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Jordan's avatar

This article contains many inaccuracies.

No one should defend Jonathan Yudelman as his actions were abhorrent.

Hilda N.'s avatar

It's clear that the video was carefully edited to omit the likely pro-terrorist behavior by the Muslim female who had nothing to say about Oct. 7.. Towards the end of the video, you see her getting on her bike. Why did she approach the pro-Israel rally? Why was she there?

What did she say or do before she was yelled at? Clearly you, like many others on this thread, opine without full context.

Sak85's avatar

There has been a plethora of pro-terrorist Israelis crashing peaceful Palestinian protests. I would love to see your reaction had any of the Palestinian protestors acted like this filthy pro-Israelli terrorist. These were two grown men attacking women; and here you are finding ways to defend them by making things up. Would like too see this predator do the same to a man his size.

Deeznuts's avatar

He approached and intimidated a woman. Like a coward that he is. Whoever sees him should break his teeth

Brian Cox's avatar

Your argument is the dumbest one yet. Its like saying....

"What did the jews say or do before the Nazis decided to exterminate 6 million of them during WWII? Clearly you, like many others on this thread, opine without the full context".

Now do you realize the stupidity of your argument? Nothing justifies such behavior or reaction, neither by Hitler nor by this stupid Yudelman.

Yusuf habib's avatar

The only party who are known to miscontrue and alter mediums to accommodate their propaganda are the zionists. You're clearly too emotional and fail to understand you've been propagandised.

Bob's avatar

No they were not. He was rightfully angry. He expressed that anger. That is our right.

Deeznuts's avatar

It is also your right to get your skull cracked for disrespecting someone like this. This is not Palestine buddy, you dont have a clue who you are dealing with.

I’m bob's avatar

Yes I agree, Yup it is your right to throw your body at women and to throw a temper tantrum like a 3 year old girl.

Bob's avatar

Thank you. Finally someone who understands.

Alisa's avatar

The question is why would anyone care to defend him? I'm a Jew and I'm ashamed by "Dr" Yudelmen's behavior.

Hilda N.'s avatar

Look at the video. DO you have the full context? What happened immediately before the video shows Yudelman getting excited? Why was the Muslim female, who had nothing to say about Oct. 7, at a pro-Israel rally?

Improv's avatar

There are very few contexts where walking threateningly at someone like that would be okay. It doesn't matter why she's at the rally. People are allowed to counterprotest things. I've done that a few times in my life, and that doesn't mean I'm asking for violence or that physically threatening behaviour against me would be okay.

Hilda N.'s avatar

My point is that we don't know what the Muslim female did right before Yudelman because the video does not show the full incident. All of those making judgments of Yudelman are doing so without full context. She got off easy being called a "bitch". Jews have been beaten on American campuses and prevented from attending classes, not to mention the women raped and mutilated on Oct. 7. The Muslim "bitch" should be thankful she can express her antisemitism and anti-Americanism without risk of being treated like her comrades treat Jews and Americans.

Improv's avatar

Your reply seems self-sabotaging if you're both trying to say that we don't know what happened before the video and somehow *also* saying she got off easy.

What we see is physically threatening behaviour from Yudelman. It's hard to imagine things that may have happened before the video started that could justify it, but I suppose maybe if we worked at it we could imagine something. Absent evidence, we have to consider as well the more likely possibility that Yudelman lost his temper, or that he stopped treating her as an individual and somehow saw her as responsible for things she didn't do (like your irrelevant mention of things that happened in another country in another year).

We shouldn't assume she's antisemitic without evidence. Likewise anti-American (which seems like a bizarre claim to level).

Deeznuts's avatar

If she is a Muslim “bitch” You are a jewish “bitch” simple as that. Go to Israel dirt bag

Alec Rawls's avatar

He has all the right enemies. It is a badge of honor that I hope can buoy his spirits as he battles back against the racist, communist, Islamofascist trash that is after him.

How dare he push back against Jew-hatred? The Texas legislature should end tenure and order that every professor and administrator who supports the Oct. 7th terrorists be fired.

Benjamin's avatar

This is America bud you don't like free speech or the right to demonstrate, leave. Go join the IDF instead of asking our officials to put a foreign nation before the constitutional rights of our citizens.

