The professoriate regime strikes back
The Harvard branch of the dictatorship of the professoriate doubles down on antisemitism.
It was only a matter of time before the dictatorship of the professoriate, astounded at finally being held accountable for its genocidal antisemitism, would strike back. The first act in its renewed campaign of intellectual and emotional terrorism has taken place at Harvard (where else?). A group of faculty and staff have formed yet another ultra-Palestinian nationalist group that is calling on Harvard to disinvest from Israel.
The cumbersomely named Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine engages, of course, in the usual blood libels, claiming that the war on Hamas is the result of a “prolonged violent dispossession of the Palestinian people over more than 75 years.”
In other words, Israel deserves whatever it gets; including, one presumes, mass murder, mass rape, mass kidnapping, and various other atrocities.
This is par for the course for the professoriate regime, as is the new group’s standard whining about pro-Hamas intellectual and emotional terrorists at Harvard supposedly being horribly oppressed. The Jewish students and faculty who are being horribly oppressed by the intellectual and emotional terrorists would beg to differ, but I digress.
The significance of this group, however, is not in the details, which are hardly new or surprising; it is in the very existence of such a group in the first place.
Put simply, the professoriate regime has gotten a very rude awakening over the past few months. Used to total impunity, it has now discovered that Jewish students, faculty, and donors; the US Congress; and the American people have had quite enough of their corrupt totalitarianism and there will now be consequences.
The consequences have already begun: Americans both Jewish and non-Jewish were repulsed by the regime’s open support of terrorism and genocide; the president of Harvard was forced to step down after refusing to condemn and penalize such support; donors have shut off the money spigot on which the professoriate has guzzled for decades; and a major lawsuit has been filed by Harvard’s Jewish victims.
As a result, the regime is running scared. So, it’s doing the only thing it knows how to do: Create yet another antisemitic, pro-terrorist group that engages in regular incitement, intimidation, and institutional corruption.
However outrageous this may be, it can only be good news. The regime is acting like a wounded animal, which means that whatever is being done to counter it is, thankfully, working.
The founding of this group also indicates something even more important: the professoriate’s essential weakness. Despite the regime’s pretensions of omnipotence, the cumbersomely named Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine consists of 65 people. That is vanishingly small.
If the totalitarians can manage to field only a few dozen racists to do its dirty work, then it should be apparent to all that, as I’ve written before, the regime is a paper tiger at best, and the time has come to begin the process of ripping it to shreds.
It continues to baffle me that the world is still running scared from the Iranian regime. Despite the fact that the genocidally racist tyranny has obviously declared war not just on Israel but the world—right down to attacking one of the world’s most essential trade routes—the West appears totally unwilling to undertake anything more than minor retaliation against Iran’s proxies.
The West is, in other words, avoiding the reality that the only answer to the regime’s depredations is a Carthaginian peace. That is, the regime must be destroyed: delenda est.
It is understandable that, after the disaster of the Iraq War, the Western powers would prefer not to engage in full-scale military action against the regime. This is not the case, however, in regard to Israel. To the Jewish state, Iran is not just a threat to regional allies and world trade, but an existential threat.
The answer, then, would seem to be obvious: Give Israel the means to destroy the Iranian regime and the green light to use whatever means necessary to do so, including the employment of tactical nuclear weapons on military targets. Added to this should be a guarantee of air support if necessary.
Certainly, this would be a major commitment. Still, it would not be an overwhelming one, and the benefits are obvious: It would remove the most destabilizing element in the Middle East, restore security to a major ally and international trade routes, and satisfy many Arab states’ quiet desire to see Iran go down.
Given that it would require no Western army to put boots on the ground, this would be essentially a win/win. Sadly, it appears that no one in the US establishment sees it that way at the moment. Or, if they do, they aren’t talking about it.
I recently saw Todd Haynes’ new film May December and, while I’ve never been a great fan of Haynes or star Natalie Portman, I have to say that it was one of the most effectively disturbing films I’ve seen in a long time. It reminded me in a strange way of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, though in this case, the violence was emotional rather than physical.
In effect, the film is about how predatory human beings construct emotional prisons for their victims. Moreover, it asserts that those prisons can be constructed so well that the possibility of escape never even occurs to the victims. Truly terrifying stuff when you think about it, and quite accurate in its own way.
In any event, it’s not a fun watch, but worth the trouble if you’re willing to go the distance.
I would like a list of the names of the members of this esteemed group. Since the wokerati are so enamored of cancel culture, let's do some real cancelling where it might actually to some good. They can work at Harvard, but no decent place should employ apologists for rapists and child beheaders.
Iran delenda est. Sounds appropriate