A new report from Restoration News further uncovers the links between pro-Palestinian campus protesters, professional activism organizations, and terrorist groups.
The report, written by Senior Investigative Researcher Jeff Reynolds, reveals the scope of institutions that purposefully worked to create the cultural chaos that led to active antisemitism on campuses across the country.
Students for Justice in Palestine is one of the most prominent student-led organizations that set up encampments and assembled protests at colleges such as Columbia University, Harvard University, The Ohio State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SJP has over 200 chapters across the country and has protested Jewish speakers on campuses and promotes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The college protests’ antisemitic intensity ranged from urging universities to divest their endowments from Israeli companies to students drawing swastikas on campus and chanting, “Globalize the intifada.”
Though it may appear as if these protests stem from a grassroots movement led by students enraged at innocent civilian deaths, there are social activist groups and terrorist organizations pulling strings behind the scenes.
“I found many organizers of the campus protests that had gone to places like Cuba, Lebanon, and China to train in anti-American rhetoric and resistance tactics. Some are nonviolent, but many include violence and societal disruption,” Reynolds told the Washington Examiner.
The National Association of Scholars found in an extensive report that the BDS movement has been linked to organizations with direct terrorist ties.
None of this should come as much of a surprise. Immediately after the Oct. 7 attack, SJP released a statement calling the rape and murder of Israelis “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.”
It’s difficult to comprehend how such an objectively immoral organization has garnered so much support on college campuses. Central to its overt antisemitism is an embarrassing lack of critical thinking.
The Marxist “oppressor vs. oppressed” framework that is taught at institutions of higher learning is to blame for the twisted perception of morality. Leftist phrases such as “anti-colonialism” and “anti-imperialism” are pervasive in liberal arts institutions. One would be hard-pressed to find an academic working in the humanities that doesn’t endorse such perspectives.
What’s ironic is that so many of these protests took place at some of our nation’s “top” universities, such as Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles. Somehow, our “smartest” students took an extremely complex conflict and turned it into a binary battle between good and evil — and then were confused about which side was which. Nuance is foreign to these protesters. They’re so blinded by ideology that they’ve become incapable of comprehending any conflict outside of the overly simplistic “oppressor vs. oppressed” theory.
Hypocrisy might be more pervasive here than irony, however. So often, we hear from the Left that words have power and that you can’t say certain things because they might lead to violence or marginalization. The outrage from former President Donald Trump referring to the auto industry’s demise as a “bloodbath” comes to mind.
Yet, when radicalized 18-year-olds are chanting “intifada” while Jewish students are walking to class, all of a sudden that perspective no longer applies. Historical context disappears into thin air just so a minority of intellectually arrogant students can feel good about themselves.
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What so many of them don’t realize is that these social activist organizations and terrorist groups are using them as pawns to push their agenda. For every American flag that gets torn down on a college campus, there’s a terrorist in the Middle East plotting another attack against the Jews.
Lost in the fray of these Israeli-Palestinian discussions is the distress felt right now by the Jewish community. Their very existence is under attack, yet neither our popular culture nor politicians have the guts to stand up for them. They actually are being oppressed and marginalized, but don’t expect a leftist academic to tell you that.