Phil Oliver's avatar

There's no "constitutional right" whatsoever to intimidate Jews on campuses, to take over buildings, to completely disrupt the university's operations. And if you're yakking about free speech what exactly was HE exercising eh?

Benjamin's avatar

Brain dead and blind. Did you even watch the video? Physically intimidating someone especially a female is never ok wether practicing her constitutionally protected right to protest Zionism, Shariah or Lesbian Leprechauns. She clearly tried walking away numerous times and he continued to follow and intimidate her. He's a pussy with pussy tendencies and only a pussy would be OK with what he did. Are you a treasonous paid shill or just someone who hates our countries freedom. Whether stemming from lack of intelligence, being conditioned by daddy that its ok to intimidate woman or your obvious innate hatred for freedom and our constitution, your in denial of truth. Even with video your in denial of the truth and any moral principles. Which leaves one to believe you are willfully ignorant and any further engagement would be fruitless and in vain.

Deeznuts's avatar

He is a coward and a perfect example of Israel and their policies with Palestinians. He saw she outnumbered and scared and he pushed on. Had it been a group of men, he would have been quiet as a mouse.

Hilda N.'s avatar

It's clear that the video was carefully edited to omit the likely pro-terrorist behavior by the Muslim female who had nothing to say about Oct. 7. I do hope that those defending the Hamas supporter, are as outspoken about condemning all the terrorist supporters that have been destroying property and harassing and beating Jews on American campuses or do you call it "peacefully protesting"?

Jakob Macitosh's avatar

Lumping Jews in with Israelis is ignorant at best.

Influence through Confluence's avatar

Intimidation is only for thee, not for me? And Jews are protesting against the genocide too. Don’t forget that. Or you get to define who is a Jew and who isn’t now, do you?

Jakob Macitosh's avatar

Not sure how I found this creepy corner of the web, but there seem to be a ton of backwards ass hillbillies here. Wth?

Influence through Confluence's avatar

Free speech doesn’t mean getting physically aggressive you dimwit. Honestly how many times you are gonna bend over backwards and bend the rules as you fit? Might makes right and perpetual victimhood much?

Alec Rawls's avatar

State schools are themselves an unconstitutional violation of the guarantee of a republican form of government. Republicanism means the people are sovereign. They tell government what values to pursue (the priority of liberty being the first value, if the majority retains a small "r" republican ethos), the government does not tell the people what the correct values are.

As soon as government got into the education business, it was inevitable that the universities would be captured by some political faction and would start using its authority over students to start imposing its ideology as a state religion.

It was captured by our now fully communist Democratic Party, which has been indoctrinating K-12 students with the most insane eco-lies for 50 years. "Capitalism is killing the planet! [First by causing global cooling, then by causing global warming], so we have no choice but to go commie."

Higher education added to this the DIE anti-values. DIE is the actual order. First it was "Diversity," judging people by their skin color instead of by their individual character and merit, then "Inclusion," meaning no one can offend anyone, which would mean no speech at all, because everything offends someone, so they limited it to nobody can offend anyone more marginalized, which ultimately means rule by the tiniest minority ("trans," which in DIE territory now get to dictate everyone's speech).

Democracy has been called "the worst system of government, except for all the others." Minority rule is the worst of all the others, the very worst system of government possible. It is what the long battle for liberty, culminating in America, was escaping from.

"Equity" replaces another actual value -- equality of opportunity -- with another pure anti-value: equality of outcomes. As Federalist 10 explained, equality of outcomes is the annihilation of liberty. That's because people have different capacities, and choose to use their liberty in different ways. That is the whole point of liberty. People can do what they want, immediately leading to large and growing inequality.

We are forced to choose. Moral people choose liberty. Those who favor communism (the system of universal slavery) choose equality of outcomes.

At every turn, the communists' fake DIE "principles" are polar opposite to actual values, and they are being imposed through an unconstitutional inversion of the fundamental republican principle that the people are master government is the slave.

Until we can eliminate these un-republican institutions, they should at least be responsive to the electoral will of the people. Racist, communist, Islamofascist professors can have free speech, but they have no right to it on the public's dime.

