PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by djelf7, Member of the Public, on CUNY's Response to the Lippman Report
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djelf7, a Korean American, provided testimony on CUNY's response to the Lippman report, highlighting the need for broader inclusion of war victims in discussions about discrimination and suffering. The speaker criticized both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict for exclusionary practices and expressed concerns about the definition of terrorism and the use of legal threats by CUNY.
- Emphasized the importance of including diverse perspectives from various war victims in discussions about discrimination
- Criticized professional activists for monopolizing the conversation and excluding other voices
- Expressed concern about how terrorism is defined and the potential misuse of this label
- Highlighted CUNY's use of legal threats to prevent justice, according to the speaker
djelf7
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Hey.
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How's it going?
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Can you hear me?
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Okay.
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It's good.
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Yeah.
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My name is d j l seven.
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It's nice to address, New York City's number one street activist.
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Nice to see mister Dinowitz, and the rest of the panel.
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So I just wanna talk real quick.
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I'm actually Korean American, and we're on the same timeline of manipulations going on with our government as the Israel Palestine conflict.
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And I'm sorry to say that a lot of times we say this phrase never forget, but the fact of the matter is that, Koreans were often forgotten about in the discussion about what happened to my people.
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Not only that, we talk about the, we know that the, Jews were victims of the 3rd Reich, but I'm also working with this Namibian who's actually a victim of the 2nd Reich.
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And we don't talk about their suffering because why?
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Because they're black?
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Now the fact of the matter is that the, the Littmann report has some shortages, and one of those shortages is actually not consulting with other war victims.
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It's as ridiculous as having and both sides are guilty of this.
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I'm not gonna right.
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And, also, to tell you the truth, most of these various supporters are more, willing to have a conversation with me than people on the other side who are actually supposedly Palestinian supporters, but they actually work to exclude people like myself and other war victims.
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Even white war victims who are, Russian and Ukrainian do not get to speak at the war rallies.
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Instead, it's their chosen people.
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There's professional activists who are victimizing the movement, and, honestly, I beg for your assistance as in terms of shutting them down.
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The, earlier, Ina talked about, embracing the new administration and shutting down people who are, labeled as terrorists from getting, funding.
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I'm looking forward to that, but I'm also nervous about how people are, defined as terrorists.
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Now the thing is that there's a lot of hypocrisy on both sides today.
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We heard about people complaining about pictures of guns, but we only Invernikov actually brought a gun to actually a school.
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It but, you know, being a Korean, we also are ready to defend ourselves when we're under attack.
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So I also can, somewhat sympathize with her position.
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You know, you can't just take shots on us for free.
Eric Dinowitz
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But Once again, I just wanna remind the panel this is about the Littmann report
djelf7
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Yeah.
Eric Dinowitz
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And actions at CUNY, CUNY Central, CUNY Administration, not any member of this committee.
djelf7
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Okay.
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So CUNY actually has been engaged once again as has been, repeated multiple times today to use legal threats, to use, manipulations to try to prevent justice from happening.
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And, once again, I just wanna shout out the, Andy Williams who actually was running for US president.
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We once we we have a coalition of people trying to support this.
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He says that the job the federal federal federal funds are given to schools not to determine the politics, but to give them degrees to get make them productive members of society.
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank you so much for your testimony.
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Thank you.
djelf7
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Thank you so much.
