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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
10 Nov 2023


Netanyahu accuses US college protesters of ‘lining up with baby burners, rapists and head-choppers’

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused US college protesters of “lining up with baby burners and rapists”.

Speaking on Fox News, the Israeli prime minister launched a withering attack on those who have joined the wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at American campuses.

“They’re lining up with Isis, with al-Qaeda, with these baby murderers, these rapists, these head-choppers,” Mr Netanyahu said.

“We have to protect our future and can our world survive if people go with such moral confusion and moral depravity?

‘We have to defeat evil’

“It’s an indictment of higher education in the West when highly educated people cannot distinguish between right and wrong, and between good and evil.

“Hamas is evil and we have to defeat evil, not protest and demonstrate on behalf of evil.”

In the same interview, Mr Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.

“A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas and surrender to terror,” he added.

Senior politicians in Israel have been alarmed by the rising tide of anti-Semitism on US campuses.

Students at a campus protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza in Washington DC
Students at a campus protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza in Washington DC Credit: Anadolu

Earlier this week, Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, wrote to 700 US colleges and universities calling for action.

In the latest incident, slogans that have been linked to anti-Semitism were beamed on to buildings at the University of Pennsylvania.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” read one message lit up against the John M Huntsman hall.

University president Liz Magill said there had been anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas, daubed on campus buildings.

Jewish students jostled on campus

At Harvard, within four days of the Hamas attacks which killed 1,400 people, a coalition of 34 student organisations issued a statement holding Israel “entirely responsible” for the violence.

Jewish students have also been jostled on campus and complained of feeling intimidated by pro-Palestinian protesters.

Harvard Hillel, a Jewish society, has called for the university to act.

“We know first-hand that our campus community is safest, and our students are best supported when leaders in university administration and student organisations speak out unequivocally against violent hate,” it said in a statement.

“In our continued conversations with Harvard leadership, we will emphasise the need to forcefully condemn anti-Semitism and this heinous terrorist attack. As we do so, the needs of our students are top of mind.”