Cal Poly Humboldt Faces Federal Civil Rights Complaint as Antisemitism Task Force Scrutinizes Campus Protests
![A protest sign on Cal Poly Humboldt’s quad on April 26, 2024 during the campus occupation. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image1-1.jpg)
A protest sign on Cal Poly Humboldt’s quad on April 26, 2024 during the campus occupation. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Although the Complaint which alleges civil rights violations has been presented by attorneys to the US Department of Education at the Federal level rather than the State’s Office in Sacramento, it has not yet been filed in a court of law in any capacity that we are able to confirm.
The complaint against Cal Poly Humboldt (CPH) comes amid heightened scrutiny of antisemitism on college campuses, following Executive Orders from President Donald Trump and recent federal actions on the issue. Just days ago, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies revoked approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, citing its failure to adequately address antisemitic harassment under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The move, part of a broader effort by the Trump Administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat antisemitism, signals increased federal intervention in university policies nationwide.
Against this backdrop, the Louis D. Brandeis Center has submitted a complaint to the Dept. of Education’s Civil Rights Office alleging pervasive anti-Jewish discrimination at Cal Poly Humboldt. The University, like many other college campuses, is home to active student protests and now faces accusations of fostering a hostile environment for Jewish students—particularly those identified as Zionist. The firm argues that the university’s handling of pro-Palestinian activism has led to violations of students’ civil rights, an assertion now under review by the U.S. Department of Education.
However, free speech advocates argue that competing definitions of “antisemitism” have been conflated with the true meaning of the word, in a purposeful effort to expand the working definition of antisemitism to include anti-Zionist rhetoric as an assault on Jewish identity in general.
When asked about anti-Zionism being at odds with Jewish identity as described in the Complaint against Cal Poly, a Jewish student activist who had participated in peaceful pro-Palestine demonstrations on the Arcata campus previously, offered a personal perspective, writing, “Biblical stories are not, to me, a justification for colonization.”
The student who wishes to remain anonymous told us, “The political Zionist movement as it exists was founded on ideals of ethnic separatism and nationalism that do not align with Judaism as I know it.”
Cal Poly Blamed for Anti-Zionist Political Speech
The complaint – drafted by the Louis D. Brandeis Center (LBC) with support from Jewish on Campus, and emailed to the Department of Education’s Federal Office in San Francisco – cites multiple specific incidents that they alleged are examples of antisemitism on campus. The Complaint enumerates each instance with the word “Zionist” at the center of the complaint. Some of those are alleged to have been mishandled by university staff, leading the lobby group to conclude that Civil Rights violations have occurred.
The LBC’s letter to the federal office of the Dept. of Education further claims that a “hostile environment for Jewish students exists at Cal Poly Humboldt because the administration has failed to adequately respond to the problem, despite having been repeatedly put on notice,” while making the case for Title IX violations. Based largely on accounts described to the LBC by a Jewish Student referred to throughout the Complaint as “Student A,” a number of specific instances were recounted within the Complaint which Student A was a part of, witnessed firsthand, and which were allegedly reported to campus staff without appropriate intervention by the University.
Still, the student we spoke with – who has been at campus rallies and pro-Palestine demonstrations in the past – indicated that she had not experienced the antisemitism that Student A reported. When asked if she felt the campus was a “hostile” place for Jewish students, she replied, “I do not feel that campus is hostile to me, as a Jewish person. I know what a real threat anti-Semitism is and my heart goes out to people who have faced discrimination it is based on their Jewish identity in Humboldt. Discrimination based on unchangeable characteristics or religion has no place on any campus.”
The complaint asserts that “Jewish students are being targeted as “Zionists” and therefore vilified and mistreated because of their actual or perceived connection to Israel,” at Cal Poly. Although the LBC finds the term Zionist to be an integral part of the Israeli and therefore the Jewish identity as it explains, the group also recognizes the term as being used pejoratively, recognizing it as an insult when leveled by pro Palestine activists, for example.
“The word “Zionist” is frequently used as a codeword, proxy term, or dog-whistle for “Jew,”” asserts the LBC, which seeks to include the term (which accurately describes Israeli Jews seeking to establish an ethno-nationalist state for the Jewish people) within their expanded scope and definition of commonly understood Jewish identity, as the lobby group works to have institutions “recognize contemporary anti-Semitism and distinguish it from political debate,” according to their website. By including the term within the “contemporary” definition of antisemitism preferred by the LBC, the group seeks to establish that any use of the terms “Zionist” or “Zionism” as a political criticism is considered an insult to Jewish students on college campuses, and is therefore to be a recognized element of antisemitism, and hence, unallowable and even punishable.
When asked to elaborate on their anti-Zionist perspective, the Jewish student we spoke with offered historical context, saying, “It is unfair to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism because there have always been Jews who are opposed to Zionism. The socialist Bund was formed the same year as the Zionist party and advocated for equal rights, not necessarily for statehood. It’s unfair to make a political movement a core tenant of a religious or cultural practice because it inherently excludes people who feel differently and makes it feel as though differing opinions are not welcome.”
Beginning with an incident which occurred September 18 of last year, the Complaint outlines instances of what it asserts are antisemitic attacks of various kinds. Referencing a club fair on campus, it describes Student A attending a club fair as a participant, tabling for the Jewish Student Group Chabad at Cal Poly Humboldt. On this occasion, Cal Poly is accused of responding inappropriately to reports of harassment of Student A, by allegedly advising them to leave the fair in order to diffuse the situation.
The report alleges in part, “A Cal Poly student approached the table, shouting at Student A and others at the table that the Jewish students were baby killers, genocide supporters and land stealers,” before a staff member intervened. This, the LBC asserts, was an anti-semetic verbal assault leading to a violation of the student’s Civil Rights as to fair and equal treatment and access to education, writing, “Instead of addressing the anti-Semitic incident, the Associate Dean for Student Life told the Jewish students that they should leave the fair, thereby depriving them of the same educational opportunities as other students and student clubs to participate in and enjoy the fair.”
![Jewish and Israeli students tabled at the Cal Poly Humboldt quad peacefully and unencumbered prior to the red paint assault on October 7, 2024. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image2-2.jpg)
Jewish and Israeli students tabled at the Cal Poly Humboldt quad peacefully and unencumbered prior to the red paint assault on October 7, 2024. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Nearly a year later, an assault with red paint occurred on campus on October 7, 2024, as Jewish students were tabling at the main quad in proximity to other students who held anti-Zionist political views, and were voicing support of Palestinian resistance in Gaza. Reporting live updates from a separate rally in Arcata, Redheaded Blackbelt received word from one of the Jewish students tabling on the quad, who related details of the attack. At the time, we reported, “A member of the Jewish Student Group, Chabad, at Cal Poly Humboldt, provided a short account of the incident in a text message. He described that paint was thrown at their videographer and another person. He said, “The leaders of the Jewish student group, me and an Israeli student also had glitter thrown into our faces.”
One person threw paint at Jewish and Israeli students. [Photo of the suspect released by Cal Poly Humboldt.]
