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EDITORIAL: There are many noble causes worth sacrificing one’s studies, reputation and future for. Hamas is not one of them.
Today’s Gen Z students have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for caring more about their social-media profiles than they do about history or international politics. So, it’s puzzling why so many would be spurred into activism by, of all things, an Islamic terrorist group committed to the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel, let alone one responsible for the mass murder and rapes of innocent Israeli citizens last year on Oct. 7.
Yet, however illogically, Hamas — which couldn’t be more diametrically opposed to the postmodern secular agenda that predominates academia today — has become the cause célèbre on the campuses of Columbia, Harvard, Yale and other institutions of purportedly higher education around the country.
Seeing students from privileged backgrounds at elite U.S. universities donning black-and-white-checkered Palestinian keffiyehs chanting, “From the river to the sea” — an implicit call for the eradication of the Israeli state — raises grave concerns about the next generation of American leaders.
To be sure, the student demonstrators, who have been aided and abetted by radicalized faculty and inept administrators, are not a homogenous group. Many of them aren’t even students. Likely more than a few are participating for the thrill of it or to avoid going to class rather than acting out of any conviction, to judge from the painfully clueless man-on-the-street interviews that have circulated on social media. And surely some portions of the demonstrators are justly disturbed by the terrible human toll of Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza and simply want the bloodshed to end.
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Today’s Gen Z students have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for caring more about their social-media profiles than they do about history or international politics. So, it’s puzzling why so many would be spurred into activism by, of all things, an Islamic terrorist group committed to the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel, let alone one responsible for the mass murder and rapes of innocent Israeli citizens last year on Oct. 7.
Yet, however illogically, Hamas — which couldn’t be more diametrically opposed to the postmodern secular agenda that predominates academia today — has become the cause célèbre on the campuses of Columbia, Harvard, Yale and other institutions of purportedly higher education around the country.
Seeing students from privileged backgrounds at elite U.S. universities donning black-and-white-checkered Palestinian keffiyehs chanting, “From the river to the sea” — an implicit call for the eradication of the Israeli state — raises grave concerns about the next generation of American leaders.
To be sure, the student demonstrators, who have been aided and abetted by radicalized faculty and inept administrators, are not a homogenous group. Many of them aren’t even students. Likely more than a few are participating for the thrill of it or to avoid going to class rather than acting out of any conviction, to judge from the painfully clueless man-on-the-street interviews that have circulated on social media. And surely some portions of the demonstrators are justly disturbed by the terrible human toll of Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza and simply want the bloodshed to end.
Continued below.
Radicalized Students Will Regret Backing Hamas
EDITORIAL: There are many noble causes worth sacrificing one’s studies, reputation and future for. Hamas is not one of them.
