UC Riverside Capitulates to Infantilized Student Protesters Demands

“When will the firings begin?” the Globe asked earlier this week over the Columbia University President’s gross mishandlding of the pro-Palestine protesters. She should have been escorted to her car the day she refused to end the protests.

Following other university pro-Palestine protests, came the California State University Sacramento following in Columbia’s footsteps. CUUS President Dr. Luke Wood (41) gave the protesting students until midnight May 1st to disband… and then capitulated the following morning. When the students did not vacate their campus tent encampment by the midnight deadline, Dr. Wood moved the line – to May 8th. He actually gave the ignorant, infantilized students another week to protest and disrupt the campus.

These school presidents negotiated with child-terrorists – never a good move.

Now we have the University of California Riverside Chancellor Kim Wilcox capitulating Friday to the demands of infantilized student pro-Palestinian activists on campus – more child terrorists.

KTLA 5 reported:

The encampment began on April 29 as protestors occupied the area beside Bell Tower. The movement was led by the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

Protestors demanded the university disclose its investments and funding and that it should divest from companies and institutions that are “complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide” of Palestinians.

There were also calls for UCR to sever ties with Israeli universities, including student exchange programs, according to the Press-Enterprise.

A negotiation meeting took place on May 1 and a planned rally later that day drew several hundred participants to the campus.

On Friday, campus leaders and demonstrators successfully reached an agreement to end the encampment no later than Friday, May 3, by midnight, according to UCR officials.

Joel Pollak at Breitbart said “the UC Riverside chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) portrayed the terms of the deal somewhat differently, claiming triumphantly on Instagram that the institution suspended ‘all study abroad programs with Israel.’”

“In addition, SJP claimed that UC Riverside had committed to boycotting the Sabra brand of hummus. “Sabra” is a Hebrew word referring to a native-born Israeli. Some activists claim that Middle Eastern foods like hummus are “stolen” by Israel from Arabs. (Sabra is based in the U.S.)”

The infantilized crybabies are upset that the school cafeteria serves Sabra Hummus. Let that sink in.

“Chancellor Kim Wilcox told students Friday that the peaceful resolution was ‘a credit to everybody here,’ and acknowledged protest leaders Hibah Nassar and Samia Alkam,” the Press Enterprise reported.

“You couldn’t have better leaders,” he said.

However, the student leaders sounded more resolved than Chancellor Wilcox:

Nassar addressed the crowd of students and administrators. “We made the progress necessary to have all of our demands be met” — she paused as cheers erupted — “to fully end this university’s complicity in genocide.”

“You will all go down in history for today’s victory,” she told the crowd.

Chancellor Wilcox lists as the first two accomplishments on his official resume that he “Added 250 faculty members,” and “Doubled grants and contracts funding.” How many of those faculty members were protesting with the pro-Palestine students, I wonder?

The Press Enterprise reported: “The terms of the agreement released Friday include the forming of a task force of students and faculty to explore the removal of UCR’s endowment from the management of the UC Investments Office, posting public information regarding UC’s investments to the UCR website, and modifying study abroad programs.”

But perhaps even far more important is that Pollak reports that UC Riverside Chancellor Wilcox appears to have violated state law:

“But it is not clear how UC Riverside’s agreement will comport with existing California law that prevents anti-Israel boycotts, known as ‘anti-BDS’ (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) legislation. In 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed AB 2844, which stipulates the following:”

It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that taxpayer funds are not used to do business with or otherwise support any state or private entity that engages in discriminatory actions against individuals under the pretext of exercising First Amendment rights. This includes, but is not limited to, discriminatory actions taken against individuals of the Jewish faith under the pretext of a constitutionally protected boycott or protest of the State of Israel.

The Globe reported, “The BDS movement, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, is a Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. BDS paints Israel as vicious and evil, and says it should be discarded from American investments. It even calls for universities to divest from companies associated with Israel, and has perpetuated the growing anti-Semitism movement lurking on California college campuses.

The BDS movement set up the violence and hate we are seeing today, as did the DEI curriculum which replaced actual educational disciplines in many cases.”

Chancellor Kim Wilcox may want to reconsider his bold negotiations with the student protester “leaders” before wiping the sweat from his brow.

It was just last week that CNN reported that Columbia University banned one of the students leading the university’s pro-Palestinian protests. “Khymani James, a student spokesperson for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition, acknowledged in a post on X that he said, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” saying it was from an Instagram Live video taken in January.

None of this will end well, and the university Presidents and Chancellors are showing what buffoons they really are by negotiating with the child terrorists, because you can’t negotiate with terrorists – especially those who want “death to America” and “death to Israel.”

Remember, Students for Justice in Palestine are a potentially dangerous group, with presence on far too many US universities, as the New York Post map below  shows which universities have Students for Justice in Palestine groups.

“Supporting over 350 Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island (“North America”), we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation,” their website proudly proclaims.

Students for Justice in Palestine lists their Boycott, Divest, Sanction victories including “2014 University of California – Riverside (divestment),” and “University of California – Riverside (Sabra boycott): partially reversed, updated vote in 2017.” There are a total of 15 California universities on the BDS list.

In December 2022, I wrote about University policies which fail to protect Jewish students from Antisemitism, reporting, “Attacks on Jewish student identity doubled this year on campuses across the country, according to a new report by AMCHA Initiative.”

“AMCHA Initiative’s annual campus antisemitism report unearthed an insidious and never-before-exposed phenomenon taking root on college campuses: a pervasive and relentless assault on Jewish identity.”

As we said last week, the governor should have called for the end of the student occupations of our public university campuses. But Gov. Newsom is just another sadistic political elitist who only likes the shiny things, and his own political career.

And this from Elizabeth Nickson: