Trump corruption. No surprise.

@ElwoodBlues

@sunsporter1649 Wassamatta sunstroke, freedom of speech got you down???

@ElwoodBlues And of course, the freedom of Jewish students is immaterial, after all, they are just Jews, right?

@sunsporter1649 says Please enlighten us, sunstroke, In what way have the freedoms of Jewish students at Harvard been in any way impinged???

Please explain!! Also explain how cutting $ billions in NIH research contracts at Harvard Med School helps Jewish students at Harvard College. Seriously, how does that help??

@sunsporter1649 I wonder if Netantahu's genocide in Gaza might have something to do with the hostility?

I don't condone violence and those responsible should be held accountable.

You're likely too young to recall the student protests against the Vietnam war and police brutality....some of us lived it.

@sunsporter1649 Source??

Your right-wing blogs will print anything; have you got a reliable national source for any of that??

Also, you ducked the 2nd part of my question. Please explain how cutting $ billions in NIH research contracts at Harvard Med School helps Jewish students at Harvard College. Seriously, how does that help??

@ElwoodBlues Those are headlines, makes it easier to look up, which you will not do since you buy into the bullschiff that nothing happened to the Jews at Harvard

@sunsporter1649 I was in HS, then attending college during the biggest mistake in US foreign policy, aka the Vietnam War.....until Iraq happened.

Those who fought and died in Vietnam (and Iraq) died for nothing. Those who fought and came home broken physically and mentally, did so for nothing.
Those who returned unscathed....though I doubt it is even possible any did....served for nothing.

@JSul3 Yup, another demonocrat party policy failure, one of many

@sunsporter1649 says So you won't divulge your source?? Not surprising🤣😂

Please explain!! Also explain how cutting $ billions in NIH research contracts at Harvard Med School helps Jewish students at Harvard College. Seriously, how does that help??

@sunsporter1649
Sport, you might want to read a history book.

Eisenhower sent some 700 U.S. military personnel to South Vietnam in 1955 as military and economic advisors to support the new non-Communist government, though he notably refused to commit larger American combat forces in 1954 to aid the French at Dien Bien Phu.

The Vietnam debacle covers the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

GWB sent us to Iraq. How'd that go?

President George W. Bush initiated the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001, attacks, with military operations launching on October 7, 2001, to overthrow the Taliban and dismantle al-Qaeda. Over the course of the war, presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden all sent additional troops to the country for various reasons before the eventual U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

@JSul3 Look up Operation Ranch Hand

@sunsporter1649 Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon.

@sunsporter1649 says So, again, you can't provide sources for those claims. Good to know.

How about another form of evidence: court records. Have any arrests been made in those alleged cases? Any suits filed? Have any Jewish students transferred away from Harvard due to conditions there?

Lemme guess: you have NOTHING in the way of court cases or transfers; all you have is fourth-hand uncheckable storytelling!!

@ElwoodBlues

BOSTON, April 29, 2025 – A Brighton BMC judge on Monday ordered two Harvard graduate students to perform 80 hours of community service and complete an anger management program for an October 2023 assault of a fellow student during a protest on the Harvard Business School campus, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced.

As part of his pre-trial diversion decision, Judge Stephen McClenon also ordered the students, ELOM TETTEY-TAMAKLO, 28, and IBRAHIM BHARMAL, 28, to attend an eight-hour class on conflict resolution.

Assistant District Attorney Ursula Knight objected to any resolution that did not include a statement of accountability from the defendants and recognition of the harm they caused the victim, Yoav Segev, who Knight said had done nothing wrong.

A Brighton BMC clerk magistrate on May 8, 2024 issued criminal complaints alleging that Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal surrounded Segev as he walked through an October 18, 2023 pro-Palestinian protest on the business school campus. They covered his head with keffiyehs and shouted “exit” at him. They and others surrounded Segev, jostled and assaulted him, chanted “shame, shame, shame” and blocked Segev’s path.

McClenon issued his order after hearing a victim impact statement read by Segev, a first-year business school student at the time of the incident.

“After they assaulted and traumatized me, they refused to take any responsibility for their actions. They could have reached out to me to apologize. They did just the opposite. They took their case to the media, slandering me in the process. They publicly declared that they were ‘proud of their actions,’ failed to cooperate with law enforcement by identifying their fellow assailants, and have failed to show an ounce of remorse or take any accountability whatsoever,” Segev said.

“Their assault was not a rash incident at a bar,” Segev continued. “Their actions and public commentary afterwards demonstrate that the defendants believe they were acting in a private security capacity and are above the law, using force to determine who can and cannot be in public spaces—deciding to exclude the visibly Jewish student.”