The LBC complaint refers to this incident saying, “Anti-Israel campus protestors have thrown fake blood on Jewish students and vandalized a campus building while screaming “blood of our martyrs”. A press release from the University at the time stated in regard to the assault on Jewish students, “The incidents, reported by students and a community member, are under investigation. UPD is working to identify the individual…and is committed to ensuring the safety of the campus and local community..” It remains unclear if the University treated this particular incident as an instance of antisemitism, or as an assault, categorically.
Video footage of protesters and the Chabad Student group on the quad at Cal Poly roughly an hour and half before the red paint attack on Jewish students on October 7th, 2024.
Another accusation listed in the complaint is related to a missing Etrog, an item which is a part of the traditional Sukkot holiday and ritual. The student group Chabad of Humboldt had prepared their traditional Sukkah, but the complaint alleges that the missing Etrog was a theft that disrupted their religious observance of the week-long Sukkat holiday. This was reported to the University as a theft the week following the October 7 paint attack.
Incidentally, another group of Jewish students expressed concern for their same ability to practice their religion freely after being informed that their Sukkot celebration needed staff approval per the University policy. Nearby, across the Cal Poly quad a separate group of Jewish students also celebrated with a “Solidarity Sukkah” intended to “create community for anti-Zionist Jews,” they explained, “because we believe really firmly that our religious teachings encourage us to stand up against genocide wherever we see it taking place, whoever is perpetrating it, and whoever is experiencing it.”
Students with the Solidarity Sukkah were issued a warning related to the campus Time Place and Manner policy (TPM), and were asked by Dean of Students Mitch Mitchell to remove the temporary structure until official approval could be given through a “process” that students needed to adhere to. Meanwhile, the traditional Sukkah set up by Chabad of Cal Poly remained, having been approved per the TPM policy, although it suffered the loss of a ritual item, the Etrog.
The Sukkah of the Jewish Student Group Chabad of Cal Poly Humboldt.
Additional elements of the complaint revolve around University staff’s alleged responses to instances of real-time harassment, such as “unauthorized chalking” by protesting students near the Jewish students, scrawling chalk messages on the sidewalk areas in proximity to them, which they found offensive and directed at them.
On October 17th on campus, a “Teach-in” held by a group of student protesters with opposing viewpoints was conducted in proximity to the Jewish Student Group’s Sukkah, prompting the group to report harassment to the University. The Complaint reads, “[S]tudent protesters held a “teach-in” event on the theme of “Palestinian resistance” within 10 feet of the Chabad group’s Sukkah.” Noting that the teach-in featured a speaker whom the Chabad of Cal Poly disagreed with politically, the request that the Department of Education investigate Cal Poly for Civil Rights Violations asserted that the event “included anti-Semitic speeches that were broadcast with amplified sound, in violation of University policy on time, place and manner restrictions.”
Claiming that Jewish students were again directly taunted by protesters with opposing and insulting viewpoints, the complaint also alleges, “participants taunted Jewish students by chalking inflammatory anti-Semitic messages near the Sukkah, including “Go away Nazis,” “Death to America,” and “Zionists are all homophobes.” In fact, Cal Poly does not allow “unauthorized” chalking” as clarified in its TPM addendum, which reads in part, “Chalking on campus grounds is only permitted for University affiliated campus departments and organizations,” unless the messaging has been preapproved via the a “Conference & Event Services” application process.
Graffiti equates Arcata Police Department with the Ku Klux Klan and with the Israel Defense Forces. [Image from Cal Poly Humboldt University]
Then, another instance of anti-Israel graffiti was reported to the University, according to the Complaint. “On November 2, 2024, vandals spray painted anti-Semitic slurs, including “KKK = IDF,” equating Israel’s military with the Klu Klux Klan, and shattered the glass doors to Forbes Gymnasium.” The statement, although of political nature, did not sit well with the LBC, which wrote, “Demonizing Israel’s military by comparing it to a racist, white supremacist organization that engaged in terrorist acts of murder and violence against innocent civilians (the KKK), is anti-Semitic.”
Striking The Free Speech Balance
According to Cal Poly Humboldt’s Addendum to the statewide TPM regulations, not all speech on campus is protected. Cal Poly’s website offers a list of exceptions, including language that “promotes an unlawful end” such as statements that incite violence, make “true threats” which reflect “an intent to explicitly cause immediate harm”, or includes “expression that constitutes criminal or severe harassment,” and statements that result in the student being “denied equal access to the institution’s resources and opportunities” alongside other already illegal things such as defamation or false advertising. As to the level of threats which are tolerated in political speech, the law gives leeway to “political hyperbole” in this regard.
Not only does the complaint suggest that multiple Jewish students at Cal Poly are facing regular harassment within a hostile campus environment, it alleges that Cal Poly has not responded adequately to incidents of anti-semitism on campus.
As with any socially controversial public protest or staging, there’s a chance of attracting naysayers, counter-protesters, or detractors who may engage in opposing protests activities. Known as the “Heckler’s Veto” for its brash effectiveness, when a counter-protest becomes so distracting that it effectively limits or prevents another’s free speech, the Government is obligated to balance the two in the case of university protests.
According to the University of California’s own guidance about what is allowed, versus when to step in, “Where speech invokes a disruptive reaction on the part of “hecklers,” i.e., those who do not like the speaker’s comments or viewpoint, government officials, such as University administrators, are required to deal with those causing the disruption.” Suggesting striking a happy medium before taking punitive measures, the UC guidance reads, “The University may not avoid having to deal with the upset audience members who are attempting to silence the controversial speaker by instead closing the event or trying to stop the speech of the controversial speaker.
![Perhaps an instance of “unauthorized chalking” in violation of Cal Poly’s TPM policy, in purple block letters a temporary message reads, “JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM” at Cal Poly during the campus closure of April 2024. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image4-1.jpg)
Perhaps an instance of “unauthorized chalking” in violation of Cal Poly’s TPM policy, in purple block letters a temporary message reads, “JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM” at Cal Poly during the campus closure of April 2024. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Among the 20 individual “suggested remedies” listed in the Complaint included modifying the university’s academic content to include the expanded definition of anti-semitism, instructional and academic changes, and even infrastructure modifications like creating a “permanent academic center for the study of antisemitism” on campus, which would adhere to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition, which is preferred by the LBC. Other suggested courses of action include rejecting calls for boycott and divestment, create a “long-term task force” which would intervene in cases of reported antisemitism on campus, implement policies that forbid teachers from incentivizing protest participation during class time, and implement various policies further restricting campus protests.
In a recent response to our request for comment from Cal Poly related to protest activities and freedom of speech protections on campus, the University acknowledged the complexity of striking that balance.
Just last week, CPH told us,
“The University not only supports freedom of speech—regardless of the content of that speech—but we protect it and encourage all voices to be heard. The CSU’s interim Time, Place, and Manner policy (TPM), which the University has shared widely with the campus community and explained in multiple announcements, exists to protect everyone’s First Amendment rights while also protecting the right to learn and work in a safe environment. Understanding that balance is key.”
National Policy Changes Tug at the Redwood Curtain
On February 28, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed the public the President Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism had visited “10 university campuses that have experienced antisemitic incidents since October 2023,” as part of “its first priority to eradicate antisemitic harassment in schools and on college campuses.” Columbia University was alongside a handful of California Universities which were visited in person by “Leading Task Force member and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,” Leo Terrell.
