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The pro-Hamas demonstrations that have become the latest social contagion to afflict the nation, with “encampments” springing up on college campuses across the country to demand “freedom” for “Palestine,” show clear signs of being orchestrated. One telling indication of this is that a massive number of these allegedly grass-roots protesters have identical tents, as if some well-heeled leftist bought them in bulk with the intention of helping this allegedly spontaneous movement get going. The groundwork for what is happening these days, however, has been laid for years. These demonstrations are in large part the handiwork of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) the professional organization of Middle East Studies Professors at colleges nationwide.
The Middle East Studies Association, whose members dominate the Middle East Studies faculties of most colleges and universities in the U.S., identifies itself as “a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom.” That’s all very noble and high-minded, but as is so often the case in academia today, the reality is considerably seamier. MESA is actually a far-left, pro-jihad activist group that gives an academic veneer to Marxist agitprop and Palestinian jihad propaganda.
This is abundantly clear from the 25 items that are currently on the front page of the news section of the MESA website. Two stories are pinned to the top of the page; one is actually on the side of genuine justice and human rights, decrying the Iranian Islamic regime’s dismissal of professors who supported the recent Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran. The other, however, is entitled “Campus Climate Resources,” which gives the impression that it’s propaganda about the myth of human-caused climate change; it’s actually about the “climate” on campus regarding support for the Palestinian jihad against Israel. MESA here offers a grab-bag of links to this article denouncing the alleged “repression of protest on campuses,” the alleged “targeting of Palestinian students in Israeli universities,” and the like. One of these linked articles carries this headline: “MESA Board Joint Statement with CAF [MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom ] regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza.”
That article asserts that “the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel…has now claimed more than 100,000 Palestinians dead and wounded according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.” Despite still being offered by MESA as if it contained current information, it has not been revised to reflect Hamas’ admission that its casualty figures have been wildly inflated, or any indication that the UN still carries on its list of journalists supposedly killed by the Israelis the name of a man who is very much alive. In MESA’s world, only the Palestinian side of the story is told, and it is believed without question. That is what the self-righteous and ignorant students who are in the encampments have been told, and that’s all they know.
It is thus no surprise that the MESA website also contains the organization’s official endorsement of the frankly neo-Nazi Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which emulates Hitler’s National Socialists in boycotting Jewish businesses so as to demonize the Jews and limit their economic power. MESA also calls upon “calls upon the leaders of North American colleges and universities to steadfastly defend academic freedom and to champion freedom of expression—even when the ideas and opinions expressed are unorthodox or unpopular.” This is rich, because MESA members would be on the front lines protesting if a college or university gave a professorship, or even a hearing, to an opponent of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women who spoke honestly about how the Palestinian “resistance” is really a jihad, and about how the global jihad is a quintessentially expansionist, imperialist movement that has denied the rights of “indigenous peoples” the world over.
What MESA is worried about is professors who are open supporters of Hamas facing discipline. Many of those 25 articles on the first page of its news section are letters to or from various universities regarding MESA protesting against the dismissal of such professors, or the disciplining of pro-Hamas students. There is nothing about the pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai getting barred from the Columbia campus, but plenty about how the cosseted toy revolutionaries on the campus lawn are being oppressed and their rights denied.
It’s easy to see, given MESA’s relentless anti-Israel stance, how university students all over the nation have gotten the idea that supporting Hamas’ genocidal jihad is right and righteous. MESA, like the universities where these students are posturing and screaming today, was not always this bad. Its Founding Fellows include groundbreaking scholars such as S. D. Goitein, Majid Khadduri, and Franz Rosenthal. Among its Honorary Fellows were some of the most renowned figures of the study of Islam, Arabs and the Middle East, including Sir Hamilton Gibb, Philip K. Hitti, W. Montgomery Watt, Maxime Rodinson, and Annemarie Schimmel. They have been followed, however, by a rogue’s gallery of academic hacks and propagandists. The pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses are their handiwork.
CharlieSeattle says
Deport all Muslims, citizens or not, from the West. Islam is antithetical to everything America and the west stands for.
