How a CCP-Controlled School Tied to Beijing's Nuclear Weapons Program Infiltrated the University of Minnesota

Last November, University of Minnesota vice provost Harvey Charles traveled to Guangdong, China, to tour Sun Yat-sen University, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled college known for its top business school. It marked the first time a University of Minnesota delegation had visited the school since COVID, though Charles made clear that any geopolitical tensions stemming from the pandemic did not weaken his relationship with his Chinese counterparts.

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University of Minnesota Used Police To Stop Violent Anti-Israel Mob. Professors Called the 'Militarized Response' an 'Overreaction.'

University of Minnesota professors condemned school administrators and law enforcement for stopping a violent anti-Israel mob that stormed a campus building, destroyed property, and barricaded doors, trapping terrified employees inside." This sort of overreaction is a direct result of the militarized response that this administration has adopted," political science professor Teri Caraway said during an Oct. 24 Faculty Senate meeting.

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'Blatantly Supporting Terrorism': Anti-Israel University of Minnesota Students Storm Campus Building, Trapping Employees Inside

Anti-Israel student protesters at the University of Minnesota stormed a campus building Monday afternoon using furniture to barricade exit doors, trapping staff inside and demanding divestment from the Jewish state.

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Scholar Who Accused Israel of Genocide Will No Longer Lead University of Minnesota Holocaust Center—But May Become Professor as Consolation Prize

The University of Minnesota has rescinded an offer to run its Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies to an anti-Israel scholar who has accused the Jewish state of genocide and downplayed anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses. But that scholar, Stockton University's Raz Segal, could still join the school as a faculty member.

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He Accused Israel of Genocide Days After Oct. 7. The University of Minnesota Tapped Him To Lead Its Genocide Studies Center.

On Oct. 13, just six days after Hamas terrorists infiltrated the Jewish state and slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis, Stockton University professor Raz Segal penned an op-ed accusing Israel of genocide. Months later, the University of Minnesota tapped Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, prompting resignations from members of the center's advisory board.

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Video shows horde of radical anti-Israel leftists attack elderly driver in Minneapolis, try to drag him out of his car, then chase him down



Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators took to the streets of Minneapolis on Sunday, waving Palestinian colors and at least one Hamas flag as part of a leftist coalition's "Stand with Palestine" rally. The demonstrators blockaded the intersection of Hennepin and Lyndale avenues and Vineland Place, forcing drivers to wait through a so-called "die-in" protest of Israel's war on Hamas terrorists.

An elderly man in a white Ford Fusion attempted to bypass the blockade. His efforts did not go unpunished. The mob swarmed and viciously attacked him. Despite his encirclement, footage of the incident appears to shows the driver exercising restraint and slowly edging forward until free from the swarm.

The driver's ability to bypass the initial leftist blockade further incensed demonstrators, who chased the driver down and once again attacked his vehicle.

A Minneapolis Police Department spokesman told Newsweek that "various witnesses reported a vehicle driving through the crowd, and one caller reported the sound of a gunshot. ... At this time, there have been no reports of injuries related to the demonstration, and no victims have come forward."

The MPD spokesman was unable to confirm whether the road that appears to have been illegally blockaded by the leftists was closed at the time of the incident. However, footage of the rally does not appear to show any indication of barriers or signage raised by authorities suggestive of an official closure.

Organizer Meredith Aby told MPR News the blockade was an effort to "keep people from driving through this area, because we didn't want people to get hurt by a car ... because there were thousands of people who were in who were overflowing from the park. And so we were trying to protect the, you know, the space around the protest."

In an aerial video of the incident, the driver can be seen flanked by protesters, including one with a terrorist flag, and stuck behind a truck and an SUV that were parked in wedge formation to block the way forward.

Demonstrators can be seen attacking the vehicle and pounding on the glass.

At the 5-second mark, the driver momentarily exits his car with a small knife in hand and accosts the protester who last kicked his car door.

The mob seizes on the driver's exposure and moves in. The old man narrowly makes it back into his car and begins edging forward while radicals attempt to tear him out of the Ford Fusion.

At the 28-second mark, a radical can be seen grabbing the driver through the window and attempting to yank him out by the neck. The old man manages to fight off the attempt and backs up, but again finds no opening.

Finally, the SUV blocking his way forward backs up just enough to create a way out, which the driver of the Fusion gladly takes.

The ordeal is far from over, however. The driver makes his way down the avenue only to find himself at another blockade. While he idles at the corner of Hennepin Avenue and Groveland Terrace, crazed protesters stampede toward him.

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At the second intersection, anti-Israeli demonstrators, including a bandana-clad male with a Hamas flag, resume their attacks on the white car.

One demonstrator says, "He not going nowhere now!"

The driver figured otherwise, pulling away, then driving clear of the rally and to safety.

Alpha News reported that dispatch audio captured at least two MPD supervisors instructing officers to avoid the area and stay "out of sight" even after there were reports of the vehicle driving through the protest and possible shots fired.

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As of Sunday night, no arrests had reportedly been made. The police are reportedly investigating the incident.

According to Newsweek, the rally was organized by the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, the state chapter of the American Muslims for Palestine, and the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota. On the day of the protest, the MAWC retweeted a post that states, "Israel does not have the right to defend itself against those whom it occupies."

An agenda document on the group's site indicates that in addition to opposing Israel, the organizers support unchecked abortion; voting rights for illegal aliens; prohibitions against pipeline construction; ending cash bail; community control of police; and more taxes.

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University of Minnesota student leader caught on video telling peers to place fake police calls to make life hell for cops



A member of the University of Minnesota's student government was caught on video imploring her peers to make the lives of police officers "hell" by placing bogus calls for help.

