The reaction to the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel among our institutions of higher learning was entirely predictable, but the timing was a bit more difficult to predict. It was hard to know when the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas animus would bubble to the surface, but we knew it was a matter of time, and now we know for sure.
The time is now.
The why is fairly obvious. Diversity, being our strength, except in every way that matters, meant that we imported over several decades a population that was raised on antisemitism with their mother’s milk, and moving to the United States, and being raised in the United States, did nothing to change that. The world is full of blood feuds and when you have in your population one side, it doesn’t’ make much sense to import peoples who are on the other side does it? Except that, diversity is our strength. So, stop thinking about it.
In a political sense however, for me this has been fairly hilarious. The Democratic Party, which has the loyalty of the majority of Jewish voters and the majority of Muslim voters, now finds itself in a civil war in an election year. I will say of the Democrats, they are masters of coalition building, and it’s entirely possible they will be able to craft a solution that holds their coalition together. After all, in the 20th Century the Democrats managed to maintain both segregationists and civil rights advocates together in the same party for decades. Quite a remarkable political accomplishment, so don’t give up on the Democrats coming up with a political solution just yet.
Meanwhile, our most elite educational institutions are aflame in support of…terrorism. And amusingly, this widens the cracks in the left’s misfit coalition…
Anti-Israel protesters at UCLA attack Native American woman opposing Hamas
Lani Dawn, a Jewish Native American woman, posted that she was attacked by anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Thursday night after holding a sign reading, “Hamas supporters are not welcome on native land.”
“Last night I was violently assaulted by @UCLA ‘pro-Palestine’ students,” wrote Dawn on Instagram, posting a video showing the protesters attacking her and other pro-Israel protesters.
That sure throws a kink in the left’s pro forma land acknowledgments huh?
Instead of worrying about the Israeli’s going “home,” maybe the protestors should take their own advice?
Of course the left actually believes it’s own propaganda so they’ll not see any conflict between a meaningless land acknowledgement and attacking a native person for not sharing their views. Far more ridiculous is their inability to see the something that even National Review…that’s right the most useless of all “conservative” publications, caught.
Charlottesville has been the lodestar for the left for years. It’s the reason Joe Biden gave for actually running for President. And yet we’ve been having a Charlottesville almost every day for months on college campuses all over the country. Anyone on the left getting upset about that? But I guess timing is everything. Kanye lost his career last year over statements that would be perfectly acceptable if he were making them outside a tent on a college campus. That guy really is ahead of the curve.
The semester is almost over and I imagine the protests will peter out as students head to the Hamptons, Martha’s Vinyard, or Mallorca, but the fissures they helped create will remain the Democratic Party for a while, and of course the fissures in the country are permanent.