Islam continues to attack the Christian world for over 1400 years after Christianity was established peacefully in the middle east 600 years before militant and political islam was spawned from hell.
Domenic Pepe says
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
commonsense says
Domenic, you’ve posted this message many times. It can’t be stated often enough. When will those in charge ever learn, and ever act?
Domenic Pepe says
Commonsense ….
“When will those in charge ever learn, and ever act?”
They obviously are not going to act.
The ruling political class and oligarchs of America are in the process of establishing their treacherous rationale for stabbing Israel in the back for the riches they think will come to them from 1.3 billion Moo–Slums and the blackmailing Islamic OPEC oil blackmailers Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Iran.
Israel has only about 8 million Jewish citizens and no oil or energy raw material resources.
Logic and greed moral corruption speaks loudly.
“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul ?” Matthew 16:26
But for Gaza, Iran, Hamas, the Saudi and Qatar Royal Families, and depraved Islam…?
What a disgrace !
Deborah says
And what is the US Congress doing ? They are very proud that they have passed a bill called the “AntiSemitism AWARENESS Act” and they are still actually debating it as if it makes one iota of difference at all in the midst of this JIHAD in AMERICA ! Our problem in the US is not ignorance of AntiSemitism, it is the willful ignorance of basic right and wrong and shocking COWARDICE among all our so-called leaders in both houses of Congress and certainly in the White House and Government at large. The majority ( 85 %) of good hard-working patriotic American citizens support Israel, the only Democracy in the the Entire Middle East (from which all Jews were forcibly expelled or murdered a long time ago, with NO “Right to Return” ! …and it would appear that we are Israel’s only friend these days, yet the Biden Administration stabs them in the back every chance it gets and takes the side of the Saudis, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and Qatar, while Iran, Iraq, China, and Russia support Hamas and Hezbollah with the $6 Billion from the same US Congress that is allowing all-access passes into our Country by mobs of foreigners who despise us and call out for Death to America and Israel and all of Europe. America has become a shadow of itself, its leaders are shameless traitors and sell-outs to China and the Middle East. Do they think we won’t vote for Donald Trump on NOV 5th even if he’s in prison ? Trump is stronger than ever and so are American Voters. Our own Government shames us all. When they spit at Israel – they spit at us…
THX 1138 says
Christianity was not established peacefully or maintained peacefully. The Christians waged war on the pagans until they wiped them all out.
“… the West’s medieval era was dominated by the church. No dissent from Christian doctrine was permitted. People lived as serfs, bound to their feudal lords, and everyone was bound ultimately to the edicts of the church. People lived in wretched poverty, which they accepted as their necessary fate because they were taught that this world is a sordid place and that man is an execrable creature. They were told that material values are base, that man is destined to suffer, that relief beckons from some supernatural dimension — but only for those who obey God’s wishes in this life. From peasants to to kings, everyone lived in fear of being punished for his sins in the afterlife. Since the church determined what constituted punishable sin, and since it wielded the threat of excommunicating transgressors and consigning them to eternal damnation in hell, it was able to keep people in thrall. They paid taxes to the church, bowed their heads to the clergy and dutifully complied with ecclesiastical directives. Their lives were rigidly circumscribed by church canon. The occasional heretics were tortured and burned at the stake. When various groups were deemed to be deviating from religious orthodoxy, the pope dispatched armies of crusaders to slaughter the heretics.” – Peter Schwartz
Beez says
Your info is stale and irrelevant as usual.
Beez says
Had they truly followed Christ, they wouldn’t have sent those armies.
Brown Wolf says
Yes, Charlie, islam was spawned from hell. What an accurate description of the death cult that is islam.
Edie Norton says
Who let them in America anyway ?? The Muslims hate Christian’s and America is a Christian country . Muslims will kill us in an instant! If I were King I would put all of them on boats and send them back to Myslin land!
Mo de Profit says
Is there an Association of Communist Tyranny professors?
Is there an Association of Marxist Failures professors?
