From Brussels to London, from Paris to Madrid, from Rome to Berlin, from New York to Toronto, from Los Angeles to Melbourne. The whole of Western society is gangrened by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist and leftist associations.
The entire educational system, all government departments, airports, railway stations, major private companies and political and political organizations have all been blind to the scale of the current damage.
First and foremost, the Jewish people. Israelites are being targeted by this outpouring of hatred from ignorant, racist, anti-Semitic and barbaric people.
They have no qualms about attacking Jews in broad daylight, in the street, in front of the police.
We all remember Jewish students in mortal danger at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Penn University and so many others in North America and Europe.
In America and Europe, the evil runs deep. Many Jewish students no longer wish to attend classes because they feel their lives are in danger.
There are no more prohibitions, incidents are multiplying, pro-Hamas demonstrations are bringing their hatred of Israel and the Jews, and it’s common to hear “Death to the Jews, Israel=Nazi, Jews-assassins.
Jewish students were chased into Cooper University in midtown Manhattan by overexcited demonstrators. They were saved by the building’s staff, who decided to lock the doors.
Meanwhile, further north in Columbia, supporters of Israel gathered to denounce the school’s administration.
The gall of the university’s president, Minouche Shafik, reached a climax when she called for civility on campus and condemned online harassment, stating that some students had been victims of personal data disclosure campaigns. These statements did not condemn Hamas.
Jewish students, meanwhile, called on Ms. Shafik to do more. Last week, an Israeli professor, Shaï Davidaï, gave a speech that went viral among parents: “I want you to know that we cannot protect your children from pro-terrorist student organizations”.
Shaï Davidaï went even further, declaring Columbia University president Minouche Shafik a coward: “You are a coward,” he added.
The starting point at Harvard University was October 8, the day after the Hamas attack and the first Israeli bombardments.
Over thirty student groups and clubs co-signed and distributed a letter on campus, denouncing “Israel’s apartheid regime”, and “responsible for all the violence” that has shaped “every aspect of Palestinian life for seventy-five years”.
This, without mentioning the barbaric acts of the Palestinian terrorists of Hamas.
On October 9, the reaction of the university office issued a statement, proposing to “deepen our knowledge” of the conflict in the name of “our common humanity and shared values”, and underlining the “fear, sadness and anger” that could be felt by students.
Following this statement by Harvad’s management, deemed too lax, several Republican elected officials (Elise Stefanik and Ted Cruz, a Harvard Law School graduate, and Democrat Jake Auchincloss) called for a firm reaction from the university’s management. The campus also caught fire, with a second text, backed by professors and several thousand students, calling the pro-Palestinian communiqué “completely erroneous and deeply offensive”.
Regarding MIT University, Jewish students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim they have been prevented from attending classes by a “blockade” of anti-Israel students, and fear that the school is “not safe for Jews”.
“Many Jewish students are afraid to leave their dorms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews,” the letter continues.
“This message is compounded by public and private warnings from Hillel [the school’s graduate Jewish community] and many professors that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today.”
Four hours after the CAA protest began, the administration asked the students to leave the lobby and threatened them with suspension – but only the Jewish students who were there to counter-demonstrate left, according to the group.
“In effect, CAA invited more non-MIT students and protesters to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians,” the alliance said.
An hour later, all students received an emergency notice asking them to avoid the area, “officially recognizing the danger posed to students by this violent demonstration”.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement that students who remained in Hall 7 after being asked to leave will be sanctioned but will still be able to attend classes.
“Because we subsequently heard serious concerns about collateral consequences for students, such as visa issues, we have decided, as an interim measure, that students who remained after the deadline will be suspended from non-academic activities on campus,” said Kornbluth.
“Students will remain enrolled at MIT and will be able to take academic courses and labs. We will submit this interim measure to the ad hoc Complaint Response Team, which includes the Chair of the Disciplinary Committee, for a final decision,” she continued.
As a result of these extremely serious incidents, the three heads of Penn University, MIT University and Harvard University were summoned by the U.S. Congressional Congress for a special session on Tuesday, December 5.
The three heads of the world’s largest universities refused to state clearly that calls for the genocide of the Jewish people violated campus harassment rules.
As soon as New York Republican Elise Stefanik asked directly whether “calling for the genocide of the Jews” went against the codes of conduct of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), the three presidents took refuge behind the excuse of “context”.
“It’s a context-dependent decision,” replied University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill. To which Stefanik retorted: “Calling for the genocide of the Jews depends on context? It’s not about harassment? It was the easiest question to answer, ‘Yes’, ma’am.”
President Magill was unable to say whether the slogans chanted and repeated by the demonstrators, one of which called for “the Intifada”, constituted incitement to violence that could be sanctioned under university regulations. During the Second Intifada two decades ago, Palestinian terrorist attacks left around 1,000 Israelis dead.
“These slogans, I think – the calls for the Intifada, for global revolution – are very disturbing,” Magill replied as she was questioned. “I think it is, at the very least, hate speech that needs to be condemned, and it has been. Whether it is incitement to violence that could be sanctioned given the guidelines implemented by the University of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia, rules that have been guided by the U.S. Constitution, I think that’s a more difficult question. Incitement to violence falls into a very narrow category.”
She also hesitated when asked what actions her university had been able to take before a controversial Palestinian literature fair held on her campus in the fall, before October 7, forcing the college to change its rules on guest speakers at such events.
Critics had complained that these speakers, among them former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, had used terminology calling for the destruction of Israel.
“I think cancelling this conference would have been really incompatible with academic freedom and with freedom of expression, even though I find the words of some who came to this show very, very dubious because of their anti-Semitic nature,” she said.
Gay was also unclear whether students calling for “the Intifada” on Harvard’s campus violated the university’s code of conduct.
“This kind of hateful, dangerous, offensive language is abhorrent to me,” she said. But when asked whether Harvard might sanction them, she replied more generally that “when speech crosses the lines of our policies, and particularly our policies dealing with harassment or intimidation, we take action, and we have robust disciplinary procedures that allow us to hold offenders accountable.”
All three presidents agreed that anti-Semitism has become a real problem on campus and that it has become even more intense since the deadly Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, and the start of Israel’s war with the terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
Pamela Nadell
Also speaking at the hearing was Pamela Nadell, Professor of American Jewish History at American University, who had been chosen by the Democrats to testify during the session.
“It has become fashionable for too many in our academic community to hate Jews,” Foxx told the chairwomen in his speech at the end of the meeting. “We will be watching closely to see what happens from now on, and I truly hope, for the sake of our entire nation, that you will rise to this challenge.”
The White House is very angry at these American universities, and White House spokesman Andrew Bates declared: “We have just witnessed the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the latest atrocities in a heartbreaking and genocidal pattern that goes back thousands of years” and added:
“Incredibly, this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and contrary to everything we stand for as a country,” he asserted. “Any statement advocating the systematic murder of Jews is dangerous and revolting, and we should all stand firmly against it, on the side of human dignity and the most fundamental values that unite us as Americans.
The message is extremely clear.
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