Chris Roemer: America’s universities are breeding and condoning ignorance | COMMENTARY

When a mob forms, it only takes one pinhead with a bullhorn to get people chanting.

Unfortunately, the current flock of antisemitic songbirds has set a new low for the art form, trilling songs that blend puerile ignorance with hateful bigotry.

Here’s a current sampling from the streets of New York:

“We don’t want a Jewish state. We want ‘48!”

“Settlers, settlers go back home! Palestine is ours alone!”

“NYPD, KKK, IDF they’re all the same!”

“It is right to rebel. Israel, go to hell!”

And of course, the ever-popular, and favorite of Hamas terrorists everywhere, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Now, before we rush to judgment to condemn these protesters for calling for the elimination of Israel and the genocide of the Jews, according to Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, we must be careful to consider the context in which they are spewing their hate.

But, I’m finding it difficult to come up with a context that makes calling for genocide acceptable.

Honestly, I couldn’t care less what these kids are chanting, but what Americans need to understand is, that there is a straight line between academics and the gay and antisemitic hate that is so prevalent among young people today.

America’s colleges and universities are breeding this execrable ignorance, much to the satisfaction of many of the educators who work for them.

Joseph Masaad is a tenured professor at New York’s Columbia University. He wrote an article in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks using words like “astonishing,” “astounding,” “awesome” and “incredible” to praise the actions of the terrorist group that day.

Masaad doesn’t condemn Hamas for beheading babies, burning them alive, raping women and killing civilians by the hundreds. Instead, he compares that massacre to the resistance Nazi occupiers faced during World War II.

Portraying Jews as modern-day Nazis is the kind of twisted enlightenment $82,000 a year buys the typical Columbia student these days.

Only a progressive could say something so absurd with a straight face, and only someone with the intellectual and emotional maturity of an adolescent could be convinced to believe it.

Parents need to start asking themselves if they really want to pay colleges like Columbia University hundreds of thousands of dollars to educate their children if the end result is they will graduate to become one of the mindless hate mongers chanting in New York City.

There are Joseph Massads on college campuses everywhere. One has to wonder why. The man is despicable. Why would colleges want to populate their faculties with people like him?

Could it be the billions of dollars American universities are receiving from Arab states like Qatar and Saudi Arabia? Does all that money influence faculty selection, curricular decisions and serve to promote liberal policies concerning the acceptability of hate speech directed at Jews? It would be naive to think otherwise.

But children cannot be influenced by hate-filled professors masquerading as enlightened thinkers unless their parents pay the schools they work for huge sums of money for the privilege.

The truth is, turning over an 18-year-old to these highly educated dimwits is like throwing them to the lions and then marveling at how quickly they are devoured.

According to a Harvard/Harris poll conducted on Dec. 13 and 14, two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 now believe “Jews as a class are oppressors.”

I wonder how so many young people have come to that conclusion? I can assure you, it wasn’t by accident.

Their hate was bought and paid for by people who have a vested interest in shaping what these kids believe, and what they will think and do once they graduate to assume positions of influence in society.

The kind of leaders America’s institutions of “higher learning” are turning out these days are taking this country to a place that not long ago most Americans would have thought it impossible to go. We are moving ever further left, and wax worse with each step we take.

While there’s still time, Americans need to decide if where progressives are taking this country is where they want to go.

Every parent must decide whether or not they will make their children available to progressives to use in achieving their societal goals.

Unfortunately, that’s a decision that can no longer be deferred until it’s time to send a child to college. Progressive influence now reaches deep into the nation’s public schools.

Which means the question parents must answer today is not only, will I send my child to college to be brainwashed?

It is, will I send my child into the public school system to begin that process early?

The left must stop viewing our children as the ultimate political weapon.

Chris Roemer is a retired banker and educator who resides in Finksburg. He can be contacted at chrisroemer1960@gmail.com