Is there an Association of Scandinavian Studies professors?
Is there an Association of South American Studies professors?
There might be but I suspect they are all very small.
Why the obsession with anything Jewish?
Jeff Bargholz says
I want to take a hands on Coppertone bikini model course. I’d welcome Jewish models along with the rest.
Aslan says
They are right on certain points. Piers Morgan and others have said Israel had the right to attack the Iranian consulate in Syria because there were military leaders there.
The US has a CIA OFFICE in many US embassies,like in Moscow and Beijing,where they plan COVERT military actions against those countries. By their logic those are also legitimate military targets. Not at all.
There is the Vienna Convention of 1961 signed by all countries where embassies and consulates have total immunity. Not even during a war can they be attacked.It is international law and Piers Morgan knows it. If an embassy or consulate is attacked the UN Charter says the attacked country can also attack,it has the right of self-defense. International law,not the ”rules-based” law of the New World Order,Great Reset and neocons.Check out this debate between Piers Morgan and American historian John Mearsheimer on the subject.
He responds to the argument that it was necessary to kill 600,000 German civilians to win WW II. An argument you hear all the time by neocons.
Intrepid says
We really don’t need your stupid “history lessons” ass-licker.
Jeff Bargholz says
Call him “Asshat.” the more of us who do, the more frustrated he’ll get. Maybe he’ll immolate himself in protest. “Free Palestine!”
danknight says
Will do, Jeff! Asshat it is. He certainly is not Aslan! LOL.
Jeff Bargholz says
“The US has a CIA OFFICE in many US embassies,like in Moscow and Beijing,where they plan COVERT military actions against those countries.”
Asshat, The CIA doesn’t plan military action.
The Vienna Convention does not give embassies and consulates total immunity. Diplomats can be elected and sent back to their countries and if they’re used as military bases to attack their host countries, they can be destroyed. Read the Convention instead of regurgitating assigned left-wing talking points. Make up your bi-polar mind whether it’s OK to attack embassies with military leaders of a country at war with America or if embassies in other countries are inviolate.
And if you dislike civilians being killed, why do you support Hamas?
And by the way, each and every member of Hamas is a civilian.
You’re not just evil, you’re stupid.
Aslan says
You are wrong regarding embassies and consulates and the Vienna Convention. The CIA in the American embassy in Chile was involved in the military coup that overturned the Allende government. Of course it plans military actions from inside embassies. For example ALASTAIR CROOKE, former British diplomat, and who worked in MI6, the UK”s secret service, for 30 years,
has said Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate where there were military leaders was against the Vienna Convention and diplomatic immunity. You are wrong.
Hamas is a military organization guilty of terrorism but I believe it can change just like the IRA,Irish Republican Army and ETA,the Basque organization. Hamas wants the liberation of ex-PLO leader MARWAN BARGHOUTI. You have no doubt never heard of him.
He was with the PLO,then left it and is a friend of GIDEON LEVY,editor of Haaretz,Liberal Zionist intellectual. He was a PLO military commander and during the first and second Intifada he was openly against killing civilians.
Only soldiers were legitimate targets. That was one reason why he left the PLO and created his own organization. In 2002 he was captured by the Israeli government which charged him with killing 5 Israeli civilians.Which he says is FALSE and nobody believes he is guilty.
He is,according to the polls, the MOST popular Palestinian politician TODAY.The reason Israel jailed him was he could have become the leader of the Palestinians and brought about the creation of a Palestinian state. The fact that wants him free shows they are willing to cooperate with him. Another detail is there have been talks in Russia between all the Palestinian groups to created a united government, where Hamas would be subordinate to it. Hamas is going the way of the IRA and ETA.
Domenic Pepe says
No depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic swine should ever be trusted for anything.
The 1400 year war being waged by Moo–Slums against humanity needs to be ended with nothing less than their being crushed vanquished and totally defeated.
Domenic Pepe says
Eradicate the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic scourge.
