Leaders of Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest movement held a press conference on Tuesday, saying they want the students occupying Hamilton Hall to receive “humanitarian aid” so they “die of dehydration and starvation.” “He expressed his desire to prevent this from happening.
On Tuesday night, the New York City Police Department entered the building and made arrests, but the wish list for this protest leader and her ultra-privileged and radical allies is to listen and listen. , still very beneficial.
Some may find it interesting.
A reporter asked her, “Why is the university obligated to provide food to those who occupied the building?”
She replied, “Well, first of all, we’re here to say that we have an obligation to provide meals to students who have paid for the meal plan.”
That is correct. meal plan.
The reporter went on to say, “You said there was a request to bring in food and water.”
If you didn’t think the protest leader, who wore the familiar keffiyeh scarf, the near-required attire for anti-Israel college students, lacked self-awareness before, she’ll let it all hang out from here. Masu.
“It’s to allow carry-in,” she said. “So, I think ultimately it’s a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia University feels to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation, or do you want them to die of dehydration and hunger? Do you want students to get seriously ill even if they don’t agree with you? Then we should allow the basics. It’s weird to say this because I’m in the middle of nowhere, but this is kind of the basic humanitarian aid that we’re asking for, can you please give people a glass of water?
Reporters, refreshingly, didn’t buy it.
“But they … very intentionally put themselves in that situation, in that position. So you say, ‘We want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, come on, bring us some food. I feel like I’m saying, ‘Why don’t you do it?’” And what about water? ”
A protest leader replied: “No one is asking them to bring anything. We are asking them not to violently block the arrival of basic humanitarian supplies.” Ta.
When another reporter asked if Colombia was blocking food from reaching protesters, a protest leader said: “We want a commitment from them that it won’t stop… …We don’t know to what extent that is being done.” We’ve tried, but we’re looking for commitments. ”
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Post-Millennial protest leader responds to journalist Jordan Schachtel’s video added to X “I did a quick search and discovered that this woman, who declined to give her name, was named Johanna King Slutsky. She is a paid lecturer and doctoral candidate at Columbia University. , which studies “theory of imagination and poetry interpreted through a Marxist lens.” ‘No, I’m not making this up. ”
post-millennial generation report King-Slutsky was listed on Columbia University’s website as a Ph.D. However, the page was missing by Tuesday evening. According to the paper, King-Slutsky’s biography reads: “My doctoral dissertation concerns the fantasy of boundless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination of the period 1760-1860. “It is to write a prehistory of the metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits that has been caused.” Under Capitalism, I am particularly interested in theories of imagination and poetry interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose a historicist ideological critique of the Romantic imagination. Before joining Columbia University, he worked as a left-wing political strategist. He remains active in the higher education labor movement with progressive ideas. ”
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King-Slutsky has a long career history. In January, she attended an event where the UAW chief spoke. “Johanna King Slutsky, a graduate student at Columbia University and a member of the student union within the UAW, was one of several attendees who shouted ‘ceasefire now’ during Fain’s speech Monday afternoon. The union called for a ceasefire in Gaza in December,” WHY reported.
“So far he has done nothing to win my vote,” WHYY magazine reported King Slutsky as saying, adding, “He has done nothing with urgency to stop the genocide in Gaza.” It’s because they’re not taking action.”
In 2021, she participated in the graduate student workers’ campus strike.
This story has been updated.
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