While Jews have been celebrating the first days of Passover, the ancient festival of freedom, antisemites and their useful idiot collaborators on a swelling number of American university campuses have been rallying and issuing murderous threats in a strategic effort to end Jewish freedom, in the here and now, by destroying the world’s only Jewish majority state.
The underlying goal of the encampments and marches at Columbia, Yale, NYU and the other campuses is to render Israel indefensible — in both senses of the word.
The strategy:
First, to misrepresent what Israel has been subjected to and how it has responded since Hamas invaded our country on October 7, slaughtered 1,200 people, abducted 253 hostages, and then hid behind and beneath Gaza’s civilians in a bid to survive and do it all again.
Second, to falsely brand Israel as a brutal and indifferent aggressor, solely responsible for a soaring Gaza death toll that would, in fact, total precisely zero were it not for Hamas’s genocidal ambitions for the Jews and indifference to the lives of Gazan civilians.
Third, to build pressure for divestment from Israel, for an end to military aid, and ultimately for the severing of Israel’s vital alliance with the United States.
And, finally, to thus deprive Israel of the diplomatic and military means to survive the ongoing effort at its destruction, as effected by Iran and its allies and proxies.
At the root of this strategy is, of course, the oldest of hatreds.
The antisemitism is stirred in this case by Muslim extremists, racists, ignoramuses and self-hating Jews; “inspired” on social media, and partly funded openly and covertly by states seeking Israel’s demise.
And it is being tolerated in an environment that seems to prioritize limitless free speech over the violent consequences of the abuse of that freedom.
To the university administrations and faculty members defending, enabling and even rallying in support of the activists’ ostensible rights to viciously denounce Israel and Jews with calls to burn Tel Aviv, kill soldiers and threaten Jewish students with murder by Hamas, one must put the question: Is the right to free speech unlimited, to be upheld even when the goal and likely potential consequence is deadly?
As the British-Palestinian writer John Aziz has noted, this is “the rhetoric of mass murder”:
I'm Palestinian, not Jewish or Israeli. But if I was a student at one of these Ivy League universities, I'd get the hell out of there. "Militancy breeds resistance"? This rhetoric is the rhetoric of mass murder. They're talking about murdering people.
Were this level of hatred and aggression directed at any other minority group, it is hard to imagine that it would be indulged and tolerated, even at the price of limiting free speech:
"Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10...100…1000…10,000...The 7th of October is going to be every day for you." Protestors screamed this at two Jewish @Columbia students right outside campus gates tonight.
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