Higher ed's embrace of mass murdering Hamas

 Roger Kimball:

Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest form of murderous, antisemitic brutality. The world — most of it — has been sickened and appalled by the spectacle of burnt, mutilated and headless corpses. Aiming at maximum shock, the terrorists made no distinction between young and old, male and female, Israeli and foreign national.

Among susceptible souls in the academy and other ideological fever swamps, however, a familiar moral perversion instantly came to the fore. The weasel word “but” was conscripted and put to work early and often. Without warning, Hamas attacked and murdered Israelis. Yet somehow the Israelis are to blame, or half to blame, or at least complicit in the slaughter. Barack Obama gave a sterling performance in a much-shared article on Medium. Yes, we must lament the brutal attack by Hamas, quoth the former president. But… You know the script. António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, sang a version of the same song when he warned that the attacks by Hamas didn’t occur “in a vacuum.”

The scene at many colleges and universities dispensed with such subtlety. There, pro-Palestinian, anti-Jewish protests made headlines. Some thirty student organizations at Harvard dotted the campus with pro-Palestinian posters and manifestos. At Cooper Union fifty Jewish students were barricaded into a room to protect them from rampaging protesters. At Columbia University, Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics, joyfully described the Hamas massacre as “awesome.”

Such displays have been an element of campus moral idiocy at least since students made common cause with the Viet Cong in the 1960s. But there may be a difference this time. Hamas, in its appeal to left-wing elements on college campuses, just might be performing a much-needed emunctory role. Major donors across the country, appalled by the spectacle of pro-Palestinian demonstrations by students and faculty, have reacted with outrage, disgust and a conspicuous snapping-shut of their checkbooks.
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It is hard to comprehend how these people can ignore mass murder and baby killing.  At least their donors have not lost their morals and sense of decency. 

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And:

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And:

 Hitler Youth In Gaza

  Palestinian Arab children as young as ten years old took an active part in the Hamas pogrom on October 7, according to shocking new testimony from eyewitnesses.

    A survivor named Raziel Tamil, who was hiding in a citrus grove adjacent to the Israeli music festival that Hamas attacked, saw terrorists hand rifles to a group of children in Hamas garb—whom he estimated to be between six and ten years old—” and directed them to execute hostages, which they did,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

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