Hayden said every resident of Suffolk County has the right to move freely, the right of free expression, and the right to be free from physical harm, and that his office will act when any of those rights are criminally impeded.

“Mr. Segev is an entirely innocent victim. He did nothing wrong leading up to this incident and nothing wrong during this incident. He had a Constitutional right to walk across the campus of his school without being accosted or assaulted. As such, we were prepared to go to trial to seek accountability from the two defendants and justice for Mr. Segev,” Hayden said.

Although McClenon ordered pre-trial diversion absent his office’s requested statement, Hayden said he was pleased that in imposing both a community service requirement and an anger management program, McClenon recognized the harm to Segev and his right to cross his campus freely and safely.

@sunsporter1649 Good for you, you found one single case. And there may be a handful of others. Let's follow up on that.

This incident resulted in "80 hours of community service and ... an anger management program." Sounds like two INDIVIDUALS were responsible for bad behavior and were duly punished. Sounds like it had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Harvard Medical School!! Also sounds like the issue wasn't worth $2 billion!!

I've got more to say on this, but we both recognize I'm going to have to spoon feed it to you!!

@ElwoodBlues One of two Harvard students who assaulted a Jewish classmate during an anti-Israel protest in October 2023 has been appointed as class marshal by Harvard Divinity School at the upcoming graduation ceremony.

This comes just three weeks after the other assailant was awarded a $65,000 Harvard Law School fellowship to work at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

The Harvard Law Review website says its $65,000 fellowship goes to recent Harvard Law School graduates “with a demonstrated interest in serving the public interest through their work and scholarship.”

In October 2023, Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo surrounded a Jewish student named Yoav Segev and covered him with keffiyehs while shouting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” as he tried to free himself and said “don’t touch me.”

While Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo originally faced a criminal trial, Boston Municipal Court Judge Stephen W. McClenon dismissed the charges at the end of April, instead ordering them to attend “pre-trial diversion” anger management courses and perform 80 hours of community service.

Segev told the court that “they refused to take any responsibility for their actions” and that they had launched a media campaign against him in an attempt “to mischaracterize me as the aggressor.”

Monica Shah, Bharmal’s lawyer, told the judge, “It was not hands-on. It involved a scarf, and there’s no physical injuries.”

The same week as the judge dismissed the charges, the Harvard Law Review awarded Bharmal the $65,000 fellowship, and then this week it was reported that Tettey-Tamaklo has been appointed as marshal.



Assault a Jew, get rewarded, it's the American way, right?

@sunsporter1649 What "assault"??
It's in your own post. The judge dismissed the charges!!

BTW, is Harvard discriminating against Jewish people? The US population is 2.4% Jewish. Care to know what percent of Harvard students are Jewish??

According to Hillel International, 9.8% of the undergraduate population is Jewish; from the same source, approximately 10.5% of Harvard's graduate students are Jewish.

The data doesn't support your allegations of discrimination. NOT AT ALL!

You also ducked a crucial question: Sounds like it had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Harvard Medical School!! Also sounds like the issue wasn't worth $2 billion!!

Why would the tRump admin halt $2 billion in funding for Harvard Med due to incidents that have nothing to do with Harvard Med???

@ElwoodBlues

@sunsporter1649 Pretending a "charges dismissed" case is an assault -- THAT is grasping at straws!!

@sunsporter1649 Still ducking the question, aren't we sunstroke🤣😂

Why would the tRump admin halt $2 billion in funding for Harvard Med due to incidents that have nothing to do with Harvard Med???

@ElwoodBlues U.S. Supreme Court Upholds HHS’ Decision to Withhold Federal Grants as a Consequence of Oklahoma’s Failure to Comply with Federal Requirement for Abortion Counseling

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order which will allow the Biden administration to withhold $4.5 million of federal funding from the Oklahoma State Department of Health. This decision is one in a wave of cases that has flowed from Dobbs, which eliminated the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, involving disputes over state abortion restrictions and federal grants.

Federal money is distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to family planning clinics through Title X service grants. In 2021, the Biden administration issued a rule that requires Title X fund recipients to offer pregnant patients information about where abortion services may be obtained. The Oklahoma State Department of Health was a beneficiary of a Title X grant in 2022. However, following Dobbs many states, including Oklahoma, not only prohibited the abortions, but also made it a crime for any person to try to persuade a woman to obtain an abortion.


Ok for you to do, but not ok for others, eh?