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Billions of Dollars from Pro-Hamas Groups
The Iran regime is sexist, bigoted, discriminatory, misogynist, terrorism-sponsoring. Kayla Bartsch writes in NRO of students demanding that universities divest from Israel. Those same students don’t know or ignore that those same universities “receive billions of dollars from nations that fund terrorism.”
Top American universities — including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Northwestern, reports Kayla Bartsch in NRO, have received billions of dollars in donations from countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, which consistently top the foreign donors’ list (although institutional reporting of foreign funds has been found inadequate).
Since 2016, even entities in the “State of Palestine” gifted at least $4.5 million to U.S. universities. The unnamed Palestinian donors also made gifts to Harvard of $275,000, $775,000, and $525,000 in 2017, 2018, and 2019 respectively. While reports do not explicitly state how the money was spent, a solid guess is support for the “Palestinian Territories” concentration at the university’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
At the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, for example, students are exposed to “tendentious falsehoods.” The Center claims Israel is “deliberately using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza,” committing genocide against the Palestinians, and wielding tools of “Zionist colonialism” to achieve ethno-supremacy, continues Ms. Bartsch, a William F. Buckley Fellow in political journalism.
Another recently established program at Harvard, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, is funded by Birzeit University in the West Bank. This pro-Hamas university seeks to end “Israeli settler colonialism.”
The Palestine Program at Harvard, which “utilizes a decolonial framework in program development, leadership, and engagement,” has produced such papers as “Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism” and “HRW: Israel hospital attacks and limits on aid in Gaza should be investigated as war crimes.”
Ideology or Ignorance
Some college students have said they actually “don’t know” why they’re protesting, other than that they want to support “Palestine” (solidarity!).
Among the tent setups, the privileged teens have gathered powerful displays of resistance, such as: performing an interpretive dance for decolonization; weaving friendship bracelets; peddling incense and essential oils; and vaping for the oppressed.
There is a strong overlap between student LGBTQ+ advocates and “Free Palestine” advocates. Among the hand-painted signs at “Columbia’s Communist Coachella,” some read “Trans Fags 4 Palestine” and “Trans Dykes 4 Palestine.”
Who is going to tell them that they would be the first to be executed under the sharia law for which they pine so passionately?
Death to Israel
Iran’s Supreme Leader posted his support of the college encampments.
How satisfying for him to watch the children of America’s elite praise Hamas and Hezbollah, which are funded, trained, and armed by Iran to effect the twin goals of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Iran Rapper Sentenced to Death
If these students were protesting in Iran, they would be sentenced to death — like the Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who protested the killing of Mahsa Amini while in police custody. Amini’s crime? “Improper” wearing of a hijab.
Thank George Soros
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed reports on certain pro-Palestinian student activists subsidizing the unrest at college campuses by being paid for their “work” by grants from the Soros and Rockefeller foundations:
Two prominent student activists — Malek Afaneh, a Berkeley law student, whose disruption of a dinner at the home of the law school’s dean went viral, and Craig Birckhead-Morton, a Yale senior who was arrested for trespassing — have both been “youth fellows” of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
From the WSJ,
“Campus-based fellows” . . . receive stipends of $2,880 to $3,360 for three-month terms of roughly eight hours of work a week. That “work” could include aiding campaigns that “demand federal or state politicians cut US military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.”
“Not only must the universities clear the encampments,” urges Kayla Bartsch in NRO.
They must be held to account for cultivating young minds to scream “Death to America!”
A Glint of Hope and Sanity
The University of Texas at Austin issued a statement that UT will not allow this campus to be ‘taken’ and protesters to derail our mission in ways that groups affiliated with your national organization have accomplished elsewhere.” Hundreds of students assumed the university would buckle rather than make good on its warning, reports NRO:
But UT showed commendable backbone. A small army of state troopers clad in riot gear, as well as other law-enforcement officials, were there to greet the protest. Their presence wasn’t just for show. According to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, 57 protesters were arrested. UT took such swift and decisive action that it put down the protest within hours. This stands in marked contrast with the encampments that other schools have allowed to proliferate for days. “UT Austin does not tolerate disruptions of campus activities or operations like we have seen at other campuses,” the school said in a separate statement.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott deserves great credit for not surrendering to mob rule, argues Daniel J. Samet in NRO:
On March 27, (the Governor) issued an executive order to combat antisemitism in higher education. “Texas supports free speech, especially on university campuses, but that freedom comes with responsibilities for both students and the institutions themselves,” the executive order read. “Such speech can never incite violence, encourage people to violate the law[,] harass other students or other Texans, or disrupt the core educational purpose of a university.”
This week’s events in Austin show that at the very least, Texas won’t be turned into Columbia.
