PM Netanyahu Blasts Antisemitic Mobs on American Campuses

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement condemning the rise of what he termed as “antisemitic mobs” on American college campuses. The prime minister compared what is happening on American college campuses to what happened in Germany in the ’30s, and demanded that the colleges take action.

⭕️Watch PM Netanyahu’s statement: “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities.”

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The prime minister called the events unfolding on American college campuses “horrific.” 

Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful. Now, fortunately, state, local, and federal officials, many of them have responded differently, but there has to be more. More has to be done. It has to be done not only because they attack Israel, that’s bad enough, not only because they want to kill Jews, wherever they are, that’s bad enough. It’s also when you listen to them, it’s not only because they say “Death to Israel,” “Death to the Jews,” but “Death to America.”

He’s not wrong. There is one point he doesn’t mention, however, and that is that these antisemitic mobs are all of the political left.

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In an example of the kind of inaction (and, honestly, impotence) demonstrated by the administration of these colleges, Columbia University, which had given protesters until midnight Tuesday to vacate their “occupied zone,” caved and gave the mob another 48 hours to fold their tents and vacate the ground they are trespassing on, no doubt with the implied message, “this time we really mean it.” The response from the universities in this matter has been feckless and weak — but then, we have come to expect fecklessness and weakness from American academia.

PM Netanyahu concluded:

We have to stop antisemitism because antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine. It always precedes larger confrontations that engulf the entire world. So I ask all of you, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are concerned with our common future and our common values, to do one thing. Stand up. Speak up. Be counted. Stop antisemitism. Now.  

Mr. Netanyahu has a big stake in this. Israel faces, as it has many times in its past, a crisis of national survival. And he makes a good final point: This kind of vile rhetoric can only come to fruition if we stand aside and allow it to do so.

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