A World Gone Mad

The widespread tearing down of hostage posters, particularly common on or adjacent to college campuses is a bad sign for the future. Even the Bulwark notices.

Via Jewish Insider:  “Post-Oct. 7, Jewish life on campus requires extra security to keep students safe.”

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But we’re just talking about fringe actors, right?  A handful of extremists who can and should be ignored, because “No Enemies on the Left,” or something?

After all, it’s only a handful of professors who are rationalizing Hamas’s terror and accusing Israel of “genocide”. Oh wait, it’s actually  thousands .  Via Nellie Bowles:

Nearly 2,000 sociologists signed  a letter  that Israel was committing “genocide” and anything Hamas does is justified by the “context.” The University of California, Berkeley Ethnic Studies Faculty Council released  a statement  condemning anyone who describes what Hamas did as “terrorism,” which is offensive. The student leader of a Wellesley residential house  wrote  to the entire dorm she oversees: “We firmly believe that there should be no space, no consideration, and no support for Zionism within the Wellesley College community.” Harvard launched a task force to help ensure the pro-Hamas protesters  feel safe and can get jobs  while also berating any Jews they might find.

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It’s not just university campuses .

The ADL reports that antisemitic incidents have risen by a staggering 388 percent since October 7.

A  map  of the incidents shows clusters in various states and regions. In California, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles featured high levels of anti-Israel rallies, some with support for terrorism. Numerous protests also took place around Detroit, near the state’s 12th District represented by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). High levels of anti-Israel protests—some with overt advocacy for Hamas and outright hatred towards Jews—also took place in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland,   which was marked by anti-Jewish and anti-Israel vandalism and harassment. Indiana and Ohio saw six and eight protests, respectively.

Via the ADL:

• On Oct. 8 in Clifton, NJ: A car with individuals holding Palestinian flags appeared to intentionally swerve out of its lane, nearly hitting a visibly Jewish family.

• On Oct. 9 in Detroit, MI: A Jewish student was harassed, shoved and called "Fucking Zionist" while painting a free speech rock with an Israeli flag on the campus of Wayne State University.

• On Oct. 10 in Los Angeles, CA: An individual shouted "I am Hamas" and made death threats to Jewish individuals standing by a Kosher restaurant.

• On Oct. 12 in Indianapolis, IN: A man carrying an Israeli flag was allegedly assaulted by a pro-Palestinian protestor.

• On Oct. 15 in New York, NY: An individual allegedly punched a Jewish woman in the face at Grand Central Terminal. When she asked why, he responded: "You are Jewish."

• On Oct. 15 in Walnut Creek, CA: White Lives Matter California, a white supremacist group, held a rally on a highway overpass and displayed signs stating: "Save Gaza," "No More Wars for I$rael" and "Watch Europa the Last Battle.”

• On Oct. 18 in New York, NY: A group of Israeli individuals were harassed and at least one assaulted by a pro-Palestinian protestor in Times Square.

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In New York (!) authorities are telling Jews to hide .  Our friend John Podhoretz writes:

In 2023, three weeks after  Jews in Israel were set upon by marauders who murdered 1,400  and injured nearly three times that many, in cities around the world and now in New York, the Jews outside Israel are under attack as never before in recent history — rather than finding themselves protected as never before.

No, they must stay inside.

Like Anne Frank, trapped for two years in an attic because any outdoor public breath would mean capture and death — and captured anyway because someone in the house below the attic ratted the Frank family out.

Stay inside.

Like the pianist Władysław Szpilman, played by Adrien Brody in “The Pianist” 20 years ago, who did not talk to another person for more than a year as he remained silent and all but motionless in a room in Warsaw after his family was deported to and slaughtered at Treblinka.

In my 62 years of life, I have thought every day of the blessing America has been to the Jewish people — a blessing unlike any my people have ever known.

And this, the most Jewish city in the world outside of Israel, has been a blessing as well.

At this moment, though, the Jews had better hide.

I cannot tell you how terrifying this is.

plus.thebulwark

Teach it, kids learn it.

This guy is a "safety officer" who leads student orientation at Cornell:

Patrick Dai, 21, a junior at Cornell University, was arrested today on a federal crime and is charged with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications. "Dai allegedly threatened to “stab” and “slit the throat” of any Jewish males he sees on campus, to rape and throw off a cliff any Jewish females, and to behead any Jewish babies. In that same post, Dai threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.”"

justice

Ignore it and it'll hopefully go away.

