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David Bernstein
9 months
I have been a university professor for over 28 years now. The moral rot at many campuses, including my university (but not my law school) has been obvious for a long time. For those of you who are first being exposed to it, know that it’s not a new phenomenon, and while Jews are
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From a politically moderate Jewish student at an elite law school: “I'm doing better right now than my Jewish friends on the left. They are truly adrift. They look around and see their lefty friends celebrating the massacre of Jews, and they know that they are completely and
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@TPostMillennial lol. They can get food and water any time by leaving the building they are illegally occupying.
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@FranceskAlbs If you and your ilk hadn't been running interference for Hamas for the past 8 months, Hamas likely would have surrendered long ago, instead of continuing to engage in military operations, including hostage-holding, from civilians locales.
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@BillAckman @Harvard @MIT @Penn Their inability to say anything about what they are doing to address antisemitism on campus, despite their obligations under Title VI to not discriminate against Jewish students and prevent a hostile environment, suggests that a bill cutting off federal funding should be
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David Bernstein
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This whole “I don’t hate Jews, I just hate all the Jews in Israel (half the world’s Jews) and the well over 90 pc of diaspora Jews who support Israel’s existence” thing is getting tired. If you are hating 98 pc of the world’s Jewish population, you hate Jews.
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@briebriejoy Avoiding innocent civilians being caught up in war is why international law dictates that armies must fight in uniform. Hamas, of course, does not, because it not only doesn't care about international law, or the well-being of its civilian population, but welcome harm to
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David Bernstein
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Campus police are treating these events like a frat party that got a bit out of hand. That's not acceptable, the thugs are violating your civil rights.
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David Bernstein
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As a law professor at this university, I’m embarrassed. If the issue is filming the student in a public place, that’s not doxing and it’s constitutionally protected. If it’s about Stopantisemites posting the video, they aren’t students, and posting information that’s in the
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David Bernstein
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@RepBowman The students were physically blocking others from entering a common space on campus. In what world is that "non-violent?"
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David Bernstein
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@jacremes If they hadn't engaged in criminal behavior after multiple warnings, they wouldn't have been arrested. If that bothers you, feel free to resign.
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David Bernstein
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And if you believe any of these things, read some actual history and use whatever critical thinking skills God has given you.
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David Bernstein
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@mhdksafa (1) There was no country called Palestine before 1948; (2) The land that became the League of Nations-sponsored British Mandate for Palestine was indeed an undeveloped backwater under its previous rulers, the Ottomans; (3) Israel did not invade Palestine in 1948. The UN enacted
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David Bernstein
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The only think that's truly surprising to me about the far left's reaction to the Hamas massacre is that none of them are really even pretending that they find Hamas and its ideology particularly objectionable. Let's recall that Hamas's explicit ideology is a mixture of Nazi-like
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David Bernstein
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@smccurry3 I'm a chaired law professor, and I can say with some certainty that what "a university stands for" is emphatically not that "you get to break the law if we agree with your political position," which seems to be what you think it stands for.
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David Bernstein
9 months
The soul-searching going on among many liberal Jews about how they could have so misjudged many of their progressive allies is familiar to me. I wrote the following in 2020: I attended Brandeis University, where, in addition to my classes and socializing, I spent a lot time in
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David Bernstein
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@KarenAttiah It's a good thing Muslim conquerers never engaged in violence, especially against Africans, or Karen's entire worldview might be problematic.
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David Bernstein
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Here is the child the monsters of Hamas were holding captive after murdering her parents.
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David Bernstein
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@sincerely_arden No one silenced you. They just requested that you vacate property that doesn't belong to you and that you had commandeered, and you refused.
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David Bernstein
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@RepMTG I'm not a Christian, but even I know that Jesus was crucified by the Romans, not the Jews. Jewish courts almost never imposed the death penalty, and certainly didn't use crucifixion, which was a Roman thing.
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@mamoun_linda Say “I wish Hamas would release the hostages and surrender to end the war, end the suffering of Palestinians, end he threat to Israel and the ordeal of the hostages, and give Gazans a chance to have a decent government instead of being governed by genocidal theocrats with no
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David Bernstein
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@ndsnas Not laughing anymore?
