For the past month, I have repeatedly heard many well-meaning people say that the pro-Hamas mobs in the streets chanting genocidal slogans are just uneducated and that’s why they are siding with terrorists.  Maybe that’s true for some of them.  But education isn’t the big problem.
 
Many of the people we have seen in the streets are college students at some of our finest “institutions of higher learning.”  They’re not “uneducated.”
 
The problem with our college students isn’t a lack of education.  It’s what they’re learning.  That they’re being indoctrinated with neo-Marxist, anti-Western ideology. 
 
Sadly, many of their professors are overeducated, anti-Israel bigots.  As I have noted before, there is a disturbing link between higher education and higher levels of anti-Semitism.  Our colleges and universities are breeding grounds for Jew-hatred.
 
The progressives in this movement are not uneducated.  Quite the opposite.  They have been immersed in “diversity, equity and inclusion” and critical race theory.
 
They are intellectually committed to the idea that the world is divided between the oppressed and the oppressors.  The leading oppressors of the world are the nations that make up Western Civilization, and the two pillars of Western Civilization are Israel and the United States. 
 
The pro-Hamas mobs want America and Israel destroyed to end the oppression of the West.  By the way, you can’t tell who is parroting who.  Is Iran parroting the left or is the left parroting Iran? 
 
If you say to one of these anti-Israel demonstrators, “The Jews were in the Holy Land hundreds of years before Islam even existed,” they don’t care. 
 
If you say, “The people who founded America are responsible for spreading more liberty and opportunity than any other system,” they will tell you the opposite — that it brings oppression, slavery and poverty to people of color and must be “fundamentally transformed.” 
 
And there’s another element to these demonstrations. 
 
Many in the pro-Hamas mob are fundamentalist Muslims or Islamic supremacists.  They take their religious book very seriously.  They want to please Allah and they are willing to kill and die to do so. 
 
You’re not going to educate them out of it, any more than we could have hugged Hitler out of it.
 
What’s confronting America today, and tearing the progressive movement apart, is neo-Marxism with a heavy dash of Islamofascism.  The problem is not a lack of education.  It’s dangerous indoctrination.