We are in a situation where we can only try to choose the lesser constitutional violation. If public universities are going to exist, that constitutional violation is mitigated somewhat when state legislatures are free to make sure that at least the universities are not captured by minority ideologies that are grossly at odds with the views of the majority.

Ryan's avatar

Imagine taking the insane manifesto that you wrote alone in your own faeces, and typing it up.

Alec Rawls's avatar

Sounds like Ryan is going along with the communist DIE anti-values without having a clue what they are. I'm guessing he is one of the many who got duped into leftism starting in elementary school by the eco-lies that CO2, released by capitalist burning of fossil-fuels, is causing catastrophic global warming. Is that it Ryan? They got you thinking that by being a leftist you were helping to save the planet?

Influence through Confluence's avatar

How dare he physically harass and verbally assault unarmed an innocent woman? You seem to have anger issues? What’s “racist, communist, Islamofascist”? What does that even mean and what’s that got to do with the truth that he was physically harassing someone? Have you considered zen meditation? You seem to be a fitting candidate for it.

Alec Rawls's avatar

Yudelman seems to be claiming in the video that she started it. I'm guessing she was shouting something like Jews are not welcome on campus and should "go back" to somewhere (since Yudelman said she should "go back to Jihad"). Maybe she made some Maxine Waters' type "get in their faces" comment?

To judge whether he was unreasonable, I would need to see what she had been doing and saying. Pursuing her conversationally, if she had indeed been saying inflammatory things herself, does not by itself seem unreasonable.

Unwise maybe, but maybe it was called for. If she was calling for the mass murder of Jews, wouldn't it be reasonable for someone to call her a bitch to her face?

P. S. AM doesn't know who the racists, the communists and the Islamofascists are? Haha.

All orthodox Muslims are Islamofascists. That's small "o" orthodox, following the orthodoxy of established sharia law, which calls for endless aggressive jihad, with endless mass murder, mass slaving, mass sex-slaving, mass pillaging, and mass extortion, of all non-Muslim peoples until all the world is under Islamic law.

Communism and fascism are, of course, the same thing, (international socialism and national socialism), with insignificant differences, akin to the difference between Sunni and Shiite Islam. The real difference is just in the competing claims as to which Islamic faction, or which communist/fascist faction, is the "legitimate" totalitarian ruler of all mankind. None of them are, of course.

And pretty much all totalitarian movements are racist. The current racist, communist, Islamofascist, alliance is racist against Jews, whites, and Asians.

Is AM really ignorant of the "anti-whiteness" of DEI? (Chronologically, DIE.)

"Anti-whiteness" means being against what white people created, for example: the actual values of liberty, majority rule, equal protection of the laws (or individual justice), and equal opportunity (the opposite of the equality of outcomes that DIE embraces as one of its fake values).

The commies are anti-white as a cover for being anti-liberty. People of other races who don't want to be enslaved (or enslaved again), take note. If you don't want to fall under the yoke of the communist/fascist system of universal slavery, you had best start appreciating the race that fought to end chattel slavery a hundred and sixty years ago.

Born into a world of slavery, America ended it four score and seven years later, and together with England purged it from half the world. That other half of the world is trying to make a comeback, and anyone who sides with the slavers now is a moral pervert of the highest order.

David R Henderson's avatar

You write, "To judge whether he was unreasonable, I would need to see what she had been doing and saying." So would I. I hope Bradley would too, rather than assuming.

Arjun Singh's avatar

Yes, exactly! What prompted this outrage and response from the esteemed professor of ethics. I am sure you asked the same question what happened before October 7 that led to October 7? I am sure you did. Maybe time to ask again now rather than assuming.

Jimmy Basu's avatar

Go back to Jihad 😂.

I found it funny more then offensive, I am a muslim and Jonathan let emotion get the better of him. I hope he learns a lesson from this and actually takes the time to research Islam because he clearly doesnt understand it.

I also believe in forgiveness and I hate this new cancel culture.

Plotinus's avatar

I saw the video. I consider myself a friend of the Jews. But I have no sympathy for such behaviour. He was caught on tape and the whole world saw how he comported himself with women.

Jakob Macitosh's avatar

Who wrote this absolute pile of garbage?

Benjamin's avatar

The irony of a Former IDF soldier teaching Great Ideas in Politics and Ethics. Should we really be suprised he behaves like this?

