Opinion polling shows that support for Israel among ordinary people remains strong. Very few support Hamas. Yet, that is not what we see peddled by the media, who too-obviously sympathise with the vicious ignoramuses screaming in the streets and on university campuses.
Yet again, the divide between the elite minority and the silent majority is stark. Nowhere starker than in the institutions which have long been subsumed by the Long March left.
The dire history of modern anti-Semitism is nowhere being played out more obviously than in the universities. It must never be forgotten that academics and university students were early and enthusiastic adopters of Nazi anti-Semitism in the Third Reich. Today’s university thugs may be wearing keffiyehs instead of brown shirts, but the anti-Semitism hasn’t changed.
A University of Sydney professor has told first-year students that Hamas’s mass rapes and sexual violence on October 7 were “fake news” and a “hoax” peddled by the media, and that Israel had engaged in “ethnic cleansing” propped up by Western governments that had “repressed domestic dissent”.
Denialism is a constant anti-Semitic thread, from Holocaust denialism, to the near-universal denial of Muslim responsibility for 9/11 in the Muslim world (blaming, instead, “The Jews”), to now denying the livestreamed horrors of October 7.
Sociology professor Sujatha Fernandes told a class in April that the media was “distorting” the conflict, and the terrorist group’s mass rapes on and after October 7 were a “hoax”.
“Western media has played the role of an ideological state apparatus.”
Note that phrase: ideological state apparatus. This is Marxism 101 stuff.
Even the corrupt UN can’t deny what Hamas did.
Pramila Patten, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said after an investigatory visit to Israel in January: “What I witnessed were scenes of unspeakable violence (that were) perpetrated with shocking brutality.”
The UN said her team found “convincing information” that sexual violence – including gang rapes – was committed against hostages, and it had reasonable grounds to believe that it “may still be ongoing against those in captivity”.
To their credit, even some students are seeing through this vile anti-Semitic denialism.
One sociology student, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said she was “repulsed” in particular by Professor Fernandes calling Hamas’s sexual atrocities a “hoax”.
“After committing to four years and tens of thousands of dollars, the least I would expect are teachers who do not blatantly promote lies and foster an unsafe, threatening environment,” the student said.
“I came to university for an education, not to have my safety compromised and the rights of the encampment placed above my own. These issues go way beyond the class; this tolerance for anti-Semitic ideology is institutional at the university, and leadership refuses to act.”
The Australian
Still, even if the university grows a pair and sacks this Marxist Jew-hater, she can always get a job at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Australian Human Rights Commission president Rosalind Croucher says she will not issue a statement condemning the actions of Hamas on October 7.
Of course not: at least one-fifth of her staff are on the record as pro-Hamas terrorism supporters.
Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson pressed Ms Croucher during Senate Estimates on Friday, saying it is “very concerning” the AHRC has not released a media statement directly condemning the terrorist group.
The Australian
Concerning, but not surprising.
Australians are entitled to ask why our taxes are still paying for cushy jobs for these anti-Semitic creeps and cowards. As ex-PM Julia Gillard reminds us:
“The Holocaust, of course, teaches us where anti-Semitism leads if it’s not confronted,” she says. “These things happened a step at a time. So given we’ve seen that history, we’re in a position, when we see the first few steps, to say, ‘No. No more. Let’s start combating that now rather than watch this history just play out’.
“I think where we need to go from here is each of us needs to make sure, as we move through the community, that we see any form of anti-Semitism, that we call it out and we deal with it and we address it, that you don’t walk by, because if you keep walking by, then things get worse and worse.”
The Australian
They already are — and, as they did in the 1930s, the elites are leading the charge into the Dark Valley.
