Posted on 05/06/2024 11:43:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
American colleges, known for fostering social movements, have witnessed a curious alliance in recent decades—the Leftist-Islamist coalition, an uneasy and yet significant force. This essay delves into this collaboration, raising questions about its ideological compatibility and financial transparency.
The political leanings of American faculty have been a topic of discussion since the 1930s. Studies like those by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) consistently show a higher concentration of liberals, particularly in humanities and social sciences. The McCarthy era of the 1950s further intensified scrutiny of political views in academia, sparking debates about academic freedom and potential bias.
The 1990s saw the emergence of Islamist activism on U.S. campuses, with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the forefront. Founded in 1992 by Hatem Bazian, SJP actively advocates for Palestinian rights and criticizes Israeli policies. The group aligns itself with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and promotes an “anti-normalization” stance towards Zionist and most Jewish organizations. SJP’s activities and pronouncements have been met with controversy, including accusations of anti-Semitism and support for extremism.
Despite their apparent ideological differences, Leftists (Marxists) and Islamists find common ground in shared perspectives that fuel collaboration on various issues, particularly those related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Student organizations like SJP often partner with leftist groups to organize protests, campaigns, and initiatives—collaboration extends to academics from both backgrounds too, who engage in joint research projects, conferences, and publications that critically examine power structures, global politics, and their impact on marginalized communities.
The main problem here is that the role of academia (particularly leftist professors) in promoting a benign image of Islam while downplaying or ignoring its political aspects, is that it portrays Islam as compatible with democratic societies—this is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Submit to islam or die. What more is there to understand for these leftist students?
13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’
At Columbia, the judges are demanding “serious consequences” for the students and professors who participated in the encampment. Though the school has promised to expel the occupiers of Hamilton Hall and suspend others for trespassing, it has been vague about the terms of those suspensions, which followed weeks of amnesty and extended deadlines as the university tried to negotiate with protest leaders.
Some suspended students were also spotted at the encampment after they’d ostensibly been kicked off campus—including Khymani James, the protest leader who declared that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Another student, Aidan Parisi, who was suspended for hosting an unauthorized event with members of Palestinian terror groups, remained on campus for weeks after being told to leave.
The judges suggest that the school’s disciplinary actions so far have been inadequate. “In recent years, citizens have been told that unlawfully trespassing on and occupying public spaces is a sufficient basis to warrant incarceration,” the letter reads. “So that same conduct should surely be sufficient to warrant lesser measures such as expulsion or termination.”
This is the dilemma foreseen by the founders, i.e., that the liberties afforded by the Constitution are so lavish that evil people could easily use those liberties against the "more perfect union" they envisioned. It took time; but their fears are fully materialized in our time, sad to say.
This is an old movement that stayed mostly under the surface but is now flexing its muscles. Remember “Little Eichmans”?
And they’ll turn on each other.
Short of Allah’s Witnesses going door to door with machetes, most people aren’t going to figure it out.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, until they turn on me too. Which they will.
Islam and the Left agree that the defeat of Western Civilization comes first.
The anti-anti-communists.
No different from the neo Marxism that invaded the black communities in the 60s.
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