Note: This letter was sent to Kayum Ahmed, lecturer in law at Columbia. For background, according to the Wall Street Journal: Last semester at Columbia University, Prof. Kayum Ahmed, a civil-rights attorney, stood in front of his graduate-school class on public health and introduced himself. He is a social-justice activist who has been accused of radicalizing students, he said, adding that he spent part of last summer “working in Palestine.”
This is an excellent letter. I have no doubt that Prof. Kayum Ahmed just discarded this letter and ignored it. This is the most common reaction by those in our activist class, who are positive they are correct, in spite of all the evidence. They usually decline to debate the issues, but when they do, all they produce is a torrent of abuse and nonsense.
I have had it with these "social justice" characters. It is long past time to push back on them, in ways that they will understand.
It is a splendid letter. In the same spirit as the letter, may I share my ethnographic approach to the parties in the conflict? This approach takes seriously what the local parties have to say:
Great post! But why designating Ashkenazi Jews as "white" and Mizrahi Jews as "brown"? We are all indigenous to the Middle East. Some of us are mixed after many centuries in Europe, but we weren't considered "white" until a few decades ago, when it became convenient to do so.
I really like this letter and have posted it around a few accounts on X that are complaining about Columbia Univ. acting wrongly towards this toxic character. It is high time that there was a strong pushback against the simple-minded yet bullying or intransigent people who think they are so virtuous while using completely distorted - and abusive - reasoning. I blame the Left, which now is at its most extreme and we are in danger from it.
This is an excellent letter. I have no doubt that Prof. Kayum Ahmed just discarded this letter and ignored it. This is the most common reaction by those in our activist class, who are positive they are correct, in spite of all the evidence. They usually decline to debate the issues, but when they do, all they produce is a torrent of abuse and nonsense.
I have had it with these "social justice" characters. It is long past time to push back on them, in ways that they will understand.
It is a splendid letter. In the same spirit as the letter, may I share my ethnographic approach to the parties in the conflict? This approach takes seriously what the local parties have to say:
https://pjmedia.com/philip-carl-salzman/2024/03/27/what-do-israelis-want-what-do-palestinians-want-n4927679#google_vignette
Don't you dare bring historical facts and logical reasoning to a football match.
Great post! But why designating Ashkenazi Jews as "white" and Mizrahi Jews as "brown"? We are all indigenous to the Middle East. Some of us are mixed after many centuries in Europe, but we weren't considered "white" until a few decades ago, when it became convenient to do so.
Always great to see propaganda confronted and beaten.
I really like this letter and have posted it around a few accounts on X that are complaining about Columbia Univ. acting wrongly towards this toxic character. It is high time that there was a strong pushback against the simple-minded yet bullying or intransigent people who think they are so virtuous while using completely distorted - and abusive - reasoning. I blame the Left, which now is at its most extreme and we are in danger from it.