Alan's avatar

I case he needs it I have $1000 towards his defense. Just tell me where to send it.

Benjamin's avatar

You can give $100,000 still won't erase the video showing the world he's a P.OS. trying to intimidate a female by forcing himself on her while she is practicing her constitutionally protected right to demonstrate. Maybe it makes you feel more like a man to support someone with the same abusive tendencies towards woman but it will add nothing to your intelligence or fill the hatred and emptiness in your heart.

Jakob Macitosh's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡

C. Bradley Thompson's avatar

Very generous of you. I know he's talking to a lawyer. Please feel free to communicate with me via email if you'd like to support him.

Influence through Confluence's avatar

"The whole thing was entirely performative and self-evidently a set up. That’s abundantly clear.". Who are you to say this? besides, a professor teaching courses about Political Theory doesn't know how to control himself from getting physically aggressive with a woman, and call her a "bi*ch"? I wonder what else are you really okay with defending? Besides, the worst of all was his ignorance, shouting at her with "go back to Jihad"!! ROFL

Carrie-Ann Biondi's avatar

It would seem that FIRE is the place Prof. Yudelman should turn to.

Barbara Bradley's avatar

I hope the University of Austin stands by him. That is just what this institution should be about — not caving to the leftist-fascist mob.

Evelyn McElroy's avatar

Did you even read the article? If you did, you would know it is Arizona, not Austin. Figures - facts do not matter to people like you.

Ryan's avatar

What are you talking about? I'll give you a hint: you don't know.

James's avatar

The point of what this Jonathan yudelman did, is he thrust himself onto a woman. Regardless of reason thats sexual assault. Thats a pervert who should be locked up.

Millie Pierce's avatar

The statement that he was "a guy who got caught up in a protest on his way to work" is not accurate; in his own words to a televion news crew from the Phoenix NBC affiliate, he was at the protest because he felt that as a faculty member, he should support the pro-Israeli demontration. It is as a faculty member that his behavior is most concerning. He teaches undergarduates in a subject matter in which there are likely to be frequent class discussions in which students may express a wide variety of points of view, and some of these will possibly differ strongly from his own beliefs. He should be of a temperament to handle such a discussion calmly, and may also need to the personal skills to enable him to calm students who become overwrought in such a discussion as well. Yet the video shows that he clearly lost control of his emotions and nearly backed a young woman into the street. Is this the person one wants to see teaching young people? Can you imagine if that were a student, backed literally into a corner of a classroom, by the professor of the class for expressing an opinion with which he disagreed? This man should not be teaching. https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/asu-scholar-on-leave-after-video-of-incident-with-woman-in-hijab-posted-online-210467398001

The Iron Shiek's avatar

Waiting for the piece defending Harvey Weinstein

Arjun Singh's avatar

And don't forget about Jeff Epstein!

Justice Free's avatar

Louis C.K. was just using the loo

Don Fulano's avatar

So while faculty around the country are screaming Death to America, there are bad actors who are actually pretending that THIS is beyond the pale? Give me a friggin’ break.

Halal's avatar

Who is screaming death to america lmao 😅

Phil Oliver's avatar

Maybe you should look harder.

Don Fulano's avatar

It was so bad that the White House had to publicly condemn the chants on Michigan campii, but I guess the news didn’t trickle down to the low info voters.

Halal's avatar

I mean here you are defending a man who physically intimidated a woman and called her a b*tch because some people are yelling death to america somewhere else so maybe people are not buying your bs anymore. Low info voters lmao

Don Fulano's avatar

It’s not a defense of this man who I don’t know, it’s a comment about proportion, and the idiots who would blow up this incident of a man yelling at a woman who provoked him into something outrageous, while thousands of people are committing felonies as they protest against America. LMAO low info morons

Ryan's avatar

I think he's asking you for evidence, which I imagine you're having difficulty finding. The only chant that's being condemned is "From the river to the sea". The White House cannot produce any proof for the claims that are being made, yet there is video everywhere. I can find video of every claim against Israel, or Biden, but none for the claims you are making. What's wrong?

Don Fulano's avatar

It looks like Phil Oliver has you covered in his comments above...

Low info indeed.

Naaman Dolphus's avatar

He was properly DOXED!!!