Where are the Campus Activists Now?

I don’t believe in easily branding anyone as being an antisemite, especially just because someone is critical of certain policies of the Israeli government. People are entitled to disagree on policy issues, and people should be able to express their criticism of Israel’s policies without immediately facing accusations of being antisemitic.

But antisemitism should be called out, loud and clear, when obvious manifestations of this disease occur. For over two weeks now, there have been widespread, grassroots protests by Iranian citizens breaking out all over Iran. The fanatical Islamist regime ruling Iran has engaged in an increasingly brutal response, including by directing its “security” forces to shoot live ammunition arbitrarily into crowds of protestors. Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and it is right now actively committing a gruesome form of terrorism against its very own people.

This is the same Iranian regime who for almost five decades has actively financed and otherwise supported terrorism throughout the world by means of proxy terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, and who has repeatedly launched targeted attacks against innocent civilians, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Americans.

An intellectually honest person should be asking: where oh where is all of the outrage from all of those “elite” campuses all across the United States, who were so vocal in condemning Israel’s defensive operations against the terrorist entity Hamas? Where are all of those mass protests and encampments? Where are all of those signs and banners, the catchy slogans, the group chanting, and the marches? Somehow, nary a peep from Columbia, Cornell, UCLA and the rest of them. Why so? Because that entire protest movement is rooted in blatant antisemitism, and while that was always obvious to objective observers, the extreme nature of the current situation in Iran is now exposing the true motivations of the anti-Israel protest movement to people who had been happy to just bury their heads in the sand.

Let’s be real. If it were Jews, instead of rabid Islamic fundamentalists, who were brutalizing protesters in Iran, the campuses would be ablaze with gatherings, marches, chants and encampments once again. The contrast here is the result of nothing more than blatant antisemitism, and there is no way to sugarcoat it.

While on the issue of real antisemitism, it is not just woke campuses that are guilty of having a double standard for the Jews. Why is such little concern for innocent Iranian citizens being shown by the United Nations? Where are the emergency meetings, impassioned condemnations, and of course those irate Security Council resolutions that always are aimed at Israel? Why does the UN sprint to issue resounding condemnations of Israel whenever Israel makes a move to defend itself, but evidently has untold patience for the murderous Iranian regime? Because, quite simply, many UN members are blatantly antisemitic. The silence of the UN about the cruel suppression by the Iranian regime is deafening, and this disgusting bias must be called out as it occurs in real time.

The idiocy of people protesting against Israel (and very often also in support of Hamas), and remaining silent now when it comes to Iran, is astounding. Rational and objective people have a duty to call this disparity for what it is – a blatant double standard, deeply rooted in antisemitism, and nothing else. The woke college students from what were once respected universities, and the biased and increasingly irrelevant UN, are once again showing their true colors in remaining silent about the most recent Iranian brutality.