Ian Oxnevad
Minding the Campus, Oct. 12, 2023
“The Ivy League’s interest in promoting apparatchiks for Iran’s theocrats can only be explained by academia’s anti-Israel hatred and its hostility towards the West in general.”
The leafy quads and collegiate student gatherings of the current Fall semester hide deep ties between American universities and the new war being waged on Jews by Hamas and Iran. Anti-Israel protests by college students, and weak excuses for anti-Semitism by university administrations are nothing new. Through funding for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and elite professorships for former Iranian officials, the affection between academia, terrorism, and Iranian theocracy run deep.
As Palestinian rockets recently began wreaking havoc in Israel during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, Hamas terrorists coordinated in kidnapping and murdering Israeli civilians in locales around the Gaza Strip. To the east, Iran celebrated the terrorist groups’ “proud operation.” Almost as old as Iran’s support for Palestinian terrorism and Iran’s mullahs is the support enjoyed by both in US higher education.
Disregarding the fact that the Jewish people are indigenous to what is now modern Israel, American universities through the BDS movement portray Israel through the Marxist narrative that frames it as an illegitimate “neo-colonial” project. In the early 2000s, professors formed the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). … [To read the full article, click here]