Anti-Semites All Over Campus: How the College Left Has Gotten Israel All Wrong, Part 3

How Did We Get Like This?

As it relates to the disorder on college campuses, how the hell did we get like this? Yes, college professors certainly had an impact on the ideas that consumed so many. However, I would argue that the root of this problem is much deeper than that. For this unreasonable set of ideas to even take hold amongst the student body, it would require there being a willing audience – akin to a virus requiring a host. While I am sure that there were enough students who sadly lack the necessary critical thinking capacity to guard against these fundamentally incorrect and morally infirm ideas, a lot of these protesters – specifically at GW – come from Muslim/Arab backgrounds. This is not to say that all Arabs and/or Muslims are anti-semitic but there are some and it happens to be a lot. 

In Gazan schools, the children are taught to hate Jews. The development of future terrorists starts early in Gaza in addition to the inducement of a Jew-hating mindset. Here are just a few examples: fifth graders at Al-Zaytun Elementary School (Gaza) are taught to glorify the terrorist of the 1978 Coastal Road massacre and refer to him as the “fighting leader” and a “hero”; fifth graders at Al-Zaytun Elementary School (Gaza) are taught to admire Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassem, the “namesake of Hamas’ military wing” – who advocated for murdering Jews – as a “martyr” and “hero”; Al-Maghazi Middle School for Boys (Gaza) conducted a reading comprehension exercise that entailed celebrating a Palestinian firebombing attack on a Jewish bus as a “barbecue party”; at a UNRWA school, fifth-grade students are not only taught that jihad and martyrdom are intrinsically related but that jihad and martyrdom are “the most important meanings of life” – I repeat, JIHAD is taught as one of “the most important meaning of life”; at Tel Al-Hawa Middle School (Gaza), students are taught in social studies that it is a “divine right” to exercise “armed struggle” against Israel; at A