Those who hate Jews have a new holiday.
Last week was Israel’s 77th anniversary of its founding according to the Gregorian calendar; Israel celebrates according to the Jewish calendar; there is usually less than a week difference between the two dates. Israel haters recognize “Nakba Day,” Nakba being “catastrophe” in Arabic. What’s funny is that if the Arabs recognized this day according to their calendar, then Nakba—like Ramadan—could be in the winter or summer, which would make it hard for people to understand how it relates to the founding of the state of Israel.
On every issue, one must choose a side or perspective. Is the formation of the state of Israel a worthy moment in history as Harry Truman saw it, or is it the disaster that two of Congress’ biggest scoundrels wanted to have officially recognized by the US? Like many states in the UN, Israel was born of war and conflict. The international body offered a peaceful arrangement for setting up one Jewish state and one Arab state. The local Arabs and their friends rejected the same. They fought the fledgling Jewish state and lost. After losing, they refused to accept that they lost and have been attacking the Jewish state in formal wars and informally through terror for nearly 80 years. People like to gloss over that a) there was a peaceful way to set up two countries, and b) it was the Arabs who rejected the way of peace and rather chose war—and lost. Nakba was of their own choosing.
Because one’s view of Israel is based on a more underlying view of the legitimacy of the state, there is no way to negotiate with Hamas or talk reason into their moron supporters in the West. I saw a short video of a person described as a Harvard professor who tells what seems to be a Palestinian student (with the necessary accessory, the keffiyeh), “I support a free Palestine. I do support demonizing Jews.” He did not say Israelis, which there are on campus. He did not say Zionists which could include non-Israeli Jews as well as non-Jews who support the state of Israel. No, he—like Goebbels and his friends—said, “Jews.” Jews should be harassed. Jews should be demonized. Jews should be made uncomfortable. Could anyone at Harvard make such a statement about black, Latinos, gays, trans, or pretty much anyone else without fear of expulsion or punishment? Of course not.
I am very partial to Harvard. I went there and met some of the best friends I have ever had. Formal course knowledge and memories of informal activities have been with me for 40 years. Still, I cannot support an institution that has become an antisemitic cesspool. Half-Penny Pritzker wishes to destroy Harvard like her brother JB is ruining my birth state of Illinois. Her partner in this destruction is President Alan Garber. How can a Jew show that he is not beholden to his religion? By acting openly in ways that work against other Jews. I knew a guy who did kosher supervision. He said that he never had a problem with a non-Jewish restaurant owner. He would explain the rules and the guy would do as told. Not so with some of his Jewish clientele. They felt that they too were the big rabbi and could figure out what was kosher or not. One guy used to draw the kosher symbol “O-U” with a black marker on jerrycans of cooking oil that he would sneak into his place.
Pritzker and Garber cannot come out for their Jewish students (or when they do, they reflexively add Muslim students) because it would prove that they are provincial Jews tied to their religion and religious brethren. So, they cannot come out for the Jews, even in the unlikely event that they wanted to. But that is not the whole problem. Ideologically, they agree with the protesters that the Jews are at fault. They have destroyed Harvard and have created an environment in which students can demand the genocide of the Jewish—and only Jewish—people. The standard controls are in place for all other minority groups, but not for the Jews. Just as many Americans worried prior to his election that Jack Kennedy would be controlled by the Pope, Half-Penny and President Garber don’t want to seem “too Jewish” and actually throw out and punish students and staff who are in clear violation of school rules. If you want to prove you’re not too Jewish, either eat a piece of pork or invite hundreds of Jew-hating foreign students to campus to simply make the place a living hell for Jewish and Israeli students. A fat check from Qatar will make it all better.
President Garber plays the victim. He reduced his very large salary by one-quarter. He should learn from President Trump and donate all of his salary to a good cause—like the lawyers representing the Jewish students on campus. He feels that the government is doing the university a great wrong by reducing funding, but in the end, he, his failed predecessor and current compatriots on the Harvard Corporation chose to violate US civil rights statutes. They are not victims; they let the rot into the school and did nothing to punish students who explicitly called for the destruction of Israel and the death (“intifada revolution”) of Jews everywhere. I loved Harvard of yesteryear. I believe that the current version of the school is too far gone for any serious improvement. They think that they just need a simple teeth cleaning; they actually require an emergency root canal.
What is the Nakba view of the world?
*Everything done on October 7, 2023 was justified.
*Israel is committing genocide by responding to a war started by Hamas.
*The recent murder of a pregnant Israeli mom on her way to give birth was outstanding.
*A survivor of the Hamas attack needs to be harassed at Eurovision because she is Israeli.
*The US is complicit in genocide by providing weapons to Israel
*All Jews are complicit in Israel’s actions independent of expressed views on Zionism
*The Arabs are always the victims, even when they commit violent acts of terror.
*An Arab who murders a Jewish child or rapes an Israeli woman is a “martyr” when killed.
*Terror is “resistance” and is acceptable in all forms against Jewish colonizers
Harvard could right the ship if her leaders so chose. It could expel students and fire faculty and staff who have violated Harvard’s rules of conduct. It could demand that future protests include only Harvard-affiliated people, no face coverings, and expulsion/firing for any calls for genocide of Jews or other people. That would end the problems going forward, but Harvard’s leaders are too cowardly to do the right thing. They don’t want to risk foreign funding by expelling Muslim students and they don’t want to offend their lefty clientele by telling them that their Harvard-taught, Jew-hating intersectionality is completely bogus.
Harvard researchers recently received termination notices of their federal grant funding. May Donald Trump increase Harvard’s pain to 11. Dr. Garber can sell his car and walk to work if he is not ready to make Harvard a law abiding, Jew-neutral campus again.
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