Germany: Because of Muslim migrant pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/germany-muslim-migrant-pressure-anne-frank-daycare-center-to-be-renamed;

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Celebrations of diversity are actually quite monochromatic, but no one seems to have noticed yet.

“After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed – report,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2023:

Parents in Saxony-Anhalt German State promoted the decision to rename the “Anne Frank” daycare center in Tangerhütte, a small town in the state, according to reports in German media.

The move was driven by parents who found it difficult to explain Frank’s significance to their children. According to Apollo News, a German news site, in a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, a daycare center has become the center of a local scandal.

The “Anne Frank” daycare center in Tangerhütte, which has been operating for generations, is set to undergo a name change. The decision to rename the daycare center, named after the most famous Jewish girl, has sparked controversy.

The idea of changing of name of Frank, who tragically died in a concentration camp at the age of 15, has come from migrant parents, according to the daycare center’s director. “It is reported that parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children,” the report said.

However, the Miteinander eV organization, promoting an open society, disagreed with this decision. They argued that there are effective and age-appropriate educational concepts for teaching children and young people about Frank’s life and the historical significance it holds. They emphasized that “renaming the daycare center sends the wrong signal, especially in a time marked by increasing antisemitism.” They said they believed that now, more than ever, there is a need for sensitivity to the impact of symbolic renaming….

Muslim prof at University of Pennsylvania brings scissors, helps students tear down posters of kidnapped Israelis

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/muslim-prof-at-university-of-pennsylvania-brings-scissors-helps-students-tear-down-posters-of-kidnapped-israelis;

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Open support of Hamas jihadis’ inhumanity and bloodlust is all the rage on the Left today. Will the University of Pennsylvania fire Dr. Alghamdi? No, they’ll probably give him an award and a raise, if they’re consistent with what they’ve taught for decades.

NYC: Pre-K teacher spreads pro-Hamas propaganda to four-year-olds UPDATE: Dhimmi Christian

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/nyc-muslim-pre-k-teacher-spreads-pro-hamas-propaganda-to-four-year-olds;

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UPDATE: It turns out she is a dhimmi Christian, sold out to the Islamic agenda, as so many are.

—–Raising up a new generation of jihadis.

“NYC pre-K teacher pushes anti-Israel agenda with lessons about ‘land theft, displacement, and ethnic cleansing,’” by Deirdre Bardolf and Susan Edelman, New York Post, November 4, 2023:

A Manhattan pre-K teacher is spreading anti-Israel hate to the city’s youngest learners – and offering parents and teachers tips to indoctrinate kids to her left-wing agenda, educators and insiders told The Post.

Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offers social-media guides on how to talk to 4-year-olds about “land theft, displacement, and ethnic cleansing.”

She encourages parents to take them to pro-Palestinian protests — while blasting Israel as a “fascist ethnostate” in her Instagram stories, even in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas terrorists.

Abboud’s exclusive “teach-ins” for educators and activists cover Palestine, Zionism, and the “struggle against colonization.” She proselytized online that “teaching can never be radical or revolutionary, so long as you deny the ongoing and violent colonization of Palestine by Zionism” and that early education can be a “tool for liberation.”

“Justice-informed teaching means breaking down power imbalances I’ve been given as a classroom teacher,” she has said, and that “we aren’t teaching the truth if we’re silent on Palestine.”…

Media Pushes ‘Islamophobia,’ Buries Actual Muslim Attack on School in Indiana

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/media-pushes-islamophobia-buries-actual-muslim-attack-on-school-in-indiana;

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She made reference to “her people back in Palestine”

It’s very telling what stories the media focuses on and which it buries out back.

The story of a Stanford Muslim student who claimed that he was hit by a driver who shouted ‘F— you and your people!’ is all over the media despite its vagueness. And I mean the national media, including CNN and CBS News, who have been mining the story for all it’s worth.

Meanwhile, a Muslim woman admitted to trying to attack a school that she thought was Jewish. And the media ignores it.

IMPD officers arrested a woman, who they labeled a “terrorist,” after she drove her car into a building that she thought was a Jewish school.

Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness.

Officers said Almaghtheh backed her car into the building while several adults and children were inside.

Almaghtheh told officers she was watching news coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on television and decided to plan an attack on the building because she was offended by the “Hebrew Israelite” symbol on the front of the building.

Police said Almaghtheh passed by the building a couple of times and called it the “Israel school.”

IMPD said she made reference to “her people back in Palestine” and told officers, “Yes. I did it on purpose.”

According to the report, Almaghtheh was interviewed by detectives and admitted to committing the “hate crime” during her courtesy phone call with a family member.

The Muslim attacker didn’t know enough to realize that she was attacking a Black Hebrew Israelite institution, a group that hates Jews, rather than a Jewish school. Not that it makes much of a difference because she did attack a school.

With kids inside. Black kids.

Two days in the story only seems to have appeared on the local FOX News and CBS News affiliate in Indianapolis.

Why is the Stanford story a national story while the Indianapolis story is a local crime story?

Outrageous bias and propaganda.

The Islamophobia narrative is important, not least of which because it flips the moral dial into making the perpetrators into the victims, while Muslim attacks have to be buried for the same reason.

Minnesota: Socialist public school teacher calls for Israel’s eradication

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/minnesota-socialist-public-school-teacher-calls-for-israels-eradication;

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What do you think she is teaching her students? Yes, the same hatred and bloodlust.

“‘We Only Want One Side to Stop Fighting’: Meet the Minneapolis Public School Teacher Who Called For Israel’s Eradication at Socialist Rally,” by Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, November 1, 2023:

A Minneapolis public school teacher called for the eradication of the Jewish state during an event commemorating “past socialist revolutions,” stating that she does not support a “complete ceasefire” in Israel because she “only want[s] one side to stop fighting.”

Meredith Aby-Keirstead—a social studies teacher at Kennedy High School in suburban Minneapolis—spoke at an Oct. 21 Freedom Road Socialist Organization panel, which aimed to contrast “China’s socialist policies to the imperialist agenda of the United States.” During her speech, however, Aby-Keirstead steered the conversation away from China, opting instead to praise the “wins of Palestinian freedom fighters” and advocate for terrorism against Israelis.

“When I hear people calling for a complete ceasefire, I think, ‘No, that’s not quite right,'” Aby-Keirstead said. “Because we only want one side to stop fighting.” The social studies teacher went on to chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a rallying cry for the Jewish state’s destruction….

Aby-Keirstead, who has worked as a Bloomington Public Schools teacher since 1997, is an active member of a number of far-left activist groups, including the Freedom Road Socialist Organization’s Twin Cities chapter and the Anti-War Committee….

Aby-Keirstead’s pro-Hamas speech at the Oct. 21 panel was revealed by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization’s blog, Fight Back! News. That blog in 2015 expressed support for convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who was involved in the 1969 bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket. The organization itself works to create “a new Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism” and on Oct. 9 praised Hamas’s attack on Israel as a “good turn of events.”

“Israel, the U.S. government, and much of the media promote [sic] the idea that the Palestinian resistance is somehow ‘terrorist.’ Nothing could be further from the truth,” the organization said in a statement. “The Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and so many others represent the aspirations of a free people, Palestinians who insist on the end to occupation.”

Derron Borders, ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Officer at Cornell, and Hamas Cheerleader

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/derron-borders-diversity-and-inclusion-officer-at-cornell-and-hamas-cheerleader;

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Many American campuses during the last month have seen student demonstrations where Israel is denounced for being a colonial-settler and apartheid state, cruelly oppressing the Palestinians. Chants of support for Hamas and its “resistance” are screamed out, faculty members sign collective letters denouncing Israel, and university administrators offer weak or nonexistent condemnations of antisemitism and Hamas atrocities. Derron Borders is an example of antisemitism on campuses. More on Borders can be found here.

Derron Borders was a senior “Diversity and Inclusion” official at Cornell University (Cornell) when Borders wrote pro-Hamas and pro-terror Instagram posts in October 2023

The incident occurred following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were carried out on October 7, 2023. 

On October 8, 2023, Borders reportedly posted on Instagram Stories: “When you hear about Israel this morning and the resistance being launched by Palestinians, remember against all odds Palestinians are fighting for life, dignity, and freedom – alongside others doing the same – against settler colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, which the United States is the model.”…

Yes, according to Derron Borders, nothing says we are “fighting for life, dignity, and freedom” like decapitating babies, burning children alive, gang-raping and murdering young girls, gouging out eyes, cutting off genitalia, and slicing off breasts,, killing children in front of their parents, and parents in front of the children. That is real “resistance” that Derron Borders wants people at Cornell and the world to support.

The post continued: “Let it be known the fight for Palestine against colonization, is a fight for the imagination that other worlds are possible, that genocide should not be accepted, and that people always have the choice of refusal and the right to resist. Free the land.”…

Are you aware, Mr. Borders, that in 1967, when Israel took possession of Gaza, its population was 400,00, and it rose to 1.3 million by 2005, when every last Israeli left the Strip? Do those numbers support the charge of “genocide”? Gaza’s population is now 2.2 million. And in the West Bank, the Arab population in 1967 was 810,000, when Israel took control of the area, and is now three million. Genocide, Mr. Borders? What genocide?

On October 28, 2023, Borders posted [slide 3] on Instagram Stories a video clip of terrorist Ghassan Kanafani explaining why Palestinians should not engage in peace talks with Israel.

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.  

Derron Borders apparently admires the late Ghassan Kanafani, a leader of the terror group PFLP that has been responsible for many terror attacks, including that at the Lod Airport in 1972.

As of October 2023, Borders was listed online as the director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the SC Johnson College of Business in Ithaca, New York.

Also as of October 2023, Borders was listed online as “Chair of the Measurement and Accountability Committee as part of the SC Johnson College of Business Dean’s Leadership Council on Combatting Racism and Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.”…

Borders’ remit at Cornell is the promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the S. C. Johnson Business School. I wonder if his squalid antisemitism — for only that could explain his embrace of Hamas — has now been sufficiently on display for those higher up in Cornell’s administration to reconsider his fitness for such a job.

On October 10, 2023, Cornell reportedly admitted to being “made aware of” Borders’s comments but that Borders “has been on a leave of absence from the university for several months.”

Borders has been on a “leave of absence” for several months. Why was that? Did he post antisemitic remarks on social media, or make antisemitic statements to colleagues? There must be some very good reason why he was put on leave.

And now, following Borders’ posts on Instagram, offering his wholehearted support to Hamas “resistance” one day after the October 7 massacre, Cornell has to do the right thing, especially since it has been getting quite a reputation for being a distinctly uncomfortable place for Jewish students. Do the right thing, Cornell. For his endorsing as legitimate “resistance” the atrocities of Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, Derron Borders needs to be dismissed.

NYC: Jewish students locked into college library to protect them from raging pro-Hamas mob

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/nyc-jewish-students-locked-into-college-library-to-protect-them-from-raging-pro-hamas-mob;

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This wasn’t Berlin 1938. It was New York City 2023.

“Jewish Students at NYC College Cornered by Pro-Hamas Protesters, Told to Hide in Attic,” Jewish Voice, October 26, 2023:

Jewish students at Cooper Union, a private New York City college, were locked inside a library Wednesday as pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protesters beat their fists on the doors, screamed, and tried to gain entry.

Videos sent by terrified students trapped in the library initially were shared on social media Wednesday afternoon by Jake Novak, former media director at the Israeli Consulate in New York.

Novak reported that the New York Police Department was called “as soon as the protesters stormed the main Cooper Union building, but [officers] did nothing.”

New York City Council member Inna Vernikov said Thursday morning that she had spoken with four of the students barricaded in the library. No one was arrested in the incident, Vernikov said….

Novak said Cooper Union librarians “bolted the doors” to prevent pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protesters from entering the library, then told “identifiable” Jewish students to “hide in the attic if they wanted to.”…

Vernikov said Cooper Union faculty members not only canceled class to accommodate a walkout for the protest, but “encouraged students to participate and even offered extra credit” for participating. She also noted that faculty members joined the protest.

The Daily Signal sought comment from Cooper Union, including information on which classes were canceled and which faculty members encouraged students to participate. College officials didn’t respond by publication time.

The Jewish students barricaded in the Cooper Union library were evacuated through tunnels Wednesday evening, while the university and police left the protesters alone, Vernikov and others said.

Vernikov reported Thursday morning that Jewish students at Cooper Union were staying home for fear of safety and some are dropping classes. Three students who were barricaded in the library told her that they “will never walk in there feeling alright again,” Vernikov said….

Anti-Semitic Academia Finally Getting Punched in the Wallet

Anti-Semitic Academia Finally Getting Punched in the Wallet
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Ever since the terrorist murderers in Hamas attacked Israel almost three weeks ago, we’ve been witnessing the disgusting spectacle of American college students very vocally condemning Israel, some of which the esteemed VodkaPundit recently chronicled.

For being attacked.

Yes, parents, this is what a small fortune gets you when you send your kids off to have their minds polluted by the leftist filth that controls Academia.

These kids didn’t come out of the womb being virulently anti-Semitic, they had to be conditioned. To be sure, the American public education indoctrination mill helped get them there, but it’s the lunatics in Academia’s ivory towers who are responsible for the finished product. As I said in a recent podcast, the students are only working with the facts that their professors presented to them.

A handful of college presidents and boards of regents have issued statements condemning anti-Semitism and Hamas, but that can all be filed under “Too Little, Too Late.” The damage to young minds has already been done.

Wholesale changes in American public education and academia are long past overdue, but it’s been considered sacrilege — mostly by the left — to disparage the sainted teachers or institutions of higher learning. Eyes are being opened now, however. The corrupt agenda of the teachers’ unions that run K-12 public schools was revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic and got parents involved in curriculum decisions in great numbers.