Lauren Meyers is the chief financial officer of the Minnesota Student Association and the co-chair of the Office for Student Affairs Mental Health committee. During a video conference with fellow members of the MSA, Meyers instructed her fellow student government members to use several tactics to "annoy the s*** out of" campus law enforcement.

During the video call, another student asked Meyers, "When you say disrupt UMPD, what exactly do you mean by that?"

Meyers replied, "Make their lives hell. Annoy the s*** out of them. Like, use up their resources, make their officers show up to something."

Here it is. We received a copy of the video that was deleted from Reddit.#UMN Student Association Rep Lauren Meyer… https://t.co/BfMTWJFV7R

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The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and Law Enforcement Labor Services issued a joint statement on Tuesday, where the police unions called for an investigation into the situation and warned that making phony 911 calls can be a felony.

"Minnesota law prohibits using emergency calls to report a false emergency or crime, and claims that lead to serious injury or death is a felony publishable by 10 years imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of $20,000," the letter reads.

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association Executive Director Brian Peters added, "Actively planning to thwart UMPD by generating false calls for help is insulting to the overwhelming majority of the campus community that rely on public safety services."

"Last month the campus community had 13 incidents of aggravated assault, 52 burglaries, 22 car thefts, 4 sexual assaults, numerous thefts, and a murder on or near campus," Peters continued. "We're frustrated that elected student leaders would purposefully choose to stir further division to make the campus less safe."

Law Enforcement Labor Services Executive Director Jim Mortenson said, "Everyone deserves to be safe, and advocating to impede police from assisting victims of crime is mindboggling."

The police unions called for an outside agency to "conduct a criminal investigation into this incident to determine if charges are warranted."

Meyers' comments were reportedly made while MSA members were discussing a recent letter the student government sent to University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel. The letter demands the resignation of University of Minnesota Police Department Chief Matt Clark.

The letter alleges that Clark has failed to increase "campus safety and wellness" for students of color and allowed the "utilization of UMPD as a physical arm of the oppressive state to subjugate and silence community members."

In the letter, the Minnesota Student Association threatens "direct actions" if "our demands are not met."

Two members of the University of Minnesota's student government denounced Meyers' comments, according to Alpha News.

"We are two members of the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) Executive Board and we wholeheartedly denounce the comments that were made during the April 14, 2021 Executive Board meeting regarding police interference on campus," students Andrew Knuppel and Morgan McElroy said. "We call upon our fellow student leaders who have stayed silent over the last 72 hours to denounce the comments made in the clip that's been widely circulating in the media."

"To achieve any progress on critical campus issues such as police reform and campus safety, elected student leaders should strive to engage with administrators and campus law enforcement collaboratively," the MSA members added. "The public comments made by our colleague, unintended or otherwise, have cast a dark shadow on what should be a constructive dialogue among elected student government leaders, the student body, administration, and other stakeholders."

"The University respects the autonomy of the Minnesota Student Association as an independent governance organization for undergraduate students, including the autonomy of its membership to speak freely," a school spokesperson told Alpha News. "However, in this instance, the University unequivocally disagrees with the ideas expressed about disrupting UMPD's daily work. These ideas are illegal and would directly conflict with ongoing efforts to keep our campus community safe."

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University of Minnesota offers 12-step AA-based webinar to help people ‘recover’ from being white



The University of Minnesota's School of Social Work is offering a special webinar series in which white participants are instructed to undergo a 12-step plan — based on Alcoholics Anonymous — in order to "recover and reclaim our full humanity."

The 12-step plan is outlined in Part 1 of the series, titled, "Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community," and is taught by therapist Cristina Combs, a university alumnus.

According to the project's website, Combs, a white woman, developed the plan "after years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys."

"In this model, we are, in fact, centering whiteness, but we are centering it differently: to expose it, study its patterns, and to transform its violent legacy," Combs said at the outset of the lecture, according to the College Fix.

She noted that she is "on traditional Dakota land," in reference to the Native American tribe that settled in Minnesota, and also acknowledged "George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all of the other lives stolen from families and communities and our world due to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence."

At one point during the lecture, Combs asked, "What comes to mind when you hear the term, 'white supremacy?'" She then proceeded to show images of the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalists before replacing their images with a picture of herself.

She commented that she used to recoil at the term but eventually realized that this was only her ego. Now she says, "Stepping into that tension and accepting my connection to white supremacy has been a freedom of sorts to show up in better alignment with my values and do the work for the rest of my life."

At last, she unveiled the 12-step recovery plan. It goes as follows, as shown in the powerpoint for the lecture:

Step 1: "We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy—that ourminds were subject to racial biases, oftenunconsciously so."
Step 2: "We came to believe that we could embrace our ignorance as an invitation to learn."

Step 3: "We develop support systems to keep us engaged in this work."

Step 4: "We journeyed boldly inward, exploring and acknowledging ways in which white supremacist teachings have been integrated into our minds and spirits."

Step 5: "We confessed our mistakes and failings to ourselves and others."

Step 6: "We were entirely ready to deconstruct previous ways of knowing, as they have been developed through the lens of white supremacy."

Step 7: "We humbly explored new ways of understanding…proactively seeking out new learning and reconstructing a more inclusive sense of reality."

Step 8: "We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking."

Step 9: "We develop strategies to counteract our racial biases."

Step 10: "We embraced the responsibility of focusing on our impact, more than our intentions, in interactions with people of color."

Step 11: "We engage in daily practices of self-reflection."

Step 12: "We committed ourselves to sharing this message with our white brothers, sisters, and siblings…in order to build a supportive recovery community and to encourage personal accountability within our culture.

The project's website notes that the lecture is available for continuing education credit so long as participants pay $25 and complete a post test.