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Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
Fri May 30, 2025, 01:39 PM Friday

'Zionist Nazi': Pro-Palestinian protest disrupts graduation ceremony at Hunter College

The event, held in Manhattan and part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, turned into a demonstration as students displayed Palestinian flags, chanted slogans and held signs calling for the school to divest from Israel. The protest erupted as the dean began her speech, with demonstrators shouting and some ascending the stage wearing keffiyehs.

Noriel Gedalia, a 70-year-old Israeli-American from New Jersey, attended the ceremony with his wife to celebrate his daughter’s graduation. “It was simply horrifying,” he told Ynet, an Israeli news outlet. “Pro-Palestinian students disrupted the ceremony, went on stage, and the administration did nothing to stop it. I started filming like they do, and it nearly turned violent.”

Gedalia said the protest had been widely expected, with student organizers announcing plans in advance. When the protest began, he said at least half the students in the hall clapped in support, while university officials allowed the program to continue without interruption.
“The dean acknowledged the differing opinions in her speech and continued as if nothing had happened,” Gedalia said. “That’s what shocked me the most.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s14jw1dzxe?minutetv=true

"Differing opinions". This is what normalizing antisemitism looks like.
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'Zionist Nazi': Pro-Palestinian protest disrupts graduation ceremony at Hunter College (Original Post) Beastly Boy Friday OP
Make sure to read the whole article. Eko Friday #1
And atreides1 Friday #2
Like we needed another demonstration of what normalizing antisemitism looks like. Beastly Boy Friday #5
And your point is? Beastly Boy Friday #3
Oh I did. Eko Friday #4
What makes you disbelieve that he was shocked by what he saw? Beastly Boy Friday #6
I didn't say I disbelieve him now did I? Eko Friday #7
Ah, the hair splitting part. Ok, have it your way Beastly Boy Friday #8
"Did you see the part in the OP that was bolded? Make sure you did." Eko Friday #13
Congratulations, you did see the part that was bolded. Beastly Boy Friday #15
Sure thing buddy. Eko Friday #16
I'm sure you posted an article with a trump supporter where his words were blolded in the title and then you said Eko Friday #17
You are getting lost in your own arguing Beastly Boy Friday #18
When you cant or wont say why you posted something I think you lost. Eko Friday #19
Why did you post an article that highlights the words of a dump supporter? Eko Friday #20
Like I said, good luck sorting out your own mess. Beastly Boy Friday #21
You always say that when you refuse Eko Friday #22
I am always here to answer easy questions. Beastly Boy Friday #23
Is the ransparently fallacious leading question in the room with you? Eko Saturday #26
Brings up an interesting point . . . Richard D Friday #10
Was he correct in blaming it on Eko Friday #11
My question is general Richard D Friday #12
Mine is specific to this post since that is what we are talking about. Eko Friday #14
Specific to whom? Beastly Boy Friday #24
The Jewish guy who sprouted a bunch of trump nonsense in the article that you posted. Eko Saturday #25
The article is based on a disrupted graduation event, not on what a dump supporter is saying. That's why it stays. Beastly Boy Saturday #28
I never claimed you were violating DU terms. Eko Saturday #29
It is I who is trying hard to not violate DU terms of use when describing the stuff you keep making up about me. Beastly Boy Saturday #30
"And I don't even know what to call the crap you are making up about me without violating DU terms of use."- from you Eko Saturday #31
"Oh wait, its cause he said one thing that you like and you are more than happy to disregard all the rest" Beastly Boy Saturday #32
Since you wont share the reason you posted this I have no choice but to come to a conclusion based on your posts and Eko Saturday #34
Look, I'll admit. I miss things, dont see the forrest for the trees that kind of thing. Kind of dense, even stupid Eko Saturday #35
It was a disruption of a graduation event while college officials were standing by and doing nothing about it. Beastly Boy Saturday #37
Solely on the words of a dump supporter. Eko Saturday #39
And the description by the reporter, and the attached video. Beastly Boy Saturday #42
Ah yes, the video that shows people marching across the stage holding banners Eko Saturday #43
Half of them were clapping for the protestors, is that doing nothing?. Why are you neglecting to mention that? Eko Saturday #40
I mean, once again, the only negative parts of this are from a dump supporter. You sure you want to keep this post up? Eko Saturday #41
From the bottom of my heart I do want to thank you for sharing the rantings of a crazy dump supporter. Eko Saturday #33
Ok, by now we all know what a strawman argument looks like. No need to beat a dead horse. Beastly Boy Saturday #36
Nope, strawman is attacking the person, I showed their positions and attacked that, try again. Why did you post this? Eko Saturday #38
Anti-Semitism is the only bigotry people on both the left and right outright deny exists almost daily AZLD4Candidate Friday #9
Winning hearts and minds. RandySF Saturday #27