Relevant: COVID-19 Has Exposed Teachers’ Unions as the Shakedown Artists They Really Are

The behavior of the rabidly pro-Palestinian/Hamas students at many elite universities has shocked a lot of people who aren’t online and consuming news for most of their waking hours.

There is, of course, BIG money in academia. It takes a lot to keep the hegemonic brain-washing apparatus humming. Obviously, the best way to fight it is to hit them where it hurts the most — in the bank accounts.

Shortly after I decided to write this column, my friend Ed Morrissey posted one of his own at our sister site HotAir which came at the money issue from a different angle than what I’m about to get into. Ed says that we should “decolonize” academia, and here are some of his suggestions:

Rather than launch destructive campaigns that will undermine the rights of all Americans, we need to address the issue at its core. The issue isn’t the NSJP, or the current flock of moral idiots on American campuses at the moment. The problem is the firehose of federal tax dollars propping up the Higher Ed Industry, and the way it gets manipulated to transform education into the kind of indoctrination that produced this anti-Semitic Hitler Youth Movement.

In other words, we need to end the student loan programs. We need to end Pell grants, and every scholarship from the federal government, even the ones for left-handed Laplanders with Lyme Disease. We need to end the transmission of every federal dollar into the bloated, corrupt Academia as it exists now and has existed over the last several decades. Its main product has become a blizzard of non-performing administrators and crops of moral idiots, the latter of whom emerge with crippling lifetime debt and nihilist fantasies that many of them will never outgrow.

To put it another way that might appeal to our progressive partners: We need to Defund the Fleece.

This violates no rights. It doesn’t dictate speech codes to college campuses, another point on which conservatives should know better than to impose. Not a single thing will change, except that we will finally kick the financial struts out from underneath a persistent parasite that has finally come close to achieving its goal of killing its host.

That’s a long quote from Ed’s piece, but I wanted to use it to set up what I was already going to write about.

Public funding is, as Ed points out, the biggest problem, but the tonier institutions of higher learning rely on the generosity of wealthy alumni to ensure that there is always a nice sheen on those ivory towers and that they’re fortified from reality.

Well, the frothing, pro-Palestinian/Hamas student minions are making reality crash in for some schools.

The Wall Street Journal:

Top universities such as Harvard and Penn are facing backlash from alumni angry about the schools’ reactions to the attacks and their aftermath. The alumni say their schools didn’t move quickly and forcefully enough to condemn Hamas and denounce antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks, and that they have done a poor job since then protecting Jewish students as on-campus tensions rise.

Some say it was the final straw after years of growing disenchantment with the schools over what they see as a leftward political shift. Many big donors have announced plans to stop giving or said they are reconsidering future gifts.

The pullback could dent the finances of some universities that rely on big givers to fill their coffers. People giving $1 million or more made up less than 1% of donors but 57% of total donations across surveyed U.S. universities, according to a study by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.

Donations from the “big givers” can usually be penciled into the donation ledger every year and not worried about. Now, thanks to the fruits of their indoctrination labors being on display for all to see, upper-crust universities are facing situations like this:

Retail billionaire Leslie Wexner’s foundation said it would cut financial ties with Harvard and end a program it funded at the school for Israelis. Wexner and his wife have donated more than $42 million to the Cambridge, Mass., university.

Forty-two million is a lot of money even in Harvard dollars.

Some might ask if this will really bring about any positive change in the long run. That’s impossible to predict, of course. The bully needs to take a few on the chin if he’s even going to think about leaving you alone though.

Those in upper management at America’s universities are obsessed with finances and fundraising. For a long time, they’ve been well-oiled machines when it comes to bloating their institutions’ bank accounts. When big, regular donors slam their checkbooks shut it’s a cause for overwhelming concern, if not outright panic.

We continue to see backlash against people who have long gotten away with ignorant anti-Israel, anti-Semitic world views. Those in academia had reason to feel more shielded from criticism than other inherently anti-Semitic groups; they’ve been getting rich off of their hatred for decades, after all. If it can’t be ended altogether, let’s hope that dangerous grift will at least be weakened now.

UC Davis Professor Makes Death Threats to Jewish Journalists and Their Children, Remains On Faculty

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/uc-davis-professor-makes-death-threats-to-jewish-journalists-and-their-children-remains-on-faculty;

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Jemma Decristo is an assistant professor at UC Davis, who has called for violence against “Zionist” journalists and their children — it appears she means not just Israeli citizens, but Jews everywhere who support Israel as well. More on her grotesque threats can be found here: “US Professor Remains on University Staff After Tweet Threatening Jewish Journalists, Their Children,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, October 20, 2023:

The University of California (UC) Davis has kept a professor on staff after she appeared to call for violence against Jewish journalists and their children following the Hamas terror group’s massacre of over 1,400 people in Israel, mostly civilians, earlier this month.

Jemma Decristo, an assistant professor in American studies at UC Davis, made the apparent threat on X/Twitter on Oct. 10, three days after Hamas invaded Israel.

One group of ppl [sic] we have easy access to in the US is all these Zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation,” Decristo wrote. “They have houses [with] addresses, kids in school. They can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.” The message was followed by images of a knife, an axe, and three blood-drop emojis.

Her threat is unmistakable and unnerving. It is this: “We who support the Palestinians know where the Zionist journalists live, we know where their kids go to school. They can’t hide from us, and should be very very worried.” And then her message of violence ends with images of a knife, an axe, and drops of blood.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary May disavowed Decristo’s comments in a statement issued on Thursday.

“I absolutely condemn the posts attributed to a UC Davis faculty member that recently appeared on the social media platform X. I find the comments revolting in every way, and I disagree wholeheartedly with them,” May said. “UC Davis rejects all forms of violence and discrimination, as they are antithetical to the values of our university. We strive to foster a climate of equity and justice built on mutual understanding and respect for all members of the community.”

May noted, however, that the professor remains on staff as the university investigates the matter.

We can confirm that the provost will refer this matter to the appropriate campus departments that investigate harassment, discrimination, and faculty conduct, in consultation with legal counsel regarding First Amendment rights,” he said. “Some have asked why this faculty member continues to be employed at UC Davis. The University of California system has specific procedures for the review of complaints of faculty misconduct consistent with university-wide policies and bylaws. The status of complaints lodged against faculty members are confidential personnel matters, so we are unable to publicly comment on the steps we are taking.”

Decristo does not have tenure. She could be terminated for cause without much ado. What cause? Making antisemitic death threats in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in Israel should be more than enough to qualify as “faculty misconduct.” After all, if Decristo had made death threats, instead, to “black journalists” or to “Muslim journalists” or “LGBTQ journalists,” does anyone think she would still be on campus, and still have her job? But when it is “Zionist journalists” who are being threatened, the UC Davis administrators think that she should remain in her job, not even be placed on administrative leave, until — now comes the bureaucratese — there can be a “review of complaints of faculty misconduct consistent with university-wide policies and bylaws.” How long will that take, while Assistant Professor Decristo continues to teach, continues to receive a salary provided by the taxpayers of California, continues to poison the minds of her students in American history with offhand remarks about the “colonial-settler apartheid state of Israel” and the power of Jews in the media?

Decristo, who describes herself as a “black anarchist” on X, has made her posts available only to “approved followers” following the backlash she received.

Still, Decristo hasn’t been fired, hasn’t been reprimanded, hasn’t been put on unpaid or even paid leave. And there is a strong possibility that the administrators at UC Davis, after conducting their own investigation, will pusillanimously decide that she was merely expressing an opinion and should not lose her job. They will claim, in other words, that the voicing of death threats by Decristo, and her unsubtle encouragement of others to carry out such threats, against “Jewish journalists,” do not constitute a “hate crime.” But perhaps UC Davis will do the right thing, and fire Decristo. Her continued presence on the campus creates an atmosphere of fear for Jewish students. Besides, she can always find a teaching job at Birzeit or Al-Quds universities.

 

1 in 10 College Students Support Hamas Atrocities

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/1-in-10-college-students-support-hamas-atrocities;

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Only 50% of Democrats say they blame Hamas for the attack on Israel.

Some people are describing this poll as good news. It only seems that way because we’ve lowered the bar so drastically that anything short of a majority committing to bombing the Empire State Building seems good.

It’s not good news.

The poll finds 86% of college students saying they’re aware of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Of that share, 67% describe the attack as an act of terrorism by Hamas, versus 12% who see it as a justified act of resistance by Hamas. Another 21% describe it as something other than an act of terrorism or resistance.

1 in 10 college students support the murder, rape and kidnapping of Israeli civilians. Only 2 out of 3 can even bring themselves to call it terrorism. 1 in 5 are not even sure how to define it but don’t want to call it terrorism.

These are catastrophic numbers for what should have been the lowest of low bars, horrifying atrocities against civilians caught on video and recorded in photos, widely discussed and made available, and not even 70% will call it terrorism.

The numbers predictably get worse with party and race breakdowns.

By party, 73% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 50% of independents say they blame Hamas for the attack on Israel.

And by race, 58% of white college students, 47% of Latinos, and 36% of Black college students believe Hamas deserves blame for the attack.

50% among non-Republicans. Not even a majority among non-whites. A third among black people.

Generation Lab doesn’t make its polls public so I can’t dig into the data any further, but there’s little here that inspires optimism and plenty that shows where the hate on campus is coming from.

Even if we limit the worst of it to that 12%, remember that’s the 12% that is much more likely to run student government, control student newspapers, attend protests, speak up, and generally be more visible and powerful.

Higher education is in a catastrophic state. It turns out enemies of our country and of basic civilized values.

Ex-Obama NLRB Counsel, 80 Professors Sign Petition Saying Hamas Atrocities are Legit ‘Military Operation’

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/ex-obama-nlrb-counsel-80-professors-sign-petition-saying-hamas-atrocities-are-legit-military-operation;

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The mask is coming off.

We bomb ISIS, yet we fund CUNY.

The City University of New York has been transformed from a public university that let poor kids get a good education and succeed. They boast about how many Nobel laureates they’ve produced, but those days are behind them. Instead, CUNY has become an antisemitic terrorist hellhole where over 80 faculty members are willing to sign on to a statement saying that the murder of elderly women and children, the rape of women and the kidnapping of children is a “military operation”.

The petition begins with…

“We, the undersigned CUNY staff and faculty, strongly object to Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez’s efforts to censure expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people. In advance of anti-apartheid rallies planned on multiple campuses, the Chancellor claimed that the organizers would ‘glorify Saturday’s [Oct. 7] violence and celebrate the killings, injuries, and capture of innocent people.’ This baseless, prejudicial statement reproduces the racist, Islamophobic rhetoric that has accompanied the drumbeat for war.”

And then the petition proves that the chancellor was right as it argues that…

“There is also no equivalence between the October 7 military operation by Hamas and the subsequent military attack by the Israeli state, and certainly no equivalence to the systemic and the violence of Israeli settler colonialism.”

A military operation aimed at massacring and kidnapping civilians.

Signatories to this pro-rape and pro-kidnapping children petition include Marc Lamont Hill, who had already previously exposed his support for kidnapping and killing Jewish teens.

Other signatories include Jonathan Buchsbaum, a media studies professor and author of “Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua” (I believe he was the protagonist of a Charlie Kaufman novel), Anna Stetsenko, a “developmental psychologist” from Russia, and Ellen Dichner, the Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board under the Obama administration.

Meanwhile, Northwestern University’s Asian American Studies Programs issued an open letter condemning the “visible Islamophobia expressed in pro-Israel posters on NU’s campus falsely claiming that ‘Hamas is ISIS’” and described Hamas as a “political group”.

These are just a few examples of the mask coming off academia and the ugly vileness being revealed.

The enemies of civilization are showing themselves for who they are. The crimes they’re defending are indefensible, but from the gulags to Pol Pot to the suicide bombs, they were always indefensible.

Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey, has adopted a “tiered” policy for classifying students who want to transition their gender without their parent’s knowledge.

A school district in New Jersey has been socially transitioning students behind parent's backs, according to email and video obtained exclusively by OMG. Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey, has adopted a "tiered" policy for classifying students who want to transition without their parent's knowledge. "I had one of my students reach out to me about their preferred name for next year. Do we know how we can input their name into Genesis without it being visible by families?" states an email from School counselor Fallon Corcoran to counselor Michael Schiff, referencing Genesis, a student database. A source within the school recorded Fallon stating, "I am not calling home... everything we talk about stays between us." According to emails obtained from OMG, Kingsway Regional has developed a tiered ranking system to classify students. Students in the second tier are allowed to use the gender and name of their choice, and that information is kept from parents. In one email we obtained, a teacher or school counselor writes that they "heard from a [redacted] student over the summer with questions about sharing her preferred name and pronouns with teachers but does not want her family to be aware." We reached out to Kingsway Regional Superintendent James Lavender, who said the policy was handed down to the district by the New Jersey Department of Education.

Virginia: Pro-jihad school board member opposes honoring victims of Hamas jihad massacre

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/virginia-pro-jihad-school-board-member-opposes-honoring-victims-of-hamas-jihad-massacre;

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Abrar Omeish represents her constituents in what has been dubbed “Northern Virginiastan.” Celebrate diversity!

“Pro-Palestinian school board member opposes honoring Hamas attack victims: ‘Ignores the root of the violence,'” by Gabriel Hays, Fox News, October 13, 2023:

A pro-Palestinian Fairfax County school board member scolded fellow board members Thursday for giving a statement and holding a moment of silence for the victims of Hamas’ recent deadly attack against Israel.

During the meeting, Abrar Omeish rebuked the board for their “sneak attack” of inserting a moment of silence for victims of Saturday’s surprise terrorist attack and Israel’s ensuing war against Hamas into the meeting’s agenda….

