Protests from pro-Palestinian students against the war between Israel and Gaza on college campuses have resulted in arrests, suspensions, and expulsions nationwide.
At least three colleges in Iran, Shahid Beheshti University, Allameh Tabataba’i University, and Shiraz University, have responded by offering scholarships to students expelled for their actions protesting the war, according to the Iranian-owned propaganda outlet Press TV.
The schools present a great opportunity for expelled students — students should accept those scholarships.
If leftist students want to study somewhere that supports Hamas, there might not be a better place on Earth for them to go than Iran, a country that has long supported the State Department-designated terrorist organization.
The students can live and study in an authoritarian country that is under Shariah. Doing so can give them an appreciation for Islamist rule — similar to that endured by people who live in Gaza. Also, Iran is, strangely enough, a hotbed of transgenderism, where the government funds so-called sex reassignment surgeries. Woke college students may like that if they can get over the country’s oppression of women, gays, and Christians.
Additionally, these expelled students going to college on scholarships would help alleviate the student debt problem.
Student loan debt exceeds $2 trillion in the United States and continues to rise. Private colleges continue to jack up their costs with no indication of stopping. In response, young left-of-center people demand that the federal government pay off their student loans. It means they want taxpayers, most of whom lack college degrees, to pay their bills for them — a regressive handout that benefits white-collar workers.
Why not let Iran pay for their college education instead of the American taxpayer? At least that way, Americans aren’t the ones paying to indoctrinate these students with views sympathetic to Iranian foreign policy.
What’s sad for these students is that these war protests wouldn’t be happening if Hamas didn’t attack Israel on Oct. 7. While the students may not like the response to the attacks from the Israeli government, they should be angry at Hamas for launching the initial attack that provoked this response.
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If Hamas cared about the people it ruled over, it wouldn’t put them in the dangerous situations these students are protesting. A government that puts its people first would never create situations where it knows its combatant will attack schools and hospitals, killing women and children in the process.
If students cannot understand that problem, then they’re probably better off living in Iran.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.