As the LBC’s complaint letter points out, Cal Poly Humboldt has experienced many of the same protest-related woes that Columbia University has struggled with related to Protests for Palestine. The LBC letter explains that President Trump’s 2025 Executive Order 14188 “reaffirms” his EO 13899, and according to the Brandeis Center’s compliant, “confirms the government’s commitment to using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism (the “IHRA Definition”), to determine whether conduct is anti-Semitic? According to the IHRA Definition, which OCR uses in assessing anti-Semitism complaints, “[holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” is an example of anti-Semitism.”
This “working definition” of antisemitism held by the IHRA is widely disputed by human rights groups and advocates for the Palestinian situation, who argue that it “weaponizes” accusations of antisemitism against activists for Palestine. For instance, in detailed article titled, Explainer: The IHRA Working Definition of Anti-Semitism the Institute for MIddle Eastern Understanding (IMEU) finds that the IHRA definition “conflates legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism” and says specifically that the expanded meaning “conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism,” specifically.
This understanding is shared by the Jewish student activist we spoke with, who told us that “conflation of the two is dangerous because it delegitimizes experiences of anti-zionist Jews when they are facing anti-Semitism as discrimination against who they are as a person, as a Jew, not who they align with politically. It is okay for people to disagree with you politically, even when it is uncomfortable.”
The rollout of the Trump Administration’s targeted investigations related to suspected antisemitism has rattled some in Humboldt’s student activist community, increasing tensions for student activists who fear that crackdowns on political dissent are chilling free speech on University campuses.
![An indicator of the campus climate last spring - near the Cal Poly quad during the campus closure, on April 26, 2024 a pair of goggles, and a helmet lay next to a student’s protest sign with red handprints reading, “ZIONISM KILLS. LET PALESTINE LIVE!” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image3-1.jpg)
An indicator of the campus climate last spring – near the Cal Poly quad during the campus closure, on April 26, 2024 a pair of goggles, and a helmet lay next to a student’s protest sign with red handprints reading, “ZIONISM KILLS. LET PALESTINE LIVE!” [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
According to a DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism press release issued Friday, the US Dept of Education penalized Columbia University by freezing $400,000,000 in funding to the private college. “President Trump has been clear that any college or university that allows illegal protests and repeatedly fails to protect students from anti-Semitic harassment on campus will be subject to the loss of federal funding,” states the press release.
The press release reads, “the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the immediate cancelation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students. These cancellations represent the first round of action and additional cancellations are expected to follow.”
Leading the Task Force, Terrell is quoted saying, “Freezing the funds is one of the tools we are using to respond to this spike in anti-Semitism. This is only the beginning.” Adding, “Canceling these taxpayer funds is our strongest signal yet that the Federal Government is not going to be party to an educational institution like Columbia that does not protect Jewish students and staff,” he made clear that protests which are alleged to be anti-semitic, and the University campuses that saw those protests persist, would be in the crosshairs of the Task Force’s focus.
Cal Poly offered a statement in response to the news of a Title IV complaint being submitted against them by the LBC, but was not able to respond to specific questions as to the accusations. The University’s response in full, reads as follows:
“Cal Poly Humboldt is reviewing the federal complaint and will, of course, fully cooperate with the Office of Civil Rights in any investigation.
Hatred or discrimination in any form, including anti-semitism, is contrary to our core values. The University unequivocally condemns all acts of hatred, bigotry, and violence, and we are committed to keeping safe our students, staff, and faculty of all religions. We will continue to work together to foster a learning and working environment where we can all feel safe, included, and respected.”
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“Judeofascist” is misspelled on the protester”s sign…
yah, it should be spelled ‘BIG OIL’ since that is all it is really about anyway.
Oil? What oil? They’re fighting over the land itself. Israel has a microscopic level of oil shale production compared to the rest of the world. And what little it does have, haven’t had their leases to extract renewed (2020), rather they import it.
That said, The Trump administration cancelled $400mil worth of grants and contracts with Columbia University, and the university is going after individuals who incited Anti-Israel/semetic/zion/ whatever protests.
CPH might want to lay low and stay off their radar. They’re in budget holes as it is, to lose grants and funding. Even Newsome isn’t in a giving mood with the university system.
Yes! This! Defund this institution of Marxist and anti American indoctrination! Jew hating, communist vermin poisoning the minds of American youth!
Yes, we know you MAGA types hate education.
Upvote not working again.
The oil in the Middle East (as it is in most of the world’s oil fields) is about two miles deep. A little surface radioactivity won’t hurt the oil at all.
Um . . .ah. . . .Big Oil!?! Nope. Thanks for playing. Oh, you’ve won five million dollars, but you have to send me $500 to cover bank fees.
How embarrassing! This places their lack of education on display and highlights the current state of the failed education system. Perhaps they should spend more time inside the classroom learning the three R’s.
They’re teaching them the 4 “F’s
DEI admission. Correct spelling is elitist.
The people who moved to the land currently named Israel are not Semites. It’s been shown that the majority of gene pool are European , Kazaria, in fact , which is interesting why the genocide of Slavic Ukrainians in the latest Holodomor is a cultural genocide between Slavs. The Tatars are a good example of how peoples have been overrun in their native lands.
so when I hear Semite, all I can think of is historical misappropriation of people and what they call their lands. Very few people are currently raising children in the house their parents were raised in,..or even properly their grandparents owned.
id much rather hear about the local native people who have land they’ve spent generations on, I’m tired of this Israel Jewish Israel Jewish Israel Jewish propaganda campaign to force us to pay money and attention to tribal warfare in land that shouldn’t concern anyone one in my family or yours.
if you feel that Ukraine or the Middle East is something I need to PAY for…why don’t you stfu and go make a difference over there. We have an American economy and tragic debt to deal with, I don’t need your tribal scout cookies hustle and flow.
American families need to pay attention to our ability to deal with a potential economic crisis cause by out of control spending.
Boomer spoiled children have grown up to be the most entitled P.O.S and their children are Spoiled 2.0…and our habit for exporting violence through the world In our name, is F**KED.
I want a divorce from our corrupt political class…them them hold bake sales for foreign.aid, I’ve got zero fuks left to give.
dont get me started on daylight savings Bullsh*t
Well said.
the chickens have come home to roost and it is being dealt with. Don’t worry about it and have a good day!
as far as the high ratio of european desent, think to europe’s policies regarding semites from ww1-ww2 era, and what was done to establish the territory.
as far as cph, and the federal charges, if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. they did little, if anything to protect any students during the pro hamas protests (pro palestinian, whatever)
And they will pay for doing nothing and allowing the violence.
These are not “boomer” kids. OUR kids are all middle aged now, not in college. Stop blaming “boomers” for all your angst and anger. Many of us are BLUE or INDEPENDENT voters. These kids parents are middle aged and the kids got trophies just for breathing. These are 18-25 year olds. Entitled, spoiled, ill informed. Go back to class, get an education, go out and do something good for your community.
Or, when they can take out the trash without being told, then they can complain about it’s too heavy or you’re out of trash bags.
