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Jew Haters & Terrorist Apologists: A Campus Perspective
Like many Jews, I always took pride in identifying as a “liberal.” Over the last few years — and especially the last three months — things have changed. I have watched as my “liberal” peers champion profoundly anti-liberal ideologies, and parrot hate-laden slogans. Most emblematic of this hypocrisy is how my “liberal” peers treat Jews and Israel, the Jewish state.
On October 7, even as Hamas terrorists were still perpetrating their barbarous crimes against innocent Israelis, including rape, murder, and torture, these “liberals” wasted no time in showing the world how much they hate Jews.
Instead of condemning the rape of women, decapitation of babies, and murder of entire families, my “progressive” peers, without a moment’s hesitation, rushed to condemn the victims. Some of these “progressives” openly celebrated the murder, abuse, and abduction of Jewish women, children, and men.
For these virtue-seekers, the violence was justified because they believe Jews are “colonialist oppressors,” even though Jews are indigenous to the land, and “white oppressors,” even though half of Israelis would be considered BIPOC in the United States, and that Hamas had full control over Gaza before Oct. 7, and the Palestinian Authority runs most of the West Bank.
My “liberal” peers are not liberals. They are deeply illiberal. Their support for Hamas savagery represents an ideology rooted in hatred — an ideology that resembles Islamo-fascism and Nazism.
On my own campus, these “progressives” vandalized our Hillel, spray-painted buildings, ripped down posters of hostages, disrupted traffic, shouted genocidal slurs on loudspeakers during final exams, hung massive anti-Israel banners, slapped “Sabra Feeds Genocide” stickers on hummus containers, and staged “die-ins” while shouting bloodthirsty slogans — slogans so ugly that many participants hid behind masks.
Since 2005, when Israel unilaterally removed every single civilian from Gaza, Hamas has done nothing but wreak havoc on Arabs and Israelis alike.
Instead of building civilian infrastructure when it seized power in 2007, Hamas built underground terror tunnels; instead of building a profitable economy, Hamas made its leaders billionaires; instead of providing food to its civilians, Hamas stole it for itself; instead of protecting civilians, Hamas did everything to increase civilian deaths; instead of teaching kids to want peace, Hamas taught them to hate Jews and to idolize martyrdom.
While Israel allows tens of thousands of Gazans to work in Israel, Hamas denies opportunities. While Israel celebrates LGTBQ Pride, Hamas kills, tortures and jails gay people.
Hamas terrorists are not “freedom fighters.” They are blood-thirsty murderers. They are rapists. They are barbarians. They are the enemies of all decent people.
These facts do not get in the way of my “liberal” classmates. Jews are assumed to be prosperous, so Israelis must be the “oppressors.” Jews are considered “white,” so Israelis must be “colonial oppressors.”
If Hamas were to lay its weapons down today, and free the hostages, there could be peace. If Israel laid its weapons down today, the Jewish state would be wiped off the map.
Many progressives envy Jews, but also hate them. They have even succeeded in intimidating and brainwashing some Jews into trying to fit in with the fashionable climate of Jew-hatred. These are not new phenomena. There have always been Jews making desperate and ultimately futile attempts to gain acceptance from the very people who want to kill them by condemning their fellow Jews. Karl Marx (the descendant of rabbis on both sides) did much to inspire Communist Jew-hatred. The Hellenized Jews of Judea fought against the Maccabees. The pro-Roman faction of Jews helped Rome destroy our Temple in 70 C.E.. Today, Jewish Voice for Peace and similar groups help the Jew-haters.
Ask those who fervently condemn Israel’s self-defense efforts: why do the thousands of Arabs killed in Yemen not elicit your “advocacy” and compassion? How about the hundreds of thousands of Arabs killed in Syria under Bashar al-Assad? What about the Muslim Uyghurs in China?
Israel is a bastion of Western democracy in the Middle East. It is the only Jewish state in the world, and it is surrounded by 22 Arab Muslim countries. It is this Jewish sovereignty and independence that Jew-haters cannot accept.
If my “liberal” peers continue buttressing Hamas, if our nation’s academics perpetuate their resentment of Jews and Israel, if university leaders continue to look the other way when Jews are harassed, if the DEI bureaucracy continues to act like Jews are not the most victimized group, we are all in for a dystopian future.
This is not a war about some border dispute between Israel and Palestinians. It is a war for Western democracy, a war in which too many American “liberals” are backing the wrong side.
My “liberal” peers have been converted to a Marxist, antisemitic, anti-Western, morally bankrupt, fact-averse, backward ideology. These armies of “progressives” will seek leadership of our nation. The future of the Western world demands that decent people–the silent majority — stand up and speak out.
For Jews who hope for continued happiness and success in the United States, this is a war worth fighting. No more complacency. Make your voice heard. Hold your elected officials accountable. Stand up for yourselves. No one will respect us unless we respect ourselves.
Alex Wecht is a senior at Boston University, where he serves as the Vice President and Editor of BU’s student-led philosophy journal, Arché, as co-president of the Pre-Law Society, and as a Hillel Jewish Student Leader.
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White House Withdraws Nomination for US Hostage Envoy

