further claim the merits of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning only Israel as the world’s one and only evil and human rights-abusing country. Nothing resembling this sort or intensity of anger and venom is expressed on campuses with regard to the world’s massive human rights violators like North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan and so many other despicable and lawless countries.
Only Israel is maliciously separated out for this draconian treatment and only Jews are held to blame. All the real human rights abusers are given a pass by most universities, student organizations, professors and guest lecturers.
The anger and fierce emotions shouted out at the anti-Israel demonstrations often reach extreme levels. I have personally witnessed a fistfight at an anti-Israel rally at University of California Irvine where pro-Palestinian students became enraged at a pro-Israel student. However this anger is not just directed at pro-Israel students but all Jewish students, regardless of their views on Israel.
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Many of the anti-Israel events veer far beyond political debate and result in hateful anti-Semitism.
Hamas leadership, without shame, is daily calling for the stabbing and murdering of as many Jews as possible. This demand is declared as a core foundation of Palestinian national and religious identity. It’s not about “occupation,” the security wall or the right of return, it is their new intifada, called “the knife intifada” and “the youth intifada.” This third intifada includes multiple viral videos published on Facebook and YouTube by the PA with imams teaching in detail how to effectively stab and murder Jews. Not just IDF soldiers, but all Jews.
This intifada is the outcome of years of Palestinian indoctrination and relentless incitement against all Jews and against the right of existence in any manner, size or shape of the Jewish State of Israel.
Many of the anti-Israel activities at the university campus have promoted