Airing her grievances with how the memorial was conducted, she said, “I wasn’t expecting what seemed to be a sneak attack after we had discussed making sure we represent all children in the ways that we speak and when we speak. So it’s disappointing that my colleagues would do that behind my back after conversations that I had with them in saying that the statement represents everybody’s views.”…

“Many are thinking about the incredible devastation and human suffering unfolding today in Israel and Palestine. And we mourn the loss of hundreds of innocent civilians killed and homes destroyed this week alone and the thousands over the decades,” Omeish said.

Omeish continued by declaring that seeing Israel’s retaliation against an aggressor as a black-and-white issue is insufficient, stating, “It might seem simple – aggressors attacking families in a state seeking vengeance – but we often sympathize with and humanize the side that we relate to and the side that looks more like us, or that our biases guide us towards.”

“But doing so ignores the root of the violence,” she said. Appearing to lessen the moral culpability of Hamas in its terrorism on Saturday, Omeish added, “Centuries of human history teach us that escalations happen when problems are ignored, realities are denied, and voices are censored. When one narrative dominates from the world stage all the way to our classrooms.”

She then uttered the social justice quote, “No justice, no peace,” and slammed Israel for building an apartheid state and murdering Palestinians….

NYC teacher cheers Hamas murders of Israelis, claims “to support ‘Israel’ is to support white supremacist terror”

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/nyc-teacher-cheers-hamas-murders-of-israelis-claims-to-support-israel-is-to-support-white-supremacist-terror;

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Hamas jihadis paraglided into a music festival in Israel and massacred people wholesale there. Many women were kidnapped and taken away to become jihadi sex slaves in accordance with Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, and 70:30. Mohammad Jehad Ahmad, however, retails Leftist tropes about “racism” and “white supremacism,” and thereby manipulates low-intelligence Leftists into supporting this savage jihad. Meanwhile, he will no doubt go on his merry way indoctrinating his hapless students with these demonic lies, while if another teacher in a New York City public school began teaching about the justice of Israel’s cause, he or she would be reprimanded and likely fired.

 

The Campus Hate Groups that Support Hamas~A new report exposes their seething leftist hatred.

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-campus-hate-groups-that-support-hamas

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Introduction by Daniel Greenfield:

The Campus Hate Groups that Support Hamas
A new report exposes their seething leftist hatred.

After Hamas terrorists butchered Israelis, raped and killed teenage girls at a musical festival, and caged children as hostages, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called it a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance.”

SJP, a campus hate group backed by Hamas’ Muslim Brotherhood parent organization, which has over 200 chapters in North America, declared that Jewish “settlers are not civilians” and are fair game for the atrocities committed by Hamas against women and children.

“This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation,” SJP National posted before urging its chapters to join in a National Day of Action.

Students for Justice in Palestine at Boston University celebrated the atrocities with a poster featuring a scene from the attacks and the title “Victory is Ours.”  The University of Chicago chapter also joined in pledging their support for “resistance.” As the Hamas atrocities made clear, by “resistance” they meant the mass slaughter, rape, and torture of Jews.

At Florida State University, Students for a Democratic Society retweeted a message from the National SDS organization praising Hamas as the “Palestinian resistance” that led “attacks that utterly humiliated Israel.” FSU’s SDS added, “Victory to the Palestinian resistance!” and pledged ‘’complete and unconditional solidarity” with Hamas and predicted the destruction of Israel.

At the University of Michigan, its SJP chapter, going by the name Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), described the Hamas crimes as a “new precedent for our national liberation struggle” and called for a gathering in Dearborn to honor Hamas and “our martyrs.”

These are the reactions from some of the top ten campus hate groups highlighted in this report. Taxpayer money is being used to fund radical groups that demand a second Holocaust. These are not political opinions; in the aftermath of the brutal assaults, it is undeniable that their support for the “Palestinian resistance” means the extermination of millions of Jews.

“The Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America,” the Fall 2023 report from the Freedom Center, documents a campus environment that is uglier than ever and exposes the seething leftist hatred of these ten student groups. Beyond their antisemitism, they have silenced professors, intimidated speakers, and created a climate of political terror from one end of the country to the other.

From Hamas supporters at Boston University and San Francisco State University to assaults on visiting speakers at the University of Buffalo and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this fall’s campus hate groups are domestic terrorist organizations that are destroying higher education.

The radicalization of universities made them into safe spaces for the worst possible extremists. Conservative faculty and all opposing voices have been banished from campuses. Pro-Israel and conservative students have learned to hide their views to avoid becoming targets. And curriculum changes have turned places of learning into Marxist indoctrination centers.

Those are the conditions under which colleges can celebrate Islamic terrorism or Communism, in which the worst possible crimes, even the murder of children, meet with approval as long as they are dressed up in revolutionary language and woke dogma.

The Hamas movement was incubated by Muslim Brotherhood campus groups at universities and the Hamas supporters on American campuses dream of one day doing to Americans what their political allies in Gaza have been inflicting on Israelis.

That’s why it’s more urgent than ever to expose and shut down these campus hate groups.

Our college campuses are becoming miniature ‘Gazas,’ no-go-zones for conservatives and supporters of Israel, where terrorists rule and everyone else is terrified of them. But the David Horowitz Freedom Center is not about to be intimidated and will not stop exposing these poisonous movements and standing up to them. We will not stop fighting the enemies of civilization because we know who they really are and what they stand for.

Read this report and discover who they are and why we fight to expose and defund them.

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The Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America
Fall 2023 Campus Report
 

#1: Georgetown University, Black Law Student Association
#2: University of Buffalo, Young Democratic Socialists of America
#3: Boston University, Students for Justice in Palestine
#4: Florida State University, Students for a Democratic Society
#5: Louisiana State University, Cooperation Rouge, and the Black Student Union
#6: University of New Mexico, Southwest Solidarity Network
#7: San Francisco State University, General Union of Palestinian Students
#8: University of Michigan, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality,
#9: University of Chicago, Students for Justice in Palestine
#10: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Young Democratic Socialists of America

The Public Funding of Campus Hate

The stated purpose of higher education is the search for truth and wisdom, but in recent years, the American college campus has become little more than an echo chamber where radical, far-left, ideology can be refined and then disseminated into the wider national culture. Today’s college campuses are ruled by idealogues who view the world through the Marxist categories of the oppressor and the oppressed and seek to destabilize and dismantle America in the hopes of fomenting a revolution. Backed by millions of dollars in federal and state monies, University administrators and faculty teach impressionable students that America was founded on “systemic racism,” a stain that allegedly lingers to this day. They fund Middle East Studies departments and institutes which openly propagate Jew-hatred and advocate for the destruction of Israel. They promote the racist ideology of Critical Race Theory and the sexist and unscientific doctrine of transgenderism, all while using the iron fist of bureaucracy and speech codes to eliminate all dissent.

It should therefore not be surprising that student organizations and clubs on campus have become little more than vehicles of resentment and hatred directed at our nation, at Jewish students and supporters of Israel, and at the founding principles that are supposed to buttress the universities themselves—open discourse and academic freedom.

The following report names the Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America. These groups have openly and proudly aimed anti-Semitic libels at Jewish students and organizations. They have praised terrorists and cop-killers as heroes because the ideology of these criminals matches their own. They have endorsed racist policies and principles as a path toward achieving a more just society. They have taken it upon themselves to decide what views are allowable on publicly funded university campuses and which must be shouted down as “hate speech.”

Our aim in publishing this report is twofold. First, we hope to expose and reveal the radical hatred that the Left has woven into the fabric of our universities for all the world to see. Second, we demand that the universities named in this report launch investigations into the student organizations and groups named here, to see if their conduct violates federal and university policies. If the universities named herein refuse to take up that burden, we urge state and federal legislators to do it for them.

Our universities have become the cesspit of American society, where bad ideas and rhetoric stew, unhindered by reason, truth, or common sense, while the stench seeps out into our broader culture. Student organizations on campus play a key role in repackaging and rehabilitating failed philosophies like Marxism, Jew-hatred, and racism as the shining path to a better future. We must expose and confront the radical ideologies and hatreds simmering within these collegiate organizations to impede their spread beyond the ivory tower.

#1: Georgetown University, Black Law Student Association

The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) at Georgetown University may seem an unusual candidate for a list of campus hate groups, but the association has repeatedly promoted racism and racial preferences for African Americans and attempts to shut down all discourse that deviates from these positions. The group has also deliberately suppressed free speech and open discussion on campus and has attempted to ruin the careers of several faculty members over comments that signified their opposition to racism.

In January 2022, law professor Ilya Shapiro, who had just been hired as a senior lecturer and to head Georgetown’s Center for the Constitution, was placed on administrative leave after he tweeted his opposition to Biden’s pledge to select an African-American woman to serve as the next justice on the Supreme Court. Shapiro believed that Sri Srinivasan would be Biden’s “best pick” for the Court but noted that “alas [Srinivasan] doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get [a] lesser black woman.”

Shapiro quickly apologized for the somewhat inelegant wording of his post and his use of the term “lesser black woman,” and clarified that he simply meant that Biden should not let racial preferences guide his decisions on Supreme Court nominees and should pick the best candidate regardless of race. But to the BLSA, his promotion of meritocracy at the highest level of the American judiciary was apparently a racist thoughtcrime. The Black Law Student Association released a lengthy statement calling on the administration “to demand the revocation of [Shapiro’s] employment contract and to condemn his racist tweets.”

The BLSA statement also made further outrageous and racist demands including “committing to a thorough hiring process that considers incoming faculty and staff’s cultural competency” and “reserving a seat for a BLSA representative on every Faculty Appointment Student-Faculty Committee and requiring inclusion of Black students in the hiring for all faculty and staff.”

Instead of defending Shapiro’s academic freedom, Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor joined the pile-on, condemning Shapiro’s tweet as “appalling” and placing the new hire on administrative leave before he was able to teach a single class. The university initiated a four month investigation to determine whether Shapiro had violated Georgetown’s diversity and inclusion policies, during which time the professor was entirely sidelined at his new job,

Georgetown reluctantly reinstated Shapiro after the end of the school year and acknowledged that he did not violate Georgetown’s absurdly restrictive free speech policies—not because his comments about Biden’s Supreme Court nominee constituted legitimate political discourse, but only because he was not yet an official employee of Georgetown at the time of his tweets.

The Black Law Student Association chose this occasion to make additional demands. In a public statement to the administration of the law school, BLSA wrote “to express our outrage, offense, and disheartenment over the Law Center’s decision to keep Ilya Shapiro on University staff” and claiming that “The University’s decision reinforces that there are no repercussions for demeaning Black women.” The BLSA demanded that the University immediately terminate Shapiro for his “committed transgressions against Black Women” and further demanded that all faculty and staff “attend implicit bias training that centers around historically oppressed groups”—that is, reeducation in progressive groupthink.

The BLSA’s statement went on to claim that “Georgetown’s decision to hire Shapiro is not only wrong, but it puts Black students in harm’s way by fostering a community that allows racism to be accepted as conservative.” This statement is exactly the opposite of the truth. Shapiro was criticizing Biden’s racist decision-making and his pre-determination that the next Supreme Court nominee would be a black woman. It is the BLSA that actively promoted and exercised racism by attempting to fire a law professor for daring to ask that nominees be chosen solely on their professional merits as legal scholars, without consideration of skin color or racial heritage. This racist agenda (disguised as “anti-racism”) along with a total disregard of the facts and an abject hostility to free expression and dissenting views is why the BLSA deserves to be known as a hate group.

Nor was Shapiro’s persecution the only instance of the BLSA’s brutal repression of free expression and commitment to racial prejudices. In a separate controversy occurring in March of 2021, when many classes were still taking place over Zoom, two colleagues, Georgetown Law professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson, were accidentally recorded commiserating on a Zoom call over their experiences grading students.

“You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks,” Sellers commented to Batson. “Happens almost every semester and it’s like ‘Oh come on.’”

Sellers added, “I get some really good ones but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom, it drives me crazy… so I feel bad.”

The video shows Batson nodding his head, possibly indicating agreement, but remaining silent while listening to his colleague.

It was evident from the context that Sellers’ comments were the opposite of racist. She expressed her dismay that when assigning grades meritocratically, her African-American students, on average, earned lower grades than those of other races. This is a statement of fact, not evidence of discrimination. Moreover, she expressed her discomfort at the unfortunate fact that her African-American students are more likely to end up at the bottom of the grading curve. But neither Georgetown nor the Black Law Student Association cared that her comments came from her genuine desire for students of all races to succeed.

The BLSA released a statement which called on the university to fire Sellers without due process. “We demand nothing short of the immediate termination of Sandra Sellers as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center,” the BLSA exhorted. “Not suspension. Not an investigation. The University must take swift and definitive action in the face of blatant and shameless racism.”

Georgetown Law School Dean Bill Treanor immediately acquiesced to the mob and fired Sellers. For the apparent thought crime of possibly agreeing with Sellers, Professor Batson was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation and later resigned.

The BLSA statement also twisted and deliberately obscured the intention of Sellers’ comments.

“These racist statements reveal not only Sellers’ beliefs about Black students in her classes, but also how her racist thoughts have translated to racist actions,” the BLSA wrote. “Professor Sellers’ bias has impacted the grades of Black students in her classes historically, in her own words.”

According to the skewed logic of the BLSA, merely recognizing that African Americans have historically not performed as well in a law school class, is tantamount to racism and indicates that racism must be at work. No matter how factually accurate the statement may be or the many reasons, including the now-banned use of racial preferences in admissions, why it may be true.

For its promotion of racism and deliberate attempts to censor free expression and tank the careers of those who deviate from DEI orthodoxy, the Black Student Law Association deserves to be recognized as one of the Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America.

#2: University of Buffalo, Young Democratic Socialists of America

The Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Buffalo (part of the State University of New York system), has earned its reputation as a campus hate group. The organization has showcased its vicious mob mentality and hatred towards women and conservatives in the reception it has given two recent campus speakers.

