Camps Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism

American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2024 | Clarice Feldman

[MtnClimber]

I’m old. So old that I still believe that classic Western liberalism is the best system for assuring prosperity and peace, and authoritarianism, particularly of a theocratic nature, is a disastrous governance style. Watching the encampments and riots on college campuses, I see that too many young people have missed this lesson and instead support violent, barbaric, theocratic authoritarianism. I think these participants are not representative of a majority of students or voters and that the weak responses of some universities bode ill for their futures. Moreover, I think the Administration’s failure to act on the side of Western civilization is seriously damaging President Biden’s reelection prospects, indeed, the prospects for the Democratic party itself. In the absence of a federal response, private litigation is likely to prove particularly damaging to those who have funded and encouraged or tolerated these campus outrages.

Several are in the works. At least three have already been filed. The most significant was a suit filed in Virginia this week alleging that the National Students for Justice in Palestine, coordinated with Hamas, an organization federally listed as a terrorist organization, to orchestrate these campus attacks. The suit claims that NSJP “has effectively become the campus arm of Hamas” and is “directly aiding and abetting the terror group on American colleges” and “facilitating the conditions necessary for Hamas to continue carrying out acts of terror and the holding of hostages, including American nationals.” If successful, the lawsuit would shut down permanently NSJP and American Muslims for Palestine, a reincarnation of a previous outfit which provided material support for Hamas.

The complaint suggests that the defendants in the case just filed are carrying on in the same ways of the Holy Land Foundation before HLF, along with five of its leaders, were found guilty...

[MtnClimber]

Will they go after Soros for funding some of these groups?

[Steven Tyler]

Tough call

I remember when O’Keefe took down ACORN
Acorn reformulated under a different banner

I think you take away their money.
Then, put away the Judges, so we can put away the minions

[PGalt]

Totalitarian collectives funded by evil individuals.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I see that too many young people have missed this lesson and instead support.......authoritarianism.

Something that few people seem to realize is that the social structure of university departments is itself authoritarian, resembling nothing so much as the royal courts of medieval Europe.

[Salman]

Hamas. Backed by Iran.

So here in the USA it's the same variety of coalition of commies and Shia Islamists that overthrew the Shah.

And after the Shah was gone, the Shia Islamists killed all the commies.

Meanwhile, the Pals of Gaza are not Shia. They are pawns (however willing) of the 'death to America' faction. And just as expendable as commies.