Jeff Bargholz says
That Allende bullshit is a very old lie. Pinochet and the military overthrew that criminal who seized foreign holdings and the CIA had nothing to do with it. As if the Chilean military needed weapons from the CIA, which dumped the weapons it had in the ocean.
Alistair Crooke is as full of shit as you are and every bit as much a Jew hater. Read the Vienna Convention.
Hamas wants to murder every Jew on Earth and that’s in its charter. The only way that will change is when the jihad terrorist organization is destroyed.
Everybody except the most brain-dead of uneducated fanatics knows that Barghouti is guilty.
Barghouti is not a politician and there is no such thing as a Palestinian, much less a Palestinian politician. There is no country of Palestine and no government. Hamas and the PA are jihad terrorist organizations.
Trollfail, Asshat.
TruthLaser says
Allende was removed by the military of Chile, not the US. Your “CIA…involved” does not make it a US military action any more than all the women banging pots and pans in the street to protest hunger due to Allende who was planning a full communist coup.
Beez says
The CIA makes plans in US embassy in Bejing and Moscow. sure >:-D
Roark says
This is the American version of the Khmer Rouge. Make no mistake, given a chance they would kill us all. These are fanatics who need to be put down like rabid dogs.
This is a very grave situation. We must rise to the challenge and demolish them all.
Keith Reese says
You can never give the muslims enough, This negotiating BS is nonsense.
Rob A says
For what it’s worth: you’re an example of someone who’s opinions are formed via a very narrow spectrum of reality. You consciously choose to believe only that which fits your particular philosophical dogma and are dismissive and/or are hostile to anything that doesn’t.
That’s the mindset of a ‘flat-earther’ or someone who would easily rationalize and justify genocide. BTW: how did that work out for Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party?
Jeff Bargholz says
That’s the mindset of every lefty and islamopithecine on Earth.
Aslan says
We have been told for years and decades that Hezbollah and theocratic Iran,being Muslim, have a specific end-times ideology that is the following:
Soon the Mahdi,descendant of Muhammed,the Guided One,will come,accompanied by the Islamic Jesus (who was never crucified not died), to conquer the world for Islam,bring peace on earth,world prosperity,elimination of poverty,resurrection of the dead.
Their coming will be greatly accelerated by,as soon as possible, beginning a nuclear and apocalyptic war against Israel and the West.
And even if Hezbollah and Iran are destroyed in the war,they would all go to paradise as martyrs. Soon to be resurrected,come back to life.
If the second statement were true then Hezbollah and Iran would have attacked Israel months ago, it will soon be 7 months since the war in Gaza began. Months ago Hezbollah would have launched tens of thousands of its 100,000 to 150,000 missiles on Israel.And Iran would have closed off the Hormuz strait and destroyed the world economy, all to accelerate the coming of the Mahdi and Islamic Jesus.
commonsense says
You are correct re: your description of the End Times theological belief of Shi’a Islam. Your mistake is to assume it is untrue because you perceive that Iran hasn’t acted more decisively against Israel and the infidel West. But Iran presumably calculates that ramping up its jihad may well result in overwhelming military force from its infidel enemies, causing it to sustain tremendous destruction. The
jihad would backfire, leaving Iran weakened, bankrupt, and humiliated, with no Mahdi coming out of occultation. And consider the obvious – the Mullahs may not want to die in jihad, their assertions notwithstanding. Remember how bin Laden, lover of jihad and martyrdom, cowered before the American team who found him in his hideout, and how he begged for his life before he was shot?
Nice try, As(s)lan.
TruthLaser says
The rewards of death are for the motivation of followers. The leaders want the rewards of power and plunder on earth.
Rob A says
We’ve also been told for years by a certain political party that their sh*t doesn’t stink. And after all these years, I still remain unconvinced.
Perhaps they should take a good whiff of their own sh*t and discover what the rest of us have always known. Either that or they all suffer from Anosmia which it that case, never mind.
Me thinks the latter applies since the demz and their far left comrades are adept at sh*tting in their hands and flinging it at people in a fit of petulant rage (like chimpanzees in a zoo) which they reflexively resort to quite often.