In April of 2023, SUNY-Buffalo welcomed former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines to campus. During the 2022 season, Gaines tied male swimmer Lia (formerly William) Thomas, who identifies as a transgender female, for fifth place in the women’s 200 yards in the NCAA championships. Despite the tie, Thomas was the one presented with the trophy. He also won first place in the Women’s 500-yard freestyle event, becoming the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title. Gaines’ experiences competing against Thomas have led her to become a vocal proponent for the cause of protecting the women’s category in sports from participation by males.

It is undeniable that men, as a class, have an athletic advantage over women. Thomas’s own career illustrates this fact. When competing for the University of Pennsylvania men’s team, Thomas was ranked 554th among men in the 200 freestyle. As a woman, she placed 5th in the nation.

Despite the clarity of the science, the YDSA at Buffalo chose to protest Gaines’ visit to campus and vilified and mocked the collegiate swimmer for standing up for women’s rights. Posters for the event dubbed it a “Rally for Trans Liberation.” They featured an image of Gaines with literal devil horns adorning her head and called her a “sore loser” and “transphobe.” A second poster depicted her as a clown with a white-painted face and a large red nose and the caption “Transphobic Loser” beneath her picture.

During Gaines’ speech, protests organized by the YDSA featured students calling Gaines a “sore loser,” referring to police officers as “pigs” and chanting, “Your hate is not welcome here.” They also compared the United States to “1936 Germany” and chanted “Trans Rights are human rights,” an odd statement given that it is not clear how acknowledging that transgender “women” are in fact biologically male violates anyone’s rights. Students were also caught on video tearing down signs advertising the event.

The YDSA’s attempt to humiliate Riley Gaines and to prevent her from speaking at the University of Buffalo, and its efforts to destroy women’s hard-fought rights and opportunities in sports solidifies the group’s status as a hate group.

The YDSA also welcomed conservative commentator Michael Knowles to campus with similar venom. Knowles is known for his comment that “Trangenderism needs to be eradicated from public life.” While some on the left have characterized his words as a call to kill transgender people, that accusation is ridiculous. “Now I’m not quite sure how one could hear those words and conclude that I was calling to murder all the transvestites because I clearly expressed a special concern for the good of these sexually confused people,” Knowles has explained. “Presumably therefore I would not be interested in murdering them. I refer to transgenderism. ‘Ism’ referring to a doctrine a system a set of beliefs.”

Posters created by the YDSA contained a picture of Knowles with a court jester’s hat and clown face superimposed on the image. The poster’s caption reads “F—k Off Fascists.” A second poster stated, “Michael Knowles Not Welcome at UB” and contained an image of Knowles with X’s for eyes, typically an indication that an individual is dead. The text below that image read, “All out for hate speech! No tolerance for transphobia!” It is unclear if the poster was meant as a death threat, but that threat is certainly implied.

Nor is the organization’s hatred limited to women and those who aim to protect their rights. YDSA has repeatedly promoted Jew hatred by posting genocidal statements aimed at Israel on its twitter account and demonizing the Jewish state. “Israel is an apartheid state that must be dismantled, free Palestine from the river to the sea now and forever,” reads one post from May of 2021, an exhortation to destroy the entirety of Israel which lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The group has also proclaimed the maxim, “Defund the Police,” a policy that if instituted would increase lawlessness and have disproportionately negative effects on America’s most vulnerable populations.

For its behavior-threatening activists who are attempting to preserve women’s rights and its intolerance towards free speech on campus, the UB Young Democratic Socialists of America deserve to be counted among the top campus hate groups in America.

#3: Boston University, Students for Justice in Palestine

The Boston University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine has solidified its status as one of the premier campus hate groups in America through its spouting of Hamas-fueled propaganda accusing Israel and Jews of murdering Palestinians, its promotion of racism, and its deliberate role in fueling ancient blood libel tropes against the Jewish people.

In July of 2023, Boston U. SJP shared a horrific graphic on its Instagram page which alleges that an “Israeli salad” is made from the blood of Palestinian children. The cartoon image is titled “How to make an Israeli salad” and shows a series of illustrated steps. Step 1 depicts an Israeli soldier kicking in the door of a Palestinian family who is eating dinner. Step 2 shows the same Israeli soldier using his black-gloved hand, with a Star of David featured on the glove, pressing down on the face of a Palestinian child while drops of blood drip off her. Step 3 shows the same black-gloved hand planting a small Israel flag on top of a bowl of salad. The horrific imagery evokes centuries-old tropes of Jewish blood libel which fueled medieval crusades and the more recent Holocaust led by Adolf Hitler.

Nor was that the only occasion on which BU SJP promoted Jew-hatred. In March 2023, the campus organization held a series of events promoting “Israeli Apartheid Week,” an annual event characterized by anti-Semitic propaganda meant to demonize and delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state. Instagram posts made by the chapter falsely claimed that Israel is “a settler colonial project, that utilizes a system of Apartheid to carry out inhumane acts against the Palestinian people, including denial of civil rights, land expropriation, dispossession, and establishment of a dual legal system, all of which are upheld by a system of continuous and historical violence carried out by the Israeli occupation forces.” They further promoted “the goal of Palestinian liberation, from the River to the Sea,” a genocidal call to annihilate the entirety of Israel which lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. One of the featured events was a speech by notoriously anti-Semitic Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi who has repeatedly whitewashed Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians.

Another event for Israel Apartheid Week featured Palestinian socialist Sumaya Awad who helped found the Williams College chapter of SJP. During her address, Awad resorted to anti-Semitic tropes to demonize Israel, claiming that, “this whole support we are seeing between the U.S. and Israel is not about fighting antisemitism… it’s about money.” Awad also told the crowd that Israel has spent millions on American campuses to “spread propaganda” for Israel.

In October and November of 2022, SJP at BU promoted a campaign and protest to “Shut Down JNF” which refers to the Jewish National Fund. The campaign was rife with anti-Semitic language and imagery, including signs stating “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free,” a genocidal slogan promoting the destruction of Israel. The campaign also featured a video that depicted protestors calling for an “intifada,” or a violent uprising against Israel—essentially a call for further terrorist violence against Israeli citizens. The language on the graphics also delegitimized and demonized Israel, falsely claiming that Israel had been “stealing land and colonizing Palestine since 1901,” and claiming that Zionism was linked to “White Supremacy.”

Also in November 2022, BU SJP attempted to shut down a forum that was co-hosted by the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies on Campus and was titled “Jerusalem: City of Change.”  In a mendacious Instagram post that delegitimized Israel, SJP claimed that Israel thatAuthority (IAA), which conducts archeological research in Israel, is guilty of “indigenous antique theft,” “revising history,” “ethnic displacement,” and “settler colonialism.” In this instance, SJP was following the lead of Hamas in attempting to deny and obscure the Jews’ millennia-long historic roots in Israel.

In March of 2022, BU SJP participated in the annual anti-Semitic hatefest known as “Israeli Apartheid Week.” As part of the events for the occasion, SJP hung a banner on campus thatAntiquities stated “End the Deadly Exchange, Free Palestine” alongside the image of an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian woman, again invoking blood libel tropes that claim Jews are bloodthirsty monsters. SJP also erected a mock “apartheid wall” on campus (meant to symbolize the security fence that protects Israelis from terrorist attacks). Panels on the wall contained the genocidal slogan “From the river to the sea” with an image of the entirety of Israel, signifying the goal of destroying the Jewish state.

In December 2021, BU SJP promoted terrorist violence against Israel by painting the slogan “Long Live the Intifada” on the BU Rock on campus. The two Israeli Intifadas were periods featuring horrific terrorist violence by Palestinians against Israeli citizens. BU SJP also posted a message on social media that demonized Israel, stating,” The Intifada is an action that lives within the Palestinian people every day, and exists as a permanent source of inspiration against Israeli occupation and apartheid.”

In May of 2021, SJP at BU released a statement titled “Neutrality is Complicity” that demonized and delegitimized Israel, stating that BU is complicit in “Israel’s oppression of Palestinians” and “profit[s] from it” by maintaining a working relationship with the Jewish state. The statement went on to refer to the “Zionist occupation” which it alleged “stands on pillars of terror, racism and lies” and “is anti-democratic to the core.” The anti-neutrality principle is a pillar of the BDS hate campaign against the Jewish state in which opponents to Israel’s existence refuse to recognize it as legitimate or have “neutral” attitudes toward it.

For its repeated promotion of blood libel tropes against the Jewish people and its exhortation to terrorist violence against Jews and Israelis, Boston University SJP deserves its place among the worst campus hate groups.

#4: Florida State University, Students for a Democratic Society

The Florida State chapter of the proudly socialist organization Students for a Democratic Society is a hate-and-censorship-fueled vehicle for promoting radicalism on campus.

In April 2022, FSU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) released a hate-filled anti-Semitic statement claiming that the organization “Stands with Palestine.” The statement demonized and delegitimized Israel, claiming falsely that “This month the Israeli [sic throughout] occupation has continued to escalate the brutality of its occupation of Palestine and its systematic genocide of Palestinians” and that “Every Ramadan the immoral and illegitimate zionist forces go out of their way to terrorize Palestinians.” The statement went on to malevolently declare (all caps in original) that “ZIONISM IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST SETTLER COLONIAL PROJECT, THEREFORE SDS SUPPORTS THE RIGHT OF RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, TO THE HOMES AND LAND FROM WHICH THEY WERE EXILED IN 1947-48 AND AGAIN IN 1967 AND EVERY YEAR SINCE.” It concluded by repeating the genocidal slogan, “FROM THE RIVER, TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!” which promotes the destruction of all of Israel which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The statement also contained a de-facto endorsement of Palestinian terrorism, stating “All across Palestine, the people are rising up against the Israeli occupation. SDS supports their efforts towards national liberation and a free Palestine by any means necessary!”

FSU SDS has also shown its true colors by promoting the cause of their fellow radicals in Tampa Bay who were arrested for starting a violent altercation with police. In March 2023, five members of the Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society chapter were arrested on the campus of the University of South Florida for conducting a violent protest and entering into an altercation with police while protesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ plan to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at state-funded universities. FSU SDS promoted an August 2023 protest on behalf of the “Tampa Bay 5” at the Leon County Court of Clerks office, claiming that they were arrested merely for “fighting against DeSantis’s anti-education bills.” The true facts are quite different.

USF police spokesperson Michael Lavalle described how “Despite the attempts of officers to peacefully deescalate the situation and escort the protesters out of the building, several of the individuals then became aggressive and initiated physical altercations with police,” adding that one officer was shoved to the ground and suffered minor injuries while other officers were “shoved by protesters.” He also described how “protesters hit police with objects, including what officers believe was a video camera and a water bottle, and threw an unidentified liquid at officers.” FSU SDS’s vehement defense of the Tampa Bay 5 and whitewashing of their clearly violent and aggressive actions illustrates the hatred that fuels the organization.

FSU SDS has repeatedly displayed its hatred and intolerance through its attempts to censor ideas and speakers with whom they disagree.  In November 2021, FSU SDS released a statement demanding that Florida State University cancel a planned speech by conservative and pro-Israel author Ben Shapiro. In addition to promoting censorship of Shapiro’s very mainstream conservative views, the statement demonized Israel calling it a “settler-colonial Israeli apartheid state, which has been engaged in the displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for decades.” The statement also defamed Shapiro as a “racist and a “fascist” and exhorted “No fascists on our campus.”

SDS also revealed its hateful intolerance of dissenting views, claiming that Shapiro “has affirmed white supremacy by pushing back against ‘Critical Race Theory’ (in other words a correct telling of U.S. history) and decrying systemic racism as a baseless belief.”

When their protest was unsuccessful in halting Shapiro’s speech, FSU SDS joined the Hamas-funded hate group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in protesting Shapiro’s appearance on campus, shouting anti-Semitic and genocidal slogans such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” “End the Occupation,” “Israel is an Apartheid State,” and “Israel is a Terrorist State.” Shapiro was again called a “racist” and a “fascist.”

In October of 2022, FSU SDS also attempted to stop conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk from speaking on campus, calling themselves the “Progressive Coalition against Far-Right Platforming” and aiming to halt discourse at their public university. During their protest of Kirk’s speech, SDS members chanted the genocidal anti-Israel slogan, “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.”

Florida State SDS also has a habit of valorizing criminals and pedophiles. The group made a post on Instagram commemorating gay activist Harry Hay and idolizing him as someone who “dedicated his life to fighting homophobia, Jim Crow, South African apartheid, antisemitism, and US wars of aggression/intervention.” The post fails to mention that Hay was a prominent supporter of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a group that promotes the legalization of pedophilia, and that he spoke publicly about supporting relationships between grown men and boys as young as 13 years old.

In a May 1st Instagram post on behalf of International Workers Day, FSU SDS glorified international fugitive and cop-killer Assata Shakur, stating “We can learn from the great Assata Shakur when she spoke on this: No oppressed people have ever won their freedoms through one single person. No oppressed people have ever won their freedoms by asking nicely. It is our duty to fight for our freedom, and it is our duty to win!” Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1973, while already on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for her participation in three bank robberies and the attempted murder of two policemen, the car Shakur was in was pulled over by state troopers in New Jersey for a taillight violation. Shakur and her companions fired on the officers, murdering one of the troopers by shotting him in the head execution style twice with his own weapon. This is the woman who FSU SDS holds up as an icon.

Due to its rampant Jew hatred and promotion of terrorist violence, in addition to its attempts to ban dissenting views from campus, Florida State University SDS merits its place on the list of the worst campus hate groups.

#5: Louisiana State University, Cooperation Rouge and the Black Student Union

Louisiana State University is home to a pair of campus hate groups who have entered into a partnership to foment Jew hatred and promote terrorism in the service of radical causes.

