OPINION:
The barbaric Oct. 7 mass murder in Israel by Iran’s puppet Hamas has shockingly revealed that many college campuses are sickeningly antisemitic, defending the maniacal Hamas agenda.
The Hamas Covenant of Aug. 18, 1988, declares in the midst of insane provisions Article 7: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslem … there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
“Free Palestine from the river to the sea” is code for “death to Israel” and “death to America.” Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
Sadly, colleges have descended from coveted citadels of intellectual freedom to illiberal sewers of intolerance and bigotry. Diversity and inclusion are Orwell’s “1984” implementation, excluding conservative thought.
Over the years, as infantile leftists hire only one another, the extreme hire the even more extreme as each tries to outdo the other in leftism.
This leads to today’s suicidal derangement even as the regime in Tehran, coordinating with war criminal Vladimir Putin, develops missiles for a nuclear attack on the ‘Great Satan,” America, which would vaporize campuses.
Over 100 professors at Columbia University signed a letter supporting Hamas demonstrators defending the Hamas “military action” of rape and butchering of babies.
In the University of California system, the Ethnic Studies Faculty Council defended the Hamas massacre as actions of a “community trying to free themselves.”
Such ideology led to pro-Israel demonstrator Paul Kessler being assaulted at a protest last month in Thousand Oaks billed as a “peaceful gathering of Palestinian supporters.” Kessler died at a hospital the next day. A professor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in his death.
Bizarrely, at Harvard, over 100 faculty members sent a letter condemning President Claudine Gay for issuing a statement opposing antisemitism. Incredibly, she acknowledged last month that “antisemitism has a very long and shameful history at Harvard.”
Former Harvard President Larry Summers wrote in The Washington Post that some university administrators who work in diversity, equity and Inclusion “have themselves taken positions that are widely viewed as antisemitic.”
Even at Wake Forest University, professor Laura Mullen, with a social media post days after the Hamas slaughter, hatefully sympathized with the murderers by stating that she would be “tempted to shoot up” dance parties, referring to the music festival in Israel where over 250 people were killed.
In National Review, George Will thoughtfully explains the illiberalism as a repudiation of Thomas Jefferson with his doctrine of natural rights as every citizen sovereign. Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett is correct: “First comes rights, and then comes government.”
I especially appreciate this analysis of freedom in that even 50 years ago, as an undergraduate, I carefully folded my National Review in half to avoid liberal bigotry by concealing what I was reading the seditious concepts of William F. Buckley Jr. supporting limited government and expanded freedom unraveling communism.
The solution for closed-minded intolerance on campuses is obvious. To liberate academia from the denial of free speech respecting the First Amendment, there should be the diversity and inclusion of more conservative academics overcoming today’s blatant discrimination.
In addition, conservative guest lecturers should be invited to share in the speaking fees. Graduation addresses should be selected with an effort of balance, as should honorary degrees.
With the severe shortage of conservative academics, I suggest there are elected officials who can fill the void with such diversity as Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the first Black U.S. senator from the South in 115 years, or Nikki Haley, the first female governor of the state in 340 years.
Even more outrageous, invite former President Donald Trump, who received over 75 million votes in 2020, the most ever for an incumbent president.
All Americans, in good faith, want a college education to be uplifting for students to achieve the American dream, not destructive, insane indoctrination.
• Joe Wilson is a member of the House of Representatives serving South Carolina’s 2nd District.
