We heartily agree with the recent assessment of New York University professor Scott Galloway (who is Jewish) that, while college students should be given “a pretty wide berth... history has a way of repeating itself” — and the antisemitism on college campuses today is reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s.
Galloway’s courageous and, we believe — brutally honest — assertions were voiced on the April 26 broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” hosted by Bill Maher. (Galloway is a clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business.)
“Former CNN host Don Lemon (a guest) said that protests have become a bit of a fad and host Bill Maher questioned the odd timing of the (anti-Israel and pro-Hamas) demonstrations popping up around final exams,” Breitbart.com. reported an April 27 story about Galloway’s comments.
Galloway then stated the following:
“Look, it’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts.
“In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna.…
“And quite frankly, I’m really disappointed more Jews aren’t speaking out.”
Regarding the campus protests, Galloway also asserted with controlled anger, “What is clear to me is free speech is at its finest when it’s against the Jews.”
As to why the antisemitic protests even are happening, the New York Post noted that, early in the discussion with Maher and Lemon, the NYU professor “attributed the reason partly to young people not having enough sex.”
The professor added, “I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex, so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is (antisemitism),” the Post reported.
Fox News added, “Galloway repeated his observation which went viral this week that if students at terrorist encampments were chanting slogans calling for the death of black or gays, they would be swiftly stamped out.... And that professors who did so would never work again.”
We also concur with Galloway’s assertions, voiced after his “Real Time” appeqrance, that professors protesting in support of Hamas should be fired.
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