Cooperation Rouge at Louisiana State University is an openly socialist and deeply anti-Semitic campus hate group that glorifies terrorists and far-left despots. The organization was founded by student Soheil Saneei who graduated in the spring of 2022. According to an article published on the far-left news site Reckon, “Saneei and his friends founded the campus organization Democracy at Work LSU [later renamed Cooperation Rouge] as a response to activism that seemed more like ‘resume builder’ activities to some students.”

The organization describes themselves in an online bio, stating “We are a student-led organization at LSU that analyzes capitalism critically as a systemic problem and advocates for democratizing workplaces as part of a systemic solution.” But that description is only half right. While Cooperation Rouge indeed views capitalism as a systemic problem, it also views any and all far-left revolutionaries as brilliant exemplars, regardless of backgrounds steeped in crime and hatred. The organization also promotes the Hamas party line on Israel, repeatedly describing the world’s only Jewish state as an “apartheid” polity guilty of numerous evils.

The Black Student Union at LSU is a less obvious candidate for a campus hate group. The organization claims to “represent the interest of the Black student populace at all times emphasizing political, community, social, and educational concerns while promoting the general welfare of the Black student populace” but has frequently partnered with Cooperation Rouge and other anti-Semitic organizations to promote Jew hatred.

In May of 2021, Cooperation Rouge published a letter that was signed by 11 other organizations, including the Black Student Union (BSU) promoting the genocidal Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and charging Israel with “ethnic cleansing” and “war crimes.” The letter quotes holocaust-denier Normal Finkelstein and Black Panther Party arms-dealer Angela Davis (described as a “philosopher”) to promote the view that Israel is an illegitimate “apartheid” state that should not exist.

That same month, Cooperation Rouge and BSU again collaborated to promote Jew hatred. The two organization released a joint statement urging the School of Engineering at LSU to cease its collaboration with Israeli energy institutions. The statement openly promoted the genocidal and Hamas-endorsed Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, claiming that “Since its violent establishment in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of more than half of the indigenous people of Palestine, Israel has set out to control as much land and uproot as many Palestinians as it can” and asking that “adjacent organizations at LSU who are committed to human rights and justice to join the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement.”

BSU also worked with Cooperation Rouge and the LSU chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine to organize a “March for Palestine” which was used to delegitimize and demonize Israel and promote anti-Semitic propaganda. An Instagram post from BSU showed images of members with posters expressing support for BDS as well as genocidal sentiments including “From the Land to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” “Stop Global Colonialism, Free Palestine,” “Boycott Israel, Free Palestine,” and “Stop the Genocide in Gaza.” The caption for the post stated, “BSU and ten other organizations have signed a participate in the BDS campaign. This campaign is a boycott against companies who exploit and support the occupation of Palestinians. When Palestine is free, we all will be free. Thank you all for coming to the March on Friday. #freepalestine.”

Cooperation Rouge founder Saneei also helped to push a pro-BDS bill through the student government at LSU in the spring of 2022. The bill targeted Israel specifically, referring to it as “Occupied Palestine,” a form of delegitimization that constitutes Jew hatred. In a twitter post from May 2021, Cooperation Rouge equated Zionism with white supremacy, stating, “We wanted to highlight Zionism’s allegiance to white supremacy, making the connection b/w Israel supporting apartheid in South Africa, White supremacist colonization of South Rhodesia, and Israeli’s commitment to arm and train with police in the United States.”

The radical campus organization also has a penchant for promoting criminals, terrorists, and dictators—just so long as their politics lean to the far-left.

In a March 2022 Instagram post in celebration of International Women’s Day, Cooperation Rouge praised several women “that have had a tremendous influence on us.”  These celebrated icons included Black Panther Party member Angela Davis who supplied weapons to Party members which were used to kill a Marin County judge as well as convicted terrorist and airplane hijacker Leila Khaled.

In May of 2021, Cooperation Rouge posted a Happy Birthday message for Maurice Bishop, a Grenadan revolutionary and leader of the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement. The post praises Bishop as “the 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada” and states that “Under his leadership, Grenada had introduced free public health, illiteracy dropped from 35% to 5% and unemployment went from 50% to 14%.”  What this laudatory propaganda fails to mention is that Bishop seized power in a coup while Grenada’s actual Prime Minister was attending a meeting of the United Nations in New York, and that upon obtaining power he proclaimed a People’s Revolutionary Government, and suspended the nation’s constitution.  Bishop was killed several years later by his own deputy.

Cooperation Rouge also honored Guinean dictator Sèkou Tourè with a post in commemoration of “#AfricanLiberationDay.”  Ironically, Tourè’s version of liberation involved outlawing all political parties other than his own and imprisoning or exiling opposition leaders. Tourè’s regime was known for “tyranny and torture on a daily basis” by those who fled it and it is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least 50,000 during his time in power.

In May 2021, Cooperation Rouge wished a happy birthday to philosopher Karl Marx, the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, and a man whose writings are responsible for untold starvation and death over the last century. Calling him a “timeless philosopher,” the organization claimed that the financial crisis of 2008 proved that “the continuation of the boom and bust cycle and the acceleration of globalization we see today once again made all of Marx’s writings relevant again.”

In February 2021, Cooperation Rouge posted on Instagram in honor of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, otherwise known as Malcolm X, quoting him as saying “In short, the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.” The quote undeniably delegitimizes and demonizes the Jewish state, as well as denying the Jewish people’s deep historic connection to the land of Israel, all forms of Jew hatred. Malcolm X was known for his ardent anti-Semitism and his racism towards non-blacks.

The organization also posted in honor of Huey P. Newton’s birthday. The founder of the Black Panther Party, Newton was a drug dealer, racist, and murderer. Nonetheless, Cooperation Rouge saw fit to honor him, stating that “his theories are vital in understanding how a revolution can be carried out in the modern U.S.”

Cooperation Rouge publishes a newsletter titled “Cooperades.” The newsletter’s slogan, “Slaying the Paper Tiger,” originated with Communist Leader Mao Zedong, responsible for the deaths of approximately 60 million during his “Great Leap Forward.”  Mao used the expression to refer to his political enemies, and particularly to the United States.

Cooperation Rouge has made a name for itself at LSU as an anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist, and pro-authoritarian hate group. Meanwhile, the Black Student Union has sullied its reputation by partnering with Cooperation Rouge to promote Jew hatred. Both organizations deserve to be named among America’s worst campus hate groups. 

#6: University of New Mexico, Southwest Solidarity Network

The Southwest Solidarity Network (SwSN) describes itself as an “a network of leftist 2Spirit, Queer, and Trans youth protecting our ancestral homelands via direct action,” but in reality the group launches violent protests targeting mainstream conservatives as “fascists” while demanding that the University of New Mexico censor views that differ from their own radical philosophy.

When Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student activist organization, Turning Point USA, came to speak on campus in December of 2022, he was met by a vicious mob organized by the Southwest Solidarity Network, who were determined to censor his remarks by any means necessary.

“Charlie and his rhetoric are NOT welcome on our campus,” SwSN declared on Instagram. “Join the greater UNM community on Wednesday, November 30th as we show Charlie and Turning Point that their hateful rhetoric is NOT welcome at UNM. This is a NOISE DEMO – bring drums, instruments, speakers, pots, pans, anything to drown out Charlie’s bullshit.”

The organization went out of its way to be clear that it would not place any limits on protestors’ actions or violence. “We will NOT be policing how our protesters decide to express their emotions. You have every right to be upset. You have every right to be fucking pissed,” stated the message. “You pay upwards of $10,000 a semester to fund these facilities. Hold these people accountable.”

The Instagram post was accompanied by an image of Kirk in a red circle, with three red arrows crossing out his face. “Fuck Charlie Kirk and Fuck Turning Point” was stated in large red letters below the image.

According to an article by Source MN, SSN’s “goal for the evening was to drown out Kirk’s speech outside the building, and have a continued presence against the organization and speakers, to ‘let them know that we won’t allow that. That we’re going to be against it. And we’re going to come out every time. And we’re going to make some noise.’” The article describes the extreme lengths the protestors went to in order to make sure that no one could hear Kirk’s address. “At UNM, a crowd started gathering outside the Student Union Building around 5 p.m. intending to drown Kirk out with sound — blasting music, banging pots and pans, drumming on buckets and chanting.”

“A large group of university students mixed with black-clad ANTIFA members chanted, ‘blood, blood, blood is in their hands,’ while holding signs that read ‘Shut Down White Supremacy,’” TPUSA’s website described. “Attendees of the event were trying to make their way into the building but struggled to walk through the large mass of angry protesters.”

The demonstrations got so heated that campus police “enlisted the help of New Mexico State Police in riot gear to detain three people, including one UNM student,” according to local news station KOB Channel 4. Kirk’s appearance on the UNM campus had already been postponed once due to concerns about protests. This time, despite the violent mob outside, he and the local Turning Point USA chapter were determined to proceed.

Nor was SwSN’s animosity limited to Kirk himself. In a “Call to Action” posted on Instagram in December of 2022, SwSN urged “The UNM President and the Board of Regents to Revoke the Charter of Turning Point USA at UNM.”  A comment on the post added, “Tell them that Hate Speech and dangerous misinformation has no place on our campus.” The organization seemed not to realize that its own vitriol directed at Kirk and Turning Point USA is clearly laced with hatred and fueled by the desire to censor dissenting views.

A similar mob organized by SwSN was there to greet conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, when she too dared to set foot on the far-left campus. But in Lahren’s case, the mob succeeded in shutting her speech down and forcing her to flee for her own safety.

“An organized hate group broke into the auditorium to chant ‘F**k Tomi Lahren’ in the room in which she spoke,” described Outkick.com, the media organization that hosts Lahren’s talk show. “As the rioters banged on the door, Lahren, her father, and members of the TPUSA chapter had to barricade themselves in a back room as campus police called for backup.”

“These thugs who terrorized @TomiLahren’s @TPUSA event in New Mexico are Domestic Violent Extremists. Where is the FBI? I thought they were committed to tracking down and bringing DVEs to justice?” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted in response to events at the university.

“We had a couple of campus PD officers. That was it,” Lahren told The College Fix, describing how underprepared UNM was to defend free speech in the face of student protestors. “They did not call Albuquerque police. They didn’t call the New Mexico police. They were completely unprepared and quite frankly, didn’t care. Even after we were in the room, and these protesters that were let into the student union and were banging on the door trying to bust in the door to attack me and the speech goers — the university still did nothing.”

Lahren told Fox News Digital she “would not have gotten out of there” without the aid of additional law enforcement agencies.

Following the protests against Lahren, the Southwest Solidarity Network openly mocked TP USA students who “‘feared for their lives’ following our Tomi Lahren protest” and accused those students of “communicating with a ‘multi agency task force’ that is ‘passively and actively surveiling’ activists.”

“As always,” continued SwSN in its post, “We remain committed to NOT ASSISTING law enforcement in disrupting, surveiling, or infiltrating social movements.”

The hatred that Southwest Solidarity Network displays towards conservative activists and law enforcement is matched only by the group’s abject ignorance. “Homophobia and Transphobia doesn’t exist in Indigenous cultures – they are symptoms of the white supremacist invasion of our homelands,” the group claimed in a particularly clueless post on Instagram. On another occasion, SwSN demonstrated its hatred and bigotry towards Christians by reposting a comment from “N8 Raia” which stated “The biggest danger of taking your child to a drag show is that a Christian could show up with a gun.”

For its hatred and bigotry toward conservatives and Christians and its penchant for violence and censorship, the Southwest Solidarity Network deserves to be known as one of America’s worst campus hate groups.

#7: San Francisco State University, General Union of Palestinian Students

San Francisco State has a well-deserved reputation as one of the epicenters of anti-Semitism in American academia and the General Union of Palestinian Students can be credited with a decades-long run as one of the premier campus hate groups in America.

GUPS made national headlines in 2014 when the organization’s president, Mohammad G. Hammad, was exposed as having written a number of threatening social media posts describing his wish to attack students, teachers and Israeli soldiers and to ally himself with anti-Israel terrorists including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Hammad’s posts included a photo of himself holding a large knife with the caption: “I seriously cannot get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier….”  In other posts he stated, “I think about killing a lot.  And some of you are usually the targets of my daydreams J.” and “You know what?  Israelis ARE colonizers, there is literally no way around it. And you know what else?  My heroes have always killed colonizers. I literally see nothing wrong with this. And my only regret is that not all colonizers were killed.”

In response to a person who asked, “how can I help actively support Palestine,” Hammad responded “Buy a keffieyh. Learn to tie it around your head…get in touch with some PFLP militants or arms dealers in the West Bank. Learn IDF patrol routes…BOOM.” In another post he stated, “Let’s play a game. Objective: Kill U.S. Soldiers. Goal: world peace.” Other posts declared: “The number of times I have legitimately considered flying back to the Middle East and joining the armed wing of the PFLP or something is surprisingly high”; “I think about the time I tried to be – moderate – and advocate for non-violence and honestly I just want to go back in time and slit my own throat/and then the throats of all my enemies before they grow up into the shits they are today”; “Oh/And tomorrow is [hopefully] the day that I find out if I will be the President of the General Union of Palestine at my school/…Hopefully I’ll be able to radicalize half of our population and bring them back with me as fighters.”

After Jewish groups and the media exposed his postings, Hammad eventually left campus and was placed under investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI.

While GUPS may now claim to disown the terrorist rantings of their former president, Hammad’s words and inclinations live on in the organization’s adamant hatred and its continual promotion of terrorism and genocide against the Jewish people and their homeland of Israel.

