Philip Carl Salzman
Epoch Times, Oct. 18, 2023
“McGill didn’t stop with a righteous sentiment. It disenfranchised the group in question.”
For the past decade, universities in North America and in the English-speaking world have declared partisan and ideological positions that negated the traditional academic principle of institutional neutrality.
As a result of the unintentional death of George Floyd, almost all Canadian and American universities declared that they were aligned with Black Lives Matter, in spite of the Marxist and anti-Semitic views of the movement’s sponsoring organizations. But in response to the recent Hamas atrocities in Israel—the murder of more than 1,200 unarmed civilians, the burning alive of children, the murder of infants, the raping and murder of girls and women, and the violation of elderly people—no university has managed to say “Jewish Lives Matter.”
We have seen across a multitude of Canadian and American universities student groups declaring their solidarity with the Palestinians and celebrating the Hamas “victory.” They fly Palestinian flags and display posters of the hang gliders used by Hamas. They chant “From the river to the sea,” the Palestinian slogan meaning the total destruction of Israel. While the Hamas founding charter directs it to destroy Israel, it also commits it to kill all Jews in Israel and beyond. Not all student groups make this explicit, but calls to “gas the Jews” have reportedly been heard.
Official university responses to student enthusiasm for atrocities against Jews have been mild at best, expressing reservations about violence; none to my knowledge have condemned Hamas.
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