Those who oppose Israel in its efforts to eradicate Hamas are, protecting brutal terrorists.
While Hamas executes dissidents in Gaza and hangs alleged informants from lampposts, young activists in the US cheer on an organisation called National Students for Justice in Palestine (
NSJP). The group posted a message on Instagram that leaves nothing to be desired in terms of clarity: ‘Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators.’
This is not a political opinion, it is a call for murder. And it does not come from a basement in Rafah, but from students at elite American universities.
The NSJP is no longer a loose protest movement, but an ideological network. Dozens of local branches operate under its umbrella, at Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, UCLA and dozens of other universities. Officially, they present themselves as ‘human rights activists,’ but in reality they bluntly adopt the language and logic of Hamas.
In their latest post, they declared the death of Palestinian internet star Saleh al-Jafarawi, known as ‘Mr. FAFO’, a ‘martyrdom operation.’ He was killed in fighting between Hamas and the Doghmoush militia, two rival armed groups vying for control and money sources in Gaza. But the NSJP turned it into a piece of propaganda: Jafarawi was ‘murdered because he fought against Zionism.’
Anyone who dies for the truth in Gaza is a hero to them. Anyone who is murdered there by Hamas is hushed up.
The fact that American students are posting this sentence shows how far the brutalisation has progressed. ‘Collaborators’, in Hamas' vocabulary, this is a death sentence. This is what the terrorist organisation calls anyone who talks to Israel, distributes aid or calls for reforms. In recent weeks, Hamas has had dozens of such people shot, many of them without trial. Videos of these executions are circulating on social media, without any outrage from the ranks of the NSJP.
On the contrary, the movement is now calling for the destruction of precisely such people worldwide. Its statement reads: ‘Collaborators have no place in a liberated future.’
This rhetoric is no different from the language of the so-called Islamic State.
What is happening at American universities is a moral failure in academic garb. Under the guise of anti-colonialism, violence is glorified, and under the slogan of liberation, calls for lynching are spread. Those who support Israel are publicly defamed; Jewish students are threatened, lecturers silenced.
The NSJP styles itself as the ‘voice of the oppressed,’ but its methods are those of the oppressors themselves. Those who call for the murder of those who think differently are abandoning all democratic principles. This movement is not demanding justice, it is demanding blood.
Students for Justice in Palestine is no longer a marginal phenomenon in the United States. They receive donations from anonymous foundations, their spokespersons appear on television programmes, and they influence political discourse. But behind the appealing slogans lies a dangerous ideology: it divides the world into victims and perpetrators, into ‘Zionists’ and ‘resistance fighters’.
According to this logic, every Jew, every Israeli, everyone who cooperates with Israel becomes an enemy. The fact that such thinking is taking root at universities, places of free thought and tolerance, is a sad reflection on the American education system.
When students at an elite US university call for people to be killed because of their political views, it is not just a red line that has been crossed, it has been erased. This is no longer a discussion, this is incitement.
The NSJP has exposed itself: as a movement that legitimises murder in the name of ‘justice’, as a mouthpiece for terror in academic garb.
Those who call for ‘death to all collaborators’ today are calling for lynch law, and contributing to the return of hatred as socially acceptable. It is time to call this ideology what it is: anti-Semitic, totalitarian and deeply misanthropic.
