This mess of our universities is to be expected—unceremoniously the first terror bases in our beloved country were set-up on our campuses.
This from frontpagemag.com.
In 2008, David Horowitz traveled around the nation’s universities warning about Hamas on Campus and a “movement for a second Holocaust of the Jews” supported by Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association.
Horowitz and the Freedom Center denounced:
Not only MSA and SJP, but Jewish campus groups, including Hillel, [are] now under assault by Hamas mobs.
Our Islamo-fascism Awareness week, our posters naming terrorist students, and our Wall of Truth were condemned.
Now those same liberal organizations are wondering what happened.
What happened is the generations of students became
faculty. And when the Left and the Islamists felt strong
enough, they stopped pretending and went to war.
A decade ago, SJP and MSA campus groups denied that they supported terrorism. Now they openly march for Hamas, celebrate dead terrorists as “martyrs” and put out statements in support of “armed resistance.”
After Oct 7 and the unprecedented show of support from democrats (communists/globalists) and the Left…
…they have launched a nationwide campus intifada.
And they are winning because long before the riots, they seized control of universities.
Sadly, we know how this has all come about. The Liberals who were the adults in charge remained silent when Leftists, Socialists, Marxists, and even Communists took over entire departments. They signed on to every affirmative action and then DEI initiative which created new departments filled with activists who hated America.
What “felt” like a series of good ideas
to the bleeding-heart liberals
is now being realized for the Big Mistakes they were.
Imagine their surprise that:
[T]he Marxists in Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, LGBTQ Studies, and numerous other identity politics departments whose only academic agenda is activism aren’t just rallying in support of Castro, the Viet Cong, the Sandinistas or the PLO, but are out there cheering the rape and murder of Jews, the way they once cheered the mass killings of Chinese shopkeepers, Russian Rabbis, Cambodian peasants, Cuban refugees, Nicaraguan Christians and all the other victims on the long march of their bloody cause around the world.
Even as Hamas supporters lay siege to Columbia, Yale, and any sizable liberal campus in the country with an SJP or MSA chapter, liberals are still missing the real point and origin of this:
Universities have a Hamas problem because
they allowed themselves to be hijacked by leftists.
Ivy League campuses purged conservative and then moderate professors. They became political monocultures and echo chambers.
Leftist ideas, no matter how horrifying,
were accepted because there were no brakes
and nothing to stop any kind of radical agenda.
And liberalism in our universities has metastasized throughout our society.
The liberal Jewish groups who condemned us in 2008 have not come around to understanding that it is their politics that opened the door to this, incubated it, and enabled it.
There would not be a ‘Hamas on Campus’ if there was not a ‘Marxism on Campus’, ‘Black Nationalism on Campus’, and ‘Activism on Campus’.
For two generations, Jewish groups pushed back only against the worst excesses of anti-Israel campus groups, worked to find common ground with the groups and provided minimal support to faculty and students who spoke out.
And all of that failed miserably and led directly to Hamas dominating entire college campuses.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center fought to change that by bringing attention to terror faculty and students, and to the persecution of pro-Israel students and faculty. But this was done with little to no support and the establishment hated them because they were never afraid to call the enemy by its true name.
Horowitz called BDS:
[A] Hamas-inspired genocidal campaign to destroy Israel [and named the anti-Israel groups a] movement for a second Holocaust of the Jews.
Now that all of that has been proven to be undeniably true, it is time for those who denounced him to re-hear and hopefully accept the rest of his thesis.
– This is not just a Hamas problem,
– It’s not just a problem isolated to Israel and Jews,
– It’s a crisis caused by leftist radical culture which jumps from one extremist revolutionary imperative to another, and
– This is a culture that thrives on violence and terror. Most of the students protesting for Hamas will look back on the encampments as an exciting harmless adventure. Much like the campus protests that enabled the Cambodian genocide look like harmless fun to the students who used them as a chance to get high, hook up, and have some fun before moving on.
The real crisis is not that college students support Hamas. That is only a symptom of the true crisis which is universities and schools have become indoctrination factories for the Left.
One of the most profound failures of the conservative movement is that it ceded academia along with the rest of the culture to the counterculture while dedicating itself to fighting government regulations. What’s happening on campuses should be a wake-up call.
The purpose of higher education is supposed to be education not activism.
Universities must reintroduce academic freedom, diversity of thought, rigorous studies, and critical thinking. Until education is delinked from activism at every level, hate, division, and terrorism will be the order of the day.
[And] kicking out “Hamas supporters” from campus is meaningless without changing the entire culture, purpose, and meaning of the college experience.
‘Hamas on Campus’ is a wake-up call for liberals, moderates and conservatives. But wake-up calls go nowhere unless they are tethered to a program of serious action.
Final thoughts: I am confident the wake-up call mentioned in bold two times above will be addressed by strong Conservative leadership—President Trump, for example. I fear, however, that without Trump, the Republican Party members—and especially the Uniparty members—will be unable to grasp and respond to this danger.
God speed to President Trump and may God keep him safe and vibrant.