Correction!
the boomers who run our country
We voted to stop the clock switching by a fair margin. Years ago. I don’t choose to make this political but facts don’t lie…The DEMs have had control of CA assembly, Senate and governorship in all that time. They decided to send the matter deep into a committee that has buried the issue. Why?!! WE voted democratically to end it! It might seem small to some but it was on my short list of why I left the DEM party…I can’t trust them to respect democracy. Hope I haven’t infuriated you lol
What’s with people and their rabid overuse of “boomer”. Dude, you know they’re all in their 70s and/or dead by now? Who are you blaming other than to parrot out yet another generational cliche? So by children you’re now including Gen X in your rage bait. Good job, you’ve accomplished nothing. Also, you’ll get to bitch about DST again in 6 months. Enjoy your day, if you can.
Boomer Culture! Maybe just the boomers who got rich during public service.
please don’t defend the indefensible.
my points are clear.
the system is a cancer for independent families and communities.
look at the crimes committed.
people with mental illness on the streets
bring back the hospitals and asylums if we don’t want to see street shitting welfare schemes play out in our communities.
Most of us are done with geo politics that wash monies from western civilization tax base to fund ideological wars overseas.
the problem is our republic and culture has been targeted by the globohomo big game hunters of the 21st century by dual passport holders and their staff.
Sometimes I wonder if we are able to understand the war on the Russian Economy in the 80s/90s that collapsed the Ruble.
The same ideology is coming For the working class of USA INC
wash rinse repeat
this is game we are witnessing and somehow cannot focus on strategic defense, because many liberal people get mad ship pallets of bricks to destroy the real solutions to divide and conquer.
reread your contract with this Ponzi scheme masquerading as legitimate and effective governance and let me know where it justifies (me.you.we) having to fund the never ending foreign shitshows that are being designed to come home to
“Roost Hard”
Stop payment on those immoral and illegal Checks cashed in our Name.
You lost me at “ globo homo big game hunters”. Wow. Maybe try the decaf. Get a T-shirt stand at Reggae-on-the-River, see how you do.
You’re 10 years off. The youngest boomers were born in ’64. They just hit their 60s.
It’s a range that isn’t exactly defined down to an exact year. But if you wanted to peg it at a year then yes the absolute youngest would be 61 today, so they would ALL be at least 61 today or at the latest 12/31. There are also those that define a “generation” by an average age of having kids, or what the marketers and media want to pin it (20? 25?) at so they can give it a cute name for advertising and discussion purposes.
I get the rage, my parents are early-WWII boomers. I used to hate the older generations because they had all the money and influence. Then I realized how useless and depressing a dogma that is, so I quit that nonsense and did my own thing. I’m not going to hate them because….well I’m not. Nor is any younger generation going to impress on me that they or I owe them anything. They can grow up and learn how to make a living in this changing world like the rest of us.
Yes, it is down to a single birth year for the youngest “boomers” and that year is 1964. i am an older boomer, 1949. Otherwise, I hear you, but of course they had the power because you were just a kid. We had to go through the maturation process. I fear that the hand-off of a destroyed Trumpian America will be the ultimate insult and betrayal.
Boomer and Boomer 2.0 are currently running this financial crisis. we need a financial and economic reset.
if you have discretionary income, consider yourself lucky, but bevwarned about the way social change happens in the 21st Century.
Wars, Chaos, and Conflict
all these protesting kids are tired of seeing their financial potential gutted by corrupt governance, they might need to recognize more effective ways to protest, but it’s no secret that many people on the national stage are hired to protest and destroy public and private property, via soros types NGOs
if you have a two passports and work against one for the other, you need one revoked.
violence is coming for us all if we keep kicking the hornets nest…and literally don’t understand why open borders ala Biden have consequences.
if you don’t truly understand modern day warfare , I can’t help you.
Good times make SOFT MEN!
Daylight savings sucks. Jews and Arabs are Semitic peoples, sharing generic and cultural traits. Somehow, “anti-Semitiic” came to refer to Jews only. The Slavs are a mixed bag of mostly European peoples including White Russians, Poles, Croats, Slovenians, The former Yugoslavia, etc. The Ukrainians are old-time Russian Slavs who broke away from the Russian Communist Dictatorship and identified with free Europe. Putin will gladly grab all of Europe if he can, and his Soul Brother Trump may enable him to do so. Every freedom-loving American should be joining with NATO to save Ukraine. Trump and Vance shamed and disgraced the United States with their wretched performance with Zelensky. A brief review of 20th Century European history will make it clear that Europe must not fall to Russia’s Putin. Ever notice that Putin has no trouble with desperate people trying for a better life by storming the Russian border? Oh, LMAO! Wonder why?
Trump is on track to be the very worst American president ever. Maybe the last at this rate.
It’s a place for higher learning, not protests! The state needs to close the place down.
Universities are places of learning, no doubt. They are also places where young (typically) people are learning critical thinking skills and nonviolent forms of active participation. There’s nothing wrong with letting the world hear your views by exercising your Constitutional RIGHT to free speech. I suggest we all actually read the US Constitution.
You’re right for free speech is limited on a school campus. As an example I cannot wear a shirt with profanity on it to grade school. Some schools won’t even let you wear a shirt with an American Flag on it…
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/students-wearing-american-flag-shirts-sent-home/2094735/
https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/justice/california-school-american-flag-shirts/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court-says-school-had-right-to-ban-us-flag-t-shirts/
Oddly enough (or is it?) that at least until 2022, a kid at EHS could wear weed-related logos on clothing (dispensary names, strains, pot leaves and such) to school without a peep but would get sent home if anything had a remote indication of tobacco or alcohol endorsements. Kids were even being told in assemblies to also not wear “culturally inappropriate hairstyles”. Yeah, there’s a lot of confused kids these days. And yes, at least one of mine was told during Covid and had class on ZOOM to remove things like flags or such on clothing or within view of the camera. And then proceed to teach about everything but the subject matter because while on Zoom, if one piped up with an opinion, they’d just get kicked out of the meeting.
It really is no wonder that anxiety and suicide rates are so high amongst teenage kids these days.. What a confusing time to grow up.
and understand it, and not destroy private property,
Not on my dime. Destroyed campus infrastructure isn’t critical thinking. Its destruction of state property. Add the cost to your tuition x5. Just shut the doors and try to educate yourself somewhere else like a state prison.
When do you actually study?
Free speech has limits and vandalizing Cal Poly is not part of free speech.
Right to free speech does not allow for destruction of property. WTF are you talking about? Trump just pardoned the Jan. 6 vandals and killers; we cannot emulate the abject evil of Trump and his quislings who even now attack free speech every chance they get.
Yeah, but there’s something wrong with throwing paint on ppl you’ve expressed hatred for, while they’re simply exercising THEIR Constitutional rights. The “protesters” also held the campus hostage, cancelled classes, changed graduation for others, wrote threatening messages in spray paint, destroyed state property. That’s a long way from,” exercising free speech”. And-
What kind of ahole, is devastated by the violence of Palestinians, but not Jewish folks across the fence? They’re both horrific.
I hope the campus gets exactly what it deserves.
