The Ivy Brand: Destroyed
The 10/7 Turning Point
Ever since Hamas attacked Israel, on October 7, 2023, the venerable Ivy League schools — especially Harvard, Columbia, and Yale — have exposed themselves as institutions of Jew-hatred. How? By allowing Hamas thugs to riot on their campuses and threaten and attack Jewish students. In fact, the wealthier their families, the more likely they’ll build anti-Israel encampments. Were they protesting when Russia invaded Ukraine? No. Will they attack Chinese students when China captures Taiwan? No. Would they treat blacks or gays like this? No. Why are they so artificially angry (many interviewed rioters don’t even know what they’re protesting) at Jews? ANSWER: They hate Jews.
On October 27, 2023, 20 days after Hamas attacked Israel, I appeared on Newsmax to opine on the campus thugs at Columbia University:
On October 31, 2024, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released findings on how antisemitism engulfed college campuses while administrators put the wants of terrorist sympathizers over the safety of Jewish students, faculty, and staff. On the same day, when Eyal Yakoby and Shabbos Kestenbaum testified in front of Congress about campus antisemitism, ranking Democrat Jerry Nadler criticized the hearing and then fell asleep. He and most Dems left right after and refused to shake their hands. Moreover, Jew-hating Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), funded by Jew-hating George Soros, was blasted by Jewish critics after documents emerged indicating that he told Columbia University’s leaders to ignore criticism of antisemitism in campus protests.
On October 25, 2023, Jew-hating thugs at the Cooper Union in NYC cornered a group of Jewish students in the university’s library. New York City has the largest Jewish population in the US.
In April 2024, expelled Cornell student Patrick Dai of Pittsford (Rochester), NY, pled guilty to threatening to rape and kill Jews on campus. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison to begin on August 12, a fine of up to $250,000, restitution to victims and a maximum of three years of supervised release, according to the US attorney’s office for northern New York. The Jew-hating Cornell professor, Russell Rickford, who lauded Hamas’s 10/7 attack on Israel as “exhilarating,” was suspended shortly thereafter — but then REINSTATED in September 2024. You can’t make this up.
Consequently, universities across America (MIT, UT Austin, USC, UCLA, George Washington University, Northwestern, NYU, CUNY, CCNY, Vanderbilt, and others) have copied the Poison Ivy riots. Jews, they’ve been indoctrinated to believe, don’t have a right to live in Israel, their ancestral homeland, and to retaliate after Holocaust 2.0.
Administrators have been glacially slow to respond to these attacks on Jews. Why? Money from Qatar, which supports Hamas. Read: What Yale Has in Common With Hamas and Campuses Are Awash in Qatari Money. Yale University did not disclose upwards of $15 million in contributions from Qatar — the Middle Eastern nation that provides funding and shelter to Hamas’s top leadership — in violation of federal reporting laws, according to The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
On December 18, 2024, the US House of Representatives released its scathing 42-page Staff Report on Antisemitism. Clearly, the tepid responses to nationwide Jew-hatred of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris enabled this despicable behavior.
Did you ever think you’d see Hezbollah’s (Iranian proxy in Lebanon) flag at Princeton University? The poison pervades the Ivies. Here it is.
How about a dude wearing an Al-Qassam Brigade (of Hamas) headband on the Stanford University campus? On June 5, 2024, on the last day of classes at Stanford, anti-Israel thugs injured a police officer as they vandalized the president’s office. Thirteen students were arrested after causing extensive damage.
America’s leftist education system (K thru graduate school) has indoctrinated GenZero to see the world as the oppressors (whites & Jews) vs. the oppressed (blacks & Muslims).
CNN offers a map of where Hamas rioters have been arrested. Yahoo offers riot updates HERE.
Northwestern University capitulated to the Hamas mob by offering special housing for Muslims and scholarships for Palestinians.
At the University of Washington, Hamas thugs spat on Jewish students and told them to go back to the gas chambers.
Hamas thugs at Jew-hating, Ivy-copycat UCLA prevented student Eli Tsives from attending class. He tells his story to Fox News here.
After Eli’s experience, UCLA’s pro-Israel, pro-America patriots went to war with the Hamas thugs. On May 2, 2024, the LAPD and CHP finally moved in to dismantle the UCLA rioters’ encampments. On July 29, 2024, a federal judge ordered UCLA to craft a plan to protect Jewish students, months after anti-Israel protests broke out on campus. On August 14, 2024, a federal judge slammed UCLA for standing by as Jewish students were barred from parts of the campus.
On November 30, 2024, UCLA pleads for legal immunity for officials in “Jew Exclusion Zone” lawsuit.
