U.S. Campuses: Grooming Terrorists
by Bassam Tawil • April 29, 2024 at 5:00 am
For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing "pro-Palestinian" about supporting the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group....
Those who are chanting "we are all Hamas" on the streets of New York and U.S. college campuses are not helping the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip even slightly. They are being used as human shields by the terrorist group Hamas in its genocidal war against Israel and Jews." — Loay Al-Shareef, social media influencer from the United Arab Emirates, X, April 23, 2024.
"You would not survive a day in Gaza under Hamas, which demands that 'infidels' live with dignity only if they are subordinate to Islamists.... You do not understand Arabic, nor do you know Islam well enough to comprehend what awaits you if Hamas prevails (God forbid)." — Loay Al-Shareef, X, April 23, 2024.
"[Y]ou would also be the target of hatred because radical Islamists like Hamas believe in eternal enmity towards Jews and Christians. They interpret the Quranic verse ("O you who believe, never take Jews and Christians as friends," as timeless, applicable to all Jews and Christians forever." — Loay Al-Shareef, X, April 23, 2024.
"Hamas' approach, in other words, has been a disaster for Palestinians in Gaza.... If universities cannot instil their students with peaceful, tolerant, and coexistent attitudes, then they have failed as institutions of higher learning." — John Aziz, a British-Palestinian writer, Jewish Chronicle, April 22, 2024.
"Violence has failed us for decades, and the only way to accomplish justice for Palestinians is through peace." — Hamza Howidy, Palestinian from Gaza, X, April 25, 2024.
By blocking the three Palestinian social media influences, the SJP, which claims to seek justice for the Palestinians, is proving that it does not care about freedom of speech for the Palestinians and is as intolerant as Hamas and other terrorist groups to criticism.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is a cancer on every university campus." – Amjad Taha, Emirati researcher and journalist, X, April 23, 2024.
While protesters at Columbia University and Yale University celebrate Hamas and its "resistance" (a euphemism for violence and terrorism), Arabs have been ridiculing the "pro-Palestinian" demonstrators on American college campuses. For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing "pro-Palestinian" about supporting the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group, whose members slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped more than 240 others on October 7, 2023.
It is also ironic that the current wave of protests on US college campuses comes at a time when most Palestinian and Arab universities remain quiet. One would have expected to see such protests at university campuses in the West Bank and several Arab countries. True, there were some relatively small protests at a few universities in Jordan and Egypt, but they did not come close to the wave of antisemitism sweeping college campuses in the US.
