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. 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.
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.
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?
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.
Bad Parenting
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Where’s Joe?
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.
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.
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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