That’s a horrible idea. Our economy isn’t bad enough, lets shoot ourselves in the foot because some young ppl feel passionately about current events. Jeez dude.
If your so passionate about the cause, get over to the middle east and fight for your passion. It’ll be the only future you’ll have.
They prefer to let other people do the fighting, then spit on them when they come home, and let them live under bridges in cardboard boxes in their old age..
If people are advocating for our country stopping it’s military support of Israel, how does going over there and joining in the fighting help anything.
Your a perfect example of why poly should be shut down soon. And a mandatory military service would be a great idea for the generation who needs some guidance their parents/keepers never provided.
I agree. We should round them up and force them to kill for our corporations and banking elite. It’ll give’em character.
Am I the perfect example because people capable of independent thought and logic are less susceptible to your culture war bullshit?
I’d be down with mandatory military service if those enrolled were guaranteed not to be sent overseas for one more of our mindless wars of plunder.
I think a great program would be mandatory national defense service mixed with community service projects here at home. It never hurts to have more people trained for personal and community defense and we really need to find a way to remind ourselves that we are all in this together
Sounds like you might be better off moving to Iran or North Korea. We have freedom of expression in this country.
Well, we did, but Trump is stifling free speech in the USA while Vance is lecturing Europe about free speech. It’s part of the Orbanization and Putin-Power movement Republicans are so proud of.
This unfounded complaint illustrates why people are increasingly fed up with apologists for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and ongoing oppression of Palestinians.
The complaint falsely equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and blames CPH for isolated criminal acts by individuals (the paint assault, theft of the ‘Etrog’, graffiti vandalism) and — horror of horrors — ‘unauthorized chalking’!!
I hope people remember CPH was the victim of extensive vandalism and disruption by the idiot protesters who occupied Siemens Hall — CPH and all students were victimized by the disruption to normal campus activity, finals and graduation.
This phony complaint was filed with the federal Department of Education Civil Rights Division — an agency Trump has targeted for elimination — so it’s not clear if there’ll be anyone left to investigate the complaint.
The real purpose of the complaint is to redefine anti-Semitism and silence any criticism of Israel.
The people are also tired of Pro Palestinian Protester apologists too with their tentative distinction between anti-zionism and antisemitism that fails everytime they get all excited.. You know the part that will portray all Palestinians as not Hamas and grandly deflects that Palestinian enthusiastic genocidal violence as inconsequential because, well, like Israeli genocidal violence is like so much worse- The part that plasters Nazi swastikas and red paint on totally not Israeli targets and then sputters “We’re not antisemitic! We’re anti-zionist!” as assorted Arab Palestinian immigrants beat their own war drums. The part that announces its “bogus” and “blames CPH for isolated criminal acts by individuals (the paint assault, theft of the ‘Etrog’, graffiti vandalism) and — horror of horrors — ‘unauthorized chalking’!!” without acknowledging how they make room for it at their demonstrations. And twist themselves in knots to redefine the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” that keeps showing up at their demostrations doesn’t really mean free from jews. You know why this complaint is not bogus? Because people are so little self aware as to claim it is bogus.
Israel is not going away just because some Americans think they should any more than Arab Palestinian are going away because some Americans think they shout should as they shout slogans. They only make peace farther and farther impossible with their partisan acting as cheerleaders for genocide on one or the other side.
This partisan Brandeis institute wants to suppress disagreement with a profoundly unpopular stance. There’s a reason the Palestinian sympathizers vastly outnumber the Israeli sympathizers. It could be that the Palestinian civilian dead and wounded vastly outnumber the Israeli victims since Oct 7…since 1948. Funny how anti semitism is the only racism. This is from the same administration calling Puerto Rico floating garbage, and claiming the Jan 6 riot was Black Lives Matter.
It also seems like lame University police work to not be able to arrest the shittiest agitators like the paint weenie. Like, come on! How is that fool gonna run wearing his sloshing paint pot? Can’t seem to find the guy with the yellow poncho, covered in paint? They had plenty of resources to surveil the students who dared to wear masks on the plaza…
Of course P.R. is called floating garbage. The US did F-all to help after Hurricane Maria. in 2018 3,000 dead. No power for weeks. Trump had nothing but contempt for a place that at one time was probably closest to being an actual 51st state than anybody. But he had the cajones to say his administration “did a great job”. Great job of what exactly? Screwing things up even more.
Your comment is a perfect illustration of exactly what Truth be Told was saying. You’ve apparently accepted this notion that opposition to political zionism (and more specifically, opposition to American government and institutional fealty to zionism) is inherently anti Semitic.
That’s an absurd position that serves only the purpose of suppressing dissent against one of the most politically powerful factions in our country. The continued push for that conflation, along with the push to punish “anti semitism” as a crime, ultimately serves to create greater animosity towards zionism, Israel, and American jews in general.
This is a classic strategy of political zionism, provocation of a population to illicit a response while asserting their identity as specifically Jewish so that they can call their critics racists.
None of this means that protestors should be exempt from consequences of their choices. There’s obviously some people pointed to in this complaint who did commit criminal acts. But it’s all muddled and diluted when it’s mixed with things like a claim that someone writing “fuck america” in chalk is also an act of antisemitism.
Obviously, it’s not reasonable to expect an institution like a university to guarantee that no one in their community will ever commit a crime or express hatred or discrimination toward another person. So it would seem that the question should be, did they facilitate it? Did the university impede investigation of the people who vandalized university property? Who threw paint and glitter on people? Who stole an item from a public religious display? Considering how firmly the university came down on the organized protest, that seems pretty dubious.
If zionists are as proud as they often claim to be, then they need to be prepared to face the social consequences of holding political views that are controversial. And yes, asserting a divine right to establish an ethnostate by any means necessary, and with the full financial, political, and military support of countries around the world, is going to be a controversial political position. Luckily for them, they’ve achieved tremendous political power and are well on their way to enacting their goals, unlike these Palestinians (who are also Semitic people) who are subject to a total loss of national autonomy and are seeing their supporters in the US have basic constitutional rights revoked simply for supporting their cause.
The imbalance of power is impossible to ignore, and it makes this complaint (and the constant stream of others like it) so absurd as to cross into malicious.
Your logical and thoughtful comments are unlikely to be reciprocated — without acknowledging the root of the conflict (ethnic cleansing and continuing oppression of the Palestinian people) it’s not possible to work towards a lasting solution.
Certain commenters consistently misstate, confuse and conflate the factual history of the Middle East and the creation of Israel; ignore the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians; and attempt to establish moral equivalency between the two sides.
The assertions of moral equivalency can only be made by ignoring that modern day Israel was created by a campaign of terror, military conquest and ethnic cleansing and that oppression of the Palestinians has been unrelenting from then until now.
It does seem like an intractable problem, almost no one on either side is willing to engage the conversation in goodwill or acknowledge the sins of their chosen team
The people who play smash ball leave it up to the losing team to talk it out.
I’ve been thinking about what lessons stand out most in history as reminders of why winners win and why losers lose.
