free-speech autocrat.
Anyway, be sure to like, follow, and subscribe. Next week we’ll be reposting that cartoon, just to see what happens!
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*The United States Constitution is a blank check for repressive activity by a fascist imperial ethnostate puppeted by the Zionist entity, both of which should be burned to the ground.
Yona understands Jewish humor. Yet, the funniest part for me is her mention of “Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine,” a group whose name says the quiet part out loud: these terrorism sympathizers believe that any land in Israel is "occupied"—even the undisputed land of Tel Aviv and its universities, which employ and educate Arab Israeli students. Seriously, how can you not laugh at these lunatics? They’re the same group that argues any response to mass murder and rape is a "genocide" worth fighting against… but when it comes to Russian imperialism, which has killed 10 times as many people, it’s suddenly "complicated" and "nuanced." And also, don’t publish their names! They don’t want to be associated with what they call an "anti-genocide" movement… for reasons.
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