Marsha Blackburn
After the horrific atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, we witnessed a wave of antisemitism on college campuses by anti-Israel groups praising Hamas’ mass murder of Jews.
Remember: Hamas invaded Israel, murdered at least 1,400 people, and took at least 212 hostages. Still, student groups at colleges across the country came out in support of the killings. The national chapter of the notoriously pro-terror Students for Justice in Palestine called the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust a “historic win.” Thirty-one Harvard organizations blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison chanted “Glory to the Martyrs” while the La Fuerza Student Association at California State University advertised their pro-Palestine protest with a picture of a paraglider – a blatant endorsement of the massacre at the Supernova music festival.
The reason many of these students are virulently anti-Israel – and in many cases antisemitic – is due to years of indoctrination by their colleges and universities. Since the attack on Israel, university faculty have come out in support of the slaughter. Northwestern University’s Asian American Studies Program faculty claimed that comparing Hamas to ISIS is “Islamophobic” and dismissed reports of Hamas beheading babies as “baseless.” A professor at Stanford was suspended after forcing Jewish students to sit in a corner, calling them “colonizers,” and referring to Hamas as “freedom fighters.” Meanwhile, a history professor at Cornell University called the Hamas attacks “exhilarating” and “energizing.”
Many of the same elite universities and groups who immediately sent out statements endorsing Black Lives Matter after George Floyd’s death in 2020 and criticizing the overturning of Roe v. Wade were slow to…
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