Posted on 08/27/2024 4:05:21 AM PDT by karpov
Last fall, having drunk deeply of the Left’s cocktail of antisemitism, post-colonialism, and general nuisance-making, a small but virulent minority of American college students began “protesting” for “Palestine.” Inaugurated mere days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 sneak-attack against Israel, these agitations crescendoed with the establishment, in the spring of this year, of “Occupy Wall Street”-style encampments on university quads.
Four months later, a new school year is upon us, and Israel’s war marches on. It is worth reflecting on what we learned from the ordeal, as well as what administrators and reformers ought to do if and when student activists resume their “struggle.”
1) A loud minority of students is more radical than we thought.
The first lesson is that a number of today’s undergrads were actually listening when adults taught them Oppression Theory for 13 straight years. As a result, the spring’s protesters used language that shocks the conscience. “From the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea” is a call for the total annihilation of the Jewish state, just as “Globalize the Intifada” urges the elimination of all Jews everywhere. This is the rhetoric of madmen. That not every protester believes what he preaches is small comfort. Many do. To unteach such hatreds will be the work of decades, just as teaching them was in the first place.
2) Professors can’t be trusted to be the adults in the room.
As Campus Watch’s A.J. Caschetta wrote for the Martin Center in November, many of today’s tenured faculty members are yesterday’s campus radicals. Consequently, few object when their colleagues vote to boycott Israel or host brazenly antisemitic events. In an ideal world, professors would help students explore the moral and geopolitical questions raised by the ongoing war—or at least get kids back in the classroom by threatening unexcused absences and “F’s.”
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We have a fifth column working within our nation.
It is not only in the US but in Europe as well. We are in a war but only one side knows it.
Our leaders have sold us out for 20 pieces of silver.
The author reminded us of the students who defended the flag and got tons of donations from people outside the academic industry. Most people who do that won’t get that kind of positive acknowledgment. But at least it’s an example of hanging around fellow clear minded people while living in the lion’s den. Few people can be a virtuous lone ranger in a world that’s increasingly pushing to abandon all morals.
It also teaches us that islam will always continue to be a threat where ever it exists.
Learn? There are uncivilized individuals in the world. There are uninformed individuals in the world. There are evil individuals in the world. When these individuals come together to form larger collectives, bad things happen.
BTTT
Historical and biblical truth - The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinian nor refugees. And murderers of thousands of innocent people!
Here are the facts! https://www.frontpagemag.com/__trashed-14/
The left is a suicide cult and they want to drag the rest of us down with them.
I learned that the match has bee lit, to be followed to terrorist attacks.
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