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Eli Lake writes, "Many of the Americans who block traffic and take over quads on behalf of the terrorists of October 7 are not taking their cues from Persian cyber-spies, but college professors and journalists."

As a long-time professor at an elite university, I can confirm that it is true that pro-Hamas fanaticism among college students, professors, staff, and administrators, is an outgrowth of the neo-Marxist woke ideology that has been adopted by almost all universities with religious fervor. The ideological division of the world into "oppressors" and "victims," an abstracted version of Marx's "class struggle," lies behind the new legitimacy of hate.

Israel, falsely accused of being "colonial settler," an apartheid society, and guilty of "genocide," is identified as a paradigmatic "oppressor" of "innocent" Palestinians, who in fact have been at war with the Jews in the Holy Land for 100 years. In reality, the war on Jews in the Middle East is a religious war, driven by Islamic supremacism. University activists, who know nothing or care nothing of the history of the Holy Lands, act out their ideological "virtue" at the expense of Israel, and, now, by extension, Jews.

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