The ivory tower jihad
by Melanie Phillips:
In the appalling scenes on campus, chickens are now coming home to roost.
The shocking scenes on campus over the past few days are far more significant than mere student demonstrations getting out of hand.
With “Gaza solidarity encampments” having sprung up on more than 100 US campuses (and with British campuses now following suit) Islamists and the hard left have turned western universities into a theatre of war against Israel, the Jewish people and America.
At UCLA, a Jewish girl was knocked unconscious by the mob. On the Berkeley campus, the founder of Students Supporting Israel was repeatedly punched in the head, with one thug shouting “Go back to Europe, coloniser.”
At the Columbia University encampment, the mob called for “10,000 October 7ths” and screamed “Go back to Poland” and “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground”. One student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live” was barred from campus but subsequently spotted in the mob that broke into and barricaded the university’s Hamilton Hall.
Just as on October 7 Hamas stormtroopers burst through the defences of an Israel that was looking the other way, so their supporters have burst through inadequate western defences to turn the Palestinian cause into a beachhead in their war to bring down a west that refuses to acknowledge the threat it faces.
Related Posts
Tags
Share This
