Pro Palestine campus protests at UCLA (5-3-24)

President Joe Biden said protest is fine but disruption is not. The essence of these campus protests has been disruption. The only reason these protests have captured the attention of the news is because of their disruption. Pro-Palestine speech is not going to be warmly received in America because Palestinians have not contributed anything to the world. Not many people in America will care about pro-Palestine or Pro-Israel speech on its own because Americans care primarily about Americans.

I learned in therapy that it is best to deal with problems when they are at a low level of intensity. It’s much harder to resolve disputes when intensity is 10/10. College president should have dealt with protesters once they broke the first window.

National Review: Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?

It’s a mistake to focus on the anti-semitism element of the college protests. Different groups have different interests. Instead, the focus should be enforcing the law to maximize the ability of unis to focus on their core missions of education and research. Expel the disrupters.

Interest groups such as Jews do themselves no favors when they focus publicly on their own narrow interest. With regard to the pro-Palestine campus protests, Jews should make the case for law enforcement rather than seek privileges from criticism. If the pro-Palestine or pro-black or pro-gay cause wants to win, they too should frame their case in terms of the general interest. People care primarily about themselves. They don’t care much about out-groups.

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Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests Part Two (5-2-24)

02:00 Historian J. Otto Pohl joins the show, https://twitter.com/JOttoPohl1
09:00 The world runs on hierarchy, not democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
14:00 Elite discourse, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154774
16:00 Knowledge is a conversation through time by the keepers of knowledge
24:00 Is Iran a rational actor?
32:00 Palestinians destabilized Jordan, Lebanon
37:00 Turkey’s attitude to the Iran-Israel conflict
38:15 The quality of life in Iraq now vs when Saddam Hussein reigned
40:00 WEHT to the Kurds?
42:30 Anti-Kurdism – wanting to deny Kurdish national sovereignty
44:30 Secularization trends among European Muslims
46:30 Prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians
54:50 Pohl: Lipstadt and the Denial of Soviet Ethnically Targeted Deportations and Killings, https://jottopohl.substack.com/p/lipstadt-and-the-denial-of-soviet
56:30 Pohl: Radical Right Reaction in Europe and the US in Comparative Perspective, https://jottopohl.substack.com/p/radical-right-reaction-in-europe
1:06:00 Lock up the super predators
1:16:00 Over-Taking Responsibility: What It Is & How It Holds Us Back, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7t7XIsILA
1:19:30 Jonathan Chait on the House Anti-Semitism Bill: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-house-antisemitism-bill-is-bad-for-the-jews.html
1:23:00 Pro-Israel arguments, https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani
1:39:00 60s Backlash, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/02/why-campus-chaos-should-give-democrats-ptsd-00155537
1:43:00 Biden’s Patience With Campus Protests Runs Out, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/bidens-patience-with-campus-protests-runs-out/678269/
1:48:00 Joe Biden loses the center, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/biden-is-losing-the-election-in-the-center-not-the-left.html
1:52:00 NYT: Before the Violence, U.C.L.A. Thought a Tolerant Approach Would Work, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/ucla-classes-protests.html
1:55:00 NYT: Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/trump-trial-2024-election.html
1:58:40 LGBTQ+ people in Huntington Beach fearful of what they say is a rise in hostility, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-02/huntington-beach-lgbtq-community-fights-back
2:01:00 America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/college-activism-hypocrisy/678262/
2:08:00 Men in caves wait for the apocalypse
2:18:00 Letterman: Norm MacDonald’s Bob Uecker Story

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Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests (5-1-24)

01:00 I started a Tiktok channel, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613
03:00 ‘Unacceptable’: Why it took hours for police to quell attack at UCLA pro-Palestinian camp, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/why-did-it-take-police-so-long-to-end-the-violent-clashes-at-ucla
06:00 LAT: After violent night at UCLA, UC president launches investigation into response, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful
08:00 A timeline of UCLA violence, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/a-night-of-violence-and-lawlessness-at-ucla-amid-gaza-protests
10:00 Foreign policy is decided by a tiny elite
15:00 The world runs on hierarchy, not democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
48:30 Elliott Blatt joins
1:08:00 Elliott Blatt reviews his finances and saves himself thousands of dollars of wasted spending
1:11:00 How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154823

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5 Reasons Why People DON’T Understand You

Much of my life I have felt misunderstood.

These have not been periods of my life when I felt on the right track.

For me, feeling misunderstood correlates with losing at life.

The following explanations ring true. They match my experience.

TyaCamellia Stone, LMFT, says: #1. Your outward presentation doesn’t match who you are on the inside. Sometimes this is on purpose. When we are not comfortable with who we are, we tend to hide those aspects from other people. We camouflage or conceal significant chunks of who we are and people’s brains don’t have a choice but to fill in those blanks. People can sense our trepidation, our hesitancy, that we’re not open, and they take that as a sign to give us some space. This also presents as us putting up a front. We might want to seem more confident, interesting or informed. It is hard to fool an audience. Even the best manipulators leave some clues. People can feel when something is off. Rather than appearing as a better version of ourselves, we come off as dishonest.

#2. You aren’t in alignment with how you would like to be seen by others. You may have flawed self-awareness may not match how others perceive you. There’s an incongruence between how you think you are and how you behave. Sometimes you think you are funny and charismatic and you come off as obnoxious. You may not know how you come off. In an effort to reduce bullying and to be more compassionate to people’s feelings, we have gotten less honest with each other. It’s a delicate art to gently correct somebody. You might be a hypocrite. You lack the integrity to be who you claim to be. When people see that, they keep you at arm’s length.

#3. You’re in the wrong place/with the wrong people. People are not always born in the place they belong. Sometimes they have to seek it out. You might be the polar opposite of everyone you are around. Not everyone cares to understand everyone else. Some people are not our people. Maybe you are a zebra among horses.

#4. You value being different more than you value being understood. Some people like to be the zebra among the horses. They need to be different and to stand out from other people but there are consequences to this. You can’t be exceptional without being an outsider. They have a craving for human protection but leverage themselves against others for their self image. Don’t try to be so different from everybody that you alienate yourself. It is self-sabotage to rebel against a norm and then feel rejected by it. Some people are contrarian because being different is their identity. What’s more important to you? Being special or connecting?

#5. You don’t know yourself.

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LAT: UCLA moves to shut down pro-Palestinian encampment as “unlawful,” warns students to leave

The encampment actively interfered with the rights of Jews to attend the library and other facilities. Similar infringements occurred at other universities around the world. So it makes sense that the camps are getting shut down and those who resist this are getting ejected from their universities. You have the right to freedom of speech but you don’t have the right to stop other students from attending class.

I don’t understand why campus protests are the number one story in the nation. They don’t have great significance. I guess they provide action pictures and fights are compelling entertainment.

UCLA, out of all of America’s universities, has featured the most vigorous Jewish counter-protests. The New York Times noted April 30: “Jewish activists have had a larger presence at U.C.L.A. than at other campus demonstrations in California, and dueling protests have been particularly intense.”

The Los Angeles Times reports:

UCLA on Tuesday declared that the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus “is unlawful and violates university policy,” warning that students who did not leave would face possible suspension or expulsion.

The Westwood campus became the first in the University of California system to move against an encampment. Others have been set up at UC campuses at Berkeley, Riverside and Irvine along with colleges and universities across the nation. In the biggest wave of campus protests since the 1960s, scores of students, faculty members and staffers are demanding an end to Israel’s actions in Gaza and divestment from firms that sell weapons or services to the country.

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