Beth Kuhel

Sudan burns, Syria bleeds – but campus rage fixates on Israel

There are enough tyrannical regimes and humanitarian crises in the world to keep college students busy, but foreign funding is turning them against Israel instead

While civil wars have displaced over 10 million in Sudan — where mass rape, ethnic cleansing, and child slavery have returned to Darfur — Western students chant that Israel is the world’s greatest evil.

Not Assad’s Syria, where over 500,000 people — many of them children — have been killed by barrel bombs, chemical weapons, and torture chambers, and 13 million have been forced into exile.

Not Yemen, where an Iranian-backed civil war has led to mass starvation, the use of child soldiers, and what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth.

Not Russia, whose invasion of Ukraine has razed entire cities, abducted thousands of children, executed civilians en masse, and turned Europe’s breadbasket into a graveyard.

Not Iran, where women are brutalized for removing hijabs, dissidents are disappeared or hanged from cranes, and terror is exported globally through Hezbollah and Hamas.

Not China, where over a million Uyghur Muslims are locked in concentration camps, forcibly sterilized, indoctrinated, and put to work in factories feeding the global supply chain.

Not Qatar, the oil-rich kingdom that hosts Hamas leadership in five-star hotels while funding Al Jazeera, radical campus centers at top American universities, and lavish diplomatic charm offensives across the West.

No. According to the protests, teach-ins, and occupation encampments dotting elite campuses, it is Israel — the region’s only democracy, with Arab lawmakers, LGBTQ rights, and an independent judiciary — that must be dismantled.

This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s indoctrination.

And it’s not happening in secret. It’s playing out in lecture halls, student unions, and administrative offices under the banners of “liberation” and “decolonization” — funded by authoritarian regimes eager to rewrite the Western mind. These regimes aren’t just exporting oil — they’re exporting ideology. And American universities have become ground zero.

That radicalism has now moved from rhetoric to bloodshed.

It is no longer theoretical — it is real. The political assassinations in DC, the firebombing in Boulder, and the eruption of violent antisemitism from campuses to Congress are not isolated events. They are the direct results of years of moral inversion, intellectual cowardice, and foreign-funded ideological grooming.

We must wake up.

Universities must disentangle from foreign influence, enforce true intellectual diversity, and protect every student’s right to safety — including Jewish students.

Donors must demand transparency. Lawmakers must require disclosure. Faculty and students must rediscover courage.

Silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.

If we care about truth, human rights, or democracy, we must start acting like it — before the chants of “resistance” lead to more funerals.

About the Author
Beth Kuhel is an executive career coach and author who helps people maximize their talents and build purpose-driven careers. She draws on experience as an HR specialist at a Fortune 500 company, an executive recruiter, and a nonprofit marketing director, blending behavioral science with leadership strategies grounded in character and integrity. Her work has appeared in Forbes, The Huffington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Personal Branding Blog. She also hosts the Spotify podcast Breakthroughs: Smart Strategies for Business/Career Growth, where she interviews business leaders to share practical insights for advancing careers and improving life outlooks. Find more at BethKuhel.com or connect with Beth on LinkedIn and Facebook.
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