As Palestine protests spread, the West is devouring itself
by Jake Wallis Simons, Telegraph:
A new horror is emerging from the campuses, following in the path of previous revolutions.
Universities are often where dark cultural movements draw their first breaths. In Germany, Nazism was embraced by students and given intellectual ballast by lecturers. As early as 1920, two German academics published a book entitled Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living. Six years later – with Hitler’s election still seven years in the future – the National Socialist German Students’ Union was formed.
In the 1960s, the engine of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution was China’s youth. The Red Guards paramilitary movement was led by a vanguard of students. In 1979, when American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, it was once again students to blame. We live today with the menace of the theocratic regime they midwifed.
With the first quarter of the current century almost behind us, it is the turn of our universities. After decades of saturation with toxic and abstruse ideologies, they are revealing just how far they have travelled along the path of anti-democratic fundamentalism. The phenomenon that I have come to call the new radicalism – “woke plus Islamism”– has long been brewing in those ivory towers. For years, people laughed it off. Then came October 7.
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