On December 4, 2024, the New York Post reported that UCLA’s cultural-affairs commissioner Alicia Verdugo rejected every single Jewish student who mentioned his faith in his employment applications, and even texted her colleagues to be on the lookout for “zionists.”
As reported on December 20, 2024, Biden’s Department of Education pathetically gave UCLA a slap on the wrist for its widespread discrimination against Jewish students.
Bad Parenting & Teaching
Why are these GenZero kids so uninformed (they know NOTHING) and so easily radicalized? I blame their lousy parents, who spoiled them with privileges and no accountability, and teachers who radicalize and radicalized them — starting in kindergarten! On October 31, 2024, Abigail Shrier published a column — “The Kindergarten Intifada” — summarizing her investigation. She concluded that there’s a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel.
Bottom line: The Ivy brand is now destroyed. A brand is the emotional connection people have with a vendor, a product, a place, a politician. How do people feel about the Ivy League after these permissible riots? They mostly hate it.
NOTE: I coined The Poison Ivy League in 2022, after being outraged and disgusted that UPenn, an Ivy League university, allowed Wil Thomas (AKA Lia Thomas) to swim on the women’s swim team. As of June 4, 2024, UPenn further ruined its brand by allowing an anti-Israel encampment to endure. Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gave $2M to a Philadelphia-based community fund with ties to the Philly Palestine Coalition, the radical activist group behind the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.
The same campus radicals, especially at Princeton, who hate Jews and Israel also swoon over Luigi Mangione, charged with murdering Brian Thompson, the late CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
Harvard
On January 5, 2024, I wrote about former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who was forced to resign “in disgrace” because 1) she refused to condemn the antisemitism on Harvard’s campus and 2) she plagiarized her way to the top. Was that the end of Claudine Gay? Oh, no. Harvard reduced her status to $900K/year professor. Harvard has made no attempt to rid itself of Jew-haters: Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Is Leading Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment.
On January 10, 2024, Alexander (Shabbos) Kestenbaum filed a lawsuit against Harvard for it relentless campaign of Jew-hatred against students. On July 17, 2024, at the RNC in Milwaukee, Shabbos Kestenbaum announced that he had sued his alma mater for permitting and perpetuating antisemitism on campus. On August 6, 2024, a federal judge in Boston ordered Harvard University to face Kestenbaum’s lawsuit after it “failed its Jewish students” and neglected to address anti-Semitism on campus.
On November 18, 2024, at Jew-hating Harvard, agitators accused Hillel of hosting “war criminals,” called Israel a “terrorist state,” and shouted “Zionists Are Not Welcome Here.”
Manufacturing Mobs
How do these mobs of Jewish hatred appear so quickly on college campuses? They are organized and funded, as I explain in this video.
According to the New York Post, George Soros is paying up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and The People’s Forum, headed by Neville Roy Singham, and Arabella Advisors actively support and fund pro-Hamas riots. Also, the Rockefeller brothers and a network of NGOs fund and organize the Jew-hatred on American campuses.
Columbia
On April 30, 2024, Hamas thugs occupied Hamilton Hall (Founding Father and first secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton was an alumnus and trustee of Columbia) and renamed it Hind’s Hall (apparently after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old killed during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza). This insurrection became so unmanageable that Columbia banned media access.
How did this insurrection happen? Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia, allowed it. Despite her tepid deadlines and threats of suspension, the terrorists stayed put and became emboldened. Shafik, an Egyptian, is seemingly sympathetic to Hamas. Two months after 9/11, when she was a VP at the World Bank, Shafik said that “terrorism is a form of protesting.”
On the night of April 30, 2024, over 100 were arrested as NYPD cops dramatically stormed Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob. Lisa Fithian, the veteran activist known as “Professor Occupy” for her role in training fellow radicals during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests, was allegedly seen during the anti-Israel riot this week at Columbia University.
On May 2, 2024, the spineless babies at the Columbia Law Review demanded the cancelation of finals. Why? They are “irrevocably shaken” because the NYPD arrested their fellow thugs for harassing Jews and destroying property. Mind you, these are future law professors, lawyers, DAs, judges, defense attorneys, corporate executives, and politicians. Let that sink in. Result: thirteen federal judges say they no longer will hire law clerks from Columbia University, citing “virulent spread of antisemitism” and “explosion of student disruptions.”
On May 31, 2024, Jew-hating Columbia administrators fired off hostile and dismissive text messages and vomit emojis during an alumni-reunion panel on Jewish life. On June 20, 2024, three Columbia deans were placed on leave for this despicable behavior; on August 8, 2024, they resigned.
