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You can tell a lot about a person, or a movement, by the friends and allies he, she, or it picks up. The anti-Israel protesters who have made their ignorant, shrill, and self-righteous presence unavoidable on campuses all over America are no different. They have just picked up a few high-profile friends, ones that reveal as much about the movement sweeping university campuses as anything the protesters have said or done.
First, there was Hizballah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem, who recently waxed enthusiastic about the protests, saying, “When the American people take a stand in support of Gaza … we salute and applaud them. We appreciate and value this very much. … The [campus protests] are important, especially because they will have an impact on the U.S. elections. They will have an impact on the American position. Even if Biden says that he will not be influenced by this, he will whether he likes it or not. We will see him taking actions because of the protesters’ influence on him.”
Whatever else he may have to worry about as it continues to inch toward full-scale war with Israel, Hizballah doesn’t have to waste time worrying about Old Joe Biden. The Biden regime is clearly deeply worried by the protests, as well as by pressure from leftist and Muslim leaders about getting Muslim votes in November. That’s why the aged corruptocrat has been so energetically betraying Israel.
Nor will praise from al-Qaeda and Hizballah won’t turn Old Joe and his henchmen from the course of action they have chosen. Hizballah is listed by Old Joe’s State Department as a terrorist group, but by now, they’re used to siding with America’s enemies.
Another terrorist group is likewise pleased with the youthful fellow travelers on campus. Not surprisingly, al-Qaeda also praised Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis: “We were happy, and every Muslim was happy, with these revenge attacks and operations carried out by the youth of the Islamic nation, especially the heroes of the revenge action in the land of Canaan.”
Revenge attacks? When did Israel do anything like what Hamas did on Oct. 7? Never, of course, but al-Qaeda and other jihadis, as well as their leftist sympathizers and enablers, relentlessly claim that Hamas was simply retaliating after decades of oppression.
There has in reality been no oppression. Every single Israeli, civilian as well as military, left Gaza in 2005, and the Gazans were completely free to make their green and pleasant land into a new French Riviera. Instead, they turned it into a jihad base, with a staggeringly complex array of terror tunnels and frequent rocket attacks against the Jewish state.
Those rocket attacks, as well as the billionaire status of Hamas leaders, also demonstrated the falsehood of the oft-repeated claim that Gaza was an “open-air prison” or even a “concentration camp.” Did the inmates of Buchenwald, Dachau, or Auschwitz fire rockets into National Socialist Germany? Did prominent Jews enrich themselves in the camps to the extent that they became among the richest men in the world?
Al-Qaeda also presents the Oct. 7 massacre as “revenge” because of Islamic theology. In classic Sunni theology and law, only the caliph, the successor of Muhammad as the ruler of all Muslims worldwide, is authorized to declare offensive jihad. Yet there has been no caliph since the secular Turkish government abolished the caliphate in 1924.
But all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that when a non-Muslim force enters a Muslim land, defensive jihad becomes the individual obligation of every Muslim (fard ‘ayn) rather than a collective obligation of the entire umma, and need not be declared by anyone. So if Hamas was simply exacting “revenge” and defending itself, the implication is that all Muslims have the obligation to join Hamas’ jihad.
Al-Qaeda continues in accord with this idea: “We call on the youth of our nation,” that is, the umma, the global Islamic nation, transcending all national boundaries, “to follow this blessed path… outpace them with the number of operations and the force of strikes and to fill the hearts of the children of Zion with terror in retaliation for the blood of our oppressed people in Gaza.”
After that comes al-Qaeda’s praise for the student jihad sympathizers and leftist dupes who have come out for Hamas: “While we support the assassination of the infidel Zionists and the beheading of them, we also appreciate and value the movement of Western demonstrators and sit-in students from Western universities, who through their sit-ins and protests expressed their rejection of the genocide taking place in Gaza.”
Praise from not one, but two murderous jihad terror groups should give the self-righteous pro-Hamas students pause and make them reconsider their fanatical hatred of Israel. But it won’t.
Kasandra says
And one of the main reasons it won’t is because they are Leftists and the Left has no moral brakes or guard rails on its behavior. When they proclaim, “by any means necessary,” they mean every word of it.
Steve says
Which represents a signal rarity, leftists telling the truth. Anything else they say is a lie.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Anyone who agrees with these mobs of Anti Semitic brownshirts should be sent to the French Alps for aa few years without a Shelter or food
john blackman says
contrary to netanyahus pledge to eradicate hamas there are those in his war cabinet who are backstabbing his efforts to do so . added to the left in israel you have jews in the current criminal admin. in washington wanting a deal with hamas . so much for the fight against terrorism as long as its not about winning . biden and his band of imbeciles and miscreants are no friends of israel . that any jew would vote for the democrats is a mystery . but then they are safe in the u.s. and dont have to worry about being murdered everytime they step outside their houses .