“lulled complacency”
tools of peace are irrelevant when drums of war are being beaten.
our ability to discuss opposing ideas are rooted in a strong societal cohesion and agreement on the terms of engagement.
anyone who listens to the EUSSR talk about the dangers of peace has to recognize what we are facing in the fourth turning.
your comments are generally pretty level headed and well thought out, but here’s my question to you and all those who believe in a passive approach to conflict resolution with players steeped in the art of war and violence. Have you seen Christians being clubbed to death in the Congo? The Christians in Syria brutalized by the new regime.
when I dig deep into the term Balkanization, while listening to some of the leaders of Europe speaking about the desire for breaking up Russia, and then watching forced massive immigration of people,…many who have zero interest in American culture or values, pushed to unhealthy and unmanageable levels under Mayorkas at DHS.
i have so little respect for people who refuse to address the sheer immoral use of our tax dollars funding economic illegal immigration in search to replace the American workers by undercutting the security of prevailing wages for the American people.
the broader question is whether or not we choose to learn the lessons from governments and ruling classes in the past who have used immigration to undermine the cohesion of a society, not to mention other means of consolidating power over a free thinking citizenry.
there is a case to be made, that these efforts are all part of a controlled demolition through strategic attacks on the health and welfare of our natural born populations. Many people aren’t able or willing to connect these data points, but it’s obvious to me.
There is a very good case to be made to look at why Mao was supported over Chaing, yet if you look at how Communism has been used to change societies, and this is just a means to an end.
the Bolsheviks move into Russia, on record, funded by western financiers, is another example of a destructive blunt force tool to divide and weaken society so that top down change can be utilized to force changes into peaceful populations.
my premise is there is an active program to weaken the American people and our system of government with all the tradecraft that’s been exported for over 100 years in our name, always understanding that these tools would always be brought back against the ignorant and dumbed down population of America.
i believe we are long past the point where opposing ideas can be pushed back by honest debate.
we are at war with those who seek to use chaos and division to break apart the United States
time outs aren’t going to help us overcome what has been unleashed against the righteous peaceful populations of The American Experiment.
no one is coming to save us, this is the first step to taking responsibility for the survival of our society.
Game on!
Game on!
We are most definitely living through a monumental time, and many people Understand something is happening, they just don’t have the historical record to help them make sense of how power has always been used to create division and consolidate power.
times may change, as technology evolves, but we are the same biological operating system that has solved problems and those who have studied our internal and external reward system, have been refining their ability to capitalize upon those lazy, decadent, and and comfort seeking And mostly unaware populations who continue to ignore those warnings.
The real problem is coming to terms with our own participation in the lie, and once we have come to terms with having been lied to, we might begin to have a dialogue about resistance to the anti human agenda we are experiencing.
we must recognize the difference between rearranging deck chairs and a real honest look at what we expect from ourselves and others about what the future generations will be left with.
cheers
Woah, someone with a functioning brain. How did you break into the matrix? How long are you staying and how is it to be swimming with the morons once again? Must be lonely as hell to be able to use logic, reason, and critical thinking. I wish you luck friend.
Me, imma Just another moron trying to heal myself from all these self inflicted wounds from blaming others for my own ignorance.
at some point, we gotta come clean and help others recognize the life long programming that’s holding us hostage.
im trying to figure what it is that makes me engage…
I keep coming back to those lyrics…
”shout it out,
who killed the Kennedys,
When after all it was you and me”
Mac Miller Lofi Hip Hop Waves | A Soulful Tribute to His Soul https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f3b6.svg – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAEwUpcc8do
Ram Dass – Our Salvation Lies in Our Intuition | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture] – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sTFhmRZCko
Khruangbin x Hermanos Gutierrez | western desert road trip playlist (slowed + reverb) – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=79IKTDRqbP0
All the best Savage
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Maybe so.
My impression is that the beings or forces that we (as individuals and collectively) are at “war” with are the type of beings for whom any fight is a win.
These days, I think the only winning happens when we turn our minds eye to our own dreams and goals and spend our energy trying to build what we want
Oooft. Absolutely agree.
The history of Antisemitism goes back as far as the history of the Jews. Need to be really careful before we decide someone’s claim is bogus. Given the history of the world and my tall blond haired blue eyed body, I am going to continue to give the Jewish people I know the benefit of the doubt when they describe to me the suffering they face. I think inquiry is good, not every claim has merit. But starting with taking things seriously is a very important beginning!!
Thank you for your clarity! I too am fed up to here of having the bullies become the victims. When people object to genocide, they are not attacking a religion, they are protesting planned extermination of a culture.
Clowns
Simple solution. Close calpolyp humboldt permanently and send the little boys and girls home. Your welcome.
Personally, I’m building myself a crying room today. It will be a good use of my precious time. Maybe I can get a grant, or start a perpetual whining goFundMe page.
The term “Zionist” nowadays refers to anyone supporting Israel’s confiscation of Palestinians’ land through military actions, including rightwing christians and Caucasian politicians such as Biden, Trump etc. Palestinians are ethnically Jewish and largely descended from the ancient Hebrews, but are rejected by Israel because they converted over time to Christianity and Islam. Israelis can be non-believing or atheist but if they convert to another religion they lose their citizenship.
Gaza isn’t the only part of that region occupied by Palestinians. West Bank takes up a huge portion along the Jordan river, the main tributary, the Dead Sea, parts of Sea of Galilee are held by the Golan Heights. The entire contested area takes up a space on the map a little larger than Vermont. West Bank has Jericho which predates any of the 3 largest religions around there by several millennia. Think it’s a mess now? How about in 1750.
Also…..Hamas said today in other news that they’re not going anywhere. Ever, and Palestinians have the right to self defend what little homeland they can exist on.
Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank and unrelentingly suppressed the rights of the Palestinians to live on their own land since 1967 — and has committed an ongoing war crime by installing a million or so settlers in the West Bank — while simultaneously maintaining Gaza as an open air prison leading up to its current genocidal assault and professed desire to remove all Palestinians from Gaza — which would be another war crime — and I haven’t even mentioned the 750,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed from what became modern day Israel.
Aren’t the Palestinians Semites? Anyone remember the Palestine Mandate of 1922 when the European Victor’s of WwI were carving up the Middle East- specifically the aristocracy establishments of Great Britian and France. Saudi Arabia was stabbed in the back by their secret Sykes Picot treaty. Oil was replacing coal in a big way. Being extremely anti-Jewish, the Europeans were more than happy to shuffle the Zionists off to the Middle East. What happened to the two state solution of Israel and Palestine in 1949? Again, the Europeans and US were glad to shuffle the Jews off and away using the Holocaust they supported as incentive. The Zionists were already causing destruction to the indigenous Palestinians before the ink was dry on that quasi agreement. The US turned a blind eye on the nefarious doings of it’s Zionist ironclad military friends. Considering how the West was really won, no surprise there. As now with the ongoing Genocide. Israel already got it’s pound of flesh in spades from the get go with this latest war. What a set up! The Zionists are ruthless murderers. They are really pissing off alot of people around the world which only furthers true anti-Jewish semitism. Nobody feels sorry for them like they did except themselves. There will be retribution from God Almighty for their deeds.The joke is the US has a long history of being anti- Jewish semetic. The participants of this genocide will reap what they sow, and they seem to be vaguely aware of this. I support freedom of speech and religion, but not freedom of Zionist land grabbing genocide. So protest on if that’s all we’ve got. Down with facist plutocratic governments!