It is no coincidence that the organization’s former faculty advisor—who served as such during Mohammad Hammad’s tenure as president—is none other than Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, the public face of SFSU’s Jew hatred.  Abdulhadi is a rabidly anti-Semitic professor of Ethnic Studies who also heads SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED). AMED has sponsored an event at which posters asserted, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers,” referring to Israel’s Jews—echoing the violent posts made by former GUPS president Hammad. Abdulhadi has glorified anti-Israel terrorism in public talks and has hosted online events featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, whom Abdulhadi reveres as a hero.

GUPS is no less vocal in its praise for radical Islamic terrorists. The Canary Mission, an organization devoted to tracking and exposing anti-Semitism, lists numerous examples including:

  • As part of PAW, GUPS SFSU promotedtalk by Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the organizers of the 2018 “Great March of Return,” violent demonstrations by Hamas supporters against Israel.During the demonstrations, close to 30,000 Palestinians approached Israel’s Gaza border, shooting explosives and firearms into Israel, throwing rocks and attempting to breach the border fence.
  • In 2021, GUPS SFSU co-sponsored“Israel Apartheid Week,” including a lecture on the Palestinian “right of return” (a recognized means to destroy Israel). Addameer, a group that agitates for the release of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons, participated in another lecture.

The more recent history of GUPS shows no moderation of their anti-Semitic, pro-terror beliefs. In April of 2023, GUPS at SFSU held “Palestine Awareness Week” on campus, which as the Canary Mission has noted, is an attempt to relabel “Israel Apartheid Week.” Online banners for the event contained a series of Hamas propaganda maps purporting to show Israel’s colonization and total takeover of “Palestine.” The Week also featured “BDS and Palestine Jeopardy” to promote the genocidal Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel.

For its long history of openly promoting terrorism and Jew hatred, the General Union of Palestinian Students at San Francisco State University deserves to be named to the list of the top campus hate groups in America.

#8: University of Michigan, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE)

Students Allied for Freedom and Equality describe themselves as “a coalition of diverse members dedicated to advancing the causes of freedom, justice, human rights, and equality for all peoples.” The group’s “foremost objective,” according to a description on the University website, “is to promote the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people and advocate for justice for Palestinians on campus and globally.” These seemingly laudable aims, however, come paired with a dose of genocidal hatred directed toward the Jewish people and their homeland of Israel. SAFE on multiple occasions has publicly demonized Israel, repeated anti-Semitic blood libel tropes against the Jewish people, and promoted the Hamas-funded BDS movement which aims to economically isolate and destroy the Jewish state.

In February of 2023, SAFE held “Palestine Awareness Week” (formerly called “Israeli Apartheid Week”) on campus. The 12-day hatefest featured ads promoting Palestinian terrorism including the statement “Power to our Freedom Fighters, Glory to our Martyrs,” a clear reference to the suicide bombers who have killed Israeli civilians.

One of the events featured by SAFE during the designated week was titled “Palestinian Women and Mothers – Female Freedom Fighters and the Vilification of the Palestinian Womb.” Ads for the event demonized and delegitimized Israel (blatant forms of anti-Semitism), claiming that Palestinian women are “weaponized and villainized given that they produce a population that is viewed as a direct threat to the existence of the apartheid state.”

Bayan Abusneineh, who serves as a Provost’s Fellow in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Michigan, referenced ancient anti-Semitic blood libels during her speech at the event. She claimed falsely that “Israeli politicians have openly called for the murder of Palestinian women, prevent them from giving birth.” She also stated that “[I]n precipitating the flight of Arab villagers from Palestine… they butchered young girls and women, Palestinian women” and went on to describe “an incident” where allegedly “two Palestinian pregnant women, whose stomachs were essentially cut, literally cut, and in one case a fetus was being axed, so some very graphic, horrific, image at this time.”  Abusneineh called this horrific crime a “literal symbol” of Israel, describing how for the Palestinians “literally [that] of your child is a threat to the nation, that Palestinians are not imagined to be part of this space… we can’t just understand it through these forms of violence, but it’s integrated through Israeli’s laws, policies, and architecture.” It is no coincidence that Abusneineh’s words echo medieval claims that Jews drank the blood of gentiles and Muslims, claims that were used as justification for the mass slaughter of the Jews.

Also in February of 2023, SAFE released a statement to the “University of Michigan campus and the community at large” which it also encouraged other groups on campus to sign. The anti-Semitic statement demonized and delegitimized Israel, claimed that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, and preached “Long Live the Intifada,” a call for a return of terrorist violence against Israel.

In January of 2023, SAFE protested a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to campus, because, in their words, “The Biden-Harris administration has unwaveringly stood with Israel, an apartheid entity that has caused immense ecological destruction as it continues to commit crimes against humanity.” Signs and slogans at the event openly promoted genocidal hatred against the Jews. Specific chants included, “Justice is Our Demand, No Peace on Stolen Land,” (a lie meant to delegitimize Israel), “Intifada, Intifada, Long Live the Intifada,” (a call for terrorist violence against Israel), “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” (a genocidal call for the destruction of the entirety of Israel), “Kamala, Kamala, you Can’t Hide, You’re Committing Genocide” and “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes.”

In September of 2022, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) again praised anti-Israel terrorists as heroes. The group built a 36-foot long, eight-foot tall mock “apartheid wall” on campus. Statements on the wall included demonizing and delegitimizing slogans such as “We Will Return,” “Land Theft Over the Years,” and “End Israeli Apartheid.” Other writings were even more obvious in their promotion of terrorism, stating, “Power to our Freedom Fighters, Glory to Our Martyrs [ the panel included an image of convicted terrorist and hijacker Leila Khaled with a gun].”

In June 2021, the executive board of SAFE released an open letter to the campus community which claimed to “confront the University of Michigan’s failure to condemn Israeli state-sanctioned violence against Palestinians in recent weeks.” The letter demonized Israel, repeated blood libels against the Jewish people, and promoted the Hamas-funded BDS movement which aims to economically isolate and destroy the Jewish state. The letter claimed “that the Nakba never ended, and that settler colonialism, occupation, and ethnic cleansing in Palestine persist” and that “Israeli violence escalated in Jerusalem in an effort to continue a centuries’ old ethnic cleansing campaign.” It also urged the administration to “End all University-sponsored trips to Israel,” a form of academic BDS. The letter was signed by 23 student organizations and hundreds of individual students.

In May 2021, the University of Michigan student government issued a press release that was signed by SAFE as well as the Arab Student Association and the Muslim Students Association titled “To our Palestinian friends and the U-M community at large.” The press release demonized Israel by echoing Hamas propaganda and promoting the Hamas-funded BDS movement. The release claimed that “the actions of the Israeli occupying forces throughout Palestine are inhumane, international war crimes” and that “This is not a ‘conflict,’ but emblematic of Israeli settler- colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.”

Jewish students who criticized this one-sided student government statement were met with anti-Semitic slurs including “nose check,” “Zionist pigs” and “Israel apologists.”

So central is Jew hatred to SAFE’s philosophy, that a pro-Israel student on campus reported that members of the group “adhere to a strict ‘non-normalization policy,’” which means they “will not even shake hands with pro-Israel students.”

For its blatant Jew-hatred, promotion of speakers who spread despicable conspiracy theories about the Jews, and incitement to terrorist violence against Israel, SAFE at the University of Michigan deserves to be listed among America’s worst campus hate groups.

#9: University of Chicago, Students for Justice in Palestine

The University of Chicago has become one of the most ardent promoters of Jew hatred among American campuses, and the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is leading the charge.

In recent years, U. Chicago SJP has focused its energies on promoting a student boycott of so-called “sh-tty Zionist classes.” In January 2022, SJP’s chapter at the University of Chicago posted on Instagram encouraging students to “support the Palestinian liberation by boycotting classes on Israel or those taught by Israeli fellows.” The header for the post used obscene language to characterize supporters of Israel, stating, “Don’t Take Sh*tty Zionist Classes.” The content of the post also demonized Israel, claiming that it is an “apartheid state” which “dehumanize[s] indigenous populations and justif[ies] their violent seizure of land.” The boycott campaign is an echo of the genocidal Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel and seeking to annihilate it.

The connections between Chicago SJP’s boycott campaign and the wider BDS movement were underscored by an opinion piece published by an SJP member in The Chicago Maroon titled “We Should Join SJP’s Boycott of Zionist Classes.” The piece promoted the academic boycott of Israel, an offshoot of the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel. The piece also demonized Israel, stating that “Classes that normalize the foundation of an apartheid regime on the exclusionary basis of other ethnicities and identities are racist. Calling out these classes is not.”

In January 2023, SJP at U. Chicago launched yet another boycott campaign, this one centered on a course being taught by an Israeli military general, Meir Elran, calling it “the sh*ttiest, most racist class of them all” and urging students to boycott the class. The organization also published an op-ed in the Chicago Maroon which demonized Israel as an “expansionist apartheid state predicated on the ethnic cleansing and theft of Palestinian land” and utilized medieval blood libel tropes against the Jewish people by claiming that the world’s only Jewish state is guilty of “biological warfare against Palestinian civilians,” the “torture of Palestinian children” and of “periodically massacring the Palestinians it holds captive in the Gaza Strip.”

Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year, SJP continued to harass General Elran and the students who dared to defy their boycott of his course. The group launched an “IsraeliMilitaryOffOurCampus” campaign which included taping flyers to the doors of Elran’s classroom containing malicious false statements accusing Israel of various human rights violations including, “Israel deprives Gazan children of access to clean water in the name of ‘COUNTER TERRORISM’;” “Israel tortures Palestinian children in the name of ‘COUNTER TERRORISM’;” “Israel denies Palestinians access to e-saving medical treatment in the name of ‘COUNTER TERRORISM’;” “Israel routinely massacres Gaza’s civilian population in the name of ‘COUNTER TERRORISM’;” and “Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in the name of ‘COUNTER TERRORISM.’”

SJP members also held a theatrical “die-in” on a public walkway on campus, again demonizing Israel by claiming “We oppose the university’s decision to host a former Israeli general to teach a racist, Zionist course which contributes to the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people.”  The term “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe” and is used by Israel’s enemies to describe its founding and imply its illegitimacy.

The University of Chicago chapter of SJP has also used its influence to openly promote terrorism against the Jews and Israel. In November 2021, SJP at U. Chicago published an art zine titled “Cheers to Intifada.”  The zine promoted terrorism against Israel and contained violent imagery including a graphic of two lit Molotov cocktails raised in a toast under the heading “Cheers to Intifada.” The zine was also rife with anti-Semitism including an image of a pig wearing a policeman’s hat with a Jewish star on it. Poems in the publication promoted ancient blood libel tropes against Jews such as one describing a Jewish teenager who held Palestinians captive and had “animalistic lust yearning to rape bodies.”

The U. Chicago chapter of SJP has also used its influence within the student government at the University to pass anti-Semitic resolutions demonizing Israel and by extension the Jewish people.

In May 2021, the student government at the University of Chicago published a statement supported by SJP that claimed to “stand against the ideology of Zionism” and using genocidal language against the Jewish people, stating “from the river to the sea, USG supports a Palestine that is free,” implying that all of Israel should be destroyed. The statement additionally demonized Israel, claiming that the “ideology of Zionism” has been “used as a justification for murder, displacement and traumatization of Palestinian people,” and openly supported the terrorist-inspired BDS movement against the Jewish state. Jewish groups on campus later noted that a Jewish student government representative and Jewish groups on campus were excluded from discussions on the resolution before it passed, as a result of SJP’s insistence that if they were allowed to participate in the discussions, they would “view this [Israel] as religious conflict, not apartheid.”

On the night the statement was released, a group of Jewish students returning from a religious service was threatened by a passing motorist who “repeatedly yelled out ‘F*ck Jews.’”

For its insistent harassment of an Israeli professor on campus, its promotion of terrorism against Jews and Israel, and its repeated support for the genocidal BDS campaign, SJP at the University of Chicago deserves to be known as one of America’s worst campus hate groups.

#10: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Young Democratic Socialists of America

The UW-Madison chapter of the far-left group, Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) claims to be “fighting for a just, equal, and socialist society” but the group instead thrives on hateful rhetoric directed at conservatives and Jews and openly promotes censorship of dissenting viewpoints.

When conservative talk show host Matt Walsh came to speak on campus in October of 2022, UWM YDSA smeared the mainstream conservative and father of six as a “transphobic fascist” and circulated a petition demanding that the University cancel the event because Walsh is “a danger to the students and ideals of UW-Madison.”  Walsh is openly critical of the bizarre idea that humans can change their biological sex and produced a film titled “What is a Woman?” that revealed the utter nonsense spouted on this topic by transgender activists.

Social media posts by the YDSA included a picture of Walsh with the heading, “Warning! Transphobic Fascist on Campus” and blamed him for “death threats against doctors nationwide and multiple bomb threats against Boston Children’s Hospital.” Such hateful rhetoric is undeserved. Far from threatening anyone, Walsh has stood for the safeguarding of children. He has exposed and publicized the drugging and mutilation performed on children as “gender affirming care,” resulting in more than one medical center removing information from their websites.

UWM YDSA again promoted censorship when the group shared a post on behalf of the YDSA chapter at the University of Minnesota, objecting to a planned speech by Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the UMN campus. “Keeping Amy Coney Barrett off Campus!” declared the post which claimed that “Inviting ACB to our school contradicts the University’s supposed values.”

The socialist organization has also repeatedly invoked anti-Semitic language and tropes and sided with campus organizations who promote terrorism against the Jewish homeland of Israel.

On the first day of school in September 2022, horrific anti-Semitic chalkings appeared across the UW-Madison campus. Messages included “Zionism is Racism,” “Zionism is Genocide,” and “There are 5 Zionist Orgs at UW, They Have Blood on Their Hands,” invoking medieval blood libel tropes that have been responsible for the mass slaughter of Jews throughout history. The chalkings specifically denigrated Jewish organizations including Hillel, Chabad, Badger Alliance for Israel, J Street, and TAMID.