Eko

(9,283 posts)
1. Make sure to read the whole article.
Fri May 30, 2025, 02:02 PM
Friday

The guy that was called a Zionist nazi has some very interesting thoughts on woke people, likes dump and thinks it ok to deport people who protest.

atreides1

(16,662 posts)
2. And
Fri May 30, 2025, 02:12 PM
Friday

His daughter supported the protesters

“She didn’t join the protest, but she supports it,” he said. “She suffers from ‘Bibi hatred syndrome.’ Like many Jews here, their minds were warped in school.”

I think Zionist Nazi was an appropriate description...

Eko

(9,283 posts)
4. Oh I did.
Fri May 30, 2025, 02:21 PM
Friday

If you want to believe the words of a dump supporter then by all means. Me I take it with a grain of salt. The fact that he wants to deport people for protesting seems very nazi like.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
6. What makes you disbelieve that he was shocked by what he saw?
Fri May 30, 2025, 02:27 PM
Friday

You know, he was a Jew long before he became a dump supporter.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
7. I didn't say I disbelieve him now did I?
Fri May 30, 2025, 02:42 PM
Friday

I can think of many normal things dump supporters get shocked by, a good economy, a capable president, science. I could keep going but I’m sure you get the point. All I said was I would take what they said with a grain of salt what they said the protestor said, which means I don’t believe it but I don’t disbelieve it either to make it clear to you. Like I said though if you want to believe a dump supporter then by all means.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
8. Ah, the hair splitting part. Ok, have it your way
Fri May 30, 2025, 03:11 PM
Friday

I didn't say I want to believe a dump supporter, did I?

I didn't say anything about believing or disbelieving at all. I didn't even say I want to believe a Jew.

What makes you say I want to believe a dump supporter?

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
15. Congratulations, you did see the part that was bolded.
Fri May 30, 2025, 07:38 PM
Friday

Now, if only you could tell me how bolding is a sign of approval or a sign of disapproval, or neither.

Perhaps I used bolding for emphasis, like everybody else does?

That didn't occur to you, did it?

Eko

(9,283 posts)
17. I'm sure you posted an article with a trump supporter where his words were blolded in the title and then you said
Fri May 30, 2025, 08:03 PM
Friday

to make sure to see the bolded words of the trump supporter cause you were what? Just trying to show us how stupid trump supporters were? What exactly?

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
18. You are getting lost in your own arguing
Fri May 30, 2025, 08:11 PM
Friday

(I can't honestly call it reasoning).

Good luck sorting this out.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
20. Why did you post an article that highlights the words of a dump supporter?
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:38 PM
Friday

One that is clearly unhinged.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
21. Like I said, good luck sorting out your own mess.
Fri May 30, 2025, 10:46 PM
Friday

I am not going to insult your intelligence by pointing out every childish fallacy you keep throwing at me. You are fully aware of what you are doing.

And I am certainly not going to participate in anyone's repeated attempts to insult my intelligence.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
23. I am always here to answer easy questions.
Fri May 30, 2025, 11:06 PM
Friday

Sometimes I even answer complicated questions.

