So it seems if you want to send your child to college or university without having to sell a kidney to afford the tuition and spend the evening in a motel soaking in an ice bath is to protest on campus in support of a radical Islamic terrorist group and demand the annihilation of Israel. Do that and poof! Instant scholarship. School’s paid for and you get to keep all of your internal organs.
That’s the message being sent by Northwestern University who have waved the white flag to the demands of anti-Israel demonstrators who are currently occupying the Deering Meadow on campus. According to National Review, the school’s president, Michael Schill, which is a deliciously ironic name, along with the rest of the leadership at the university, have agreed to the demand put forth by the dolts by offering scholarships to Palestinian students.
While not committing to divesting its endowment from companies that do business in Israel and ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, the university released a list of concessions in a celebratory statement Monday afternoon in exchange for the removal of the encampment on the lawn.
Most notable among those concessions is a promise to offer full-ride scholarships to Palestinian students and guaranteed faculty jobs for Palestinian academics.
“The University will support visiting Palestinian faculty and students at risk (funding two faculty per year for two years; and providing full cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern for the duration of their undergraduate careers),” the document goes on to say. “The University commits to fundraise to sustain this program beyond this current commitment.”
As National Reviewreported in March, over 70 percent of Palestinians support Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel and 75 percent support Hamas as the governing body of the Gaza Strip.
The pushovers at Northwestern have also stated they will provide a “house for MENA/Muslim students” and will “advise employers not to rescind job offers for students engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment.”
Keep in mind, this deal between Schill, who is an actual shill it seems, and the protesters includes an individual who actually assaulted a student journalist who was trying to capture the scene on video. Another concession that was made in the deal concerns oversight of the school’s relationship with supplies and the investment of its endowment.
“The University will include students in a process dedicated to implementing broad input on University dining services, including residential and retail vendors on campus,” Northwestern’s leadership wrote, as well as forming a committee on “investment responsibility” with “representation from students, faculty, and staff.”
The deal Northwestern struck with the protesters — who hung a sign showing a crossed-out Star of David on the lawn’s fence — has drawn condemnations from a variety of groups and individuals.
Shockingly, the Anti-Defamation League, which catches a whole lot of flack for focusing so hard on alleged right-wing antisemitism that they ignore the same kind of behavior coming from Islamists and the radical Left, put out a statement about the agreement, referring to it as “reprehensible” and “dangerous.”
“The agreement between Northwestern University leadership and encampment organizers is reprehensible, dangerous, and a case study in failed leadership,” the group’s statement said. “For days, protesters violated campus codes of conduct and policies, intentionally fanned the flames of hate and antisemitism, and wreaked havoc on campus life. Instead of holding the perpetrators accountable, the university rewarded them. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t true.”
The Israeli consulate located in Chicago also put out a statement about the agreement on social media platform X, saying that the school had “declared itself a safe space for Antisemitism.”
“We are appalled by Northwestern’s decision to turn its back on Jewish and Israeli students who have been targets of hateful harassment and intimidation,” the consulate wrote. “This decision rewards the pro-terror, anti-Israel, and anti-American aggressors on campus. This appeasement agreement is a dark day in Northwestern history.”
Political commentator and alumni of Northwestern asked if their will be “any consequences for people who knowingly violated” campus policy, “especially the students and faculty who resisted NUPD on video, and the individual who assaulted a student journalist on video.” If I were a betting man, I’d put a whole lot of dough on the answer to that question being a big, fat “no.”
One of those Northwestern employees who violated university policy is Steven Thrasher, chair of social justice in reporting at the Medill School of Journalism. With a history of unsavory comments about Israel — comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany and transatlantic slave traders — and a thread posted on X immediately after October 7 in which he justified Hamas’s terrorism, Thrasher was one of several Northwestern professors to join the encampment and the most visible.
When police at Northwestern tried to tear down the tents and get rid of protesters not long after students and faculty started to occupy the lawn, Thrasher and other professors were caught on video fighting with officers.
The dude actually admitted to this in a speech that he gave to those who were protesting, saying:
“King went up against the American empire. And so have you. You have gone up against the American empire,” he said. “It might feel scary at times. Because, in essence, a colonial war of occupation is playing out on this lawn. The empire has not just struck back at our efforts; it has hit extremely close to your homes. And when the university became an imperial battle site, the administration wanted to side with the warmongers instead of with you, the peacemakers.”
Thrasher then went on to describe for the crowd gathered on the lawn some communications with the son of Hassan Zaid, a former Houthi official, and then gave a sermon that presented his view of journalism.
“To the Medill students and journalists within ear shot [sic], I say to you: our work is not about objectivity,” Thrasher remarked. “Our work is not about ‘scooping’ one another. Our work is about you putting your brilliant minds to work, and opening your compassionate hearts, and linking your arms together understanding all of our fates are interconnected.”
You should never, ever negotiate with terrorists. And that’s what these protesters really are when you think about it. Guess they are just emulating their heroes in Palestine.