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Rabbi David Wolpe after his year visiting and teaching at Harvard. https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/372630/my-year-at-harvard/

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Hmmm. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ISGAP Report Exposes Yale's Persistent Failure to Disclose Millions in Qatari Funding, in Contradiction to Federal Law Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:16:01 +0000 From: ISGAP <info@...> Reply-To: ISGAP <info@...> To: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ISGAP Report Exposes Yale's Persistent Failure to Disclose Millions in Qatari Funding, in Contradiction to Federal Law New research reveals Yale University reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar from 2012 to 2023 View this email in your browser ISGAP Report Exposes Yale's Persistent Failure to Disclose Millions in Qatari Funding, in Contradiction to Federal Law New research reveals Yale University reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar from 2012 to 2023, while the actual amount is estimated to be approximately $15 million NEW YORK, JUNE 18, 2024 – The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) today released a new report revealing continued failures in transparency concerning foreign funding at Yale University, in contradiction to US law. The findings uncover significant discrepancies between reported and actual funds received from Qatar by Yale, highlighting a pattern of non-compliance with federal reporting laws. The report, titled "The Ongoing Failure to Report: Yale University, Qatar, and Undisclosed Foreign Funding, Volume Two," is the latest addition to ISGAP's ongoing "Follow the Money" project, which has been scrutinizing the funding of U.S. universities by foreign entities since 2012. Volume One of the report, released in 2023, had already unveiled the persistence of non-disclosure practices at several universities including Yale, which prompted federal investigations in 2019. The new research shows that from 2012 to 2023, Yale University reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar, while the actual amount is estimated to be at least $15,925,711. This substantial underreporting violates federal disclosure requirements and raises serious concerns about transparency and accountability in higher education. Under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) regarding Foreign Gift and Contract Reporting, universities are required semi-annually to report all gifts and contracts from foreign sources that exceed $250,000. The findings further emphasize Qatar's strategic financial contributions to U.S. institutions as part of a broader effort to wield influence (soft power) and promote the interests of the Qatari regime. This is evident in collaboration between Yale University and Qatar, which includes numerous undisclosed transactions that do not appear in Yale's financial statements or in the U.S. Department of Education's reporting system. The report also reveals that universities, including Yale, fail to demonstrate transparency and accountability of funding sources through unreported payments in-kind or indirect funding. These questionable funding practices contribute to the erosion of academic integrity and must be confronted head on. The recent increase in antisemitic discourse and actions on U.S. campuses, particularly at Yale, underscores the urgent need for transparency and stricter oversight. ISGAP Executive Director Dr. Charles Asher Small said: "Despite prior investigations and warnings, Yale and other universities continue to engage in practices that violate federal law. The persistent non-disclosure of substantial foreign funds, as well as contracts, MOUs and agreements with foreign foundations and government agencies, not only undermines transparency and accountability but also poses significant risks to the integrity of higher education. The omission of substantial Qatari grants in Yale University’s financial statements raises questions about academic integrity and foreign influence. As demonstrated in ISGAP’s previous research, antisemitic incidents are more prevalent on campuses receiving Qatari funding compared to universities that do not receive Qatari funds. Therefore, there is concern that the same is happening at Yale, which has seen a sharp rise in anti