It's the patently ridiculous on their face transparently fallacious leading questions whose authors know full well that they are patently ridiculous on their face transparently fallacious leading questions and ask them anyway that I refuse to answer.

Richard D

(9,856 posts)
10. Brings up an interesting point . . .
Fri May 30, 2025, 05:43 PM
Friday

. . . do we automatically discount something a trump supporter says just because they are a trump supporter, even if they are correct in their assessment and statement? Isn't this what is called an ad hominem? Are we stooping that low, too?

Eko

(9,283 posts)
11. Was he correct in blaming it on
Fri May 30, 2025, 07:01 PM
Friday

“woke culture” and diversity, equity and inclusion , restricting federal funding to institutions he believes have failed to curb antisemitism, and “Let the administration revoke their visas,” and that Jews had their minds warped in school?.Was he correct in those?

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
24. Specific to whom?
Fri May 30, 2025, 11:37 PM
Friday

Trump or the Jew who was quoted in the OP?

If it's Trump you are talking about, it has nothing to do with what the Jew said.

If it was the Jew, he is not beholden to what Trump had said or done.

There is someone here who certainly doesn't know what he is talking about. Or pretends not to.

And, BTW, there is someone here who knows exactly what he is talking about:

ad hominem
1 of 2
adjective
ad ho·​mi·​nem ( ˈ )ad-ˈhä-mə-nəm
-ˌnem

1: appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect

an ad hominem argument

2: marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made

made an ad hominem personal attack on his rival
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ad%20hominem

Eko

(9,283 posts)
25. The Jewish guy who sprouted a bunch of trump nonsense in the article that you posted.
Sat May 31, 2025, 09:40 PM
Saturday

You are going by his word that someone called him a "Jewish Nazi".

Of the protest he said "and it nearly turned violent" while

half the students in the hall clapped in support, while university officials allowed the program to continue without interruption.
And “The dean acknowledged the differing opinions in her speech and continued as if nothing had happened,”- He said.
I'm sure that everyone just sat around when it "almost" became "Violent.
Point One that he might not be telling the exact truth.

Point two.
The demonstration continued outside the venue, where Gedalia confronted a group of masked protesters.

Hey look, a bit more info. He confronted them, what did he say to them? Why is that not reported?
Other demonstrators intervened to de-escalate the situation.

Oh hey the protestors de-escalated the situation, not him.

Point Three
“She didn’t join the protest, but she supports it,” he said. “She suffers from ‘Bibi hatred syndrome.’ Like many Jews here, their minds were warped in school.”
Wow, look at how he talks about his daughter, she has a mental syndrome and had her mind was warped in school because she believes differently than him.

Point Four.
He blamed “woke culture” and diversity, equity and inclusion programs for shaping his daughter’s political views.

Ah look, more tired and idiotic words of the right that are about as stupid as you can get.

Point Five
Gedalia also defended former President Donald Trump’s policies toward universities, including efforts to restrict federal funding to institutions he believes have failed to curb antisemitism. He said he hopes the videos he took will be used to identify protesters.

Here he is defending dumps policies towards universities and then hopes his videos will help identify people protesting lawfully. Why does he want to identify them?
“Let the administration revoke their visas,” he said. “And for those who are American citizens — don’t give them jobs. There’s a limit.”

AH! Here he is talking about deporting people for peacefully protesting!!! Deporting them for what they say. For protesting legally.

Since a ad-hominen is creating an argument against a person rather than the positions they are taking and I made a damn good case showing why I take his words with a grain of salt using multiple positions that person takes it makes your claim of it being a ad-hominem hilarious.


There is someone here who certainly doesn't know what he is talking about.
and
I still dont see why you have kept an article up that is based on what a dump supporter is saying. Oh wait, its cause he said one thing that you like and you are more than happy to disregard all the rest he said for some reason.
too funny.






Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
28. The article is based on a disrupted graduation event, not on what a dump supporter is saying. That's why it stays.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:06 PM
Saturday

On the other hand, you making it all about the jewish guy is indeed ad hominem by definition.

And I don't even know what to call the crap you are making up about me without violating DU terms of use.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
29. I never claimed you were violating DU terms.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:10 PM
Saturday

Strawman.
Since the majority of the "disruption" being reported is from the words of a dump supporter I think that bears merit. Especially since the only negative parts of the "disruption" was from said dump supporter. I mean half the crown clapped right? Why was there no reporting on what they said?
Again, too funny.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
30. It is I who is trying hard to not violate DU terms of use when describing the stuff you keep making up about me.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:14 PM
Saturday

But, for lack of viable alternatives, I guess your suggestion will suffice:

Strawman.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
31. "And I don't even know what to call the crap you are making up about me without violating DU terms of use."- from you
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:17 PM
Saturday

When I never said it. Strawman. Try again.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
32. "Oh wait, its cause he said one thing that you like and you are more than happy to disregard all the rest"
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:28 PM
Saturday

Strawman, as politely as I can describe it.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
34. Since you wont share the reason you posted this I have no choice but to come to a conclusion based on your posts and
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:31 PM
Saturday

previous statements on this site. Feel free to disabuse my thoughts.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
35. Look, I'll admit. I miss things, dont see the forrest for the trees that kind of thing. Kind of dense, even stupid
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:34 PM
Saturday

What was your reason for sharing this? For us idiots that have no clue what a strawman is. You can explain it right?

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
37. It was a disruption of a graduation event while college officials were standing by and doing nothing about it.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:43 PM
Saturday

Bur I told you that before, and I am doing it again. And no amount of self-deprecation will change my mind.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
39. Solely on the words of a dump supporter.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:45 PM
Saturday

Nobody else. By their own words half the crowd applauded.

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
42. And the description by the reporter, and the attached video.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:55 PM
Saturday

And on the silence coming from the college administrators who were asked to comment.

Other than that, nobody else.

I am getting sleepy. Good night.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
43. Ah yes, the video that shows people marching across the stage holding banners
Sat May 31, 2025, 11:09 PM
Saturday

Standing there chanting "free Palestine" where counter protestors say "go to Gaza, they will kill you" and the reply is "Zionist Nazi" and the guy that says that also says "dont touch me". I guess its just me but when I am protesting against killing Gaza civilians and the reply is "go to Gaza, they will kill you" when they plainly mean hamas will kill you and I am not protesting for hamas then they are pretty much not in the same world. The reporter never claimed anything bad about the whole situation except from the "go to Gaza, they will kill you" and dump is cool. So,
You did well man. You managed to post an article that all the negative parts of the protest were based on the absolutely beyond a doubt dump supporter to further your narrative.
Hope you are happy.

Eko

(9,283 posts)
40. Half of them were clapping for the protestors, is that doing nothing?. Why are you neglecting to mention that?
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:48 PM
Saturday

Eko

(9,283 posts)
41. I mean, once again, the only negative parts of this are from a dump supporter. You sure you want to keep this post up?
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:54 PM
Saturday

Eko

(9,283 posts)
33. From the bottom of my heart I do want to thank you for sharing the rantings of a crazy dump supporter.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:29 PM
Saturday

Beastly Boy

(12,516 posts)
36. Ok, by now we all know what a strawman argument looks like. No need to beat a dead horse.
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:37 PM
Saturday

Eko

(9,283 posts)
38. Nope, strawman is attacking the person, I showed their positions and attacked that, try again. Why did you post this?
Sat May 31, 2025, 10:44 PM
Saturday

AZLD4Candidate

(6,647 posts)
9. Anti-Semitism is the only bigotry people on both the left and right outright deny exists almost daily
Fri May 30, 2025, 05:18 PM
Friday

And if they don't deny it, they use it for their own political and nihilistic ends.

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