A four-step plan for America's Jew-hating universities
A simple four-step plan to stop Jew-hating mobs on US university campuses. All that is needed is a spine and a functioning moral compass.
Ever since Hamas’ October 7 pogrom against Israel, many of us have warned that anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism, and that the pro-Palestinian movement was just poorly disguised Jew hatred. Sometimes, it is awful to be right.
Events at US university campuses show that being draped in the Palestinian flag’s watermelon colors is the 2024 version of a 1930s brown shirt. University administrators must act with ruthless prejudice. They should have done so months ago. This is a pivotal moment. Here is what they should do:
Step 1: Call the police and have them disperse the Jew-hating mobs, by force if necessary. They should be charged with everything from affray to inciting violence.
Step 2: Expel the students and fire the faculty members involved.
Step 3: Stand by the decision, come hell or high water.
Step 4: Repeat.
Administrators have either been too frightened to do this or are okay with having Jihadist Nazi reprobates on their campuses. Neither speaks well of them. US campuses look disturbingly like Germany under Nazism in the 1930s. If this sounds hyperbolic, you might want to pay attention.
Columbia University, the epicenter of the anti-Semitic mass hysteria, locked out a Jewish professor and allowed pro-terror Hamas supporters in. Dozens have been arrested in clashes with police. The university issued a statement saying that it was trying to “deescalate the rancor”, as if the problem is not racist Jihadists targeting Jews, but that they are upset.
Finally, the university has said that it will disperse the anti-Israel encampment on campus, but it is disgraceful it was allowed to get to this point. Columbia’s reputation may never recover, much as German intellectualism has never recovered from Nazism.
At Yale University, a Jewish student was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag, and students have blocked entrances to the campus and campus buildings. At New York University, police have arrested 133 people. At Harvard University, classes have gone fully online in a shameful admission of defeat.
THE COLLAPSE OF DECENCY
The liberal elite’s academic facade has collapsed upon them, burying them under piles of pronouns and microaggressions. The value of an Ivy League degree has plunged. No parent should send their child to a university that cannot keep its students safe, will derange their minds, and place a black mark over them in the job market. Wise employers will treat anyone who attended these universities in the past decade with suspicion.
These Jihadist Nazi ruffians have even given up on pretending they are not anti-Jewish and just supporting the Palestinians. They are openly targeting Jews. They are emboldened because they can smell the West’s moral decay.
The stench comes from years of giving the wrong answer to an old political philosophy chestnut: ”Should a liberal society be so tolerant that it accepts illiberal forces that want to overthrow it?”
The answer is “no”. If a society will not defend its values, then they are not values, just platitudes. However, many Western countries have answered “yes”. This tolerance of depraved Islamism, in concert with the Far Left, has reached its inevitable nadir on US campuses.
The acceptance of pro-Palestinian mobs, not just on campuses but on the streets of New York, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto, Paris, and elsewhere, calling for genocide against Jews and celebrating Hamas’ October 7 butchery, has been a moral cataclysm.
For six months, these rallies have contributed to the worst rise in anti-Semitism since World War Two.
For six months, our warnings have been ignored.
The West has been enervated. It is dystopian that governments have not used anti-racism and anti-incitement laws to protect Jews and have instead kept the streets safe for the Jihadists and Nazis.
This is a civilizational crisis. Islamism is a self-declared enemy of the West. Jihadists have marshalled the apparatus of states in Iran and Qatar, infiltrated the West through ill-judged immigration policies and poisoned its intellectual wells with too-good-to-be-true funding that US universities took from murderous Middle East tyrants.
The West must wake up and crush this anti-Semitism and Islamism. It must defend what is right, before there is nothing left to defend.
In the Moral Clarity pipeline…
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The modern Left’s rickety foundations: The modern Left’s hatred of Israel is symptomatic of a wider derangement that is poisoning and threatening Western political discourse.
The danger of false premises: Reporting news based on certain assumptions is sure path to biased and partisan journalism. Unfortunately, it is everywhere.
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The colonialist imperialist lie: The idea that Israel is colonialist and imperialist is the most absurd of all the nonsensical lies perpetrated about the Jewish state.