Just turn on the idiot box to one of the alphabet networks and witness it for yourself! Nary a day goes by when some democrat dumb ass or some far left imbecile isn’t making a complete ass of themself and being a public nuisance somewhere on this planet.
And we tolerate those morons!! Un-freakin-believable!!
Beez says
“Islamic Jesus” is a blasphemous oxymoron and obvious lie.
Jeff Bargholz says
The mullahs are all talk. They don’t want to be nuked or be killed at all. They’re just typical moslem liars.
Hezb’allah and Iran attack Israel on a near daily basis, Asshat, and Iran doesn’t have the capability to close the Hormuz strait or any other body of water.
Trollfail, little jihadi goat raper.
Alkflaeda says
The question is whether the building housing the military personnel really was part of the consulate – my understanding is that it was next-door to it. Perhaps the UN should be asked to look at what constitutes a diplomatic outpost. It could also be worth finding out how the building that was struck was registered for land tax purposes.
Jeff Bargholz says
Reportedly it WAS next door, not that it would’ve mattered.
Alix Brit says
Please troll elsewhere – you sound very ill.
Jeff Bargholz says
It’s probably his AIDS induced schizophrenia.
Edie Norton says
Since when are we a New World Order?? That’s something the Satan globalists want. Not us Americans
Jeff Bargholz says
They think Psuedostinians are oppressed “brown people” and Jews are the white oppressors. They also get all their misinformation about Hamas and Israel from Hamas, the SJP, CAIR, the PA, et cetera. Either that or they’re all possessed by the shade of Edward Said.
TruthLaser says
Nothing Said said was true.
Beez says
I’ve seen a grainy photo of BO and Said.
Jeff Bargholz says
Was BO bent over?
Jeff Bargholz says
That’s exactly so. “Orientalism” was a load of shit from start to finish.
Jeff Bargholz says
And MESA, of course.
sumsrent says
“Why?”
Because America was behind 911… allowing it to happen…
Why? To create the Fake War on Terrorism…
Why? To create world wide immigration under the guise of persecution…
All the while… America has been paying churches to house satanic worshiping muslims…
saturating America with muslims…
Thus… what we are witnessing… is how muslims are everywhere with a voice for satanic islam…
satan’s New World Order is growing under satanic islam…
Rob A says
There’s a “cure” for that problem if only we has the will and the fortitude to apply it. The “cure” can be found on the periodic table (e.g, element 82 & depleted 92.)
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, an enema with both would be ideal.
David Gin says
Robert interesting article also in an Israeli paper this morning, In an interview from 2017, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emirates warned that without enforcement against extremists who immigrated from the Gaza Strip, countries in the West will become “hotbeds of terrorism”. Now, in the shadow of the wave of demonstrations against Israel on campuses in the USA where manifestations of support for Hamas were seen, his words have gained exposure renewed, he responded simply, “I told you so.”
Eva says
Countries in the west are already hotbeds of terrorism.
Name one where the moslems haven’t been killing and raping.
These Jew-hatred marches also fall under under that banner.
Steve Chavez says
ACTUALLY, FOR, AND EQUAL TO, IRAN!
What’s the difference?
“Wipe Israel off the Map!” “From the River to the Sea!”
EXPOSE this to University Presidents and beyond. They scream of genocide and yet, they are promoting it, which also includes on Universities, where they are happy some are closing… they win and they’re proud thinking they’ll be remembered by history as a Civil Rights movement.
This MUST be exposed in all talking points. Know any reporter/host in the media, repeat it.
These American, and World, protesters are siding with IRAN, their numerous proxies that will soon be setting the World on fire once their Sleeper Cells awaken, yes, including here. Every Mosque is a Sleeper Cell whether members know it or not but there are a core group ready to strike. When the alarms ring, every one of them will join the Jihad. How do you stop them when now, you can’t even mention one? That’s Islamophobia. Can’t profile them! So, they’ll destroy our country with ease… what weapons? What the Democrats gave to BLM… matches and gasoline. Notice that not one Democrat condemned the burning down and looting of our cities. They’ll side with these Jihadists, and that’s including Biden. Behind the curtain… Obama! He also wants to be remember by history as The Man who brought down an Empire. He’ll be cheered by billions and only hated by millions!
