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How America's universities became hotbeds for terrorist sympathizers
American universities have become places where so many students are
viciously passionately antisemitic
Sen. Ted Cruz By Sen. Ted Cruz Fox News
Published November 8, 2023 5:00am EST

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University campuses nationwide are under siege by students celebrating
Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7, which was the worst
single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. At the University of
Washington, a group of protestors distributed pamphlets with images
celebrating Hamas terrorists paragliding into a concert and murdering
civilians. At George Washington University, Hamas sympathizers projected
the message "glory to our martyrs" on the side of a campus building, an
explicit celebration of genocidal terrorism. At my alma mater, Harvard,
students signed a letter stating that they "hold the Israeli regime
entirely responsible" for Hamas’s genocidal attack.

These protests have been accompanied by explicit calls for wiping Israel
entirely off the map, with chants like "from the river to the sea"—a
reference to the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, with Israel in
between—ringing out during mass antisemitic marches.

How did American universities become places where so many students are
viciously passionately antisemitic and proudly stand with Hamas
terrorists? When did it become acceptable to support terrorists
beheading babies and murdering them in ovens, raping women and girls,
and mass murdering civilians?

The answer is simple, and sobering: The radical left has taken over our
universities and turned them into indoctrination camps. Stating the
problem, however, doesn’t mean there is an easy solution. Before we are
able to fix anything, we need to better understand how universities
became hotbeds for terrorist sympathizers.

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All of this is explained in my brand-new book Unwoke: How to Defeat
Cultural Marxism in America. In the book, I trace how Cultural Marxists
have progressively and systematically taken over major American
institutions and the organs of transmission of ideas. During the 1960s,
members of the New Left tried to uproot American society by throwing
bricks through windows, planting bombs in restaurants, lighting city
blocks on fire, and attacking police officers. These tactics proved too
extreme and caused public opinion to turn against them. America is
different than Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and other
nations where violent Communist overthrows succeeded. They needed to be
more subtle in their efforts to erode the values of the freest nation in
the world.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY BANS STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE FOR ITS
SUPPORT OF HAMAS

So, they shifted to a new tactic: they would launch their revolution by
slowly infiltrating the institutions that form the foundation of western
society. Left-wing activists embarked on a mission to take over
government, boardrooms, Hollywood, and academia—and they’ve been effective.

Universities have been historically siloed off from the rest of society,
with the goal that students and professors can spend their time
thinking, debating, writing, studying, and reasoning toward the truth.
As Cultural Marxism took over, many students—unburdened by the need to
work or seek life’s basic necessities like food, water, or shelter, and
from the comfort of a taxpayer-subsidized dorm room—have become
completely dedicated to cooking up grand Marxist schemes.

At universities, Cultural Marxism has been able to metastasize with
minimal outside scrutiny—until these past few weeks. Americans across
the country are now shocked to find out just how radical these beliefs
are. They are learning that college students have become so radicalized
they chant slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel.

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Students of American University attend a campus protest against ongoing
Israeli attacks on Gaza in Washington, D.C., United States on November
01, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Sadly, the despicable marches that we are seeing on college campuses
represent the future of American society unless enough good and decent
people on both sides of the aisle step up to stop it. We’ve seen some
good progress, with law firms and businesses rescinding job offers from
openly antisemitic students. Even more people need to stand up and
confront this vile rhetoric, defeat the toxic woke ideology
indoctrinating students on college campuses, and ensure that our country
resembles the one we grew up in.

Unwoke outlines the scope of our problem with the radical left and how
its radical ideology is trickling down from universities to boardrooms,
the government, Hollywood, and even K-12 schools. Unwoke provides the
sorely needed conservative game plan for taking back our institutions.

The Texas senator's new book, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in
America, is now available.

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Republican Ted Cruz represents Texas in the United States Senate. He
serves on the Judiciary Committee and is author of the book, "One Vote
Away—How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History" (Regnery
Publishing, September 29, 2020).

Conversation573 Comments

Candide
8 November, 2023

Defunding colleges and universities is the only way to correct this. No
more federal money in any form. No tuition loan guarantees. No tuition
grants. No research grants. They will quickly get back to the business
of education if that happens.

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tailchaser43
8 November, 2023

Absolutely correct. The government is funding an education that is
constantly being driven up in cost by virtue of this system. They see it
as free money to overpay their staff.

Foreigners by the thousands come to our elite colleges, bringing with
them there beliefs and lousy messages of governance....

wroot
8 November, 2023

You're clueless on this issue. Can't believe this many supposedly
intelligent people are missing the point!

According to a study published in 2022 by the National Association of
Academics in the United States, a study that did not cause too much
noise at the time, in the period between 2001 and 2021, precisely after
the September 11 attacks, the Qataris donated a whopping $4.7 billion to
universities in the United States.

Now why should our universities be worried about their tax privileges,
when that's just "one" of the smallest Middle Eastern nations that has
been using their wealth to infect the minds of our youth along with the
Chinese, and Russian government's?

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benjaminfranklin418
8 November, 2023

Even in the 1980s when I went to school I encountered lots of left
leaning radicals in my liberal arts classes. Since I was a physics major
I just had to stomach it for only a few classes. Thank God I didn't
get a liberal arts degree.

saveenergyguy
8 November, 2023

The culture of victimhood is enticing to young idealists. Education used
to require critical thinking to see both sides, but now emotions are
equivalent to facts. That means anyone can be an expert and arrogance
can substitute for experience.

vietnamvet430
8 November, 2023

TADA 🎯💯👍. Unions in government and education caused it all. It was
lbj’s great society move for control by the federal government usurping
power and responsibilities from the States.

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Andinotand1
8 November, 2023

True dat