Another day, another bunch of students wanting attention…
Tired of these drawn-out items, but seems like students should go back to the main purpose of going to in-person College:
Getting high and getting laid…
Thanks for taking the time to type out all this trash…
indigenous Palestinians? They didnt become an thing until the 60’s. Are you forgetting the 24 countries that were colonized by Arab/Muslim empires?
As a secular Jew that lost 90% of his parental gen to the holocaust in Europe, I feel I have a right to point out that antisemitism does NOT equate with antizionism.
When “we” say “Never again!”, we should mean that we always stand against any genocide, anywhere on the planet, including the Gaza genocide that is STILL ongoing.
So I’m very sad to see academic freedom buckling to the Christian&Jewish zionist pressure groups that are criminalizing anti-Israeli protests here in the USA.
Thank you, and please continue to speak up. The attempt, by zionists, to conflate their political ideology with the ethnic Jewish identity, has got to be the largest threat to the safety of Jewish populations in the world right now.
The political philosophy of zionism is repugnant to many modern observers and has had objectively negative impacts on many nations that are generally fully tolerant on Judaism and Jewish communities. They should not be let to get away with hauling the Jewish people under their political bus. Americans would be wise to remember that Christian zionists, who seek to invoke their eschatology through physical actions in Jerusalem, are the largest group advocating zionist policies in this country. It’s not jews, it’s Christians who want to see the apocalyptic prophesies fulfilled in their life time that are pushing this in our country. And they don’t care what the impact on actual Jewish people is.
There must be a back ground reasoning WHY our Gov’t officials seem to go out of their way to accommodate Israel and the Jews. Israel has free access to our Congress. We don’t even have that. Elected officials act as they recognize Israel as a exclusive Country. Many are afraid to say anything against Israel or Jews for fear of some kind of retribution, reprisal and vindictiveness. Why is it that saying anything negative about Israel and Jews results in belittling and name calling. It appears that Israel and Jews want to present themselves as the “Chosen People”. I personally don’t see it. Why does Israel demand special consideration. Even our Native American Indians can’t demand the respect that Israel commands.There has got to be something in the back ground of our Gov’t that gives them special status. What has Israel done for us? What could they do to us. I’m seeing nothing.
Jeffrey Epstein was a singular example as an answer to your question. He was not the only answer, but he represented a singular aspect that was encompassing enough to answer your questions. To divert attention from this, they made the Q-anon movement to discredit people talking about the blackmailing of American politicians, influential leaders and business people. They sure did go after R. Kelly, Kanye West and Puff Daddy pretty hard and put it all on full display to distract people from talking about old boy Jeffrey.
We all know how much influence as a cohesive ethnic group that black Americans have over the news, banking, finance, movies, television, pornography, social media, telecommunications, music, and weapons. Someone had to shut them down before a cookout broke out and they invited the whole neighborhood and caused the national budget to explode with how much the chicken and ribs would have cost to feed everyone at the party.
And don’t get me started on those Puerto Ricans. They have disproportionate representation, influence and control over the federal and state governments, relative to their small overall population of the total whole. Who would have ever thought that a small land of roughly 3,500 square miles of Boricuas could take over the entire US government without firing a shot, well except the one that opened up Kennedy’s head on live TV for the American public to see what kind of brains a leader like that has. Not bad for an Island of floating garbage. It’s no wonder why our honorable and fearless leader hates those people so much.
I laughed so hard at this I had to take a break so I could post. All the semantic wiggling around to justify Jew hatred, it’s beyond comprehension, unless one is a perpetual student living off taxpayer dollars. Read the statements with an open mind, and you can see the narrow world view of those who made them. VERY NARROW world view…
I am getting sick and tired of the protests for just about anything at Cal Poly. Looks like someone has decided to spray the walls of Forbes gym and break the glass. I think it is time for the police to step in and put a stop to this crap! I thought Cal Poly was a university of higher learning. Down with the protestors and off to jail!
We have the right to protest in the United States. Sounds like you’d prefer to live in a totalitarian state like Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea. Feel free to get the fuck out, Martin.
“Down with the protestors and off to jail!”
That’s about as un-American as it gets. Shame on you.
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Catastrophic language, as in, if one cannot disrupt all activities in order to protest anything at all, one must be desiring a totalitarian state. As is California, where what one does, says, wears, drives, lives, is regulated by the apparatik in Sacto. So there, ABA, I have contradicted your narrative. Go ahead, spew hatred.
You don’t have the right to protest on a university campus. I stand firm with my comment! You are free to get the hell out. I am an American and the shame belongs on the protestor’s heads and yours.
What are you talking about? Of course you have the right to protest on a college campus.
Perhaps you need to read the article – or the Constitution… either would do.
I’ve personally had it with all these freedoms we have. I’m glad that many people are coming around to finally see that we need to make some major changes. I’m also sick of people hiding behind their precious little constitution thingy.
Feel free to not exercise the freedoms you do not care for – but understand that others in the nation do appreciate Constitutional rights.
Sounds to me like the solution is simple. Make sure the people can’t read well enough to even know what’s in that constitution thing. We’re already part of the way there to that goal. A lot of kids are graduating from elementary and middle school and are illiterate. In high school they’ll just fade away. Let’s go after the universities now. I’m all for the concept of surrounding myself with stupid people to make myself look smart. I’m in management and I always fire people who seem to have potential or act all smart and sophisticated. Those kinds of people are sure to drag everyone down with them.
“In general, protesters can express their personal and political opinions on campus at a public university, and take part in group actions, as long as their actions do not violate any laws, do not incite violence, and do not constitute true threats. Because public universities receive public funds, they fall under the same requirements that govern speakers on public property.
The rules for privately operated colleges and universities differ. While protesters at private schools may not have the same First Amendment rights as their public-school counterparts, these schools could be subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which “prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.” Private schools might also have their own internal school policies that purport to protect students’ free speech rights.”
More here: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-constitutional-right-to-protest-at-universities
“You don’t have the right to protest on a university campus”
That is categorically false. Wrong. Read the constitution before you comment, because you have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about. You don’t sound like an American. You’re advocating fascism.
WTF. Why is local law enforcement allowing these criminals to vandalize CalPoly and other areas. A law enforcement officer who witnesses a crime can make a warrantless misdemeanor arrest if the alleged crime was committed in their presence.
Law enforcement officers who ignore crimes may face the following consequences:
There is going to be a repeat of what happened at the UCLA campus last year, this time in Humboldt, if the police don’t come in and protect those who show love and support to Israel.
We all saw how those who were simply expressing their admiration and support for Israel were brutally attacked by a hired mob of what looked to be some kind of organized crime mafia goons.
I saw Israel supporters being beaten with pieces of lumber, metal poles, and other improvised weapons, all while the police just stood there watching and letting it happen. That is more than anti-semitism. That looked like a pogrom to me.
I hope we destroy all of our schools in America to teach these people a lesson. While we are at it, let’s severely reduce freedom of speech. I don’t ever want to hear an independent thought ever again in my life. Some of those thoughts are down-right disturbing. We have AI and social media now. We don’t need to think for ourselves anymore. That’s third world stone age stuff.