Used to live with a Jewish princess and rarely thought of her nationality or lapsed religion.

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It’s so hateful. Some of those hostages are babies. They can put up their own posters they should leave these alone. Ripping them down is just adding more pain to a terrible situation.

Just before I logged onto NT I took a quick look at a few people I'm following on Twitter--and one of first things I saw was people tearing down posters:

Young women destroy posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas.

The woman filming says “those are our family members”

The woman destroying the posters get aggressive pic.twitter.com/2XjMDZuF1U — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 31, 2023

Similar to another situation you and I just witnessed.   How is it possible for someone to have sympathy for the Palestinian civilians yet hold the Jewish civilian hostages / victims in contempt?

Just amazing, and sad, that a human mind can become so deluded, so biased, so foreign to critical thinking.

Society seems to be decaying at every level. 

Society has been decaying for centuries.

Then it is accelerating. 

We have a few people on this forum who have repeatedly made comments that imply the civilians in Gaza, most of whom are completely defenseless , deserve whatever they get.  What they are getting , in some cases, is bombs and missiles dropped on them. In what universe do defenseless people "deserve" that?  It is a world gone mad.  

Today, Israel bombed a refugee camp where there were thousands of civilians, seemingly in order to kill one high ranking hamas official who was reported to be in an underground bunker below the refugee camp.

I'm not sure we would have dropped bombs on a crowded civilian area in Germany even if we knew Hitler was in there somewhere. 

Rightly or wrongly, the atomic bombs were dropped in order to end a war that had killed 50 million people. 

The Americans knew the power of the A bomb, and they knew it would end the war. 

Any protection Israel gets from this operation will be temporary. For every terrorist they kill now they are probably creating three new ones. 

Israel rushed into this ground invasion. It would be different if the goal was to rescue the hostages, but they seem to have written the hostages off. 

They will never get world opinion on their side by bombing refugee camps, even if there is a Hamas leader below ground there. 

Israel has the military forces to ring Gaza and make sure no Hamas got out to attack Israeli people. Then implement a plan to get the Hamas leaders, one way or another , on a basis other than bombing civilians. It would surely take some time , but it could be done with good intelligence and highly targeted missile strikes. If after a period of time that didnt work they could do an incursion. 

The idea that the only way to protect Israel is to destroy Gaza is not going to work. 

Ian Bremmer who is an expert on the middle east and security issues, said today that the incursion guarantees a wider war in which America will end up with boots on the ground. 

The Brits killed more German civilians than Germany killed British. Did that make the British the bad guys?

Arvo John...well maybe it is time the defenceless civilians of Gaza expelled Hamas..

Who was it dancing in the streets after 9/11 and celebrating?..and who was it after they just massacred 1,200 defenceless civilians in Israel? Obviously the defenceless civilians in Gaza thought it was a good idea at the time..but not now??

Even the average normal thinking civilians in Gaza must know they have just opened "hell on earth" for themselves...and what in the hell did they think was going to happen??

Civilians are going to get killed on both sides and there will be many more to come..but when civilians support and encourage Hamas to live amongst them and are happy to use themselves as human shields they really can only expect one outcome..

A very few brave and rational thinking defenceless civilians in Gaza have actually come out to say Hamas are the cause of this war and they are paying the price for it..and called for Hamas to be expelled.. I wonder if they are still alive??

Lay the blame where it really belongs..fair and square at Hamas feet and the hand that feeds it. Iran.

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I posted this comment on another one of your articles where this statement was made in the article about the bombing of the refugee camp.

I consider this statement in the article to be very telling...

 "...a huge explosion at Jabalia refugee camp..."

A HUGE explosion, obviously not the usual explosions that occur from Israeli bombs and missiles.  Now why would that be?  Could it be because the Israeli bomb hit and detonated a HUGE cache of explosives, missiles and weapons in the tunnels under the camp, and in fact maybe even a facility for the making of rockets and missiles?  At this point the whole world KNOWS that Hamas hides its facilities and weapons in churches, mosques, schools and hospitals. so why not under a refugee camp?  After all, Hamas has already established that it uses human shields, and what shield would be better than a crowded refugee camp loaded with kids who could be killed and then used to "detonate" all the Hamas' bleeding heart supporters and protesters around the world?  Hey even NT has at least one. 

For every terrorist they kill now they are probably creating three new ones. 

Exactly, Palestinians have one of the highest fertility rates in the world.  Apparently, they don’t have much else to do.