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Jihad on Campus Unmasked How Pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine Hijacked U.S. Universities
Topic:
Israel & Regional Politics, Jewish Diaspora & Interfaith Relations, Israel Literacy
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Dan Diker, Khaled Abu Toameh, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Irina Tsukerman
Study Date:
2023
Source:
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Key Findings:
The Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 - rape, torture, mass murder, and kidnapping of some 1,300 infants, children, teens, women, men, and elderly in southern Israel, were greeted by a disconcerting display of public support across U.S cities and university campuses. Revelations of savagery by both Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians were recorded on bodycams and cell phones in real time. Hamas fighters broadcasted atrocities live on social media.
Unlike past international atrocities, such as the genocidal massacres in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe and, in later years in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo, which were met with international outrage and condemnation, the Hamas atrocities were greeted with approval and even excitement on some Western campuses and in some cities.
This convergence of Hamas’ barbaric acts of torture and murder and the sharp rise of genocidal antisemitism on American university campuses underscore the urgency of this compendium. SJP is the most significant “pro-Palestinian” network on North American university campuses. SJP has platformed Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, since SJP’s founding in the early 1990s. This study’s broad assessment of SJP also reveals how this student organization helped pave a pathway to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacre by establishing an environment of campus legitimacy for Palestinian disinformation and terrorism.
Jihad on Campus, Unmasked also tests senior administrators, faculty, and student leaders in weighing the acceptability of student organizational support for genocidal Islamic, Palestinian, and other terror organizations on North American universities, some of which are dependent on funding from foreign countries.
Methodology:
The authors each contribute a short article to this paper, which serves as a compilation of these works. Dr. Dan Diker contributes ‘Introduction: Jihad on Campus,’ Khaled Abu Toameh contributes ‘There’s no doubt what “From the river to the sea” means,’ Hussein Aboubakr Mansour contributes ‘The end of ”the useful idiots:” The left, Islam, and Palestine,’ and Irina Tsukerman contributes 'The Vanguard of Hamas Information Warfare on Campus.’ All reference externally conducted research and exemplary real-world cases.