{"id":3955,"date":"2024-05-04T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2024-05-04T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:54:18","slug":"american-universities-and-the-position-on-the-gaza-war-by-dr-walid-abdel-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawtoroba.com\/Eng\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"American Universities and the Position on the Gaza War By Dr. Walid Abdel Hay."},"content":{"rendered":"

American Universities and the Position on the Gaza War<\/strong>
\nBy Dr. Walid Abdel Hay.<\/strong>
\nIt is noticeable that Western universities, starting from the United States to Europe, are the most explicit in interacting with what is happening in the Gaza Strip, and it is not possible to compare the comprehensive mobility in Western universities with the movement in other universities of the world. Likely, the culture of societal freedom (not the culture of official institutional freedom) plays a role in these societies, so how will demonstrations take place, for example, in Saudi universities, the tiniest countries in the world, in demonstrating its various forms? The missing does not give it, and the universities of “speculators and soldiers” can only allow freedom of expression if it is for celebrations of praise and praise.<\/strong>
\nFox News has described the demonstrations at dozens of famous and distinguished American universities in particular and Western universities in general as the most significant demonstrations of this century. So what are the drivers of this?<\/strong>
\nFirst, It is impossible to consider the movement of American universities away from the movement of society and its demonstrations, as the number of protests in support of Palestine in the United States so far has reached a total of (2200) demonstrations (van and two hundred demonstrations), an average of about 10 demonstrations per day, and since universities are part of the fabric of society, the transmission of fever to the academic body is standard. Western universities in general and American universities in particular (as evidenced by regular BDS reports), and these campaigns began more than a decade ago. Perhaps the American Studies Association was the most prominent body in this aspect since announcing a boycott of Israeli universities in 2013, followed at about the same stage by the American Studies Association. In 2016, members of the American Anthropological Association voted in favor of imposing a boycott. 71% of Israel Academy.<\/strong>
\nSecond, The media did not give the required attention to the beginnings of these demonstrations, which were almost directly accompanied by the Al-Aqsa flood. Nine days after the flood of Al-Aqsa ignited the debate in American universities, the British BBC published a report entitled “Turmoil in American universities” on October 16, meaning that what is currently happening is the growth of a phenomenon that began seven months ago.<\/strong>
\nThird: The Israeli political discourse paradoxes with the minimum elements of successful political discourse, as the statements of Israeli officials constituted a shock that reverberated at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and in most human rights bodies, including American bodies, the statements of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and Galant. The call to strike Gaza with nuclear bombs, considering the people of Gaza as human animals, and emphasizing the prevention of water, electricity, food, and medicine from the civilian population, formed a language that transcended all forms of racism and ill incitement, which forced President Biden to condemn him and even demanded the removal of extremists from the Israeli government.<\/strong>
\nFourth: A complete collapse of media tyranny, the traditional media that rooted Zionist influence in its structure has lost its position due to the social media revolution, and the transmission of the actual image is carried out through ordinary individuals and media, and there is no longer the possibility of manipulating minds as the Zionist media used to, but the phrase “anti-Semitism” that Netanyahu clings to describe the movement in American universities no longer finds the previous amount of listening ears, and it is enough to pay attention to what former Democratic presidential candidate Saunds said and mocked ” The argument of anti-Semitism” is the exact content of what Mearsheimer, the most prominent American academic in the field of political science, said. And many more.<\/strong>
\nFifth: The persistence of the American bias with excessive aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, universities (professors and students) realize that the rate of class differences (Gini Index) has been rising in the United States since 2020, and at a time when this phenomenon is increasing to reach the United States to be the worst among all major industrialized countries, generous aid is being announced to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, and the last payment a week ago reached about 95 billion dollars, which made American society link the two phenomena, so it became angry, which is confirmed by polls. 36% support increasing support, while 34% oppose it (i.e., a clear split in the US societal position).<\/strong>
\nSixth: The reports of impartial international bodies on violence in the Gaza Strip against children, women, and unarmed civilians constituted a provocative image of the human conscience, and since the university community is the most informed of such reports, this has formed a precise engine, the Oxfam report, for example, indicates that the daily killing rate in Gaza is the highest in wars since World War II, and the destruction of universities and the killing of thousands of students, professors and employees in these universities. The schools painted an ugly picture of Israeli behavior. The nasty picture increased after the circulation of news and images about the destruction of hospitals, care centers, and aid-receiving gatherings sent by the international community, including the United States, all of which formed an unusual criminal picture on the one hand. Still, the Israeli media tries to turn it into “self-defense” to no avail, on the other hand. The existence of civil society organizations (student unions, trade unions, parties … In the first week of February 2024, the American Association of University Professors called for an end to the fighting, and Netanyahu responded to the appeal by saying that he was preparing to invade Rafah and displace its residents after the displacement of the northern residents of the Gaza Strip.<\/strong>
\nSeventh: The lowering of the age of the American voter in 1972 from 21 to 18 years gave the category of university students more weight because it added to their electoral bloc a strength of up to the equivalent of an increase of up to 3.5% of the voters, which made the desire of the parties to co-opt them increase, but it is known in American studies that the most anti-Israel segment is the segment of youth, of which university students are the main body. Perhaps this segment supports the BDS movement and moves its calls to universities that prompted 30 US states to stipulate in their laws the punishment of companies that respond to BDS’s calls to boycott Israel. In contrast, the rest of the states did not respond to this call.<\/strong>
\nEighth: American student historical precedents with non-human wars, as what is currently happening in the arenas of American universities is similar to what happened against the Vietnam War in the sixties and what happened against racial discrimination in South Africa in the eighties of the last century and others, and it is noted that Columbia University is one of the leading universities in these movements, and it is now one of the centers of the movement completely advanced.<\/strong>
\nNinth: If we exclude the WASP segment (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Protestant whites), American society is a minority society similar to settler societies. It is a very diverse society (according to color, nationality, religion). There is a percentage of the significant quantitative weight of these minorities that belong to third world countries, which are minorities more inclined to sympathize with the issues of third world societies. These are spread in universities if we know that Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans constitute about 110 million people. They carry the concerns of the Third World more than others, especially as they feel the meaning of racism and discrimination on social grounds, which makes them relatively more inclined than others to sympathize with the oppressed, such as Gaza, which explains their remarkable appearance in university demonstrations.<\/strong>
\nThe problem with the current Israeli leadership is that it still views the complexities of international life through “the historical myth, through the illusion of national superiority granted by metaphysical forces, through a sense of superiority based on an inferior view of others, and then the propaganda of lies that were difficult to verify when they are now under the sun.”<\/strong>
\nThe official American reaction to these demonstrations may inflame the matter, as happened in the sixties of the last century. Israel does not see leaving them to interact as positive, and perhaps Netanyahu’s comments about these demonstrations are an indication of very severe distress.<\/strong>
\nThe blood of the people of Gaza \u2013 even with great pain \u2013 has not been wasted; it is achieving a quiet change in the image of the last settler colonial state. But we need to be aware of how to develop this and with great awareness. Maybe.<\/strong>
\nTranslated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid. on April 15, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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