Imagine for a moment the reaction if students at a university targeted Islamic students by slipping notices under their doors in the middle of the night informing the students that they would be arrested for terrorism the following day and that they should prepare for that event. To put it mildly, all hell would break loose. Even if the notices said in a note on the bottom that they were just a hoax distributed for a political purpose, you can be sure that the university would expel the perpetrators. The cries of "Islamophobia!" and "hate crime" would be everywhere in the media.
Well, this is what happened at NYU in the last two days, but no one has heard much about it and the university has remained silent. Why? The targets of the notices were Jewish students at NYU who received eviction notices from their dorms supposedly so that they would feel how Palestinians feel when they get evicted by Israelis. (That assumes, of course, that there really are Palestinians evicted on short notice, something that does not seem to happen in any way that can be documented.) The eviction notices contained a note at the bottom that said that they were not real but were only distributed for political purposes, but does that really matter? At NYU, a very liberal university, Jewish students were targeted by a group (which happens to have ties to terror group Hamas) and there was essentially no reaction in the media or from the school.
Something similar happened this week also at Brandeis, another extremely liberal university. First, the university rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a victim of Islamic terrorists who was first mutilated, then forced to "marry" against her will, then persecuted when she ran away, and finally threatened with death when she spoke out about the terrible treatment women receive at the hands of Moslems in Somalia, her homeland. Brandeis withdrew the invitation to this brave woman who had the courage to speak out against her oppressors because it did not wish to offend Islamic groups that protested her appearance on campus. That was bad enough. Then two days ago, Brandeis hosted a speech by the president of Rwanda, a man who has spoken in favor of political killings as good policy. Talking about killing one's opponents is free speech at Brandeis, but relating tales of one's own oppression at the hand of intolerant Moslems in Somalia is beyond the pale.
Something really terrible is afoot here.
Well, this is what happened at NYU in the last two days, but no one has heard much about it and the university has remained silent. Why? The targets of the notices were Jewish students at NYU who received eviction notices from their dorms supposedly so that they would feel how Palestinians feel when they get evicted by Israelis. (That assumes, of course, that there really are Palestinians evicted on short notice, something that does not seem to happen in any way that can be documented.) The eviction notices contained a note at the bottom that said that they were not real but were only distributed for political purposes, but does that really matter? At NYU, a very liberal university, Jewish students were targeted by a group (which happens to have ties to terror group Hamas) and there was essentially no reaction in the media or from the school.
Something similar happened this week also at Brandeis, another extremely liberal university. First, the university rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a victim of Islamic terrorists who was first mutilated, then forced to "marry" against her will, then persecuted when she ran away, and finally threatened with death when she spoke out about the terrible treatment women receive at the hands of Moslems in Somalia, her homeland. Brandeis withdrew the invitation to this brave woman who had the courage to speak out against her oppressors because it did not wish to offend Islamic groups that protested her appearance on campus. That was bad enough. Then two days ago, Brandeis hosted a speech by the president of Rwanda, a man who has spoken in favor of political killings as good policy. Talking about killing one's opponents is free speech at Brandeis, but relating tales of one's own oppression at the hand of intolerant Moslems in Somalia is beyond the pale.
Something really terrible is afoot here.
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