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Thank you Amanda! You are wise beyond your years! I wish the wealthy Jews that donate to all universities across the country would pull their money out! These protesters enjoy the benefits of the Jewish people and are too ignorant to realize how much we have contributed to society. The administration needed to stop this weeks ago instead of hiding behind free speech. President Biden needs to call in the National Guard and get rid of these Trespassers and troublemakers. They should be suspended from campus indefinitely.
The pro-Palestinians students and staff are brainless halfwits. And the administration of the college is as weak as .......
It's one thing for a group to have free speech. But, if your words cause a safety breach on the campus or in the community, then the administration should step up and kick out, reprimand, or penalize those who violate the safety of the campus.
Am Yisrael Chai!!🙏🔯❤️
Amanda, thank you for your courage and leadership. I hope your fellow students will support you always.
Students that are not able to go to class safely should get back their tution, also all Jewish students from all colleges and other places of learning, should sue and make s class action suit, what the so called pro palestines are doing is illgeal plus it is harassment, and sometimes asssult and battery, which you need lawyers to make manys cases against these colleges, in Texas they knew how to handle these hooligans, who knows if these characters are even students in these colleges, Jewish students come to learn not make trouble, it is sad the world in 2024, is like Germany in the 1930s/1940s when there was Nazis(may there name be erased) we must stand up to hate and fight it
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So a group takes it upon themselves one day to illegally invade and trespass into another country to do criminal murder, mischief, mayhem, and abduction, and they quite literally redirect humanity's attention from the deeds and dead using the wind (shouting & chanting) and the media, by stratagem, to diminish all humanity through deceit, and to murder truth.
It was never about grievences. It was only ever a planned in advance action for job advancement, power, control, and ownership of the free will of humanity. My God forbid.
Welcome to the age of professional victimhood.
All that can be know is of all their grievous atrocities; the most grievous is that they took living babies and cooked them in the ovens of their homes.
Only a demonically possessed person could do such an action; and, deserves zero support from human beings of this world; and, 100% condemnation.
Any human being helping them will earn their same evil, painful punishment in the Underworld.
All the world is filled with contention, the hands of mankind reaching for their brethren's throat, each neighbor to the other; their every thought that springs from the mind and the heart, evil with entitlement.
Humanity refuses to accept this is not the age for fighting; but, repentence, fasting, ashes and sackcloth.
They have managed to exceed the limit of all the evil ages, collectively, before them.
O the evil that has been done in Your Name, My God, to desecrate it.
Humanity refuses to acknowledge You, even if they be lost, to at least save the children.
There is no love in their hearts.
It is such a selfish, mean spirited, arrogant, evil age.
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It is really quite sad how easily it has been to hoodwink the majority of the human population, unless of course you understand that true religion as a whole had been put on the decline over at least the last 50 years, and looseness/ licenciousness of morals rose over this timeframe as well.
When you have at least two to three generations of children indoctinated instead of educated, and not taught basic human values through religious worship; what you get is ignorance.
Say: Go to your peace and leave me to mine. I am not responsible for your hate. You are responsible to fix your own hate.
Jews in France are organising and fighting back!
Wonderful!
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
A crash course on history of the PALESTINIAN STATE: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
Bereshit (Genesis) - Chapter 12:3
Hashem said to Abram...
"And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you."
Amanda, your gevurah boldly sets an example that we will stand up KUMAH!, resist, push back, and fight like never before these ignorant evil doers bent on our destruction. I believe this is exactly what Hashem demands from us as prelude for divine assistance and delivery of the ultimate victory and final redemption. Thank you
From the River to the Sea,
Israel shall be!
This is so unacceptable. Well done in speaking out and standing up. I’d love to have a rally here in Weatern North Carolina in support for Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.
Thank you for speaking up.
I saw on the News the Police beating up some Jews for Palestine.
I was happy.
Your courage is so admirable! Language reveals history -- Jews are from Judea! Academia is such a mess, truly a cesspit of moral depravity as this unnuanced, deadly white oppressor vs black oppressed binary is systemic.
