Hamas attack exposes our ideologically captured universities
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As the depravity of Hamas continues to be realized — including the beheading of dozens of babies, the rape of hundreds of women, and the deaths of over a thousand Israelis — some have been shocked by how this violence is being not just tolerated, but celebrated, on college campuses.
“In nearly 50 years of Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today,” former Harvard President and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said Monday after over two dozen Harvard student groups issued a joint statement supporting the attacks.
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And Harvard was not alone. Similar statements from student groups are still pouring in from college campuses across the nation, each of them offering “unwavering support of the Palestinian people’s right to resist colonial oppression.”
Who is teaching our nation’s highest performing students that rape and murder of innocent civilians is justified?
The statement signed by students at Columbia provides a helpful hint. “As Columbia students, our classes regularly discuss the inevitability of resistance as part of the struggle for decolonization,” the statement reads. “We study under renowned scholars who denounce the fact that the media requires oppressed peoples to be ‘perfect victims’ in order to deserve sympathy.”
Our nation’s college students are being taught to side with terrorists by the insular far-left academics we have allowed to monopolize our nation’s institutions of higher learning.
For decades, far-left academics have consolidated power on college campuses, denying teaching jobs to any scholar who did not toe the ideological line inside and outside the classroom. Every discipline has been corrupted, not just the usual suspects such as African American studies and gender studies, but English, sociology, economics, history, and even the sciences. Anthropology scholars can’t even talk about biological sex differences in past civilizations.
Denial of truth in academia is so bad that the most recent college graduates cannot recognize reality in front of them. Asked by YouGov if Hamas deliberately struck Israeli civilians, the vast majority of all U.S. adults said yes, but just 32% of those aged 18-29 did.
Universities need to be liberated from “renowned scholars” who are indoctrinating students with violent “decolonization” ideologies. Fortunately, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has begun to do that. After the higher accreditation cartel blocked DeSantis’s choice to lead Florida State University, the governor passed a law stripping the cartel of its power over Florida schools. When President Joe Biden moved to undermine the new law, DeSantis sued him in court.
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DeSantis also passed legislation banning taxpayer dollars for discriminatory initiatives on campus such as diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. While universities across the country are forcing new hires to sign loyalty oaths to identity politics, DeSantis prohibited Florida universities from requiring such statements.
After Roe v. Wade, it took a generation for conservatives to rebalance federal courts with judges who shared an understanding of the Constitution with U.S. citizens. It is going to take a similarly sustained effort to deprogram universities, but as the statements coming out of college campuses supporting violent terror show, such a campaign is desperately needed.