Posted on 04/15/2024 3:54:14 AM PDT by karpov
In the aftermath of Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, campuses across the country erupted with intense, heated protests. Except the protests weren’t against the brutality of Hamas’s massacre of innocent civilians. No, students had come to the conclusion that such actions were justified, and it was Israel’s military response to the attacks that needed to be stopped. In one of many such instances, pro-Palestinian student groups at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill used a paraglider, one of Hamas’s modes of attack, in fliers promoting the event. As UNC provost Chris Clemens said: “There is no doubt the flyer represents a celebration of violence and murder.”
Some left-wing student groups, such as the Young Democratic Socialists of America, were present at these kinds of events. This is no surprise—pro-Palestinian activism has been a staple of left-wing student activism since the 1960s. But it was hard not to notice the foreign student component at these protests, whose joy in the brutality of Hamas could only stem from tribal resentment towards Israel and the broader West. Indeed, UNC board members expressed concern about protestors’ comments made in foreign languages, as they couldn’t discern whether such speech called for violence.
International student involvement in campus radicalism is a discomfiting reality for university administrators and higher-education associations, who have quietly pushed for ever-higher levels of international student enrollment for at least the past 70 years. International student enrollment at Duke University, for instance, has more than tripled over the past 20 years. Administrators and lobbyists love to tout the benefits international students bring to American universities—from intellectual diversity to cultural exchange, or, if they’re feeling particularly honest, lots of tuition money.
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I went to college right after the Cretaceous period, early 80s.
Even then my college (ISU) had quite a few of the Muslim students. Almost to a man they were insufferable. I almost got in a few fights as they had this open disdain of all Americans and would take offense at things to this day I still don’t understand.
They were also rich and oddly entitled. I knew 2 decent ones out of dozens I met. One was a slightly built UAB student who was basically being politically persecuted because the Royalty heard he said some critical things of them…yep no real constitution over there. The other was an escapee from the Iranian religious regime. The rest—-scum.
If I remember the UAB student was given a full ride + by a German oil company! He explained the way it works was all these Western companies showered many families with Gifts and cash as a way to stay in good standing.
Me and my other American Teen friends drove around old Chevy Novas or Ford Pintos held together with Bondo and Duct tape. These foreign students drove new Toyota Supras and Honda Accords, I remember his roommate (who was an Islamist supremacist type) got an allowance of something like 500 dollars a week…an unbelievably huge amount of money to me back then.
That’s the way it was , can’t imagine how bad it must be now.
You describe them perfectly.
I remember the Iranians driving the black Trans Am.
BTTT
Too many are Agents-of-Influence assigned w/spreading of anti-American venom among naïve and ignorant minds of American kids.
My brother, who taught at a University, says his University loved the foreign students because they were charged the maximum tuition.
If the crap countries they come from would build a few colleges maybe they’d stay the hell home.
There are numerous universities throughout the Middle East and other developing regions of the world. There are even institutions like the American University of Sharjah, for those who want something of a north american experience. There are even US universities that have set up campuses in the Middle East. Students don't have to come to the USA, especially if they are a political danger.
Well, in Gaza they're busy building tunnels.
Good point and assemblying hang gliders for their flying monkeys.
Just mandate that any application or re-up include links to all postings. If anything antiUS is found — you are out. We have a right to protect ourselves and not fund monsters.
Why do we allow foreigners in to go to American Colleges in the first place. Let them be ignorant and study at the University of IED’s. They drive up the cost of education for Americans, and fill seats that Native borns can fill.
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