American author Bethany Mandel who wrote book on ‘wokeism poisoning young brains’ blasts students blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack and ‘cult’ colleges
An American author behind a book about ‘wokeism poisoning young brains’ has slammed students who blame Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack.
Bethany Mandel, who co-authored Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, this morning slammed the student groups at Ivy League schools that support the terrorist group’s actions.
Scores of students at the University of Washington and Georgetown University gathered to praise the terrorists, with a Harvard group blaming Israel for the attack.
The groups expressed their support for Hamas following the attack that killed 1,300 Israelis and launched the region into a bloody war.
Speaking to Rachel Campos-Duffy on Fox and Friends, Mandel addressed footage of disturbing comments made at a pro-Palestinian protest at Baruch College in New York City where a young man told Fox News: ‘Hamas is violence , but we must understand that these people have been under occupation for 75 years.’
American author Bethany Mandel slammed students who blame Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack
The Palestine Solidarity Committee holds banners outside Harvard University
The first space of the statement released by the Students for Justice in Palestine and a Jewish Voice for Peace from Columbia University
Mandel labeled the increasing number of anti-Semitic comments echoing across college campuses as “holocaust revisionism.”
“We have foreign journalists on the ground in Israel who have personally seen these decapitated babies,” she said.
‘They volunteered to go into these kubutzes and look at these bodies. Nothing but holocaust revisionism is at play here, and there is no way possible for us to prove to them that there are dead babies murdered in their beds for these people.
“They don’t care about Jewish lives, and the fact that this is happening on our elite campuses, the fact that these are supposedly the most educated people in America, really speaks volumes about what we call “education in America.” . .’
When asked how much responsibility she believes the education system bears, Mandel said she is not prepared to let ‘legal adults pass here’.
“They have the ability to open a computer or look at these pictures themselves,” she said.
“If they can’t process information, if they can’t understand that dozens of foreign journalists and the president of the United States have all independently confirmed that babies have been killed, I don’t know how to prove it to them .’
Mandel says she believes some blame lies with the universities, but added: ‘These are adults who excuse the slaughter of civilians in their beds’.
When examining whether it is at all possible that they get their messages wrong, and can actually reject Hamas while also sympathizing with Palestinians, Mandel doesn’t believe that is the case.
Harvard organizations, including the university’s Amnesty International affiliate, blame Israel for Hamas’ brutal terror attack
Pro-Israel students participate in a demonstration in support of Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City
Speaking on Fox and Friends Saturday morning, Mandel said groups of young people ‘look at everything through the Marxist point of view’
‘Organised on democratic principles to promote justice, human rights, liberation and self-determination,’ the group describes itself on Facebook
‘They post images of the people who flew in on paragliders and they call them heroes, they call them freedom fighters.
“It’s absolutely possible to say I regret that innocent life is being lost on both sides, but you have to place the responsibility for that initially on Hamas here.”
It comes as Harvard University students released a statement accusing Israel of being ‘fully responsible’ for the ‘unfolding violence’ in the region following Hamas’ surprise attack last weekend.
The stance was widely condemned, including by former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who wrote on X: ‘In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation I have never been more disillusioned and alienated than I am today.’
“As long as you perpetuate this narrative, fights will continue to break out until justice is achieved. Because nothing else works,” reads the coalition’s statement.
“As Columbia students, our classes regularly discuss the inevitability of resistance as part of the struggle for decolonization. We study under renowned scholars who denounce the fact that the media requires oppressed people to be ‘perfect victims’ in order to earn sympathy.’
“Yet our institution not only fails to align its actions with its ostensible values, but actively normalizes Israeli apartheid and the subjugation of Palestinians,” the group continued.
A Columbia University student organization then joined the chorus of obscurity by calling the terrorism a ‘counter-offensive’.
Columbia students participate in a rally in support of Palestine at the university
Hamas militants launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Saturday that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians and kidnapped others
Three female pro-Israel Columbia University students look solemn as they participate in a protest amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza
A shocking statement released by the Justice in Palestine group at Columbia on Monday said Hamas’ actions were a “counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor.”
“The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties lies undeniably with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments,” said the statement, which was also signed by a group called Jewish Voice for Peace.
A Northwestern University group called Justice in Palestine said they “stand steadfast in our commitment to highlight the profound injustices facing the Palestinian people.”
The group also wrote that it is a “serious legal defeat to portray Palestinians as the aggressors in this occupation,” adding that it is “morally untenable to portray Israel as the victim.”
Republican Josh Hawley called on the Justice Department to investigate pro-Palestinian student groups on college campuses across the country after they held anti-Israel protests.