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Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser 05/14/24 02:23 PM EDT What Americans Really Think about the Israel-Hamas War. Signal & Noise Neil Howe @howegeneration Takeaway: PART 1 OF 3: THE CAMPUS PROTESTS AND THE PROTESTERS SIGNAL & NOISE: 5/14/24 The campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza have recently fixated the attention of the big media. Thus far, the toll stands at protests at 80 schools, with roughly 2,500 arrests and several cancelled graduations. As antiwar protests go, they are not a big deal—hardly comparing, as we shall see below, with the protests against the Vietnam War. Still, they are not without consequence. They are dividing the Democratic Party and uniting the Republican Party over an issue—support for allies abroad—that earlier worked the other way (uniting Democrats and dividing Republicans). They reveal a remarkable contrast in attitudes toward Israel by generation: Older voters are much more pro-Israel than younger voters. And they could affect the outcome of a close presidential election, negatively for Joe Biden. If the protests do tip the election, it won’t be because most Americans care deeply about the Israel-Hamas war—they plainly don’t—but rather because Biden has failed to exercise leadership by presenting any compelling vision of what American interests are in the Mideast and why America has extended or should extend (as he claims) an “ironclad commitment to the security of Israel.” After seven months of war, most Americans remain supportive of Israel. But another large share, especially of younger Americans, remains “unsure” why we are involved. That failure rests on the President. So this is what I want to discuss: What do Americans really think about the Israel-Hama war? I’m going to proceed in three installments. First, in this installment, I’m going to discuss the campus protests, not because these protests are representative of public opinion (they are not), but because they differ from Vietnam-era antiwar protests in remarkable ways that the media have largely ignored. Next week, in the second installment, I’ll move on to discuss the opinions of Americans in general about the conflict—by party, religion, race, gender, and age. Finally, in the third installment, I’ll conclude with some observations on the President’s failure to clarify why America should be, or should not be, supportive of Israel in its campaign against Hamas. Campus Protests… Then and Now In their coverage of the campus protests, both the protest leaders and the media make frequent references to the last time a significant antiwar movement gripped American campuses, the Vietnam War demonstrations at the end of the 1960s. In fact, many of the protests seem like deliberate cosplay, with kids re-enacting the “Vietnam Summer” of 1967: Activists mark off “liberated zones,” chant invectives against colonialism, dress like indigenous freedom fighters, and issue vast and defiant manifestos. Enough, already. Let’s identify a few clear contrasts between now and yesteryear. The most obvious contrast is in the scale and violence of the protests. Here there is simply no comparison. The successive surges of antiwar fury that gripped American colleges in 1968, 1969, and 1970 turned student life inside out. During the May 1970 Student Strike, over one million students participated directly in raucous demonstrations at nearly 900 colleges—that’s roughly 15% of the entire U.S. student population. Classes were boycotted. Whole semesters (and all exams) were cancelled. Fraternities were turned into revolutionary “teach in” centers. What’s more, those “days of rage” frequently triggered serious violence between students and police (or soldiers)—including live ammo, bombs, billy clubs, pepper-spraying armored vehicles, brutal beatings, many deaths, and burned-down buildings. I personally witnessed several such episodes. The Gaza War camp-in protests? Well, using recent media estimates, I count about 25,000 protesters at maybe 80 campuses. That’s less than two students in every thousand. Per student, we’re talking ab

----- Forwarded Message ----- Fro To Cc: Sent: Tue, May 14, 2024 at 1:20 AM Subject: Pls forward James Diamond’s letter to the president of U of T Dear President Gertler. I hold the Joseph & Wolf Lebovic endowed Chair in the Religious Studies department at the University of Waterloo. It was a privilege for me to have participated this week as an invitee of the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies to deliver a presentation at a wonderful, learned gathering of scholars sponsored by the J. RICHARD AND DOROTHY SHIFF CHAIR IN JEWISH STUDIES and THE ELIZABETH AND TONY COMPER FOUNDATION. I am taking the liberty of copying representatives of the families who have graciously endowed and supported the University’s endeavors, including Albert Friedberg who donated the invaluable Friedberg collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library who also attended our conference at the University. There are other such magnanimous donors I have copied who have contributed to the development of U of T as a world class institution of higher learning. They should be apprised of your failure to put an end to what is an utter disgrace and dismal display of ‘lower’ learning, as I will describe in what follows, which serves only to erode what they have concretely helped build. After our conference sessions on Monday afternoon I proceeded onto one of my favorite walks across the campus accompanied by Prof. Kenneth Green, an esteemed and beloved professor at U of T of many decades, a walk I have been doing for over 50 years now. During that stroll we experienced a most humiliating, insulting, and offensive encounter, that has tarnished a treasured relationship with my alma mater. As we passed by the appalling encampment that is both a physical and moral blight on Kings College Circle we were confronted by anything but what the University misguidedly considers, and misleadingly rationalizes, as freedom of expression. A large group of what can only be described as masked thugs blocked my movement and maniacally and menacingly screamed obscenities at me such as “go back to your country”; “you will never get by me”; followed by a string of vulgar expletives unworthy of repeating. That in sum reflects the sort of ‘sophisticated’ level of speech being engaged in there that you are protecting. There was U of T security personnel standing and observing nearby, who it seems are actually tasked by the University with preserving the encampment blight rather than protecting innocent bystanders. The ‘administration’ of the Circle has been totally abdicated for the benefit of this mob who exercises unimpeded control over who can enter and exit University property. Thus you have abandoned your responsibility and duty you owe to thousands of students and visitors, surrendering it to an insignificant number of threatening, screaming, members of a brutish assemblage. I can add ‘mindless’ as well, based on the tenor of their reactions and responses to me, a trait any University of course would be expected to at the very least discourage, if not to eliminate among its constituency. I assure you they do not in any shape or form represent the vast majority of students, alumni, and supporters of U of T. (If for some reason they do then the University suffers from a far deeper malignancy it must address.) In fact, since they assiduously hid their faces with threatening symbols decidedly intended to identify with the perpetrators of one of the most barbaric atrocities in modern times, it is most likely that they are not even students. To compound the egregiousness of their behaviour, their claim in barring me from walking freely within University grounds was based on the assertion that Kings College Circle is “indigenous land”! University security personnel stood by apathetically and refused to accommodate my request to be escorted safely on my long standing walk and enjoyment of the campus. The encampment behaviour and its control of a significant landmark on campus grounds is unambiguously being condoned and indeed encouraged by the University. Have you ceded ownershi

