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Campus Anti-Semitism Reaches Fevered Pitch
Sympathy for Hamas terrorism is proving a bridge too far.
“A Middle East Wake-Up Call,” or so the Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russel Mead called it on October 12, 2023.
“Hamas’s atrocities make complacency much harder to sustain,” mused Mead. “But will we face up to the Iranian threat?”
“Almost a week after Hamas fanatics bent on murder slipped across the borders of Gaza, the world is still struggling to process the shock,” he fretted. “It will be months or perhaps years before the full consequences of this attack can finally be assessed, and we do not know if the war in Gaza will spread across the Middle East and possibly beyond.”
Already, the surprise attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists has been a wake-up call for many, one likely to have complex, long-term cultural and social impacts.
The Hamas attack on Israel is already causing intense turmoil within American academia. A virulent strain of anti-Semitism emanating from the progressive left has become, in the aftermath of Hamas war crimes against Israel, impossible to ignore.
At the center of the firestorm is a letter published by Harvard student groups in the immediate aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack the likes of which the world has never seen.