Follow ISGAP (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy). Their research is revealing the Qatari funding in US universities.
The misinformation about Jews and Palestinian Arabs goes much deeper than most people realize. As the illegitimate son of a man of Egyptian Jewish ancestry who was killed by a drunk driver, I grew up being taught enough about my heritage by my paternal biological grandmother to use my Middle Eastern ancestry and knowledge to pass as a half Arab American individual while I was in Dearborn, MI. This enabled me to see what Palestinian Arabs don't let outsiders witness.
While there, I witnessed three Palestinian Arab girls in a bookstore open up DNA test results. One girl's results determined that she was 100% Sephardic Jew. The second girl's results showed that she was 3/4ths Samaritan and 1/4 Arab. The third girl's results showed that she was 100% Ashkenazi Jew.
Thank you so much for your comments. The saying: "It is never easy being a Jew," holds so true now. The saying sounds better in Yiddish. Have not heard it in what ever language you use, but I am sure it would still be awesome.
Amen! Amen, Amen!
Wow! Kol hakavod! Keep up the good work!
Over ninety years ago, my grandmother a"h attended Cornell, on a 4-H scholarship, as it was the only way she could afford college. (She grew up on a farm in Manlius, just outside Syracuse.) As a condition of her scholarship, she had to major in Animal Husbandry - caring for and breeding animals. I still have her class picture - one tiny Jewish girl, surrounded by fifty burly farmboys. It was not easy, and her maiden name - Itzkowitz - made her an obvious target. Yet I still have illuminating essays that she wrote, about the beauty and happiness of being a Jew.
Amanda, it's a new generation, with new challenges. So glad to hear that you are rising above the challenges of your generation. You have Klal Yisroel behind you!
What a beautiful story about your grandmother. What great heritage. I have lived mainly is areas of small populations. While we hear about Jews in major cities, I know and believe "Jews are everywhere." Thanks again for sharing about that tiny Jewish girl, your grandmother.
Amanda, you and our strong Jewish young people who are standing up and speaking out against antisemitism and for the facts of the situation in Israel are truly an inspiration to all of us American Jews! I am so thankful for you and for all those young people who are standing proudly for who you are. Although I'm older, I'm a certified Professional Educational Therapist working with high school students looking to continue their education. As such, I am doing what I can, through advocacy, multiple letters to college and university administrators and to congressmen, and tefillos to support you and your peers. All Jews are deeply indebted to you and your peers, who are our future.
This is horrible. The chancellor is Jewish and many alums such as myself have stopped donating. To hell with the first amendment! Muzzle these idiots and let them try to sue.
If the animals are impressed with Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire, why don't they follow him and do the same?
I’m shocked and saddened by the current state of affairs in US colleges and universities. The ugly head of antisemitism has once again reared to attempt to terrorize Jews in the US. Amanda is a courageous young woman attempting to fight against these outrageous lies and attempts to intimidate. Free speech doesn’t cover intimidation and threats of violence. I hope everyone who sees Amanda’s post will call on their government representatives to act to protect Jewish students and stop these horrible acts from being ignored by the powers that be.
Thank you for presenting this inspiring story, Sarah. As a retired New Yorker here in Greece I, like most Europeans, am never far from the tangible reminders of the Holocaust; reminders of when it was too late – of when the shameful paucity of intrepid voices like Amanda’s allowed evil to prevail. Well into my seventies, I admit that I am perhaps too easily given to despair when I look at the world (e.g., the rank thuggish ignorance and hatred exhibited on “elite” college campuses post Oct. 7). Then I see the face of Amanda Silberstein, unblinkingly contesting barbarism…
Thank you Amanda!
Thank you Amanda. It is hard for you, we know. You are in our thoughts and prayers as are our friends and family in Israel. Keep up the good fight.
Am Yisrael Chai!!
Who and how many faculty and administrators have the moral courage to publicly back you?
Thank you! It’s young people like you that inspire the rest of us!!!!
Am Yisrael Chai!
Thank you Amanda! Yasjer Koach!