Anti-Israel stance emboldens anti-Semitism

 

Sydney University Pro-Palestinian Encampmment 24 April 2024. Photo: Bookish Worm [CC BY 4.0] 

Students and their hangers-on at the pro-Palestinian ‘glamping’ protest camps at our Group of 8 (G8) universities reveal an underlying falsehood that has grabbed the hearts and minds of our young people. This is a deliberate strategy of Hamas, the proscribed terrorist organisation that is a puppet of Iran, to weaken not only the support for Israel’s fight for survival since October 7 last year but also the West in general. Our young people have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the cognitive warfare that is intensifying as terrorists’ confidence grows as a direct result of student protests in the West.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

Michael de Percy and Sascha Dov Bachmann express their frustration with the behaviour and messaging of top Western universities when it comes to protests. They argue that the openly anti-Israel stance taken by university management has empowered anti-Semitism amongst the student body.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Closer to home, Michael de Percy and Sascha Dov Bachmann make the simple but telling point: being reflexively anti-Israel emboldens anti-semitism. If only those attacking Israel and her people at every turn, and denying her right to exist, would at least have the decency to denounce the Hamas atrocities of 7 October, demand those who planned and executed them be rooted out and dealt with, and call for the release of all Israeli hostages as a precondition to any Gaza ceasefire. But no.

My latest in The Spectator Australia with Professor Sascha Dov Bachmann, Anti-Israel stance emboldens anti-Semitism.