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Ronald Kim's avatar

I apologize for thinking that Hamas burning babies in ovens in front of their parents was an exaggeration. There is footage of this. The world needs to know about these monsters. The media needs to investigate the October 7 atrocities again, because many people don’t believe that it happened.

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Dana Ramos's avatar

The author asks: "... Still, why the relentless and exclusive focus on Israel?" It all comes down to one answer: Jews.

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edward green's avatar

There is a cabal that wants to destroy western civilization. That is why the focus on Israel.

Israel is now the front line defense against barbarism.

It is a struggle between good and evil.

Israel needs more Jews, more land and fewer arabs.

The arabs in Gaza should be moved to an arab country and all foreign aid for their support should be terminated. That would force them to integrate in their new country and solve the problem.

The northern border of Israel should be extended to the Litani river in Lebanon.

Our struggle is not to survive but to prosper and become a leading nation in the world.

The arabs are colonizing Europe and America by continuing immigration into the West.

Where is the new Pope, why doesn't he sound an alarm and call for the defense of Europe and the West?

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Dana Ramos's avatar

true!

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Steven Brizel's avatar

It is better for Israel to be feared as opposed to being loved in the rough neighborhood of the Middle East

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Bless America's avatar

Important article. The problem on campuses is huge. Students respect and sometimes worship their teachers. Many of these professors are mind poisoners. They literally raise impressionable minds to their terror-favoured perversions, and needless to say, have influence simply for being the courses' graders. Perhaps the article's author felt names could not be disclosed for fear of " defamation" law exposure. I would mention Joseph Massad at Columbia, who jumped for joy when Israelis were savagely murdered on 10/7, expressing to his students how exhilarated he was. This has been documented. Instead, Israeli Professor Davidai , who protested anti-Jew and Israel bias from the top was expelled.

But it gets worse: I wrote a very critical review of one of Columbia's Joseph Massad's books about " Palestine" for Amazon, as they always request us to do. I am mild by comparison with countless reviewers. But I was cancelled by Amazon. All my reviews of 20 years disappeared and I am banned from reviewing. I did protest, with countless arguments, to no avail. Amazon itself has been taken to task by major Jewish organisations for plain Jew-hating support. Their employee force has been affected as well. There seems to be infiltration of Qatar and Muslim Arab and " Palestine " partisans simply everywhere. And those of us who speak freely and resist are punished. Perhaps Trump can reach academia deep enough to bring such toxic elements to task.

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Chaya Iliza Siobhan Cartwright's avatar

Two words. Qatari money. Qatar is paying for an ocean of anti-Israel propaganda, from chairs they endow, to "students" they fund. Nobody who takes a dime from them should be afforded any degree of trust in any context.

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Paul Goldman's avatar

I’m really tired of all of these essays trying to explain the obvious. Instead, I suggest that we all support Israel in eradicating Hamas, expelling the Arabs from Gaza and the West Bank, and annexing it all into the State of Israel. There would be no more Palestine to demonstrate for. The world will complain, but fuck them. They complain now.

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Laura's avatar

It's not that hamas' strategy has been a success so much as these campus reprobates are ideological marxists who despise the nation of Israel, want it destroyed and were never going to acknowledge any right of self-defense for the Jewish state no matter how horrific the atrocities against it on October 7. That is because they are ideologically opposed to the existence of Israel and believe any act of brutality against Israelis, even against babies and children is therefore justified in their eyes. Hence the chant "by any means necessary" in their marches. These "activists" are as evil as hamas. The "palestinians" self-inflicted situation in Gaza is merely a pretext for their BDS bullshit.

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"All these reprehensible tactics are mainly aimed at getting as many “martyrs” as possible in front of cameras, in order to manipulate Western political opinion and turn it against Israel. Judging by the sentiments prevalent on many college campuses, Hamas’ cynical strategy has been a resounding success"

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Kevin Miner's avatar

Please please watch this Bari Weiss Free Press interview that is on YouTube. This needs to be mandatory watching on all educational institutions. Oh, and keep a handkerchief handy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LIcd7wHlCE It is with Lucy Aharish, the very first Arab Muslim news presenter on mainstream Hebrew-language Israeli television.

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Richard Baker's avatar

The critics of Israel's actions since October 7th are sitting fat, dumb, and happy in their comfortable redoubts, academic or otherwise, thousands of miles away from the action. Their pronouncements remind me of Auric Goldfinger's response to Bond on the laser table "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."

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Liora Jacob's avatar

Hamas’ primary strategy of massacring Jews to whet the appetite of the antisemitic world, then maximizing civilian suffering to embolden the full flowering of millions’ most basest instincts - the hatred for the “collective Jew” - has been triumphantly vindicated beyond their wildest dreams.

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Trader Grudinin's avatar

Pro-Hamas anti-Jewish hatred is whipped up by woke media and influencers. They are responsible for aiding, abetting, supporting, furthering, legitimising, financing, main-streaming, enouraging the Oct 7 attacks and the ISIS terror attack of Sep 8 in Ramot

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"How many academics in Europe or the U.S. would adopt the same anti-war attitude if a terrorist group had slaughtered over 1,200 of their compatriots...?"

The modern Western academy is the Vatican of the Social Justice faith, and as SJ is a neo-Marxist political movement, their morality is provided by Marxism: WHO/WHOM.

Our progressive clerisy doesn't have fixed moral standards, only situational ones, founded (once again) on the Marxist-Leninist precept that whatever helps their imaginary eternal Revolution is GOOD, and whatever harms it is BAD.

Thus, once this hypothetical massacre occurred, they would first need to know who was the victim and who was the perpetrator. If the perpetrator came from a sacred victim class (black and brown people, migrants, Trans, Palestinians etc) and the victim came from a designated Oppressor class (white male straight rich Christian or Jewish/Israeli), then the massacre would be either covered up, downplayed, or smothered in "context" till all moral issues are hopelessly blurred. And of course this is true in reverse.

(In fact we just had an example of this with the Trans person who shot up a church filled with kids. You'd be hard-pressed to find any journalist or Left academic to condemn this or analyze its cause, they all instead worked quickly to flush it down the memory hole.)

Hating Israel and adoring the sacred Palestinian victim is now a upper-crust high-status belief among our Western liberal ruling class and the progressive aristocrats that reign over our culture, media and universities.

See this: https://variety.com/2025/film/festivals/voice-of-hind-rajab-venice-premiere-standing-ovation-1236505878/

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Beatrice Nora Caflun's avatar

Thank you so much for your wonderful/honest essay.......There are other wars in the world at this time, but ONLY the Israel war (initiated barbaricly by Hamas), it's been utterly criticized and accused of " genocide " !!!!.....as ALWAYS, DOBLE STANDARDS ONLY FOR OUR BELOVED ISRAEL !!!!....

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