As we await the Israeli Defense Force's inevitable push into Rafah, the final stronghold of the modern day Nazi organization known as Hamas, tensions are still running high on college campuses not just all over North America, but Great Britain and other parts of Europe as well.
You wouldn't know any of that, however, if the only source of news you consumed was the weekend regime media Sunday shows. With the exception of Shannon Bream hosting Fox News Sunday, the other four - This Week with whichever lefty is available, George Stephanopoulos, Jonathan Karl, or Martha Raddatz, Face the Nation with lefty Margaret Brennan, State of the Union with lefty Dana Bash or lefty Jake Tapper, or Meet the Press with leftist Kristen Welker have descended into hyper-partisan infomercials for the Democratic Party.
Try as they might to paint an electoral picture that the most important issues voters will face in November are abortion restrictions, 2020 election denialism, and Donald Trump ending democracy, rising antisemitism by students, faculty and administrators alike on college campuses did come up. Instead of dealing with the chaos on campuses in good faith, confronting the hatred and violence head-on and condemning what 80-plus percent of Americans believe to be horrible outbursts, at least two of the Sunday show hosts, Kristen Welker and Jonathan Karl, instead played semantic games with antisemitism.
In Arizona, Kristen Welker sat down with Senator Mark Kelly, and the subject of the recent wave of violence on campuses came up, but within the construct of a very carefully-worded question.
Can you believe what these awful Republicans are calling these mostly-peaceful protesters, Welker intimated. I'm paraphrasing, of course, but her question suggests that it's the Republicans calling out antisemitism are the radicals, not the ones engaging in antisemitism.
Simultaneously, Jonathan Karl on This Week tackled Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, and kept interrupting and interjecting in defense of the protesters.
Sure sounds a bit like the Charlottesville lie Joe Biden keeps trying to bring up. Good people on both sides.
Just to remind you on the most recent clips from academia around the country, here's a recent sampling. From MIT:
Insane videos from MIT…
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 5, 2024
In Arabic they chant that “Palestine will be Arab” and “Death to Jews,” then in English they chant “we don’t want no Zionists here” and that “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution”
Don’t look away. pic.twitter.com/OIiazxJaqt
Death to Jews is about as antisemitic as it gets. At Penn, in reaction to a big screen TV set up displaying the montage video Israel made available to media taken by the terrorists on 10/7 that were proud to record their killing, raping, stabbing and kidnapping spree for all to see, here was how Penn antisemites reacted:
UPenn crowd heckling the Oct 7 massacre raw footage being shown, yelling “Liar, liar colonizer”.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 3, 2024
Pure evil. pic.twitter.com/QbbmW8GPoK
At DePaul University in Chicago, this little beauty seems to elude Kristen Welker's ability to label as antisemitic.
Pro-Hamas agitator at DePaul University in Chicago displays 10 fingers, followed by 7 fingers, and then the throat-slitting gesture in front of Jewish students.
— Antisemite Stopper (@StopChiAntisems) May 5, 2024
The terrorist sympathizer is proud of October 7th, 2023. pic.twitter.com/hCrPw9hrPg
At George Washington University in our nation's capital, after defacing the statue of our founding father and first president, turning him into everything he fought against his entire life, they renamed the quad on campus Martyrs Square:
"We reject the terms that our imperialist, colonialist overlords have chosen for us. We name shit for ourselves. And we do it to honor our martyrs."
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 4, 2024
The pro-terror mob declares that it has renamed the Yard at George Washington University to "Martyrs Square."
They want to name… pic.twitter.com/eLDOtfYHxI
Welker is incredulous that the protesters are described as pro-Hamas. If you refer to the killers, rapists, and kidnappers that perpetrated the 10/7 carnage as martyrs, I'd say it's a safe bet even for Shohei Ohtani's former translator to place them in the pro-Hamas camp, don't you?
Congressman Byron Donalds spoke recently at a protest and was called a race traitor not by a student, but a professor.
"How much is AIPAC paying you, you race traitor? You work for a foreign entity, you bastard."
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 3, 2024
The man screaming obscenities at Congressman Byron Donalds is a professor at GWU, Georgetown, and American University.
Is it any wonder students at these school are cheering for… pic.twitter.com/tm6NLOL6MO
Yes, of course, the American Israeli Political Action Committee, which is part of the cabal of secret Jewish money that buys people off. No, nothing antisemitic about that at all, Kristen. Nothing to see here. You have hours of abortion hysteria to gin up.
Harvard is about to have a commencement speaker address the 2024 grads. She also happens to be an antisemite named Maria Ressa. The Free Beacon has the goods on her.
Ressa's comments on the Israel-Gaza war, and her news outlet's editorial stance, could add to concerns about Harvard's promotion of anti-Israel views. Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, as well as holding Israel to standards not applied to other countries, could be considered anti-Semitic under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition.