Jeff Bargholz says
Obama didn’t even plan policy in his own administration and couldn’t have if he’d wanted to because he’s lazy, incompetent and of sub-par intelligence. He doesn’t seem to have any imagination, either. The whole conservative notion that he’s a criminal mastermind who controls Alzheimer Joe is nonsensical.
Alzheimer Joe’s handlers are thousands of times more radical than Bareback Hasbeen Osama ever was.
Rob A says
In other words, Joe Biden is just a puss filled zit on Obama’s azz. Obama himself is numbskull who is slick and charming but not that bright and was, is and will always be just a puppet who’s strings are pulled by the ruling global elites.
Beez says
BO is the greatest fraud and traitor in human history.
Eva says
Agreed.
I’ve never been able to see the kenyan as the ‘man’ behind all this.
He’s just some subpar feral without the wit to toe his own shoelaces.
Ditto his ‘wife’ and ‘daughters’.
Eva says
Tie his own shoelaces.
Damn lousy spellcheck!!!
Beez says
Correct. BO is the great traitor, and this is his 3rd term.
John Bumpus says
Many of these so-called ‘protesters’ are not the academic, scholarly type–many are not even university students. They are just paid thugs. Probably many of them are from the ANTIFA and BLM cadres that we saw in the George Floyd riots of a few years ago–they are the same people. These are the George Soros funded ‘show me the money’ Brown Shirt ‘street fighters’ of the Marxist Democrat Party. Why is this being done? Well, if you noticed, this is being done on university campuses in ‘battleground’ States in the hope that the Biden Administration can be coerced into abandoning whatever support it might otherwise give to Israel. The people behind all of this (the ‘big money’ people and the pols behind this) are radical leftists–I will just ‘cut to the chase’ and call them what I think they really are–Marxists and communists who want to fundamentally change what the U. S. and the countries of Western Europe are. Will this strategy succeed? These people are betting that it will.
Steve Chavez says
TRUE… I attended a protest about three weeks ago at UNM in Albuquerque, sponsored by ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation. One of the leaders, of this public group so I will name him, Bob Anderson, a former prof who I have known since the ’80s during the NM Peace Council days. (The U.S. Peace Council run by CPUSA. The World Peace Council, the KGB!) He has been banned from campus so I called UNM PD who took him off campus. The leader of The Party for Socialism and Liberation was JOEL MARCOS GALLEGOS, on Facebook, “Marxist-Leninist!” Most were young with the leaders, Anderson, in his seventies, Gallegos, in his thirties. EXTREMELY RADICAL HATERS!
I talked to several of the younger ones, eight of them said they were pro-Hamas.
Several of them were taking photos of me, I said, “Make them into good dart boards.”
These men are NOT the ultimate leaders, the real one is GERRY BRADLEY who recruited students in the ’80s with one being COLUMBIA’S JOSEPH MASSAD! See how radical he is! Surely he’s encouraging the tent cities and radicalism. There was a petition of up to 35,000 signatures that demanded he be fired. That was months ago, so higher? THIS PROVES HE’S AT THE TOP OF THE RADICAL LIST! That’s who I’m dealing with here!
Jeff Bargholz says
It’s obvious from a few minute’s worth of observation of the videos that the vast majority of those jihadis aren’t students.
Beez says
In their day, BO and Chandoo did those rallies too.
Edie Norton says
Wow! You’re the first one I read that knows American politicians started the attack in NY. George Bush Jr was in on it and George senior was involved with the killing of JFK. Our politicians really suck sometimes, except Trump, He loves America and wants to make it a great safe country again. But the politicians and the Satan Globalist stand in his way. All this someday might cause another Revolution
Ron Kelmell says
Given more than 60 years of anti-American, Marxist indoctrination in the university system, how can these protesting gutter punks and parasites be a mystery?
