by Daniel Baranowski, America Outloud:
Don’t try! You can’t make sense of these so-called college and university campus eruptions. How has it come that our youth hates Jews and celebrates terrorists like Hamas?
But before discussing these satanic social distortions across some 200 institutions of alleged higher learning, I want to know what we should call these protests. Frankly, I can’t think of a proper descriptive title; which of the following best describes your thoughts on the subject?1
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1 – Are they student-driven, primarily peaceful, healthy expressions of our cherished First Amendment Rights?
2 – Are they ritually antisemitic protests offering psychological cathartic relief to intellectually underdeveloped students through open (shouting and screaming) expressions of strong emotions (in this case, hatred)?
3 – Are these dark, money-funded and fueled, borderline riotous episodes created, provoked, and accelerated by thoughtless students, delusional faculty and staff, unaffiliated professional trouble organizers, mercenary political agitators, and far-left trouble-seeking donors?
4 – Are these students the future of our Marxist-Communist Nation controlled by elites, bread Social Marxists from kindergarten through graduate school?
If you have spent any time watching these protests on television, you know by now that these college students, even those at the best universities supposedly on earth, haven’t learned how to think for themselves. Instead, our radical Left indoctrination system has radicalized our youth and taught them what to think and believe whatever narrative fed them.
First, don’t confuse indoctrination and radicalization with education. Many of the so-called “mostly peaceful” pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests going on in colleges and universities across the nation are convoluted near riots fueled by rampant antisemitism and outright Jew hatred. And there’s no educational value gained by hating Jews, Israel, or Zionists.2 It’s puzzling why most of these students can’t tell you why they’ve somehow acquired hatred for Jews. It just seems to fit the occasion of bonding for the first time with their classmates.
Perhaps the most confusing set of facts is why these supposedly academic young people haven’t discovered that they’ve committed themselves to a false narrative about Israelis and Gaza/Hamas Palestinians. On October 7, 2023, Hamas Palestinians viciously attacked and savagely murdered 1,200 largely defenseless, unprepared Israelis.
This slaughter was the second largest premeditated, felony murder of Jews since the Holocaust. The world made a promise to Jews that this would never happen again. But it did, and it’s a knowable fact. So why don’t these Hamas-declared “useful idiot” students know this? There are hundreds of credible news sources of this wretched decimation of Jews.
Now I ask you, how is it that Palestinians are the victims of the Israelis? And to top this, Hamas abducted over 250 hostages. Many of these captives hold dual citizenship, including five Israeli-Americans still alive and still held by Hamas. Three deceased Israeli-Americans remain in the hands of Hamas.3
But the numbers at this point aren’t relevant to the students protesting Israel and Jews. Have you heard chants and calls for the release of the hostages? Instead, their focus is on the destruction of Israel4 because they believe Israel is seeking the genocide of Palestinians. They hate Jews for reasons they can’t identify, but it’s the right group to despise, according to protest leaders.
How does one understand the protesters’ call for “social justice” and “humanitarian relief” for Palestinians when it was Hamas who unjustly and without forewarning mercilessly murdered hundreds of Jews?
When you watch the News Networks interview student protesters, it is amazingly incredible how ignorant the brightest of the bright are about the Middle East, Palestine, Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and on and on. It’s also remarkable how many say they despise Jews but don’t personally know any Jews and can only generalize reasons for denouncing them.
Social psychology informs us that “grouping”5 is more likely to assemble quickly around something many people despise or feel deep contempt for. In short, hatred drives group formation, and incredibly violent hatred leads to manic, hate-driven assembly even faster. Hatred is a morally corrupting emotion with a highly volatile trigger. And when people group and look to each other for validation of their hatred, they also take on an air of righteousness. In other words, they move from “self-righteousness” to “group-righteousness.”
Not only is this an explosive combination, but it is also highly resilient and resistant to outside influence, including threats of arrest, imprisonment, suspension from the university, or outright expulsion. In truth, the reason none of these actions moved one student to leave the protest should be apparent. None of the threats were credible or meaningful. Being arrested for trespassing or disorderly conduct in New York City is a minor inconvenience and, for many, a badge of honor.6 The university has yet to decide if it will press charges against those arrested.
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