Posted on 12/15/2023 8:10:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s simple, really. Why do so many college and university students hate Israel? Because they know nothing about it, and have bought into the propaganda they’ve been fed.
In the midst of the recent and nationwide demonstrators featuring students (and many others) denouncing Israel for its alleged crimes, Algemeiner reported that “students who care strongly about the ‘Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories’ do not have knowledge of basic facts surrounding the subject, and do not share similar concerns about other geopolitical conflicts.”
This wholly unstartling bit of information was gleaned from a survey of 230 undergraduates at University of California, Berkeley. Ron Hassner, who has the unenviable position of being Berkeley’s Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, conducted the survey, which began by presenting students with 18 issues and asking them to rate how interested they were in them.
These issues, according to Hassner, included “US-Iran relations, the civil war in Yemen, drone warfare, etc., on a five point scale, ranging from ‘I’m not that interested’ (1 point out of 5) to ‘I care deeply’ (5 points out of 5).” The survey went on from there to ask the respondents a “series of open-ended questions ‘on history, geography, and current affairs.’”F
Forty-three percent of the students were most interested in Israel’s alleged “control of Palestinian territories,” while expressing much less interest in “other Middle East occupations, such as the Kurdish struggle for independence, the occupation of Western Sahara, or the occupation of Northern Cyprus.”
That’s understandable. These indoctrinated bots aren’t inundated daily with self-righteous leftist rubbish about the massive, outrageous, world-historical injustice of the occupation of Western Sahara or Northern Cyprus. In all likelihood, they haven’t even heard of either one.
Why is that likely? Because they know virtually nothing regarding the conflict
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By beating up on the dark-skinned folk.
My characterization stands. Reread it, carefully this time.
The article could have stopped right there and been complete.
The Israelites are on the receiving end on what Southerners have been getting since the end of the Civil War.
Conniving. That’s a bit of a negative term. That’s a stereotype of a negative quality. I would call that prejudiced because it goes to the whole Jews and money thing.
No! The real problem is the Modern World view (Really recycled old view). The whole world is divided into two groups—Victims and victimizers. Victims are Good—any acts they do is justified. Victimizers are bad, really evil. Nothing they do is ever right. Lets make a list: Blacks, Victims, Whites, victimizers. Kenya Victims, England, Victimizer, Native Americans (formerly called Indians) victims, Americans (cowboys) victimizers. See, its a simple view of history. Now, Jews (after WW II) were victims and OK, but the success of Israel has changed them into Victimizers and the victims are Palestinians. Bad news, America is also a victimizer now. Its simple—but stupid. We are being killed by our own liberalism. This reminds me of Trumps favirite poem: “The Snake.”
New chant. From the river to the sea God gave the land to Israelis
France and Britain maintained separate militarized trade routes through the region, protecting commerce from Muslims (and each other, when they were warring)
“This reminds me of Trumps favirite poem: ‘The Snake’.”
Exactly.
My question is, does the Jew-hatred propaganda start at home, or through in-school indoctrination in high school or college?
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