Rutgers University, New Jersey’s state university, has surrendered to the anarchists. President Jonathan Holloway has agreed to almost all of the demands of the pro-Hamas mob that forced cancellation of final exams on Thursday.
Expect to see more such surrenders across the country. The mob is winning.
The demands:
- Rutgers agreed to consider divestment. The confirmation paper says
A request from the Endowment Justice Collective to divest from companies doing business in Israel was received on April 2, 2024, and is undergoing the review process that is outlined in the university’s investment policy.
The University President and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Investments will meet with no more than five student representatives to discuss the divestment request provided the end of encampment.
- Rutgers said, “Agreements with global partners are a matter of scholarly inquiry.”
- Rutgers agreed to work with people to give 10 “displaced Palestinian students” a scholarship at Rutgers.
- Rutgers agreed to begin a plan to create an Arab Cultural Center.
- Rutgers agreed to work on a relationship with Birzeit University, including the possibility of student exchanges or study abroad programs.
- Rutgers agreed to use “Palestine, Palestinians, and Gaza in future communications.”
- This one sickens me because these people are TOTES the victims here, not Jews and Israel:
Rutgers–New Brunswick will work to develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, antiArab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators & staff. We also commit to the hiring of a senior administrator who has cultural competency in and with Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian communities in the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community.
- Rutgers agreed to form a Department of Middle East Studies and hire faculty. Gee…I wonder what the academics will be like in that department considering a bunch of antisemites made these demands?
- Rutgers agreed to display flags of occupied people. So…Rutgers agrees that Israel is occupied land? The school agrees that the state of Israel is illegal?
- Rutgers agreed to amnesty for everyone “penalized for exercising their First Amendment right to protest Rutgers University’s support for Israeli human rights violations, and voice support for faculty and staff who have been publicly targeted for exercising their academic freedom.”
Rutgers is a public university, something many casual observers don’t know. In fact, its official title is “Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.” The same draconian governor of New Jersey – Phil Murphy – who imprisoned gym owners for staying open and limited in-person attendance at houses of worship during the pandemic, will almost certainly have little to say about this insurrection. Murphy will take no action whatsoever to undo the lawless actions that Rutgers is endorsing with these decisions.
It will not stop here. This agreement isn’t going to be valid for very long as I predict the anti-semite, pro-terrorist students and agitators will not be able to control themselves. Soon they will be right back on campus for some perceived slight or some such from the school administration. The professional agitators are just waiting to pounce again.
I expect that this is the beginning of another summer of discontent much as we saw in 2020. How many people will be injured and killed? Already one student in California was beaten unconscious by the mob. Where will all this end?