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David Bernstein
8 months
@kthalps What can you even say about someone who thinks it's generous for a genocidal, theocratic, terrorist group to release women and children it has kidnapped after torturing and murdering their relatives?
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David Bernstein
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@ijbailey What has been your position on those engaging in antisemitic speech on campus? whatever that is, apply it here.
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David Bernstein
9 months
Every single Jewish family visiting college campuses this fall needs to ask at admissions presentations, "what are you doing to protect your Jewish students from a wave of campus antisemitism." And don't take bs for an answer.
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David Bernstein
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One of the organizers, Michael Grant, is a public school teacher. Is it ok for public school teachers to be leading riots? (Let's not mince words. Blocking a highway and causing a 6 mile backup is not a "peaceful protest," it's a riot.)
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David Bernstein
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And "even the fairest Palestinians are brown, and even the brownest Jews are white."
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David Bernstein
10 months
Leftist Western academics have played a huge role in perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Adopting propaganda devised and spread by the USSR and giving it a scholarly gloss, they helped spread the notion the Israeli Jews are settler-colonialists, like the French in
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David Bernstein
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Arab/Islamic world yawns. No Jews, no news.
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David Bernstein
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@briebriejoy @StateDeptSpox You are a horrible person.
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David Bernstein
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@CornelWest This is about as blatant antisemitism as one is likely to see from an Ivy League professor. How are any of the named individuals responsible for anything going on in Gaza beyond being Jews? What does Ed Blum have to do with Christine Gay beyond being a Jew? I guess Cornell really
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David Bernstein
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Imagine resigning from the US government because the president has taken the side of a democratic US ally against genocidal terrorists affiliated with a US-designated terrorist group supported by Iran. If true, good riddance.
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Wajahat Ali
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Sources with direct knowledge confirm many high ranking Muslim appointees are strongly considering resigning. The Biden Admin isn't listening to them during this crisis, their communities are frustrated w/ them, & Islamophobes are targeting them & questioning their loyalties.
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David Bernstein
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@banalplay “I’m going to help the guy I hate win so I can run interference for a genocidal terrorist group.” Someday this will embarrass you.
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David Bernstein
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@BigMeanInternet Israel left Gaza entirely in 2005, with the only request that it not be attacked form Gaza, something that instead started almost immediately. Even then, and after thousands of missiles had been launched at Israel, Israel didn't invade, not until the massacres of 10/7 mad it
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David Bernstein
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@dissproportion Angry mob outside Hillel building shouting antisemitic slogans. Not *immediate* danger, but threatening.
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David Bernstein
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@trishaposner @SenDanSullivan @bariweiss @BillAckman @AntisemitismOrg Why is the university allowing its property to be used for one-sided political protest that creates unwilling listeners? There isn't a good reason, except either cowardice or perhaps thinking it's a good thing.
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David Bernstein
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@brhodes Assuming Hamas's propaganda figures can be believed to begin with, Hamas counts everyone under age 20 as a child in its statistics for "kids," including armed terrorists, as it does not distinguish as a matter of policy between combatants and noncombatants. So many of these
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David Bernstein
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@aayoub Imagine being so pro-Hamas that you would help elect Donald Trump just to spite Biden for being anti-Hamas.
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David Bernstein
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@AymanM Let's start with "who has had a trial in a judicial system that protects the rights of the accused and was convicted for attempted murder" vs "who was kidnapped from their home and held hostage." Or does that framing make it all too clear?
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David Bernstein
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@algxtrading It’s been there. Note that her decades-long antisemitism hasn’t stopped Angela Davis from being a campus heroine.
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David Bernstein
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From the complaint: There is a legal chasm between independent advocacy and knowingly serving as the propaganda and recruiting wing of a Foreign Terrorist Organization in the United States. AMP and NSJP are the latter. They are not innocent advocacy groups, but rather the
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David Bernstein
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DeSantis’s policies will likely lead to Florida universities being unable to recruit and retain top humanities scholars. And this will affect Florida not at all, bc not having the top feminist/post-modernist/Queer studies/Marxist etc won’t be missed by anyone out of those fields
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David Bernstein
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@sabreenaGS A country's flag is not intimidation, and neither of the statements you highlight is factually incorrect.
