Posted on 04/30/2024 5:23:26 AM PDT by SJackson
The pro-Hamas demonstrations that have become the latest social contagion to afflict the nation, with “encampments” springing up on college campuses across the country to demand “freedom” for “Palestine,” show clear signs of being orchestrated. One telling indication of this is that a massive number of these allegedly grass-roots protesters have identical tents, as if some well-heeled leftist bought them in bulk with the intention of helping this allegedly spontaneous movement get going. The groundwork for what is happening these days, however, has been laid for years. These demonstrations are in large part the handiwork of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) the professional organization of Middle East Studies Professors at colleges nationwide.
The Middle East Studies Association, whose members dominate the Middle East Studies faculties of most colleges and universities in the U.S., identifies itself as “a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom.” That’s all very noble and high-minded, but as is so often the case in academia today, the reality is considerably seamier. MESA is actually a far-left, pro-jihad activist group that gives an academic veneer to Marxist agitprop and Palestinian jihad propaganda.
This is abundantly clear from the 25 items that are currently on the front page of the news section of the MESA website. Two stories are pinned to the top of the page; one is actually on the side of genuine justice and human rights, decrying the Iranian Islamic regime’s dismissal of professors who supported the recent Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran. The other, however, is entitled “Campus Climate Resources,” which gives the impression that it’s propaganda about the myth of human-caused climate change; it’s actually about the “climate” on campus regarding support for the Palestinian jihad against Israel. MESA here offers a grab-bag of links to this article denouncing the alleged “repression of protest on campuses,” the alleged “targeting of Palestinian students in Israeli universities,” and the like. One of these linked articles carries this headline: “MESA Board Joint Statement with CAF [MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom ] regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza.”
That article asserts that “the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel…has now claimed more than 100,000 Palestinians dead and wounded according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.” Despite still being offered by MESA as if it contained current information, it has not been revised to reflect Hamas’ admission that its casualty figures have been wildly inflated, or any indication that the UN still carries on its list of journalists supposedly killed by the Israelis the name of a man who is very much alive. In MESA’s world, only the Palestinian side of the story is told, and it is believed without question. That is what the self-righteous and ignorant students who are in the encampments have been told, and that’s all they know.
It is thus no surprise that the MESA website also contains the organization’s official endorsement of the frankly neo-Nazi Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which emulates Hitler’s National Socialists in boycotting Jewish businesses so as to demonize the Jews and limit their economic power. MESA also calls upon “calls upon the leaders of North American colleges and universities to steadfastly defend academic freedom and to champion freedom of expression—even when the ideas and opinions expressed are unorthodox or unpopular.” This is rich, because MESA members would be on the front lines protesting if a college or university gave a professorship, or even a hearing, to an opponent of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women who spoke honestly about how the Palestinian “resistance” is really a jihad, and about how the global jihad is a quintessentially expansionist, imperialist movement that has denied the rights of “indigenous peoples” the world over.
What MESA is worried about is professors who are open supporters of Hamas facing discipline. Many of those 25 articles on the first page of its news section are letters to or from various universities regarding MESA protesting against the dismissal of such professors, or the disciplining of pro-Hamas students. There is nothing about the pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai getting barred from the Columbia campus, but plenty about how the cosseted toy revolutionaries on the campus lawn are being oppressed and their rights denied.
It’s easy to see, given MESA’s relentless anti-Israel stance, how university students all over the nation have gotten the idea that supporting Hamas’ genocidal jihad is right and righteous. MESA, like the universities where these students are posturing and screaming today, was not always this bad. Its Founding Fellows include groundbreaking scholars such as S. D. Goitein, Majid Khadduri, and Franz Rosenthal. Among its Honorary Fellows were some of the most renowned figures of the study of Islam, Arabs and the Middle East, including Sir Hamilton Gibb, Philip K. Hitti, W. Montgomery Watt, Maxime Rodinson, and Annemarie Schimmel. They have been followed, however, by a rogue’s gallery of academic hacks and propagandists. The pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses are their handiwork.
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America has just under 3900 colleges. The animals have take over about 100.
Fear? New math? Take a deep breath and realize that ordinary honest Americans look at these displays of communism - see them for what they are and our contempt for leftist academia grows by the day.
In the long run these sh&t hole schools will be worse off and America will be better off because we have seen what they are and will vote accordingly.
Pay their student loans? I don’t think so.
It’s in their blood. I remember when the NVA and VC were their favorites. Same mindset.
...or side sits around and ignores them, allows things to fester, and then complains when we get ambushed.
Bottom line - we deserve it.
This “crap” education starts in grade school. My granddaughter is a straight A freshman at Ole Miss, so she’s no dummy. I was talking with her about the extinction of the dinosaurs and she had never heard of the Extinction Event. She said her HS teacher told them it was global warming that killed them. I asked her how he explained the layer of Iridium that circles the globe under 65 million years of detritus and she had never heard of that. Instead it was the build up of CO2 that killed them. And don’t get me started on how Socialism will cure the world’s ills...
The New Left, Jew hating Nazi’s on parade, they can’t hide it anymore.
Let it burn, own it. Gonna be a long hot summer, Chicago ‘68.
With the exception of a couple of pathetic schools, I’m not sure this is true.
I was on the Rice campus recently. They had a “protest” and it was about two pups tents and 10 stoners with 200 media trying to make it look like a movement with super close shots.
Lots of really pissed Asian and Jewish kids either ignoring them or giving them the double finger salute.
There was a much bigger protest on Kirby stopping traffic; this was the usual Muslim thugs that seem to have taken over every store in Houston.
The dims created this monster and have lost control of it.
The dimrat convention should be a real dumpster fire this summer. I don’t eat popcorn often, but I will be stocked up for that.
It’s clear that it is Muslim organizations behind the whole “movements” against the Jews. They have framed the issue as a “anti-colonist” battle to bring in anarchists, and Marxists as well as youthful lost children.. The anarchists and Marxists will be quite surprised when they will have to live under Sharia Law. The lost children will comply and repeat back what is said to them.
I sincerely hope that every single troublemaker gets id’d & NEVER GETS HIRED ABOVE a clerk at 7-11.
Because Islam and Collectivism go together like love and marriage.
Paid outside agitators. When I was in college, paid outside agitators stood on campus corners handing out pamphlets against the Shah.
Why Have Campuses Gone All-In For Hamas?
Anarchists are looking for a cause to be seen it’s easy to lead the uneducated around higher education isn’t what they go to college for.
Its a win win deal the parents get them out of the house and the um students don’t have to do any work.
It’s why they demand free college classes.
It is the extreme Leftists in the lead as have been 100% of the “antiwar” protest movements in my whole lifetime.
What??? Higher temperature and oxygen levels are the reason they existed
The “By Any Means Necessary” slogan on the sign in the picture was borrowed from Malcolm X via the California Antifa group of the same name, abbreviation BAMN, illustrating the coordination between Antifa and Muslim terrorists (the “Red-Green Axis”, discussed in a book of that title by James Simpson, published in 2015 and revised in 2019).
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