A remarkable speech on the seriousness of modern life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHFi_wz7rk

This seems to me to be legitimate: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6dEJdatqzC/?igsh=ODdpYXhwYmx5N29k

Another view from a part of Yale. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Buckley Institute <Info@...> Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:08 PM Subject: A Message on Recent Events at Yale To: <> NEWSLETTER | April 26, 2024 Dear Friends, Earlier this week, protesters violated Yale’s free speech policies in numerous ways, from reports of violence to blocking traffic. The Woodward Report, Yale’s policy on free expression celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, states that “picketing is permissible outside of a building so long as it is peaceful and does not interfere with entrance to or exit from the building or with pedestrian or vehicular traffic outside of a building.” The report continues: “It is important to understand, however, that picketing is more than expression. It is an expression joined to action. Accordingly, it is entitled to no protection when its effect is coercive.” There have been some calls for Yale to forgo disciplinary action against those arrested this week. Heeding those calls would be a mistake and send the wrong message at the wrong time. As the Woodward Report explains: “... if sanctions are to work as a deterrent to subsequent disruption, they must be imposed whenever disruption occurs. They must be imposed and not suspended. They must stick.” To protect the free speech of all, Yale needs to be clear that it knows when free speech is used as cover for criminal activity and it needs to enforce that distinction. Those who intentionally blur the lines between free speech and criminal activity betray those who have sacrificed for free speech worldwide. Make no mistake, if the protesters had just shared their views and publicly displayed hate for America, it would be protected free speech, as abhorrent as their comments would be. The Buckley Institute firmly supports free speech, and that includes offensive speech. Indeed, as the Woodward Report reminds us, Yale students have “the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” But that right never includes campus disruption and violence. Yale should never reward clear violations of its policies. Disruption is not free speech. Violence is not free speech. This should be obvious and it’s sad that it needs to be said. The good news is that some Yale students have taken a different approach, displaying a competing vision of who America’s future leaders can be. The Buckley Institute hosted an event yesterday prompting students to share what they love about America. Over 250 students participated. Students wrote “the American dream,” “the honor and bravery of our servicemen and women,” “the right to peaceful protest,” “opportunity for everyone,” “American innovation,” “freedom of speech and expression,” and “housed my ancestors fleeing the Holocaust,” among many other answers indicating a student body that deserves our hope and support. Sincerely, Lauren Noble ’11 Founder and Executive Director MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION 265 Church Street, Suite 404, New Haven, CT 06510 info@... | 203-745-1316 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- George Soros is funding these protests. Sound familiar? Covid? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13353941/George-soros-paying-left-wing-activists-college-protest-camp.html?ico=related-replace https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/ On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM wrote: Check out this 35 second video of 2 students being asked why they are protesting: https://twitter.com/search?q=Rudy%20Giuliani%20&src=typed_query A reporter asked a NYU student: "Why are you protesting?" PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns to other person] Why are we protesting?" PROTESTER #2: "I wish I was more educated." PROTESTER #1: "I'm not either."

