The Patriot Post® · Apartheid College Campuses

By Samantha Koch ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/102155-apartheid-college-campuses-2023-11-15

In the 1930s and ‘40s, Jews were treated as less than human and shipped off to concentration camps to face incomprehensible torture and death. Those of us who have listened to and read about those accounts have often wondered how it would have been possible to unite so much of the German population on dehumanizing a group of people, while turning a blind eye to the savage pain and suffering inflicted on them solely based on their existence.

Yet the explosion of anti-Semitism across the Western world has put many of us in disbelief. The year 2023 is beginning to feel like a repeat of history, but with the added reach of social media fueling the rage and hatred against the Jewish community.

Jewish and pro-Israel college students have been barricaded in their campus libraries and openly threatened by their classmates. They have listened to their professors lift their voices in celebration of the heinous acts committed against unsuspecting Israeli citizens just weeks ago and openly call for the genocide of all Jewish people by reciting the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Apparently, joining in the resounding chants of slogans in the courtyard, park, street, or public square that call for the total eradication of Jewish people — not just in Israel, but across the globe — has become acceptable and worthy of commendation.

Jewish students at Cornell University recently gathered to speak at a public hearing to describe their personal experiences of anti-Semitic attacks. They sought additional safety measures for protection against pro-Hamas groups who now feel justified in targeting them simply because they exist.

One of the students who spoke was a young woman named Amanda Silberstein. She described having to walk through her campus every day while seeing numerous areas with spray-painted words such as “F*** Israel” and “Zionism = Genocide,” and regularly being confronted with pro-Hamas organizers who shout the Palestinian genocidal slogans in her face. It is unclear if these screeching banshees know that they’re calling for the death of her and others who are of the Jewish faith. Many seem to be under the delusion that these expressions are simply about demanding freedom for the people of Gaza. Silberstein articulated it perfectly for those who are clearly uneducated on the matter: These phrases “are not about Palestinian life, but about Jewish death.”

Silberstein also painted a picture that, apart from the reference to social media, could easily and eerily interchange 1940s Germany with the behavior currently taking place at today’s so-called public education institutions: “Imagine that you frequent Jewish events on campus. Imagine that you live in a Jewish sorority house. Then imagine that you’re scrolling on your phone one day, only to discover that a fellow student wants to shoot up the kosher dining hall, and quote 'gang rape all Jewish pig-women on campus.’”

Even while she detailed the current horror confronting many young adults, protesters who had planted themselves throughout the listening audience — who could have taken the opportunity to consider the gravity of the words they are speaking — decided to cut off Silberstein and other speakers who were sharing their direct experiences of being threatened, harassed, and targeted by yelling: “Free Palestine! Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism!”

Kenneth Marcus, head of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, explained that prior to October 7, the rise of anti-Semitism had already been surging at an alarming rate. Reports of Jews being excluded from groups and sororities, or Jewish students feeling the need to hide their identity altogether for their own safety and well-being, were coming in at a higher rate every day.

After the events of October 7, the incidents of discrimination against Jewish students on college campuses have escalated beyond measure.

Marcus recounted a situation at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where two students were kicked out of a sexual assault survivors club because of their Jewish identities. He noted another incident at the University of Vermont, where a Jewish student faced exclusion from a book club for the same reason.

He went on to explain that these blatant discriminatory beliefs are now being taken on by student organizations, including law reviews, that “have adopted rules, including bylaws and changes to their Constitutions, that prevent anyone from speaking to their groups who is a Zionist or a supporter of the state of Israel.” Most importantly, he emphasized that this was not just a matter of not wanting to hear opposing political viewpoints; rather, based on your identity, these particular individuals would not be permitted to speak on any subject whatsoever.

This is unbelievable in the year 2023, in a country where our founding principles are based on individual liberty and justice for all, where we were founded on the idea of being able to worship freely and live side by side with people of all cultures and faiths. Even so, the Left’s agenda is to program the next generation into a society with no humanity whatsoever. Leftists have been very effective in pushing this.

These are our future doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, and government officials. If this is what they are doing as students, imagine the world they will create as our future builders and leaders.

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