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The Ivory Tower Jihad
(JNS) Melanie Phillips - With "Gaza solidarity encampments" having sprung up on more than 100 U.S. campuses (and with Canadian and British campuses now following suit), Islamists and the hard-left have turned Western universities into a theater of war against Israel, the Jewish people and America. Hamas supporters have burst through inadequate Western defenses to turn the Palestinian cause into a beachhead in their war to bring down a West that refuses to acknowledge the threat it faces. The proxy campus war against Israel and the Jewish people is based on defamatory lies from start to finish. The U.S. and UK governments are adding fuel to the fire by parroting the same nonsensical Gaza civilian casualty figures, giving credence to Hamas blood libels about the IDF targeting hospitals, and falsely accusing Israel of stopping humanitarian aid. All this reinforces the hysteria against Israel and the Jews. The enemies of Israel and the West think that they're winning. They've thought as much since Oct. 7, when the terrible blow inflicted upon Israel galvanized them into believing that the destruction of Israel and the conquest of the West were now within their grasp. The genocidal threats against Israel and psychotic abuse of Jews being chanted by the students is the same language that's been used by the Palestinian Arabs and the wider Muslim world for the best part of a century. Yet both America and Britain have denied this reality and have appeased and emboldened Israel's Palestinian and Iranian attackers. While the U.S. has provided Israel with the military support to prevent its annihilation, the Biden administration is doing everything it can to cripple Israel's war of self-defense and ensure that it doesn't win against Hamas. The writer is a columnist for The Times (UK).