JS says
No one is safe from the Islamic claws now enveloping the United States. READ MEMRI.org and subscribe for their updates that no one should miss! No one is safe from discrimination in the workplace or now in a doctor’s or dentist office. I was threatened and nearly attacked in my workplace by eight Islamic men that came into my office to sign papers to bury their relative and because my last name “looked like an Israeli name.” This was at a cemetery and it was a close call and happened in 2003. it’s hard to imagine what would happen now. Even back then Islam demanded their own cemetery section within the cemeteries and made demands of that the cemetery place bushes and hedges to form a soft of wall against the other ‘infidels’ buried there. They also did not allow what the cemetery requires, which is a person from the cemetery to be at the burial to make sure all went well. No! Especially if it was a woman. In fact, even while burying a woman no woman be it sister, daughter, mother was permitted at the gravesite. These MuslimOnly sections have been happening throughout the U.S. since 2003 and can’t imagine the way they are today.
They’re not just after Jews and that needs to be remembered. This is simply a ploy to take America – and the world! If one was reading MEMRI.org BEFORE Biden one would understand this was their plan all along. Surely you’ve seen what they’re already doing to the churches in the U.S.? If not, pay attention.
You should also read and subscribe to MEMRI.org and see what they’re saying and doing right here in the U.S. and throughout the world. Go to Sermons by Imans in the West and hear how they’re promising war on the U.S. and all infidels . Also, go to USCIS.gov (our immigration dept) and see how Biden is breaking every law in the U.S. and who they’re bring in and making sure they can vote in 90 days of them stepping across the border!
If any of you love your freedoms in the U.S. and don’t want to live under Islamic tyranny, it’s time to start paying attention and act! Don’t leave it to your children.
Rip N Read says
“the Gazans were completely free to make their green and pleasant land into a new French Riviera.”
Thank you.
Angel Jacob says
The protests didn’t start out of nowhere.
They were planned long before Oct 7 attacks.
The propaganda and lies ae the bigger part of the islamic war on the civilized world.
Islamists count on wining every war because of their propaganda agents.
The free world does NOTHING to confront those terrorist supporters. The “freedom of speech” is being used to the fullest against natives to destroy the nations from within.
The funny thing is, the same freedom is taken away from the natives. Nobody can criticize islam, the root cause of all terrorism.
Charley says
Far from oppressing the Palestinians, Israel has done more to benefit the Palestinians than any Arab country not to mention the gangsters that run PLA and Hamas.
Robert L. Kahlcke says
“DEATH TO HAMAS”
God Bless Israel.
Moshe says
And let’s not forget death to the “Jewish” collaborators:
Jewish Voice for Peace (actually for Palestine)
Not in My Name
If Not Now
Neturei Karta
They are, and should be treated as, mortal enemies of the Jewish people.
JS says
These types have been around in every conflict throughout history. According to many historians these are the people that Islamists count on, just like the count on the LGBTQ community. They also are the first to be eliminated.
Cia says
Did ISIS not establish a genuine caliphate in 2014, with Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as its caliph? Tens of thousands flocked to Syria to live in the new caliphate, which many believed was the most divinely-ordered society in the world. Even Al Azhar University said it adhered to Islamic law.
JS says
Does anyone here know that the U.S. is the largest financial supporter of Syria and we’ve even brought in their refugees? Go look at USCIS.gov and see the people/groups that signed a letter to make sure they get an Extension to stay in the U.S.
Biden tells us nothing. They hide what they do (or as a requirement) by putting it on these websites. They know that most don’t read these sites, not even elected officials.
Andrew Blackadder says
We have today a youth culture that are nothing more than the Useful Idiot Generation that appear to support the rape and beheading of themselves.
islamism is the new nazism.
JS says
These types have been around in every conflict throughout history.
One has to wonder about all the lies they’ve been told!
saltbush bill says
Sadly these days in America and Australia and other countries they are led by like sheep by a Judas Goat not enough brains to see what they are wishing for,The rainbow lot would last but a few days and cannot see that, BUT yet they parade and scream daily,others of similar unsound minds join in.
None have done research on Hamas and the Gazans,they voted them in year after year to live in squalor while they they voted for used them a cannon fodder and inced their pockets with billions stupid governments world wide gave them .
Clean out the rats nest and start afresh, what Mohammad and Allah and their ideology of Islam what a waste of lives.the Gazans need to wake up and rise against Hamas and others f that ILK. but sadly generations of inbreeding it will never happen
And our Chief clown in AU today again sent 10milion AU supposedly for food, no money send the food,and we have Aussies living in cars on the streets in tents because the rents are more than they earn or close to
JS says
It’s unfortunate that our nations haven’t had other leaders (not meaning a president) to form teams- the way they have. People must get educated to stop this.