University administrators took the rare step of condemning the anti-Semitic chalkings. “[The chalkings] went beyond political views about Israel and Zionism and included antisemitic statements that wrongly and unfairly ascribed actions and beliefs to our Jewish students based on their participation in Jewish student organizations,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin in a statement.

Instead of condemning the obvious message of Jew hatred contained in the chalkings, UWM YDSA shared multiple posts on social media condemning the University’s response and doubling-down on the anti-Semitic message by delegitimizing and demonizing Israel. “The coordinated University and media backlash against the anti-Zionist (read: anti-colonization) chalkings in September sent the message that not only does UW stand against Palestinians and with their colonizing oppressors, but also that even the slightest visible dissent in favor of oppressed peoples will be met with swift and unrelenting condemnation—an intimidation tactic meant to scare allies and other marginalized voices from speaking out in meaningful ways against their oppression.”

A second post from the YDSA includes pictures of the anti-Semitic chalkings alongside far-left radicals and criminals such as Angela Davis and Che Guevara. The caption reads: “What do you think these revolutionary leaders would say about UW Madison?”

UWM YDSA also shared a post from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network which honored the Palestinian suicide bombers who terrorized Israel during the second Intifada, stating, “On the anniversary of the second #Intifada, we honor our martyrs with this beautiful show of solidarity all the way from South Africa with Palestinians and in particular, with our fight as students against the zionists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison @uwmadison and in our community.” The message went on to again attack the UW-Madison administration for its condemnation of the anti-Semitic chalkings.

For their tyrannical opposition to conservative speakers and their venomous Jew hatred, the Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison deserve their spot on the list of America’s worst campus hate groups.

SHAMEFUL: This Pro-Palestinian Terror-Linked Organization Is Active on Over 200 U.S. College Campuses

SHAMEFUL: This Pro-Palestinian Terror-Linked Organization Is Active on Over 200 U.S. College Campuses
(AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Megan Boehnke)
In light of this weekend’s horrific terrorist attacks on Israel by Palestinian members of Hamas, it seems reasonable to investigate one of the pro-Palestinian groups who publicly celebrated the atrocity across college campuses. It seems reasonable, too, to question why our colleges and universities are harboring groups that celebrate the decapitation of innocent Israeli babies, the brutal rape of Israeli women, and the cold-blooded slaughter of hundreds of young concert-goers, and that publicly support the total annihilation of Israel.

According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), one of the most egregious and anti-Semitic Palestinian student groups is the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). SJP is currently active on over 200 campuses across the United States. Is your alma mater among them?

Schools with active SJP campus clubs include at least the following, and thanks to X (formerly Twitter), I included links to some SJP clubs’ disgusting reactions to Palestine’s vicious and barbaric attack on Israel:

American University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Brooklyn Law School, Butler UniversityCalifornia State University SacramentoCalifornia State University FullertonCalifornia State University Northridge, Chaffey College, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, Cleveland State University, College of William & Mary, Columbia University, Cornell University, CUNY-Brooklyn, Denison UniversityEmory University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Grinnell College, Harvard UniversityHunter College, Irvine Valley College, John Jay College, Kalamazoo College, Lewis University, Loyola University in Chicago, Marquette UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Miami University Ohio, Moorpark College, New York University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Nova Southeastern University, The Ohio State University, Penn State University, Purdue UniversityRice University, Rollins College, Rutgers University, Toronto Metropolitan University, Stanford University, SUNY Stony Brook, Swarthmore College, Temple University, Tufts University, Union Theological Seminary, University at Buffalo, University of Akron, University of California Berkeley, University of Alabama Birmingham,  University of Chicago, University of California Davis, University of California Irvine, University of California Los Angeles, University of California RiversideUniversity of California San DiegoUniversity of California Santa Barbara, University of Cincinnati, University of ConnecticutUniversity of Ilinois, University of Louisville, University of Mary Washington, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri Kansas City, University of North Carolina, University of Oregon, University of South Florida, University of the District of Columbia (UDC), University of Texas Austin, University of Texas San Antonio, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin Madison, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, Wayne State University, Youngstown State University

Obviously, SJP is national in scope. So what is National SJP, and what does it stand for? “National SJP, which plays a central and influential role among campus SJP branches, receives support from other radical groups…which maintain close ties to Palestinian terror groups,” found JCPA in its “Students for Justice for Palestine Unmasked” paper. “National SJP also glorifies and extols terrorists and terror organizations across its social media networks.” Gee, that sounds like something that should be on our campuses, amirite?

On its website, National SJP claims to “promote an agenda grounded in freedom, solidarity, equality, safety, and historical justice” and to “elevate the student movement for Palestinian liberation to a higher level of political engagement.” They “fight for Palestinian liberation…from Palestine to the Rio Grande” because they “believe the struggle for a free Palestine is also the struggle for Black liberation, gender and sexual freedom, and a livable and sustainable planet. All pursuits for freedom, justice, and equality are materially connected and require us to struggle against state violence, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism, in all of their forms.”

Ah, now it makes sense. Notice all the virtue-signaling woke language? They’re so woke they even refer to North America as “Turtle Island,” as it was supposedly named by so-called “indigenous people.” SJP is nothing more than an anti-Semitic Hamas-connected leftist activist group being used to further the destruction of Israel by Muslim terrorists. Sadly, these useful SJW idiots students are being used — and used is exactly the right word — to fight for the freedom of murderous terrorists. But their language isn’t the only clue to who they really are; who National SJP is associated with is also a bright red flag.

Here’s a sampling of just some of the known terror-connected partners, allies, and associates of National SJP. Some are too vile to link to, so your preferred search engine can be your friend here: Addameer, Al-Haq, American Muslims for Palestine (AMS), the BDS National Committee (BNC), the Boycott National Committee (BNC), CodePink, the Committee to Defend the Holy Land Five, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine (PNIF), the Defense for Children International – Palestine, The Electronic Intifada, Free Gaza, the Interfaith Peacebuilders (IFPB), the International Solidarity Movement, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the Laylac Center, the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), the Northern Islamic Movement, the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Popular Front – General Command (PFLP-GC), the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), the Union of Health Work Committees (UHWC), U.S. Social Forum, and WeDivest.

Every group listed above is either a known terror organization itself or tied in some manner to Palestinian or Islamic terror organizations. Many have direct ties to U.S.-designated terror organizations. They each have the complete destruction of the state of Israel as a strategic goal. So tell me, how is it not ill-advised for our American colleges and universities to harbor or promote such hate, even under the banner of free speech? How is SJP’s support for Hamas terrorists any different from supporting ISIS, Hizballah, or the Nazis? It’s not.

SJP’s activism doesn’t end with posts on social media. Thursday, Oct. 12, they’re calling for a national “Day of Resistance” on all campuses.

Is reveling in the death of innocent people really what our colleges and universities want to promote under the guise of freedom of speech? I think not. Alumni, contact your school’s president and demand that they get rid of this vile group from campus before the “Day of Resistance,” effective immediately, or you won’t send one more dime during the next donation cycle or ever. Parents, get your college kids on the phone stat. Convince your kids to get out of these groups by talking with them, not to them; they need to hear the truth about their new “friends” who celebrate decapitating babies and brutally raping women and girls. Get them to see that next time it could be them running for their lives at a peace concert.

Muslim, Leftist Spokesmen Support Hamas Murder, Rape and Torture of Israeli Civilians~31 organizations at Harvard joined in including the Harvard Islamic Society and other Islamic and allied leftist identity politics groups.

SEE; https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/muslim-leftist-spokesmen-support-hamas-murder-rape-and-torture-of-israeli-civilians;

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“Demonstrators chanted ‘700,’ apparently referring to the confirmed number of Israeli fatalities”

This is about good and evil. But that’s what it was always about. It’s just clearer now.

After the torture, rape, and murder of Israeli civilians, the desecration of corpses, and the taking of women and children hostage, Islamists, and leftists proudly stand with Hamas.

Cornel West called “for an end to the vicious U.S.-supported Israeli occupation” while claiming that the rape and murder of Israeli women was the “violent resistance to oppression is the desperate language of an occupied people.”

Jill Stein, the former Green Party candidate who is helping Cornel West’s presidential campaign, tweeted, “When a murderous occupation makes peaceful resistance impossible, it makes violent resistance inevitable.”

“The US-backed Israeli apartheid regime inflicts daily settler violence and terror on Palestinians. Israel is an occupying force. Palestinians have every right to resist it,” Code Pink tweeted.

The Democratic Society of America (DSA), the leftist insurgent group within the Democratic Party linked to the ‘Squad’, clearly picked its side.

The Democratic Socialists of America, which boasts six U.S. House of Representatives as members, announced a pro-“Palestine” rally in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday, a day after Hamas launched a surprise attack that killed 600 Israelis.

“In solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid,” the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America announced

The various anti-Israel rallies were explicit in support of Hamas.

 

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Sunday in New York celebrated Hamas’s massive deadly terror attack against Israel, as supporters of the Jewish state held rallies to mourn and express outrage over the slaughter.

Several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied in Times Square, waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Resistance is justified,” “Globalize the intifada,” and “Smash the settler Zionist state.”

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they chanted.

Among the pro-Palestinian side, the mood was celebratory and spiteful. Demonstrators chanted “700,” apparently referring to the confirmed number of Israeli fatalities in the attack so far, and held up the number seven on their hands while making throat-slitting gestures. Others flashed victory signs with their hands while shouting insults.

One man held up a picture of an Israeli hostage on his phone and waved it at the Israeli crowd. Another was seen brandishing an image of a swastika.

“The oppressed people of Palestine broke out of the open-air prison,” one speaker told the crowd, to cheers.

The press releases from the Muslim Brotherhood in America were equally predictable.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), which includes CAIR, and claims to be the largest Muslim group in America, condemned Israel while making no mention of Hamas and its atrocities.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading Muslim civil rights group, expressed its “support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom.”

The national chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the leading pro-Palestinian college group, said, “Callous oppressors only know the language of destruction.”

“Palestine will not be liberated overnight. Liberation is a long-term process,” the group said on Instagram, falsely referring to Sderot and Netivot, targeted Israeli cities near the border with Gaza, as settlements. “We stand in solidarity with those who are oppressed, colonized, and fighting for liberation.”

Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across the US, including at American University, Rutgers, UC San Diego, the University of Minnesota, and San Jose State University, all celebrated “the resistance.”

In New York, the pro-Palestinian groups Within Our Lifetime, Samidoun, Decolonize This Place, Al-Awda, and others announced rallies on Sunday in Times Square and on Monday at the Israeli consulate “to defend the heroic Palestinian resistance.”

31 organizations at Harvard joined in including the Harvard Islamic Society and other Islamic and allied leftist identity politics groups.

None of this is surprising. The question is how long until it hits home in the United States. This is not just something happening in Israel. It’s part of Islam’s war against the West. The enemy is here. And so are their collaborators.

Biden Gives $9 Billion More Of Student Debt Relief To 125,000 Borrowers

Biden Gives $9 Billion More Of Student Debt Relief To 125,000 Borrowers

HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND - OCTOBER 07: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks after touring Volvo Group Powertrain on October 07, 2022 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Biden's remarks about the economy highlighted his administration's efforts on "building the economy from the bottom up and middle out." According to the company, about 1,700 employees at the Maryland plant develop and manufacture heavy-duty diesel engines, transmissions and axles for Mack Trucks, Volvo trucks and buses and Prevost coaches. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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OAN’s James Meyers
8:23 AM – Wednesday, October 4, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/biden-gives-9-billion-more-of-student-debt-relief-to-125000-borrowers/;

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The Biden Administration will be giving more debt relief to student loan borrowers. 

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration has approved $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers. 

The White House in a statement said that this a “key step to fix the broken student loan system, make college more affordable, and bring the promise of higher education in reach for more Americans.”

The relief fund will come in the form of restructured income-based repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

The move comes after the Supreme Court blocked his plan of unilateral cancellation for student debt earlier this year.

According to the White House, the move will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden Administration to $127 billion for almost 3.6 million Americans.

Additionally, the $5.2 billion of Wednesday’s allotment will be given out to 53,000 borrowers through Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs, and the rest of the $2.8 billion will come from amending income-driven repayment plans that “borrowers who made 20 years or more of payments” can receive “the relief they were entitled to,” according to the White House.

Furthermore, Biden also wiped out an additional $1.2 billion in student loan debt for 22,000 borrowers with “a total or permanent disability.”

Biden has continued to receive a low approval rating on how he has handled the economy. In a recent poll done by NBC, only 38% of the United States approves of the state of the economy. 

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The Graves of Academe

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/the-graves-of-academe-714;

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#1. Connecticut College: Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies

The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor. We are seeking a scholar with expertise in trans studies, mixed race studies, disability studies, and/or transnational LGBTQ studies. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience teaching in gender and women’s studies or related fields including feminist and queer theory as well as social justice activism.

A PhD is strongly preferred in gender and women’s studies, feminist studies, or a closely related interdisciplinary field. Candidates with meaningful community engagement experience are preferred.

The Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Department is committed to interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational feminist, and queer inquiry. We emphasize a strong theoretical and praxis focus in our curriculum and research. We have a departmental culture that supports the cultivation of rich intellectual collaboration both within the department and outside of it, and offer ample opportunities for pedagogical creativity and development. We value teacher scholars whose work foregrounds social transformation and community engagement.).