On June 5, 2024, Columbia Law School’s board of directors shut down the Columbia Law Review website after the Jew-hating publication falesly accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
On June 20, 2024, Marxist DA Alvin Bragg dropped charges against 30 Jew-hating thugs who occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. On July 15, 2024, billionaire Mort Zuckerman cuts off millions in donations to Columbia, citing failure to respond to Jew-hatred on campus. On August 14, 2024, the Jew-hating Columbia president Minouche Shafik resigned due to ‘period of turmoil’ after anti-Israel student protests.
On December 8, 2024, just outside Columbia’s gates, anti-Israel protester punches visibly Jewish student in the face.
On January 10, 2025, Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia University law professor left the university after an investigation found that she had discriminated against Israelis in violation of Columbia policies.
You can’t make this up: Columbia now publishes a Jew/Israel-hating newspaper called Columbia Intifada.
Where Are Joe and Kamala?
On October 10, 2023, Joe Biden made a TV speech — his first after the 10/7 attack — in which he promised undying support for Israel and declared that “silence is complicity.” He was lying through his teeth (after all, he enriched and enabled Iran, which funded and trained Hamas). Biden has been undermining Israel every step of the way, even demanding a ceasefire before Israel demolishes Hamas.
While campuses nationwide are on fire, while leftist students, professors, and college administrators are calling for the end of Israel and the deaths of Jews, Joe has been silent. Why? He’s desperately pandering for Muslim votes in Dearborn and Minneapolis — even though Jews outnumber Muslims in America 2:1. I’m sure that his brother Jim Biden’s business dealings with Qatar have nothing to do with Joe’s silence, right? Ironclad support for Israel, my ass.
Finally, on May 2, 2024, after weeks of raging national violence against Jews and college buildings, Biden made a short, emotionless, anodyne address to condemn violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism (Islamophobia and racism aren’t an issue here, but Joe refuses to mention the Jews as a singular entity) and, to answer a shouted question, said he won’t use the National Guard.
On July 10, 2024, Kamala Harris expressed sympathy for the anti-Israel protestors: Young Americans protesting Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza are “showing exactly what the human emotion should be.”
Hamas Is Winning the Propaganda War
On May 2, 2024, I asserted and explained in the video below that Hamas is winning the propaganda war.
Here’s evidence that Hamas is winning the propaganda war, as if more is needed: Andrew Dudum, founder and CEO of telehealth and online pharmacy Hims, took to social media on Wednesday (05/01/24) to encourage anti-Israel protesters on college campuses to continue in those efforts because companies like his will be “eager” to hire them. “Moral courage > College degree,” Dudum wrote on X. “If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working. There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline,” he added with a link to the Hims careers page. Then, on Sunday, May 5, 2024 (Yom HaShoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day), after his Jew-hating diatribe caused his company’s stock to drop 8% ($200M), Dudum walked back his comments, claiming that they were “misconstrued,” that his kids are descendants of both the Nakba of 1948 (Muslims refer to the rebirth of Israel in 1948 as the Nakba, or catastrophe) and Holocaust survivors from Poland. Nothing like a severe drop in wealth to force a fake apology.
First 10/7 Anniversary
On 10/7/24, the first anniversary of Hamas’s savage attack on Israel, anti-Israel protests/riots erupted in America’s major cities and college campuses. One such example is the University of Michigan, where anti-Israel thugs vandalized the homes of two leaders of the university and the buildings of several organizations with ties to Israel.
On December 8, 2024, the home and car of a Jewish member of the University of Michigan’s board of regents were vandalized last night in what the US school says was an antisemitic attack.
Trump 2.0
Donald Trump will begin his second term on January 20, 2025. He has promised to defund all universities that enable Jew-hatred and to deport all foreign Jew-hating thugs and rioters, wherever they exist. Betar, a Zionist organization, is compiling names of foreign students on visas in the US who spewed anti-Israel bile at campus protests — and is hoping President-elect Trump will give the haters a one-way ticket back home. So far, Betar has about 30 names of students from nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom currently enrolled in some of the nation’s top universities, including Columbia, UPenn, Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, The New School for Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, and George Washington University.
On November 29, 2024, Trump appointed Chris Rufo to de-wokify Poison Ivy League schools receiving federal funding.
On December 15, 2024, at least 10 Jew-hating Poison Ivy League and other universities urged their international students to return to the USA before January 20, 2025, the date of Trump’s inauguration. Why? Because Trump said he’ll deport all Jew-hating foreigners.
The Future
Can the Poison Ivy League ever cleanse itself and return to the days of being respectable and coveted? I doubt it. Building a strong brand takes years. Destroying it takes a few weeks. Remember that.
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