A first-person account from America’s hotbed of radical progressivism: college campuses
“An IDF soldier is coming to speak to some Jewish students, and it’s causing an uproar,” he said. “Students for Justice in Palestine wants him censored.”
As for the weird spelling, he said, “The word ‘Zionism’ may make people feel too unsafe, so they asterisked some of the vowels.”
My confusion was only amplified the next week, when I saw a new advertisement posted on the quad: “Glory to Our Martyrs.” It was an unmistakable Muslim battle cry, “glory” referring to life in paradise, and the “martyrs” being Palestinian terrorists.
Welcome to life at America’s elite universities, where Jewish students either find themselves subject to violence and death threats if they speak out against this rhetoric — or they adopt it themselves, hoping to cloak themselves in progressive righteousness and thereby avoid being targeted.
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