In January, Ressa signed a letter accusing Israel of "unabated killing of journalists in Israeli airstrikes since the start of the Israel-Gaza war." The letter called for an "immediate end to the bombardment of journalists and apparent targeting in some cases of our colleagues in Gaza and the region."
There is no clear evidence that Israel has deliberately targeted journalists. The Israeli government warned reporters to evacuate high-conflict areas. Investigators also found that numerous alleged Palestinian journalists killed in the war worked for Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, organizations that often use press badges as cover for terrorist activities.
A November editorial at her site also compared Israel to Adolf Hitler.
"It is a great irony that the [Jewish] race that suffered centuries of oppression, even genocide at the hands of Adolf Hitler, is now [denying] the same aspirations [for] the Palestinians," said the column.
"We like to think that our world is more modern, more aware, and more compassionate, compared for example to the time of Adolf Hitler, or the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima," the editorial went on.
At NYU, a teach-in was conducted, and unless you listen very closely past the abject stupidity of North Korea being a moral compass when it comes to which side should be supported in the Israel-Hamas conflict, you'll miss this nugget:
Yesterday at New York University, this student led a teach-in on how North Korea has never formally recognized Israel, has always been an ally of Palestinian "self determination and resistance", and "actively armed and trained" the Palestinian resistance" for decades.
— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 5, 2024
"So while… pic.twitter.com/UzIwllPXwE
She casually refers to the Israeli Defense Forces, or the IDF, as the IOF, or Israeli Occupation Force, which is, in fact, antisemitic. Israel left Gaza in 2006. To the antisemites, there is no two state solution. There is no land that Israel may occupy. From the river to the sea means everything west of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. That's all of Israel. They believe Israel is occupying the land in which they live right now.
Rebecca Cypess, a music school professor at Rutgers, wrote a blistering letter on her way out the door to the school administration for how toxic life has become for Jews.
Pro-terror demonstrators at the New Jersey state school have been caught on video yelling, “Hitler would have loved you” at Jewish students; chanting for intifada and plastering posters featuring a picture of a Jewish student all over their dorm.
The toxic culture forced her out, wrote the professor, who is leaving Rutgers to become dean of the men’s and women’s undergraduate colleges at Yeshiva University.
“Throughout this year, I have found it difficult to breathe. I have lost my taste for my job; the joy that I used to feel in working at Rutgers has disappeared,” Cypess wrote.
And at the epicenter of antisemitism, Columbia University in New York, we get this from their law school:
From the @ColumbiaLaw chapter of the @NLGnews:
— Zach Kessel (@zach_kessel) May 5, 2024
"To the Jewish students, faculty, and trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone’s safety."
"No Jew is safe until everyone is safe, and no Jew is free until Palestine is free." pic.twitter.com/JHqkcJDtqz
Despite the propaganda narrative regime media is selling you, there aren't good people on both sides of this issue. You're either with the terrorists, or you're with the people fighting the terrorists. And if you are redefining what terrorism means in order to call terrorists freedom fighters or martyrs, you're supporting the terrorists.
There is good news, however. I'm beginning to get the sense that the tide is beginning to turn. The pushback at antisemitism, even if it's from a small group of people, is beginning to happen more frequently on campuses.
The fraternity of Pi Kappa Phi at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill rescued an American flag from the mob. The Star-Spangled banner was sung by counter-protesters at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt:
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧:
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 4, 2024
Patriotic students sing the Star Spangled Banner at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt.
Hundreds of students showed up to show their love for their country in response to anti-Israel campus protests. pic.twitter.com/zQ5H6E49eO
It was echoed at Ole Miss.
College students at Ole Miss pushed back against protestors with a peaceful counter protest.
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) May 3, 2024
What are your thoughts? pic.twitter.com/6oVurQb2Ll
And then you have people like John Ondrasik, the creative force behind Five For Fighting, taking it directly to the administration of UCLA, his alma mater, from literally across the street from the Westwood campus.
I have one questions for @UCLAchancellor Gene Block, the Board, and the majority of administrators/faculty at my alma mater @UCLA. I'm at your disposal to meet and discuss your answer. A message to the Jewish and non-Jewish students under siege across our nation as well.… pic.twitter.com/z3vQGO9p1q
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) May 4, 2024
Antisemitism cannot stand if good people speak out. It's high time for more good people to do just that.
Antisemitism is, by definition, on the wrong side of history. Those who do not call it out, or in the case of Jonathan Karl and Kristen Welker, condone it by avoiding definitional terms or minimize the hate speech by glossing that is being glossed over, are also on the wrong side of history.
And especially in Welker's case, asking a question that infers those calling out antisemitism as being the actual controversial ones, she may believe she's helping the Democratic Party with their messaging, but she is signaling to the rest of the country that being a purveyor of propaganda is just as vile as those celebrating the 10/7 atrocities.
