In the aftermath of the Israeli attack by the terrorist group Hamas, over 30 student groups at Harvard signed a petition denouncing Israel. Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a statement condemning the attacks, which killed over 1,000 people, including 22 Americans, on Tuesday.
From the Daily Caller:
Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz scolded Gay over how she handled the letter.
“Too little, too late. She has still refused to condemn the student groups. She doesn’t want them picketing her office. She doesn’t want the woke people to protest, she’s just been named president. She wants to take the safe way out,” Dershowitz told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. “That is true of most university administrators today. They refuse to condemn the students. Just imagine if you were a club at Harvard called the Ku Klux Klan club and it advocated the lynching of African-Americans. Would President Gay remain silent about that? Would she refuse to condemn?”
During a recent interview on Fox’s “Sean Hannity Show,” Dershowitz argued that Harvard students who support Hamas should be dealt with as if they were members of the KKK.
He advised people not to hire them and commended a UC-Berkeley professor who had stated the same.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELDershowitz’s argument is that these folks are in the same camp as neo-Nazis, and he is correct.
“There should be no distinction between these neo-Nazis, the ones at Harvard, and the neo-Nazis who everybody would say that no nobody should employ. I admire the professor from Berkeley who said: Don’t hire my students. My students — I would say the same thing. Don’t hire my students. You know, these are people who don’t deserve to be hired, and more importantly, your clients don’t deserve to be serviced by bigots, racists and antisemites like this.”
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Dershowitz in the NY Post:
“What, if anything, would Harvard’s president have said if a group of Harvard clubs blamed the lethal firebombing of a black church on the burned black children or the NAACP?
What if they blamed the shooting-up of a gay bar on the lifestyles of the murdered gay people?We know what the reaction of university administrators would have been.
At the very least, they would have exercised their own freedom of expression to condemn these groups in the strongest terms.
It is no excuse to say the current Jew-hatred is directed at the nation-state of the Jewish people rather than at Jews as a group.
Hamas lynched, raped, beheaded and kidnapped Jews who lived in Israel.
It has murdered non-Israeli Jews in other parts of the world, and its charter is filled with anti-Jewish canards borrowed from the notorious antisemitic forgery ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'”
Again, on the “Sean Hannity Show”, Alan Dershowitz and Cornel West, another Harvard professor, had a heated debate.
From Fox News:
“I believe a Palestinian baby has the same value as an Israeli baby. So when you have that kind of vicious hatred and revenge, you get a response of hatred and revenge. They are all wrong. They’re all war crimes,” independent presidential candidate and former Harvard theologian Cornel West said on “Hannity.”
“They’re all to be condemned, but you cannot simply look at this particular moment without the larger backdrop of an ugly occupation and the ugly attacks chronically against Palestinians,” West continued.
What occupation and what ugly attacks? Israel left Gaza in 2005. They have not been there. The ugly attacks are committed by Hamas who fire rockets into Israeli neighborhoods constantly. It never fails to amaze me when I hear people accuse Israel of initiating aggression when it has always been in retaliation for violence perpetrated against them first. It is as if these people don’t believe Israel has the right to defend itself. The whole situation is maddening.
Dershowitz replied, saying that Hamas uses human shields, meaning they hide behind their own Palestinian people so that their enemies will not fire on them, and if they do, the terrorists then claim that Israel killed innocent people. And the majority of our press seems perfectly okay with reporting it that way. Just take the recent Islamic Jihad/Hamas rocket failure in Gaza that landed in a hospital parking lot. The misinformation fake news media overwhelmingly reported that Israel bombed the hospital and that at least 500 people were killed. None of it was true.
“Hamas is the ones responsible for the killing of Palestinian children,” Dershowitz countered. “The Hamas has a term, it’s called ‘the CNN strategy.’ And the CNN strategy is: Induce Israel into killing Palestinian children by using them as human shields, then parade the bodies out on CNN and you’ll see what happens. People like Cornel West will engage in crocodile tears, blame it on Israel, when the entire blame is on the Palestinians, Hamas for using their children as human shields.”
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Universities are beside themselves because, for years, they have fostered environments where students have been allowed to protest whatever they want without academic comment. They have practiced cancel culture on other students on campuses who do not share their leftist ideology, and now their bigotry against Israel. They created safe spaces where students can go so they aren’t “assaulted” with facts that are contrarian to their misguided beliefs. The universities allowed this monster to be born and to grow like cancer on their university grounds, and now they have to deal with the fallout. Many families are not going to send their children to these schools because they don’t want to subject them to the political nonsense that foments on nearly every campus in America.
This is all you have to know to understand this never-ending conflict. On May 14, 1948, Israel declared itself a sovereign, independent state following the United Nations’ partition of Palestine. On May 15, 1948, when Israel was one day old, five Arab countries—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria—attacked Israel. What could Israel have possibly done in one day to cause every surrounding Arab country to attack them other than the people there were acting all Jewish?
