Public Occurrences March 20, 2025

Trump Sends Education "back to the states" (as he did with abortion) Orders Shutting Department

The effect of this is to add centrifugal force to the shared commonalities of national life, reducing the united in United States.

 9:27 am:

Columbia Caves to Trump, Jewish Pressure

Columbia University signaled Wednesday that it would comply with the Trump administration's demands in return for restoring $400 million in federal funding...

The Trump administration canceled the university's federal grants this month, accusing it of "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” And last week, the administration sent a letter to the university laying out nine demands Columbia must commit to by the end of business hours on Wednesday "as a precondition" to restore federal funding.

American Jews feel what they feel. I wish that they didn't feel as they feel. I wish that they hadn't felt so aggrieved at the anti-Israel campus protests; that they hadn't dragged the presidents of universities before the congressional star chamber to be grilled and publicly excoriated; that in one Jew's case he hadn't written a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging the biggest and best New York law firms not to hire his law school's beat and brightest. 

I wish that the American Jew who had an American-Israeli flag mashup on the side of his truck hadn't felt that I was an anti-semite because I was anti-fascist and had an ANTIFA sticker on my car bumper, and felt that it was necessary and proper to give me the "fuck you" middle finger in traffic.

I wish that American Jews would fully internalize that in America they are beloved, esteemed, admired, and not persecuted. 

I wish that they realized that the lengths that they went in their umbrage at the protesters was heavy-handed, that they were creating anti-semitism where it didn't exist, in an entire generation of young people who are just now entering the work force and the professions and will be in positions of power for fifty years and who will carry these memories--grudges--their entire lives. 

I wish that American Jews would really reflect on all of this and chill out.