FILE PHOTO: Adam Boehler, the CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation, addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, April 14, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of Adam Boehler to serve as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, the White House said on Saturday.
Boehler, who has been working to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, will continue hostage-related work as a so-called “special government employee,” a position that would not need Senate confirmation.
“Adam Boehler will continue to serve President Trump as a special government employee focused on hostage negotiations,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“Adam played a critical role in negotiating the return of Marc Fogel from Russia. He will continue this important work to bring wrongfully detained individuals around the world home.”
A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Boehler withdrew his nomination to avoid divesting from his investment company. The move was unrelated to the controversy sparked by his discussions with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
“He still has the utmost confidence of President Trump,” said the official.
“This gives me the best ability to help Americans held abroad as well as work across agencies to achieve President Trump’s objectives,” Boehler told Reuters in a brief statement.
Boehler recently held direct meetings with Hamas on the release of hostages in Gaza. The discussions broke with a decades-old policy by Washington against negotiating with groups that the US brands as terrorist organizations.
The talks angered some Senate Republicans and some Israeli leaders. According to Axios, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer expressed his displeasure to Boehler in a tense phone call last week.
Boehler was given permission from the Trump administration to engage directly with Hamas, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this week, calling the talks a “one-off situation” that had not borne fruit.
Boehler has been credited with helping secure the release of Fogel, a US schoolteacher who was freed by Russia in February after three and a half years in prison.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy, German Officials Bow Out of Israeli Antisemitism Conference

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy addressing the 38th Zionist Congress. Photo: Screenshot.
i24 News – A French intellectual superstar and a pair of German officials announced that they withdrew from a conference on antisemitism organized by the Israeli government, citing the participation of far-right figures in the Jerusalem event.
Iconic thinker Bernard-Henri Lévy, who was set to deliver the conference’s keynote address, opted out upon learning that Marion Marechal and Jordan Bardella from France’s far-right National Rally party were among the other speakers.
Felix Klein, the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism, “has decided not to attend,” his representatives told Haaretz.
“He was unaware of the other attendees when he accepted the invitation, and upon learning who the other speakers were, he decided to withdraw.”
Volker Beck, a former Green Party parliamentarian who chairs the Germany-Israel Friendship Society (DIG) also announced he was cancelling his attendance. “If we associate ourselves with extreme right-wing forces, we discredit our common cause; it also goes against my personal convictions and will have a negative impact on our fight against antisemitism within our societies.”
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US Kicks Out South Africa’s Hamas-Linked Ambassador

Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
i24 News – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday designated the South African ambassador to Washington Ebrahim Rasool as a Persona Non Grata, branding Rasool a “race-bating politician.”
The decision comes after Rasool made the inflammatory allegation that Trump was “leading global white supremacist” movement.
A known supporter of the genocidal Palestinian group Hamas, Rasool even boasted that he owned a keffiyeh signed by late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
South Africa filed a claim with the International Court of Justice, alleging that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza during its ongoing war against Hamas, a charge both Israel and the US regard as slanderous and antisemitic.
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