None of them will make their way in the world without government/parental crutches.
Jeff Bargholz says
Actually, government “service” has countless of those gutter punks and so do NGOs, et cetera, which is why they’re so noxious.
SPURWING PLOVER says
We don’t want violent mobs of Hamas bottom Feeders rampaging through the Streets burning down Jewish Churches we need a end to the Brainwashing and Open Borders
Sebastian says
Why has anti white and anti Americanism been allowed on campuses for decades? With no pushback, or very little, from white conservatives and white Jewish folks? All the liberal millionaire Jews didn’t blink an eye at CRT, DEI, etc, being taught on college campuses. Yet, when it became clear all these schools allowed and agreed with the demonization of Jews, and supported Hamas is when they stopped donations.
We all knew what these universities were becoming, and yet, everyone was complacent if it didn’t affect them personally. Hypocrites!
Carly Smith says
Because…that’s what college students do (I truly believe they just want to get out of classes). Remember the 60’s-70’s…I was a college student at the height of the Vietnam protests. Most of the kids (and a lot of the professors) just saw it as a chance to party.
Alkflaeda says
I don’t get the impression that the protestors in the sixties and seventies were as vicious as this, though. Or that the authorities were afraid to set at least some limits.
Beez says
They were just as vicious, just fewer in number. Reagan did act.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, Reagan did, and he announced his actions with panache and dignity.
Fifth Column says
The Muslim Student Association of North America has chapters on hundreds of US and Canadian university campuses, at community colleges, and in high schools. They have been operated since 1962. Throughout the year they continually hold rallies, sponsor pro-PLO and pro-Hamas guest speakers and films. The Arab Student Union (same people) does the same.
Both groups functioning a school funded student clubs. You don’t need a MESA program on campus. Total immersion.
Alkflaeda says
My sister was at a UK college in the 1980’s. She is not sympathetic to the Christian faith – but she used to say that she noticed that the Muslim organisations always routinely tore down the notices on the Christian Union’s noticeboard. That was what they could get away with then – and this is what their influence has blossomed into now.
Jeff Bargholz says
Reportedly, the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine were the main organizers of these tent camps and riots and Soros and the Tides foundation were the main donors but whenever jihadis Vs. Jews and Israel are involved the Jew haters crawl out of the sewers.
Maha says
We are witnessing another iteration of the “Red Scare. Let me be clear; the warnings of McCarthy constantly maligned by the media and Hollywood were actually short of the real threat posed by infiltrators into government, and, of course college campuses.
Islamist supporters, whether they’re actually Marxists using Islamism as a divisive tool to create chaos, or actual Islamists who want the death or enslavement of all non-Muslims, or mentally warped students pretending to care about a hot button topic on campus, all pose a clear and present danger to America’s Jewish population and the rest of the nation and infrastructure at large.
As a nation we will need to wake up and create a House on Islamic Activities Committee pretty damn quick. Currently, the only push back most of these Islamists and fellow travelers are getting is coming from Anti-Semitism.org, which is great work, but far to small of an effort to solve the problem.
Domenic Pepe says
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
TRex says
Good idea but we are more likely to see an Islamophobia Committee given the sissies who populate our Congress. The Islamists were emboldened when “Dubya” threw open the door after 9/11. The nation will be lost before one could find more than a handful of Congress people to participate in an Islamic Activities Committee. A committee looking into anti-abortion grandmothers protesting outside of infanticide mills will come before anything having to do with Islamists.
Alkflaeda says
Perhaps we should start a reverse BDS movement – one where we commit to choosing Israeli goods where the choice is available. Given their reputation for technological innovation, we would not be sacrificing quality for our principles.
Peter Arnone says
While the term has been over-used, the fact remains. Students have been “brainwashed.” And they need to be confronted with it in no uncertain terms.
Walter Sieruk says
The reason why campuses have gone “all out” for Hamas is because insidious stealth jihadists gaining power and influence of those high positions institutions of “higher education” must, obviously, be accepting “gifts”, bribes, from persons from foreign oil rich countries.
