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AUDIO AND TEXT: E Stefanik and C Gay at Congress hearing: WSJ poll finds more people back Israel: What Gad Saad said about a long conveyor belt leading to the epistemological battlefield
Introduction: By any online standard, it has been a longtime since then
A bit more of introduction: This is not podcast, that means it has no obvious structure from the beginning through the end in addition to the inadequacy of tech equipment (and I don’t even re-record most of time unless I feel terribly too bad)
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Elise Stefanik questioning about antisemitism at Harvard to Claudine Gay, Harvard president
You quickly navigate your attentions and intentions online, with no hardship you’ll find Claudine Gay is pressed to resign from her Harvard leadership by Congress. Liz Magill, U Penn, has already resigned (or been removed from her presidency) for the same matter. What’s going on is the tension between the freedom of expression on campus and the hatred behavior/action in a question in which what motivated what and how to stop it.
On the current Israel-Hamas war since Oct 7, there have been consistent opinions about how wrong it is when the war is viewed in a frame of ethnic conflicts, WWII Nazis allusions, social justice, and genocide. I myself modestly published, here at Julistte Masch Writes and my notes at Substack, my view according to which the issue has to be focused on the legitimacy of Palestinians civic and human rights. The difficulty is however that the Israeli settlement is not illegal, while the land and rights of Palestiniens have been gradually cut off.
A headline of WSJ article of today is read as: “Majority of Americans Back Israel As Democrats Split over War, WSJ poll finds” by Sabrina Siddiqui (12/11/23) link
If there has been a notable shifting change from “equally sympathized to Israelis and Palestiniens” more to “backing Israel” over the time since Oct 7, all kinds of eruptive events and incidents against Israel in the world and students on campus here in the US must have various influences on it.
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It does not true that People supporting Israel have no or little sympathy to Palestiniens’ rights, but they want to end this disruption of life made by protestors against each others and the war itself:
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Effective Stefanik and contextual Gay at the hearing:
Upon the war, Claudine Gay made a statement to support Palestiniens’ rights. Whether this was something she should not have done, if I am asked, I will say her opinion should be heard. Then, when Jewish students are harassed, how to practice measures against it with no delay is the campus judiciary matters. But, in my sense, such actions by the university were very hard due to the scale of incidents and activities. If there is a liability in part of Gay with gravity, she could have tirelessly issued school policies and president’s statements to emphasize that the conflictual binary between Israel and Palestiniens should have no mirror image on the campus as targeting individuals and groups.
But, this is a difficulty. People are divided as if clear cut into two to be in this side or that side. Lots of things are psychological, at the same time who can bear the fact that people have been killed there not merely since Oct 7, but for a longtime?
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Harvard, U Penn, MIT might have become three Us of woke for some people. I had no idea who was Gad Saad until I saw his post on X. Still, I do not know who he is, but he describes himself as an evolutionary behavioral scientist. More than that, however for me, he is found to be an anti-progressive militant. Below is a screenshot of his post.
Well, a fact about me is that I am openly anti-progressives and pro-Palestiniens. Nevertheless, “cowardly and lobotomized leader taking over [because there] is a long conveyor belt of such academic administrators” makes me suspect that Gad Saad must have something deep with lobotomized academias beyond the whole league of higher education leaning to left. I repost his comment here because it has so much of sci-fi flavor probably with no obvious intent of his for such an effect. Some may want to copy the last two sentences to pinup somewhere in their rooms for the daily reading.
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I’ll finish up for this post and let me explain why I made a long pause between two audio posts:
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Merci, bye for now: