Kayum Ahmed, Marisa Solomon and Tonika Boston join #TheList; they can rant about being targeted by Jews because, well, this Jew is targeting them.
Wake up, America. The evil is within our gates, has been burrowing into our universities quietly, insidiously and with purpose for decades. We must root out the Marxist Jew Hatred with vigor.
Douglas Belkin at the Wall Street Journal writes1 about a Jew Hating professor at Columbia University rallying his students to, well, hate Jews:
Last semester at Columbia University, Prof. Kayum Ahmed2, 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.”
The class addresses advocacy and activism, he said, according to a videotape of the lecture. To get a sense of what that feels like, he asked students to participate in a call-and-response protest chant: “What do we want?” he yelled. “Justice!” the students responded. “If we don’t get it?” he asked. “Shut it down!” they replied.
When the class didn’t offer full-throated enthusiasm, he asked all of the students to stand up and do it again.
The request, which happened in September a few weeks before the start of the conflict in Gaza, highlights the simmering debate that has exploded in the war’s aftermath: At what point does a college class become a course in political indoctrination?
For those who don’t quite understand the tight link between Marxists and Jew Hatred, I will quote straight from George Gilder’s brilliant exposition in his book The Israel Test.
The central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel.
The prime issue is not a global war of civilizations between the West and Islam or a split between Arabs and Jews. These conflicts are real and salient, but they obscure the deeper moral and ideological war. The real issue is between the rule of law and the rule of leveler egalitarianism, between creative excellence and covetous “fairness,” between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it.
Israel defines a line of demarcation. On one side, marshaled at the United Nations and in universities around the globe, are those who see capitalism as a zero-sum game in which success comes at the expense of the poor and the environment: every gain for one party comes at the cost of another. On the other side are those who see the genius and the good fortune of some as a source of wealth and opportunity for all.
More broadly speaking, fundamental to the Leftist agenda is to strip people of their individuality. Anyone paying any attention to current social agendas notice that “the woke” and the Left in general are focused on group identity, group victimhood, group guilt. Judaism is the font of the West’s concepts of individual rights and responsibilities - I refer you to the Ten Commandments - so it is a natural source of vitriol for Leftists of all flavors. Add in the heady “competitive victimhood industry” in this country, and you can see how idiots conflate a conflict half the world away with non-connected social fights here in America.
But, wait! There’s more! Look at the cash pouring into American universities to sway the messages those universities deliver to their students.
Columbia faculty have long been on the cutting edge of progressive politics. The late scholar Edward Said laid the foundation for postcolonial studies while he was a professor at the school. Columbia Law Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term “critical race theory.” Language and ideas from both schools of thought mirror the language and arguments against Israel at student protests.
On campus, Jewish students have been attacked since the war in Gaza began, spat on and threatened, according to interviews and a lawsuit filed on Feb. 21 in federal court in New York by Jewish students and organizations against the school.
After his anti-Jewish lies about Israel came to light and more of his nonsense drew attention, including a kids’ book - sensing a pattern? - with a kid holding a “Free Palestine” placard on the cover, he immediately denied saying all of what he has been saying for years.
It did not take long for this guy to whip out not just a race card, but a full house hand of Competitive Victimhood Grievances to explain away his bias and Jew Hatred:
In an email, Ahmed wrote that he “fundamentally disagrees” that settler colonialism is “a loaded term since it has been used by the UN Special Rapporteur in relation to Israel.”
Students critical of his teaching “are a handful of privileged, white students, who have probably never been confronted by a framework that challenges them to think critically about the benefits they derived from the system of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism,” he wrote. “I, on the other hand, am an untenured, Black, South African, Muslim man who spent the first 18 years of my life living under a system of apartheid. If anyone should feel ‘unsafe and unwelcome’ at Columbia, it should be me.”
First off, it is beyond risible to cite the Jew Hating United Nations as a source of anything other than Jew Hating, anti-Israel vitriol. Either he is too stupid to know that - in which case he should not be teaching at Columbia University - or he is fully aware of his Jew Hating Comrades on the East River and is also aware that most normal people are unaware of how much of a Jew Hating cesspool it is. More Americans are waking up to the fact that their idea of the UN bears zero resemblance to the reality of the UN.
Secondly, of course the intelligent students offended by his Jew Hatred and lies about the Islamic death cult ruling Gaza are racially profiled by him as “privileged white students,” who cannot think for themselves. It is not possible that they are reasonable, moral, rational people who think his absurd biases are just that.
Thirdly, I find it very odd that a self-defined Muslim is casting aspersions on “patriarchy” as if that were something foreign to Muslim society.
Fourthly, how much more evidence do normal Americans need before they realize this Marxist focus on “capitalism” is the key threat to a free society? Capitalism is nothing more than a term to describe free people making free economic decisions. That is it. Period. It is not a “theory” or a “system” imposed on anyone. It is, rather, the best example of the absence of third-party constriction of freedom. When the Left says they want to “replace capitalism,” all they mean is they want to sit atop an arbitrary dictatorship which throws normal people in prison for, well, acting freely.
So, naturally our free society drives control freak Progressive Statists absolutely insane. They know what is best for you, you stupid moron nut clinging to your guns and religion. Left to your own devices, you might buy a gasoline-powered car and maybe even vote for politicians who will slash governmental spending. I mean, how stupid are those ignorant choices?
The evil is not limited to one professor, of course. There are so many to choose from!