#2. The Ohio State University: Department of African American and African Studies

Assistant Professor, Black Sexualities

Position Overview

The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of African American and African Studies to start Autumn 15, 2024. Candidates welcome to apply whose research and teaching focuses on the intersections of sexuality, race, and gender with an emphasis on Black experiences and perspectives. We invite interdisciplinary scholars who approach the study of sexualities and Blackness through intersectional and/or transnational lenses. We are interested in candidates whose scholarship and teaching examine, for example, sexuality and constructions of racial deviance and exploitation; the relationship of conviviality, joy, and international liberatory activism; and/or sexuality and conservative, cross-border, political activist coalitions. We seek candidates whose scholarship challenges, complicates, and re-defines understandings of Black sexualities and whose promise of academic expertise strengthens the Department’s commitment to advance social justice discourses and the department’s vision of championing a full account of determinant forces of Black life in its global historical and sociological dimensions. Applications from scholars grounded in interdisciplinary Black Studies, Black feminist, and Black queer methodologies with a demonstrated history of community engagement and/or community-based approaches to scholarship are especially welcome. We also seek applications from collaborative scholars whose work is forward-looking in the praxis of Black Studies. The successful candidate will teach courses across the full range of the department’s curriculum, from introductory to upper division seminars, as well as general education courses and those that reflect their research expertise.

#3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

Applications for 2024-2025 Frankel Institute Fellowship, “Jewish/Queer/Trans.”

In this theme year, we aim to explore in the broadest possible ways how queer/trans studies intersect with studies of Jews, Jewishness, Judaism, and indeed Jewish Studies itself, from the full range of humanistic, artistic, activist, and social science perspectives. We thus intend to assemble a group of scholars, writers, and artists that will allow us to explore this set of fundamental issues across the temporal gamut of ancient to the present and in Middle Eastern, African, Asian, European, and American societal contexts.

We invite applicants to consider how Jewish Studies might thicken queer and trans studies. At the same time, we wish to inquire into how queer and trans studies might aid the interrogation of foundational categories deployed in Jewish Studies. In doing so, we seek to challenge social hierarchies, notions of sacred/profane, religious conceptions, political movements and structures, knowledge paradigms, and communal boundaries: all key elements in the history of studies of Jews and Judaism. That is, how can insights from queer and trans studies enrich and complicate our understanding of the dispersed, diverse, and shifting histories of Jewish sexual cultures and gender systems, as well as social, cultural, and racialized formations of Jewishness more broadly. We are particularly interested in approaches that create dialogue among the sub-fields of Jewish Studies, queer and trans studies that go beyond merely applying theoretical models to Jewish Studies.

The “Jewish/Queer/Trans” fellowship year will promote a tighter integration of queer/trans perspectives and methodologies into Jewish Studies, and contribute to the ongoing softening of boundaries between analyses focused on racial, sexual, or gendered differences.

What forms of analysis might queer and trans theory enable in the study of Jewish texts, cultures, and history?

  •      How might non-Ashkenazi or non-contemporary forms of Jewish ritual, theology, textuality, domesticity, kinship, or musical arts decenter Eurocentric defaults in queer and trans studies?
  •      How might queering and trans-ing our understandings of key concepts like “archive,” temporality, historiography, and data allow for expanded inquiries within Social Science-based and Humanities-attuned subfields within Jewish studies?
  •      What happens to Jewish Studies methods and archives when Queer of Color critiques are deployed to its sources and subjects?

The cohort will emphasize collaborative projects and outputs; building support and mentoring networks; and public-facing scholarship.

I’ll say again what I’ve said before: Forgive them, Lord, they know exactly what they do.

West Point’s New ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Minor Teaches America is Unfair

It’s impossible to be loyal to both DEI and America.

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/west-points-new-dei-minor-teaches-america-is-unfair/;

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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

The motto of the United States Military Academy at West Point is “Duty, Honor, Country.” Or at least that was the motto until DEI took a red pencil to it and replaced it with three other words.

Instead of “Duty, Honor, Country”, West Point now has “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”

In the summer of the devastating Black Lives Matter race riots, West Point, like many other parts of the military, unveiled a DEI agenda.

The DEI components included creating a DEI Fellow and a Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor. Connecting the DEI minor to the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership elevated it beyond an ethnic studies category and made it a strong expectation for cadets looking to understand how to lead men, women, and assorted ‘other’ gender identities.

Creating a DEI minor at West Point was the latest move by woke military brass to define leadership in terms of the willingness of officers to embrace woke leftist politics. From West Point cadets to serving officers, the message is that leaders cannot lead unless they understand the different perspectives of the intersectional rainbow of race, gender, and sexuality and that they will not understand it unless they view those around them purely in terms of identity politics.

Simply, without DEI, it is impossible to be a leader and to accomplish any assigned mission.

According to West Point’s defense of its DEI minor, “First, the ability to lead in today’s Army requires an understanding of the diverse nature of American and coalition soldiers and civilians as well as the complexity of issues associated with different groups, races, ethnicities, cultures, religions, and social classes, among many other demographic factors associated with diversity.”

Is an understanding of identity politics really the first requirement of Army leadership? It is now.

Beyond the usual divisive tenets of identity politics, what does DEI in the military really mean? As West Point’s DEI minor shows, it’s impossible to be loyal to both DEI and America.

The DEI minor includes a variety of courses, among them SS392: ‘Politics-Race, Gender, Sexuality’. The course sounds typical of the political indoctrination that has come to litter college and high school courses except that this one will “consider how the contemporary issues that relate to race, gender, and sexuality apply to the Army and how they impact the Army officer.”

It’s a seminar that introduces “the concepts of race, gender, and sexuality in the American political system”, but warns that “emphasis will be placed on the inherent inequalities found within the structures, rules, and processes of the American political system.”

The course doesn’t just emphasize “inequalities”, but “inherent inequalities” that are a defining part of the structure of the nation. Potential examples would include the myth of “systemic racism” and similar conspiracy theories suggesting that America is rigged against minorities. The difference between “inequalities” and “inherent inequalities” is the difference between liberalism and Marxism, as well as the difference between equality and equity.

If America’s political system is indeed suffering from “inherent inequalities”, then the only remedy is to transform that system. That is to remake the Constitution. That treasonous proposition clashes with the Army’s oath of enlistment, which is to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.

Which one is West Point training its graduates to defend: the Constitution or DEI?

What does it mean to defend the Constitution and what does “Duty, Honor, Country” mean if America is defined by, as a course in the DEI minor argues, inherently unequal systems?

And what does it mean when the Army asks its future leaders to define leadership in terms that are fundamentally opposed to the Constitution and the country? Whom are Army officers meant to be loyal to, the terms of their oath or the woke politics that they are being indoctrinated with?

Gen. Mark Milley, who had come up through the Army, famously replied to a congressional question about teaching critical race theory at West Point, by arguing that, “I’ve read Mao Tse-tung. I’ve read — I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.”

American military leaders, unlike Russian or Chinese ones, could read Marx and Lenin, but they didn’t have to accept their propositions, like the “inherent inequalities” in capitalist societies, as true. The fundamental difference with wokeness is that the military’s future leaders are obligated to at least outwardly accept treasonous leftist ideas like America’s inherent inequalities as not only true but as the basis for their entire philosophy of leadership rooted in DEI concepts.

And those concepts are fundamentally hostile to the concept of America.

At the heart of the debate is the question of what military leadership really looks like. There are two visions of leadership: the traditional one that is grounded in personal character and the military sciences, and the other which is indistinguishable from a college bureaucrat, a social worker, or an urban politician. If military leadership first means understanding every possible issue involving “races, ethnicities, cultures, religions”, then how does it even differ from them?

The Army has specific missions and objectives, but DEI is a self-licking ice cream cone. Its only mission is that of most belief systems which is to convince people to adopt them. Like self-help programs and motivational speakers, DEI embeds itself in institutions by claiming that it helps them to better accomplish their goals, but, as a recent lawsuit against West Point’s racially discriminatory admissions practices contends, there’s no evidence that it actually works.

DEI does not help institutions accomplish goals, it makes itself into the institution’s goal and precludes all other goals and the ability to accomplish them. Like a virus, DEI infects an institution and transforms its mission into DEI indoctrination. But to do that, DEI first has to convince the institution that its old objectives, like “Duty, Honor, Country” or to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” are wrong because they violate its beliefs. That is what is happening to the United States military.

That’s why “emphasis will be placed on the inherent inequalities found within the structures, rules, and processes of the American political system” in the DEI minor.

DEI is a foreign and alien creed. Its basic views and principles are hostile to those of the United States. Any institution that adopts it as a qualification for leadership is betraying the country.

When the United States Military Academy adopts it, it’s also betraying its motto and purpose.

You can either have  “Duty, Honor, Country” or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Not both. West Point has chosen DEI and by doing so its leaders have abandoned duty, honor, and country.

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For Just $83,140 per year, Princeton Will Train Your Son to Be a Drag Queen

For Just $83,140, Princeton Will Train Your Son to Be a Drag Queen
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It costs a staggering $83,140 to send a student to Princeton University, and that’s just for one year. Four years of this august Ivy League school will set you back a cool $332,560, and just think: for that kind of money, you could have bought a brand-new Corvette convertible every year and had some spare change left over.

But Princeton has its benefits: you may not be able to tool around in the glorious sunshine with the wind blowing your hair back, but for all that dough, Princeton will take your thoughtful, intelligent son and turn him into a prancing, preening, children’s-innocence-stealing drag queen. And they will do that in just one year, in case you can’t afford all four. Hey, it’s worth $83,140 to get in step with the times, isn’t it?

The College Fix reported Thursday that Princeton has launched a “new ‘Drag University’ program” that purports to “train students in the ‘artform.’” Do parents send their children to Princeton for this? If there are any parents out there (and I’m sure there are, complete with peeling Bernie stickers on their Volvos) who would be pleased and proud, nay, thrilled, if their sons became drag queens), there are cheaper ways to accomplish this than plunking down $83,140 to get him or her or xer or whatever a degree from Princeton.

The Princeton drag queen training program is “open to all undergraduate and graduate students interested in the world of drag,” so students need not be concerned that they might be too young for it. There are no prerequisites or preliminary courses that enrollees have to take; they can go from zero to drag queen with just one course. No wonder Princeton charges so much.

The course goes for the entire “academic” year and covers a sweeping array of pressing issues that every young man who will be graduating from college and facing the future in the next few years needs to know, and know thoroughly. These include “the history of drag, ‘Sewing 101,’ choreography, face painting, photoshoots, and other topics,” as if all that wasn’t quite enough, thank you very much.

On the cutting edge as always, Princeton was actually offering scholarships for this course. An Instagram post stated: “Drag University is a new program housed under the mentorship pillar of the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center,” as anyone would expect. The Gender + Sexuality Resource Center describes itself as fostering “a supportive and inclusive campus community for women, femme, trans and queer Princetonians.”

In line with that mission, Princeton’s Drag University is a full-year program that will “teach about the history of drag, as well as the art form of drag. Sessions will be taught by local drag performers, on-campus partners who know their way around machines, and other students. This program is open to undergraduate and graduate students. The first 8 applicants who commit to the entire curriculum and attend orientation will get a scholarship to cover costs of supplies.”

Generous. This course, however, is so very much in line with the spirit of the age that all the scholarships were snapped up in the twinkling of an eye. The College Fix noted that “the form was updated this week to note: ‘At this time we have reached our capacity for our scholarships, but you are more than welcome to attend our workshops.’” That kind of invitation appears to be extended only to Princeton students, so you’re still in for the $83,140.

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Considering that “pride” is the emblematic slogan and second-favorite deadly sin of the entire LGBTQETC movement, it would have been only natural for Princeton to be effusive and enthusiastic about its new Drag University and happy to respond to inquiries. However, when The College Fix reached out to university administrators, Princeton’s media affairs division, and the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center seeking information about “the number of students enrolled and what pool of money is being used to fund the scholarships,” all of them ignored the inquiries.

Surely they couldn’t have something to hide, could they? Surely they are just bursting with pride about their Drag University, and want all Princeton parents and alumni to know about it, don’t they? Don’t they? If not, why not? Could it be that somewhere underneath their dresses, exaggerated makeup, and wigs, Princeton administrators still have some understanding that this sort of “academic course” is deeply offensive on numerous levels and has no place in any decent university? Inconceivable!

HOMESCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE: The Romeike family is facing deportation and renewed persecution for their religious beliefs in Germany. And there’s something you can do to help.

HOMESCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS: https://ratherexposethem.org/?s=Romeike+family+

We’re working to ensure the Romeikes can remain in the US and homeschool in peace, and a critical part of that effort is a petition we’ve created asking the Biden administration to intervene.

We need at least 100,000 signatures in order to have the best chance of reaching the White House. Please consider signing the petition and voicing your support for the Romeike family’s right to follow their deeply held religious convictions.


Since we created the petition, the Romeikes’ story has begun to receive national news coverage. Fox News, the Daily Mail, and National Review are covering the story.

With this momentum in the press and your signature, we can have a big impact when we deliver a show of support to the White House and to Congress—hopefully by the first week of October.


Here's more context to the Romeike Story.


When Uwe and Hannelore Romeike decided that God was calling them to homeschool their five children in 2006, Germany responded swiftly by leveling fines that exceeded the family’s income, forcibly removing the children from the home, and threatening to take them permanently.

So the Romeikes fled to America, where we helped them apply for asylum. In 2013, after five years of legal battles and a growing public outcry, the United States government granted the Romeikes “indefinitely deferred action status,” which allowed them to live, work, and remain safely in the United States without fear of deportation.


Then it all changed.


Then, in September 2023, the Romeikes were told during a routine check-in that their deferred status had been revoked. The family was given four weeks to apply for German passports, so they could be deported to Germany. The family had no prior warning, and was offered no explanation, other than that there had been a “change of orders.”

More developments are coming, so watch your email this week as we share additional ways you can help our friends stay in the country and homeschool in peace.

Thank you!

James R. Mason, HSLDA President

P.S. Will you consider making a donation to HSLDA, so we can help the Romeikes fight the legal battle ahead of them?

 

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