This is true, but the readiness of the anti-American left to side with haters of America cannot be discounted, either.
“PA celebrates antisemitic campus hate fests,” by Itamar Marcus and Ephraim D. Tepler, Palestinian Media Watch, May 9, 2024:
Anti-Israel illegal encampments, initiated on campuses across the United States, have now been spreading all around the world. In many cases, they have featured intimidation and attacks that have placed Jews and supporters of Israel in physical danger, with some even hospitalized. The situation has deteriorated so much to the point that Columbia University and the University of Southern California have canceled graduation ceremonies. Overall, many Jewish students have reported feeling extremely unsafe.
It comes as no surprise that the PA gives these hate fests its overwhelming support as it is the source of the talking points for the anti-Israel movement.
A recurring libel serving to delegitimize Israel at these demonstrations has been the fundamental message of PA ideology, which is that the State of Israel is a colonialist implant and therefore has no right to exist.
Fatah’s youth movement, Shabiba, in its statement of thanks to students in the United States and at Columbia University in particular, called the conflict with Israel a “war of occupation” that “has been continuing for more than 75 years,” meaning since the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
“The Fatah Shabiba [Youth] Movement expressed its appreciation for the student protest movement at the American universities supporting the Palestinian cause… [At] a time when our Palestinian people is dealing wherever it is with a policy of discrimination and apartheid and with the war of occupation, which has been continuing for more than 75 years (i.e., since the establishment of modern Israel), this important, historic, and unprecedented student protest movement comes to support the Palestinian cause…”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, April 27, 2024]
The statement of thanks, which was published by the PA’s official news agency, has a picture of a protestor at Columbia University waving a Palestinian flag covered by the Fatah Shabiba Youth Movement logo.
Besides thanking the students, Shabiba also leveled fierce criticism at any attempt by the authorities to finally restore a semblance of order to campus. It totally disregarded the antisemitism so prevalent at these protests by passing them off as “false accusations…on the pretext of antisemitism…in a manner that contradicts democratic principles and values:”
“The Fatah Shabiba Movement condemned the attacks against the protesting students and the lecturers at the American universities, the blow to their right to express an opinion and to assembly, the hurling of false accusations against them on the pretext of ‘Antisemitism,’ the arrest of a number of the students, and the exaggeratedly violent treatment of them by the police officers and those opposing this historic protest movement. It expressed its opposition to all the punitive measures and suspension decisions taken against a number of the male students, female students, and lecturers, in a manner that contradicts the democratic principles and values that the US has waved around as a slogan since its establishment.”
On official PA TV, a prominent journalist also hurled criticism at the attempts to restore order, saying that they were a defense of evil:
Egyptian state-owned paper Al Gomhuria Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ihab Nafea: “The stubborn behavior in managing the crisis by Columbia University President [Minouche Shafik] – she is attempting to gain favor with the American administration and is presenting herself as being against what is happening, but I think she will pay a heavy price for this because in the end, she is defending evil and the students are defending justice.”
[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals, May 6, 2024]
The PLO indicated through an official Fatah spokesperson on official PA news that the protests were the culmination of a longstanding coordinated effort by Palestinian communities in the US:
“PLO Executive Committee member Osama Al-Qawasmi expressed his appreciation for the student protest movement that supports the Palestinian cause at the universities of the US and some other states. In a statement to [the official PA] radio [station] The Voice of Palestine, he explained that this protest movement came as a result of an effort that the Palestinian communities there have made for many years…
[WAFA, official PA news agency, May 1, 2024]
The notion that these protests are part of a greater coordinated effort was also asserted on official PA TV by a prominent Palestinian activist in the US:
“This is what makes us happy in the American arena and this is part of the fruits of the ongoing labor that has been conducted by the Arab, Palestinian, and Islamic communities and the supporters in the American arena… What is currently happening in the American arena is a shout to humanity, a shout against oppression, a shout to support the Palestinians, and a shout to this [American] administration that has not relinquished its Zionism and its positions, which joined itself to the occupation state (i.e., Israel) in its war of annihilation against our people in the Gaza Strip in particular and in the West Bank and Palestine in general.”
[Palestinian activist in the US Hayel Mansour,Official PA TV, April 26, 2024]…
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning all those American universities and colleges across the United States that have many misled and misinformed young people in them who are ,sadly . very hostile and malice -filled with brainwashed unthinking hate towards the Jewish people is indeed very tragic.
Such awful hate for people who are Jewish in so many institutions of “higher education” are to a large degree the result manipulative influence of the Muslim who are also stealth jihadists who have infiltrated those centers of “higher learning.” Those stealth jihadists, who are without doubt, backed oil rich Islamic nations as Qatar and Saudi Arabia and even Iran , have a horrendous violent and non-violent evil effect.
This horrific effect is strongly in contrast to the tolerant spirit of America and is a wicked reflection of the spirit of Islam.
Therefore , many Americans in universities and colleges in those places really need and very much should heed the wisdom of the former US President , who in a speech ,rightly , declared ” Antisemitism is a noxious weed that be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those stealth jihadists who have infected so many university and college people with a demonic /Islamic mindset which hates people who are Jewish and likewise hates Israel and viciously want her to be destroyed
This is ,truly , demonic , because it’s against God. for God love the Jewish people, in seen in the Bible.Psalm 105:7-10. Of course God also loves all other people,including those poor misled university and college youth , John 3,16,17.
Furthermore ,the hate for Israel is also demoniacal because God love Israel. So much so that He views are as His “special treasure.” Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]
Unbeliever1 says
These are the useful idiots that are the subjects of this video:
‘Scary’ Islam Is Recruiting Woke ‘Useful Idiots’ – Yasmine Mohammed
https://youtu.be/gj9vr3FTWEY
abu taleb says
The stupid woke leftists prefer their own understanding rather than what the Palestinians say the same way as their way of understanding Islam/Quran rather than what Islamic clerics say.