Hat tip Campus Reform
The latest conflict in the Middle East began on October 7 when the terrorists of Hamas attacked Israel and slaughtered over 1,000 innocent Israelis including music concert-goers, families attacked and murdered in their homes, babies beheaded, and hundreds of civilians taken hostage.
Yet, in the face of it all, when Israel responded, the loons in academia go crazy. Led by professors like UC Santa Barbara's William Robinson, a career anti-Israel activist, a group of professors and (mostly) graduate students, undergraduates, and alumni in the University of California system have signed a public letter that can only be described as hysterical, full of leftist jargon, rambling from one perceived grievance unrelated to Israel to another, to downright being full of lies. It even refers to the Hamas monsters who carried out the atrocities as "resisters" and "freedom-fighters"!!
Campus Reform has the report here.
Where to begin?
“More specifically, we join a growing international chorus of voices holding the Zionist Israeli government accountable for the violence that we have witnessed over the last several days,” it states.
“We strongly condemn the University of California’s attempt to reproduce Western media’s narrative of ongoing violence in Palestine,” it says. It continues to state that this “includes the victimization of Israeli women and children to manufacture consent for intervention and further violence against Palestinians.”
”We urge the community to practice critical media literacy when consuming mainstream media stories of violence against women and children committed by Palestinian resistors which serve to frame Palestinian freedom fighters as evil, monstrous ‘terrorists,"
It is jaw-dropping that these people could absolutely ignore and even imply that Hamas did, not in fact, carry out so many atrocities against innocent men, women, children, even beheading babies on October 7! It is the same old story: The Palestinians attack innocents and launch rockets into Israel, but as soon as Israel fights back, it is they (Israel) who are committing atrocities! This is the level of stupidity and moral bankruptcy we see today in our universities.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the UC’s failure to create a safe environment for Palestinian students and their supporters.”
We do not condone violence toward Palestinian students from Zionist supporters on UC campuses, which took place in the last few days and in past instances where pro-Palestinian solidarity rallies, meetings, or events have taken place. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the UC’s failure to create a safe environment for Palestinian students and their supporters. For example, people at UCLA have been shoved, hit, spit on, called derogatory names and violently harassed by Zionist students.
This is another blatant lie. In my experiences attending both pro- and anti-Israel events, it is the opposite that is true. It is the pro-Palestinian bully boys (and girls) who are engaging in volatile behavior. I have never seen instances of Jewish/Zionist students attacking or bullying pro-Palestinian students. It is the Jewish students who need a safe environment from the thugs who created a hostile environment on campus. In contrast, I have seen so many efforts by Jewish students to dialogue with the pro-Palestinian students, only to be rebuffed.
As for the people who signed that letter, I am only familiar with one, William Robinson, a professor at UC Santa Barbara. Years ago, I heard him speak at UC Irvine. During the q and a, I told him that I did not consider him to be an educator, but rather an indoctrinator. He did not respond.
So what to do about our universities, places that produce such intellectual garbage as this? Yes, it is free speech, but it is our responsibility to expose and counter this speech with our own criticisms. In addition, there is a growing movement to take away funding from universities that will not protect our Jewish students and that produce such garbage as this. I support that movement. Those universities, which include the UC system, should have their public funding slashed drastically. Donors should stop giving millions of dollars to these institutions, which, in my opinion, have been corrupted by obscene sums of money over the years, not to mention funding from places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar to establish one-sided Middle East Studies departments, dedicated to spreading anti-US, anti-West, anti-Israel propaganda.
The events this month, both in Israel and here at home should teach us it is time to fight back against evil.
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