I’m fed up and completely sick of free speech, human rights, taxation with way too much representation, easy access to education, and the ability to find employment without blackballing and discrimination. The America I know and love is founded on money, the Federal Reserve more specifically, in the earlier portion of the 1900’s. God Bless America, in God We Trust, it’s on our money. Anyone who doesn’t worship money can get the hell out, and have their bank account frozen and seized on their way out. They are free to join the so-called Palestinians and gaza, where we can legally bomb them with weapons their parents’ taxes paid for. There will be purple hair and hijabs scattered all over that tract of land that will need to be cleaned up by the new land developers.
Time for the state to break out the check book. Cal Poly and the greater Arcata area are obviously guilty of blatant bigotry, racism and destruction of private and state property.
Ironic! But when all you do is grandstand and virtue signal yet you allow a fool to roam about throwing paint on everybody then you are the problem. Somebody should have stepped up and stopped that fool, apprehended him in a citizens arrest and insisted that university police do their job and arrest him. Instead all bystanders took part in implicitly allowing racism to blossom. Boom! Freedom of speech requires active participation, you couch potatoes!
Spot on…There was no one to step up. I would have given him a taste of his red paint. Our sad excuse for law enforcement officers here in Humboldt have lost control, cower in their offices and completely ignore their oath of office.
This is just what cal poly deserves. The antisemites should be expelled as well.
Hey, I hear you on Israel sucking, honestly, what they’re doing over there looks like straight-up genocide to me, and it’s disgusting. But let’s not kid ourselves, the Palestinians aren’t saints either, some of the stuff they pull is just awful. And don’t get me started on liberals, bunch of clueless clowns who’d rather cry about feelings than deal with reality.
So, about this Cal Poly Humboldt mess, sounds like a total shitshow. This Louis D.
Brandeis Center is throwing a fit, saying Jewish students are getting harassed for being “Zionists,” and the university’s just sitting on its hands. I get it, nobody should be targeted for who they are, but this whole “anti-Zionism equals antisemitism” thing they’re pushing? That’s a stretch. Israel’s a political dumpster fire, criticizing it doesn’t mean you hate Jews. I mean, that Jewish student they quoted nailed it: Zionism’s just nationalism with extra steps, and not every Jew’s on board with that. Forcing it into some sacred identity feels like a power grab to shut people up.
The incidents sound rough, though, yelling “baby killers” at a club fair? Throwing paint and glitter? That’s unhinged. If the university’s response was “just leave,” that’s weak as hell, they should’ve shut that crap down. Still, I’m not buying this “hostile environment” line wholesale. The pro-Palestine side’s got a point too; they’re pissed about what’s happening in Gaza, and they should be. Doesn’t mean they get a free pass to act like assholes, but neither does Israel get a free pass to flatten a whole population.
What pisses me off most is how everyone’s digging in, turning a campus into a battleground over this crap. Both sides sound like they’re more about screaming than actually fixing anything. And the feds stepping in? Classic overreach, Trump’s task force yanking Columbia’s cash was a flex, and now they’re sniffing around Humboldt. Just what we need, more suits meddling in shit they don’t understand. Anyway, that’s my take, whole thing’s a mess, and I’m over it. What do you think?
Humboldt deserves to be next in line for losing cash.
Yes sir, for sure.
Remember that these charges are mainly being used to distract us from the ongoing Genocide carried-out by the U.S.-Israeli Axis of Genocide. This week the IDF has killed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza and The Occupied West Bank.
This is Day 51 of the Ceasefire and Day 15 of Israel’s breaking it and reinstating the full siege which prevents food, water, medicine, shelter, and fuel from entering Gaza. Bakeries cannot bake bread. Starvation and famine “hit” all Palestinians and are more indiscriminating and equally—perhaps even greater–damaging than bombs and tank shells. Israel cut off electricity a few days ago which crippled the ability for potable water to be produced in Gaza.
I find it more than coincidental that right around the same time as this case is being presented the controversial pro-Zionist billboards went up. Just in time for the provoked (anticipated?) response of denouncing and vandalizing them because of their obvious support for Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians. I say more than coincidental because if a Zionist wanted to make the argument that “Humboldt County is a hot-bed of antisemitism so it is no wonder the Campus Administration didn’t clamp down on the anti-Zionist students,” they’d have something to point to. Also to be anticipated, unfortunately, is the reemergence of Humboldt’s “Down with Graffiti, Up with Genocide Gang.”
The Brandeis Center is mainly a legal hit team proud to advance the ILHA’s controversial definition of “antisemitism” which identifies political criticism of the state of Israel as being a key part of that definition. In the following excerpt from the Brandeis Center’s Mission Statement, it shows that they target anti-Israeli (anti-Zionist) students in particular:
“Vision Statement:
In the Twenty-first Century, the leading civil and human rights challenge facing North American Jewry is the resurgent problem of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism on university campuses.”
https://brandeiscenter.com/our-mission-values/
Thank you Ryan Hutson for your detailed article here. This was super helpful to understand what the Brandeis Center is alleging and to remember the details of all that took place last spring.
First off, the great Louis Brandeis is rolling in his grave. He, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, was one of our best. A staunch advocate for free speech rights, he would find these “civil rights” allegations absurd and a dangerous precedent.
The impetus behind these lawsuits are politically motivated, Trump said he would go after pro-Palestinian protesters. The people at the Brandeis Center feel the wind in their sails and here they go.
CPH needs to stand up for itself. They handled the protests terribly but in no way were they complicit somehow in ignoring or placating anti-semitism.
And Hutson already got it lined out nicely, but this matters. Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism. To be anti-semitic is to be against a group of people based on their Jewish faith. To be anti-zionist is against an ideology. The former may be the basis for hate speech, the latter is protected speech as long as it does not create a “clear and present danger”. Brandeis would know. He strongly upported that landmark precedent with Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States in 1919…
Schenck substantially superseded by Brandenberg v Ohio 50 years later as the court incrementally expanded it’s tolerance for unpopular political speech — but you’re right — Brandeis would be shocked that an entity bearing his name would is blatantly attempting to curtail political speech because they disagree with it.
Rayburn, thank you for your feedback as to the roots of the LBC, and for your review of the article. Much appreciated input, as we all wade into an uncertain time of social and political upheaval.
“Unauthorized chalking” is hilarious. I remember when I was in high school, roughly 2010ish, and the occupy protests were getting down everywhere. There was a protest in LA where chalk messages were scrawled all over downtown. The organizers were busted and forced to pay for the city to PAINT OVER THE CHALK…
The endless hatred against Jews is just mind-boggling. I try to see both sides; the anguish of Arabs who feel punished for crimes perpetrated against Jews by non-Arabs through history and the Jews who just want to live and be who they are without being hounded and cursed around the planet. In America, the Party of Hate and Intolerance surges ahead, Republic President Trump hobnobs with dictators and moves America toward autocracy every waking moment. Ronald Reagan, spinning in his grave, could be an alternate energy source. ‘Splain’ that one to me, Lucy.
Just think of Yugoslavia.
Trump Gaza coming
FAFO