Saturday, April 27, 2024

To Understand Campus Protesters, The Right Should Dig Deeper

 Emily Jashinsky (thefederalist.com) 

" . . .Or the champions of compassion and tolerance and justice saying things like “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.' ” . . .

(allthatsinteresting.com)

 "It’s important to acknowledge two truths about the anti-Israel campus protests. First, they’ve clearly included some antisemitism, much of which is far more radical than conservative speech the same schools and supportive journalists regularly subject to suppression. Second, many if not most of the campus protesters, outside headline-grabbing antisemites, believe they oppose Hamas, do not hate Jews, and genuinely think they are fighting a colonialist genocide.

"The point of recognizing this is not to excuse schools for botching their responses or let organizers off the hook for platforming bigotry. (They’ve certainly never let the right off the hook for hangers-on or plants.) The point is actually to suggest that while antisemitism will sadly never be extinguished — and there’s some evidence it may be rising — the ideology motivating campus protesters is becoming much more widespread.

Indeed, many of these protesters are Jewish, a reality that’s very familiar to pro-Israel Jews around the world. One Jewish student protester I interviewed this week actually expressed frustration with the difficulty of keeping legitimate antisemites out of the encampment. More broadly, though, the rapid proliferation of anti-Western worldviews presents a bigger problem for the country at large than the seriously disturbing but minority outbursts of antisemitism among protesters. (Minority at least for now.)" . . .

Biden Should Be Forced To Condemn His Hamas Wing Repeatedly; Mollie Hemingway 

 “If you recall, during the Trump administration, everyone would constantly demand that every Republican, chief among them Donald Trump, denounce anything that happened no matter how fringe,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.

UPDATE: Hamas Releases Sick 'Proof-of-Life' Video of American Hostage Keith Siegel, Grandfather of Five – RedState 

. . ."The idiots trashing universities and celebrating murderers seem to have no compassion for the horrors so many Israelis experienced on Oct. 7, 2023—and are continuing to suffer through now. They should be demanding the release of all the hostages, not the destruction of Israel, but they're not, and it's a sad commentary on a shameless segment of our society."

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