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Stating the actions of the Israeli government and calling for a ceasefire is, hate speech.. 🤦 People like the letter author truly are racist. It's just good ol' a part of this ethnicity believe X, therefore all people of this ethnicity believe X.

Rule 1 of donations ... once you give the money away you have zero right to judge how it's used and how the administration chooses to run their business/institution.

Fuck rich people and their ham fisted power.

Not only fuck this guy but fuck CBC for giving him a platform.

NGAF. You know how shitty it is trying to use your money to silence dissenting opinions?

"I gave you money so if you disagree with me you're disrespectful"

That's really how it works for rich people isn't it? And they're so out of touch they don't realize they should keep that shitlord opinion to themselves.

Should fund education with public money.

Fuck the rich asshole that thinks they're entitled to control speech.

When the system is set up to survive on rich people donations, then these rich people have the real power and free speech.

oh yeah I really care what this asshole who’s got his daddy’s name scrawled all over some building thinks about words said in that building in particular. Fuck off.

Here's what I think is the relevant part of the video, sorry about the source.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1cubttt/university_of_manitobas_2024_medical_school/

...disparaged Jewish people as a whole...

No, laughably no. It's possible to disagree with the speech's characterization of Israel's actions in Gaza, specifically whether or not they are intentionally targeting hospitals and whether or not they are committing genocide. But to say that the speech disparaged Jewish people as a whole is just factually wrong. It also feeds into some really wrong and anti Semitic tropes of Jewish control of the media etc. Really bad call by Rady.

You're either massacring civilians with us, or you're against us!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

"Newman's speech not only dishonoured the memory of my father, but also disrespected and disparaged Jewish people as a whole," said Rady's letter, sent to U of M president Michael Benarroch and college of medicine dean Dr. Peter Nickerson.

Approximately two minutes of Newman's nine-minute address focused on the war in Gaza and called for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, which began after an Oct. 7 cross-border attack on Israel led by Hamas that killed roughly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 others hostage.

The Israeli military operation has also triggered a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, displacing roughly 80 per cent of the population and leaving hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of starvation, according to UN officials.

"I'm sure that some of you here today are worried that you might face censure for speaking about the genocidal war that Israel is waging on the people of Palestine, that it could jeopardize your career before it's even begun," Newman said in his speech.

In the letter, dated May 20, Rady chastises the university for allowing Newman "to spew these hateful lies to a captive audience" and then posting the video "for all to see."

Newman said his valedictory address was critical of a government engaged in a campaign of collective punishment of the Palestinian people that has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, calling Israel's actions a "horrifying and disproportionate response" to the Oct. 7 tragedy.

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Be prolific if they petitioned to get the name changed

Israel is waging a genocidal war.

So is Hamas.

It’s just that before October 7th, Israel was only waging an apartheid war against a genocidal Hamas. Since then, Israel has done nothing more than step up to the same plate that Hamas was standing on all along, and since pretty much it’s inception.

It’s an ESH situation, with civilians caught in the middle.

Unfortunately, I have not seen any objections by Palestinians against Hamas, or by Israeli citizens against their government, which makes both civilian groups passively complicit in the two-way genocide in much the same way that German citizens in the 1930s were also complicit with Nazi atrocities.

They’re both responsible.

They’re both at fault for voting in such monstrous “leadership” willing to commit the most barbarous acts in order to destroy the opposing side at all costs.

So they claimed!