After the terror attacks of October 7, 2023, by Hamas, American campuses were rocked by protests — but not against Hamas. The protests were against Israel and Jews who were branded as “settler colonialists.” Jewish students were targets for vituperation and sometimes violence.
In today’s Martin Center article, Professor John Ellis asks why this has come about.
He writes:
The scale of support on college campuses for militant antisemitism and even for Hamas barbarism has alarmed most Americans, but there’s something else here that ought to trouble us, too: a startling ignorance of the most basic facts of Middle Eastern history. These are college students being educated on renowned campuses — yet they know virtually nothing about the matter they are protesting.
Radical “progressive” faculty have been feeding students anti-Israel propaganda for years and thus our campuses (especially the elite ones where those professors are concentrated) were primed for the protests. Slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” dominate the minds of students who think they are acting to improve the world.
Read the whole thing.