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-turn-violent-at-yale-higher-education-college-campus-anti-israel-92c48b3f wsj.com Opinion | Protests Turn Violent at Yale Gabriel Diamond 4–5 minutes New Haven, Conn. Anti-Israel protests escalated to violence at Yale University this weekend, and administrators let it happen. Hundreds of protesters flooded the main campus, pitched 40 tents, blocked Yale’s main dining hall, chanted for the annihilation of Israel, and denounced America. Identifiably Jewish students found themselves surrounded and cornered by protest mobs. Sahar Tartak, a sophomore who has written for these pages, was poked in the eye with a flagpole and needed hospital treatment. On Friday night the mob cheered as students ripped down the American flag in front of a memorial for fallen soldiers and tried to burn it. Students called Yale trustees and senior administrators “terrorists.” Their chants included “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free.” They cornered a man at the plaza for wearing a T-shirt that read “F— Hamas.” This protest is in clear violation of Yale’s code of conduct, which explicitly forbids protesters from obstructing building entrances or blocking students’ ability to observe an event. But the administration sat on its hands. Lt. Chris Halstead of the Yale Police told the Yale Daily News that officers planned to begin clearing the plaza on Friday at 11 p.m., the Daily News reported at 10:55. According to an 11:36 update, Yale College’s Dean Pericles Lewis promised the protest leaders “he will meet with them if they pack up their tents.” They didn’t. An 11:51 update: “According to Halstead and another officer, YPD decided not to proceed with dispersing the crowd in the plaza ‘based on circumstances.’ The officers would not elaborate further on what aspects of the circumstance influenced that decision.” The invaders slept on the plaza, woke up, and spent Saturday chanting and yelling. Fifty of them marched up Prospect Street to the Yale Divinity School to confront President Peter Salovey and the trustees, there for a Yale Corp. meeting. On Saturday, the Daily News reported, Mr. Lewis and other school officials told protesters that if students remained at the plaza after 11:30 that night, they “may be subjected to disciplinary action.” That deadline passed, and hundreds more poured in. The paper estimated the size of the mob at “more than 500,” which strikes me as low. Faculty and dormitory leaders allegedly support the students’ unauthorized occupation of campus. “Tonight, all 14 Heads of College agreed that they do not want us removed,” the protest organizers claimed in a Saturday statement. I spoke with several Yale police officers on the site, asking if and when they would start clearing the plaza or arresting students. Each replied: “That’s up to the higher-ups.” For the police to step in, the Yale administration has to give them the green light, according to the officers. Some officers expressed frustration that Yale wouldn’t allow them to intervene. Arresting students is a necessary condition for restoring order and quelling violence on campus. But it won’t be sufficient. These students won’t change their behavior unless they pay a real price. Expulsion of even a few of them would set an example for the rest of the protesters. Mr. Diamond is a senior at Yale University studying political science and a research assistant at the Yorktown Institute. Copyright ?2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Appeared in the April 22, 2024, print edition as 'Protests Turn Violent At Yale'.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Demand Columbia Call the National Guard on Pro-Terrorist Students Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:36:16 +0000 From: Americans for Peace and Tolerance <apt@...> Reply-To: Americans for Peace and Tolerance <apt@...> To: harvey.risch@... Demand Columbia Call the National Guard on Pro-Terrorist Students Columbia has let anti-Semites go too far View this email in your browser Show your support for Jewish students at Columbia by demanding that it protect them If you live in New York, please go to Columbia University and show solidarity with the besieged Jewish students there. After a shallow show of force to momentarily quiet her detractors last week, Columbia president Minouche Shafik has allowed anti-Israel student groups to continue occupying the campus quad while chanting pro-terrorist slogans. She has even declined to enforce suspensions of openly pro-terrorist students. Go to and contact Columbia, and demand that they call in the National Guard to protect Jewish students — indeed, all New Yorkers — from violent, hateful Hamas supporters. Also, demand that the ADL — whose mission is to do what you are doing — tell Columbia that it will not tolerate what was once one of America’s most Jewish universities being a flourishing safe haven for violent anti-Semitism. Donate The Jewish Leadership Project is a project of Americans for Peace and Tolerance. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation so that the JLP can continue to do the work our community leaders will not. Please make all checks payable to Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT). Our book Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership is available from Amazon. Click here or on the image to purchase. Facebook YouTube Twitter Donate Share Tweet Forward Copyright ? 2024 Americans for Peace and Tolerance, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Americans for Peace and Tolerance 15 Main Street, Suite 118 Watertown, MA 02472-4403 USA Add us to your address book Forward this email to a friend Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

https://twitter.com/RationalSettler/status/1780638411788878042 Uri Pilichowski @RationalSettler I have done some research on the true numbers in Gaza. Originally, the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry published that 32,000 Gazan Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces. Of these, they claimed that 78% were women and children, and none were combatants or members of Hamas. Israel countered that 12,000 Palestinians they killed were combatants and/or members of Hamas. That leaves 20,000 Gazan Palestinian non-combatants as having been killed by Israel. A little over a week ago, Hamas announced that over 11,000 people originally reported killed by Israeli forces couldn’t be accounted for – meaning, and this is the consensus in the global community, they were never killed. This means that 21,000 Palestinians were killed, 12,000 of whom were terrorists. That leaves 9,000 Gazan Palestinian non-combatants as having been killed by Israel. Here’s an odd fact no one seems to be reporting. In the normal course of life, 4,000 people would’ve died over the past six months in Gaza. Hamas reports ALL deaths in Gaza as war related and killed by Israel, even those of natural means. That leaves 5,000 Gazan Palestinian non-combatants as having been killed by Israel. Another factor not being counted is the number of Gazan Palestinians killed by Hamas rockets falling short and killing their own people. It’ll be impossible to ever calculate how many people were killed in this way, but it won’t be a small number of victims. It is my conclusion that less than 5,000 Palestinian Gazans have been killed by force in this war; some by Israeli forces, and some by Hamas forces. The attached screenshot is of Gazans at the beach in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, today, April 17, 2024. Credit: @imshin and #TheGazaYouDontSee 12:44 PM · Apr 17, 2024 · 195.4K Views

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