Extremism Building Against Both Jewish and Islami Minorities
Across the nation and around the world, a rising tide of hate is bubbling to the surface, like a poisoned well of vitriol that is threatening to overwhelm the attempts by Israel and the U.S. to keep the focus on the unprovoked attacks on Israeli civilians by the terrorist group Hamas.
While most extremism threats appear aimed at Jewish and Israeli people, there have also been threats against Palestinians and Islamic followers. and there has been a recent local incident.
Just in the past few days, a rise of antisemitic events has occurred on college campuses, addressed hardly at all by university administrations, or frankly, by most mainstream media.
Image courtesy of Orange County California District Attorney’s Office.
“This is about antisemitism and hate aimed at the Jews,” said global marketing executive Donny Deutsch speaking on MSNBC Monday afternoon. “Every Jew I know is calling me and saying ‘for the first time in my life I am terrified.’ ”
“Evil is not graded the same way when it is directed against Jews,” he added. “There are 15 million Jews in the world … and the world is saying that it is somehow OK to go after these people? They are marching for Hamas and University presidents are having a hard time saying that is wrong?”
He described the atrocities of Hamas’s terror attack, saying, “Burning babies alive, raping and beheading parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents? This is not humanity.”
On campuses across the nation, more incidents of threats and actual antisemitic protests and attacks have been reported, but antisemitism was on the rise even before the October 7 terrorism attack by Hamas.
But educational institutions may be called upon to enforce the tenets of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As set out by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) Office for Civil Rights, educational institutions are prohibited from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. This provision means that universities can take action against anyone exhibiting discriminatory behavior or risk forfeiting their federal funding.
Agencies and institutions that receive ED funds covered by Title VI include all 50 state education agencies, their subrecipients, and vocational rehabilitation agencies; the education and vocational rehabilitation agencies of the District of Columbia and of the territories and possessions of the United States; 17,000 local education systems; 4,700 colleges and universities; 10,000 proprietary institutions; and other institutions, such as libraries and museums that receive ED funds.
Programs and activities that receive ED funds must operate in a non-discriminatory manner. These may include, but are not limited to admissions, recruitment, financial aid, academic programs, student treatment and services, counseling and guidance, discipline, classroom assignment, grading, vocational education, recreation, physical education, athletics, housing, and employment, if it affects those who are intended to benefit from the Federal funds.
“There is a bias against the plight of Israelis and what they have experienced, even in the media – report it fairly,” added Deutsch. “You have one group that is purely evil and the other group who wants peace. Hamas is fighting for death, they don’t want to live in peace.”
But the hate has not been confined to college campuses or major metro areas. An incident reportedly occurred on Main Street in Buena Vista a week ago Sunday (October 22), that brought what is happening in other parts of the country home to Chaffee County.
Town Administrator Brian Berger has been in contact with law enforcement regarding the incident, and being new in his administrator role, has declined to comment. The Buena Vista Police Department considers this an active investigation and Ark Valley Voice does not yet have the details of the incident. When we have the facts, we will report them.
What about the good old days when we hated the Irish, the Italians, and (your choice) Catholics or Protestants? MAGA? I don’t know what MAGA means, other than as shorthand to imply that you hate a certain class of people, and you’re not ashamed of it, the way we were in the good old days.