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David Bernstein
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@ryangrim Along with everyone sane, Bill Clinton disagrees: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down...,” Clinton said (referring to Camp David 2000).
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@NaytDX I gather that facing the looming threat of civil war when the British announced they were withdrawing from Mandatory Palestine, the UN voted to partition the land b/n a Jewish and a Palestinian state. The Jewish side grudgingly accepted partition, the Palestinian side proceeded
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David Bernstein
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If the university tries to penalize any university affiliate who took the video, it would be looking at a slam-dunk first (well, really 14th) Amendment lawsuit.
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David Bernstein
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@RachelJessWolff @georgetownsfs This is a Title VI complaint waiting to happen. File one.
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David Bernstein
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@NathanJRobinson The Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters was located next to the Iranian consulate (not embassy) and was not itself the consulate, but a military headquarters using the neighboring consulate as a shield. And has attacked or tried to attack through its agents multiple actual
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@yashar 290k people, one moderately offensive sign, no genocidal chants as at various anti-Israel rallies around the world. No rioting. No burning American flags. I'll take it.
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And my friend is someone who even knows people who know the DA! If someone like him can't get a felony charge against their assailant after a brutal assault, imagine the level of attention the average Joe Victim is getting.
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David Bernstein
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@BayanPalestine You were enjoying actual massacres , torture, rape, kidnapping of civilians not too long ago?
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Dr. Eli David
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Hi @BayanPalestine 👋 This you? 👇 Still happy about October 7? _
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David Bernstein
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@beccalew So you oppose a Palestinian state?
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David Bernstein
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@YonahLieberman Obama is certainly complicit. Israel had an opportunity to wipe out Hamas in 2008-09, but were given the message by the incoming Obama adminsitration that they had to wrap things up before inauguration day, leaving Hamas in power.
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David Bernstein
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Understanding pro-Hamas sentiment on the left: It's not just antisemitism, it's a Manichean worldview that assigns moral worth based on whether a group is identified as "oppressors" or the "oppressed". The result is that nothing is permitted to the oppressor (Israel), nothing is
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PS I'm not saying that this makes *me* a victim of any sort, just comparing what someone I knew personally went through compared to what a commenter belows calls a "political version of hypochondriasis."
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Note, I have permission from my source to share the information, but not the professor's name or specific class. But I have seen the entire message, with the professor's name and picture on top.
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David Bernstein
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@la_louve_rouge_ There once was a poet named Boyer. Who had a great thought in the foyer. She’d resign from her job, And show those Jew slobs, But it turned out everyone just ignored her.
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David Bernstein
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@smccurry3 Well, the protesters were breaking the law, were warned to stop, and refused. Generally, when people are brazenly breaking the law, especially when given a chance to stop, the police are called. Why should they not be called in this instance?
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David Bernstein
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@JonHaidt Note also it's illegal. Jews, like other minority groups, are a protected class under Title XI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. If you treat hostility against them differently than hostility against other groups, you are engaged in discrimination against Jews, which is, again,
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David Bernstein
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@JCAndersonNYC A “final” solution to capitalism you say? By destroying a country with 10 million (((people)))? Not even trying to hide our Jew-hatred, are we?
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David Bernstein
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@crimdefend The stats aren't "wrong." They are reporting what's being fed into them. What's being fed into them, however, doesn't represent actual crime levels in New York. You're welcome.
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@asmerasafi You are helping your case by repeating the phony numbers made up by Hamas.
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David Bernstein
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@NathanJRobinson For the last damn time, if you use physical force to occupy the building, or to keep people who have the right to be there out, it's a crime of violence as defined by federal law.
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10/7 was a Kristallnacht moment, in the sense that everyone who had persuaded himself that Hamas "didn't really mean it" now understands that they do, the genocidal rhetoric isn't just talk, it's what they would do to every Jew in Israel if they had the opportunity. Therefore,
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