Defund the vile, brainwashing universities! America can't ignore woke, Jew-hating academia any longer. Take YOUR tuition dollars elsewhere... and do it now
Video (above) surfaced on Monday of a Cornell University history professor delivering an impassioned speech in which he described the Hamas massacre — leaving more than 1,400 dead and thousands more wounded—as 'exhilarating' and 'energizing.'
Josh Hammer is host of 'The Josh Hammer Show' and a research fellow at the Edmund Burke Foundation
To paraphrase the infamous words of President Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright: American academia's 'chickens have come home to roost.'
The past week and a half, following the genocidal jihadist slaughter of more Jews than at any time since Hitler, has underscored just how bad it has gotten on the university campus.
Video surfaced on Monday of a Cornell University history professor delivering an impassioned speech where he described the Hamas massacre — leaving more than 1,400 dead and thousands more wounded—as 'exhilarating' and 'energizing.'
Days before that, a Columbia University lecturer called the Islamist pogrom an 'awesome stunning victory.'
As bad as the professoriate has been, students have, predictably, been even worse.
At Harvard, over 30 student groups signed a letter placing the blame for the mass murder of Jews squarely at the feet of Israel itself.
Hundreds of UCLA students marching across campus called for Jewish genocide in Israel 'from the river to the sea.'
The President of the Student Bar Association at New York University School of Law proclaimed that 'Israel bears full responsibility' for Hamas' unspeakable barbarism.
And across the country, 'Students for Justice in Palestine' cheered the carnage; in one galling example, the University of Virginia chapter praised the savagery as a 'step towards a free Palestine.'
At Harvard, over 30 student groups signed a letter placing the blame for the mass murder of Jews squarely at the feet of Israel itself. (Above) Israel critics gather at Harvard University on October 14, 2023
Harvard, Cornell, Columbia — these are some of the most prestigious institutions in the nation. Yet Jew-hatred, the world's oldest and apparently most politically correct form of bigotry, now pervades their faculty lounges and campus quads.
The Hamas paraglider has replaced Che Guevara or Angela Davis as the new symbol of fashionable radicalism.
This is profoundly dangerous.
America's future leaders are being brainwashed to embrace the vilest filth, and the adults nominally in charge are standing by and condoning it—as they pocket tuition dollars and alumni donations.
Quite a racket, if you can get in on it.
University presidents and administrators, with rare exceptions, have failed to condemn this unfathomable immorality and wanton bloodlust.
Their mealy-mouthed excuse for not doing so? 'Free speech.'
How pathetic.
Try setting foot on campus and saying that there are two, and only two, genders. Or perhaps try asserting that the unborn child in the womb is worthy of moral and legal dignity.
These campus cowards don't actually believe in 'free speech'; they believe in 'free speech for me, but not for thee.'
Would university administrators appeal to the same sanctimonious faux-moral high ground if the Ku Klux Klan organized on-campus rallies calling for racial warfare against blacks?
No chance.
They would immediately condemn the Klan, kick them off campus, and try to get the organizers expelled and/or arrested—as they should.
Yet universities have now made clear where they stand.
Asserting biological and empirical reality is a 'micro-aggression' at best, and 'transphobia' at worst. But casually calling for the genocide of Jews? That's just 'free speech.'
How did this happen?
Look no further than the intellectual shepherds of the 'critical race theory' movement.
The Hamas paraglider has replaced Che Guevara or Angela Davis as the new symbol of fashionable leftist radicalism. (Above) Palestinian supporters march at Columbia University, on October 12, 2023
Radical leftists, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, the provocateur who just published over the weekend an open letter that—surprise!— blamed Israel for the Hamas atrocities, preach that victimhood absolves victims of blame.
And just as Obama's ex-pastor notoriously spat 'God Damn America' and said that the U.S. government was guilty of inviting the September 11th attacks, one shudders to think how today's college students and professors would react to a future strike on American soil.
It turns out that the decades of glib ivory tower claptrap about 'liberation,' 'colonizers,' and 'oppressed' people has real-world consequences—and they are revolting.
Higher education is now a Stage IV cancer afflicting the entirety of our body politic.
How far it has fallen from its ostensible purpose: the pursuit of truth and the formation of patriotic, well-rounded young men and women with sound republican habits of mind.
These institutions have betrayed their purported mission.
They have shown themselves to be little more than subversive fifth columns, dedicated to destroying Western civilization—for which the Jews and the Jewish state serve as the proverbial canaries in the coal mine.
Thankfully, amidst all the cowardice and moral idiocy, market forces have started to push back.
Radical leftists, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, the provocateur who just published over the weekend an open letter that—surprise!— blamed Israel for the Hamas atrocities, preach that victimhood absolves victims of blame.
At the University of Pennsylvania, former Utah governor and major funder Jon Huntsman, Jr. has announced he is no longer donating.
Prominent Harvard alumni, such as hedge fund magnates Ken Griffin and Bill Ackman, have announced they will never employ students who signed onto the disgraceful pro-Hamas letter.
At least one federal judge has already announced he will refuse to hire any future law clerk who endorsed pro-Hamas sentiment.
'Never again,' as it turns out, is right now.
We all must fight back.
The corruption, decay, and decadence of American academia is now far too glaring to simply ignore.
Ordinary people must follow the lead of these greater entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
Don't trust your future or that of your children to these fanatics.
Take your tuition dollars elsewhere — now.
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