Likewise many universities and colleges across the United States and in the United Kingdom have been thoroughly infiltrated and influenced by the insidious stealth jihadists.
There may be little doubt that those stealth jihadists are backed and funded by Qatar as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia.
Beez says
One of the 1st was BO.
Walter Sieruk says
One of the reasons that many campuses wickedly embraced Hamas and spitefully hate Israel is because Qatar has infiltrated and influenced many universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and across the United States.
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia also has m, no doubt, its insidious part in the influence for Islam in the UK and the US.
So now those “institutions of higher education” have indoctrinated many young impressionable students to be very anti-Jewish , ant-Israel and even pro- Hamas.
Domenic Pepe says
You are absolutely correct in identifying the “Royal” Families of Saudi Arabia and Qatar as having a big role
in influencing and creating the anti-Semitism that is now rampant in America and the UK and Europe.
Islam itself is the enemy of America and US citizens and the West.
Islam is depraved psychopathic murderous and berserk.
The Saudis and Qatar use their oil money to capture the Universities and other American institutions and to brainwash naive stupid students into believing outright falsehoods and spreading their anti-Semitism.
The scourge of Islam has come to America.
Wake up America and US citizens. Defend and protect yourself before it is too late.
Beez says
IMO, Salman is likely the anti X.
Domenic Pepe says
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Here is the situation in America now:
More than half of the population and the electorate have been successfully and irrevocably brainwashed by the woke leftist depraved psychopathic berserk hate-America democrat party and the MSM and the educational system.
That is why morally corrupt scum like Biden and Obama and the Clintons and Pelosi and Schumer and Schiff have been elected and remain in power.
Truth is no longer even a remote consideration by these traitorous treacherous enemies of America and US citizens.
They literally lie and fabricate whatever nonsense they believe will be effective in destroying their political opponents and harming America.
High Tech and A.I. will be, and is being used, to make it very much easier to create lies and distortions of the truth.
The political and cultural and educational and oligarchical ruling classes in America have become largely depraved psychopathic morally corrupted and berserk themselves. If that were not true America would not be in this current situation of suicidal decline and appeasing its enemies, particularly the Islamic OPEC blackmailers that include the depraved Saudi and Qatar Royal Families as well as the psychopathic Islamic Iranian Ayatollahs and Hamas butchers and virtually the entire evil hate-filled supremist Islamic cult.
The American ruling and political class is now in the process of reassessing its core moral values and alignment and commitment to Jews and Israel. and Freedom and Liberty itself.
They see the 1.3 billion Islamic swine and third world hordes as a great source of future profits and the oil and energy resources of the Islamic OPEC blackmailing criminals as far more attractive and profitable now than the mere 8 million Jews in Israel.
So, the American, and European ruling class are now in the process of establishing a rationale to abandon Israel and Jews in order to go all in with the berserk murderous Islamic OPEC blackmailing Royal Family scum.
The legacy of American Freedom and Liberty and Truth is being destroyed from within and without.
With already more than half the USA population morally corrupted and brainwashed, is there any chance at all of saving America now from the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic scourge, and the Mexican aggression and INVASION and the murder of 100,000 US citizens every year by Mexican manufactured drugs/fentanyl?
Robert L. Kahlcke says
Because the’re part and parcel of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization.
Death To Hamas.
Kasandra says
The question asked by the column’ds headline is, indeed, profound. These people are not protesting in support of the Red Cross, or the ASPCA. They are marching in support an openly and overtly anti-Semitic, genocidal, terrorist group. It is simply amazing. I can’t believe these people don’t know who Hamas is and yet these students are supporting them and calling for them to prevail in a war they launched on October 7. It is grotesque and reveals the moral depravity of the Left.
Roark says
This is the American version of the Khmer Rouge. Make no mistake, given a chance they would kill us all. These are fanatics who need to be put down like rabid dogs.
This is a very grave situation. We must rise to the challenge and demolish them all.