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There's a Difference between Free Speech and Persecuting Jews

(Telegraph-UK) Zoe Strimpel - The BBC's news coverage leaves the strong impression that in deporting Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University's top pro-Palestine ringleader, the Trump administration is preying on an innocent student for simply having exercised his right to free speech. But Khalil deserves to be deported, along with the many hundreds of his compadres who have devoted themselves to making American college campuses hell on earth for Jews. It is essential if the Enlightenment values and ideas on which America and the Free World are built are to be saved. As historian Richard Landes argues, the zest for the "terror and the slaughter of Jews" makes Israel a "major battlefield" in the "global war" between Medieval forces of darkness and Western democratic civilization. Last year's widespread whipping up of hatred against Jews on campuses was a clear example of that global war. Lest we minimize what actually happened, let us look at the testimony of one of the mothers of Jewish students on campuses. Miha Schwartzenberg wrote on X: "We had to move our kids out of the campuses, not just because of the protests and tents and blocking their access to...everywhere in campus - but because of the constant death threats, very dangerous and disgusting physical gestures, shouting and banging on their dorm doors, day and night...violating their privacy in the [common] bathrooms...class disrupted freestyle, calling them humiliating names while in class." "Most of the Jewish students literally locked themselves in dorms, those who were lucky to share the room with a sane student. But those who had [pro-Palestine] room-mates had to move out, while we paid not just for the school, but for the dorms as well. It was the worst student year any Jewish/Israeli ever imagined."
2025-03-18 00:00:00
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