A letter signed by 31 Harvard University student groups blaming Israel as “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ heinous attacks shows how low US higher education has sunk.
Even the campus Amnesty International chapter joined in making excuses for the targeting and kidnapping of civilians, buying the hard-left idea that “fighting imperialism” (or whatever) justifies utter atrocities.
That is: A pack of privileged students justified out-and-out war crimes as somehow legitimate.
Specifically, they called Israel an “apartheid regime,” though Israeli Arabs in fact enjoy full civil rights.
And it’s actually Hamas that oppresses the people of Gaza, with its dedication to wiping Israel off the map directly responsible for the strip’s isolation.
They also betray grotesque historical ignorance, writing: “Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years,” when for decades Israel controlled neither Gaza nor the West Bank.
And it was the Arab nations that weaponized them into a people without a state instead of taking them in, even as Israel accepted Jews driven out from the Arab world in those decades.
Plus, Hamas is simply the catspaw of an actual imperialist power, the regime based in Tehran, and its rule over Gaza is nothing the people there choose: It’s the “occupying power” there.
All that nuance escapes the campus left (and the left generally), and plainly Harvard is unwilling or unable to educate these students out of their blind bigotry.
The campus left’s hatred of the Jewish state blinds them to barbaric killing of innocent unarmed men, women, children, including toddlers, and elderly civilians at their homes, celebrations and parties.
It’s an open question, frankly, how much the broader Harvard community really disagrees with these kids, even if the profs and administrators are prudent enough not to go public with their own bigotry just now: Don’t want to risk losing any alumni donations!
This story originally appeared on NYPost