Kimberly Norrell, a junior at Barnard, Columbia’s sister school, said she signed up for an introductory class on intersectional feminism this semester at Columbia to fulfill a requirement and because she thought it sounded interesting. On the first day, the professor wore a keffiyeh—a black-and-white scarf and an emblem of solidarity with Palestinians—and began by announcing it had been 100 days since Israel waged war on Gaza. She didn’t mention the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, Norrell said.
She described the professor’s message as, “‘Israel is a capitalist, colonial settler apartheid state. And we are analyzing the intersectional identity of what it means to be a woman living under that apartheid.’ It wasn’t up for further debate beyond that.”
Norrell felt the class was designed to indoctrinate students and dropped it. The teacher, Marisa Solomon,3 didn’t respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Barnard declined to comment.
College students in China, Korea and Japan are learning physics, math, logic and engineering. Marxist propaganda factories like Columbia and Barnard are teaching spoiled brats how to whine the loudest in the competitive victimhood stakes. Only in 21st century America is being a whiny loser considered a desirable status.
Last Thursday, Columbia social-work Prof. Tonika Boston4 told students that media reports of sexual violence against Israeli women during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack were inaccurate and designed to undermine support for Palestinians, according to a partial recording of the class.
“It was sensationalized,” Boston said of the media reports. “And now it’s coming out that this wasn’t the case,” Boston said, according to a recording of the class viewed by the Journal.
Boston didn’t respond to requests for comment.
A “professor” of social work dismisses the hours of video Hamas terrorists took of themselves on October 7th. It truly hurts my brain.
Welcome to #TheList, Tonika, Ahmed and Marisa! We look forward to your being rendered jobless and permanently unemployed. Rational, moral Americans are working on it.
A. Kayum Ahmed serves as Division Director at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where he leads the global portfolio on access to medicines and innovation at the Public Health Program based in New York.
Before joining OSF, Kayum served as Chief Executive Officer of the South African Human Rights Commission from 2010 to 2015. During this period, he led a team of 178 colleagues to monitor, protect and promote human rights in South Africa, and oversaw the management of nearly 45,000 human rights cases. These cases include access to socio-economic rights such as water, healthcare and education, as well as cases pertaining to discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and disability among others.
Kayum is the recipient of various awards, fellowships and scholarships including the National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellowship, the Nelson Mandela Scholarship (Leiden University), Commonwealth Scholarship (University of Oxford), the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, the Aspen Institute Africa Leadership Initiative Fellowship, and the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans Award. He has taught several classes and delivered guest lectures at institutions across the world including Princeton University, Duke University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the Witwatersrand.
He holds a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University as well as various degrees in law from the universities of Oxford (MS.t), Cape Town (LL.B.), and Leiden (LL.M.). In addition, he has degrees in anthropology (M.A.) and theology (B.A. Hons). Kayum has several interdisciplinary research interests and has published various papers on human rights, radical student movements, human rights education, and decoloniality.
Just before relocating to New York and in anticipation of his existential (read: mid-life) crisis, Kayum and his amazing wife travelled across the African continent from Cairo to Cape Town over nearly 100 days.
Marisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, where she is affiliated with The Earth Institute. Her work draws upon Black feminist Marxism, queer of color critique, feminist intersectional science studies, and standpoint epistemologies to explore how scales of racial and ecological injury are linked from the body, to the neighborhood, to the region, to the Black Atlantic. Broadly, Solomon’s work tracks how embodiment in an anti-Black world contours how, when, and for whom constitutions of matter matter. Her book project, tentatively titled, Mapping Trash Talk: Black Environments and Feminist Cartographies of Black Thought ethnographically situates what it means to “know” waste in the daily refusals of those overburdened by its emplacement and signification. Exploring the Black grammars, aesthetics, and gendered politics that challenge easy definitions of waste and degradation, Mapping Trash Talk locates Black ecopolitical praxis in the fugitivity of disposability. She has published on the materiality of waste and anti-Black histories of urban planning and gentrification in the Journal of International Labor and Working-Class History.
Tonika Boston, LCSW is a first generation Guyanese American born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. As a young girl, Tonika always had a deep love to help others and a passionate desire for people to actualize their better selves. She first started her career in social work at Planned Parenthood of NYC, where she saw first hand the significant impact that a listening ear could have on someone’s life and empower them with the autonomy of their choice to make decisions best for them. Over the next 12 years of her social work career, she eventually transitioned from medical social work to working in schools. As her roles evolved within that field, the mission was always the same; providing brave spaces for students to feel empowered to be their most authentic selves within a school counseling setting. She has worked with every developmental age from K-12. Tonika is a fierce advocate for equity and liberatory spaces in schools and providing more equitable, high quality mental health care within Black/Brown communities. She has previously sat on the planning committee and presented at Columbia University School of Social Work’s Annual School Social Work Conference on racial trauma and the impact that it has on educational settings. As a previous Field Instructor with Fordham University, Tonika has been instrumental in working with Black social work students to create brave spaces for them to incorporate their intersectionalities and experiences into relatable social work practice and illustrating the need for ethnocentric lens to social work theories when working with Black and Brown clients.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Le Moyne College of Syracuse, NY majoring in Psychology with dual minors in History and Gender and Women’s Studies. She graduated from NYU with her MSW concentrating in forensics and clinical practice.
Currently, she operates her own private practice where she provides individual psychotherapy and couples therapy to primarily BIPOC clients. In addition, she works as a consultant with the New York City Department of Probation and other agencies designing and facilitating varying workshops in a “train the trainer” approach.
Keep it coming Christopher