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Hitler, Khomeini and Red Danny: the dark history of student organizations in the world.
In light of the anti-Semitic demonstrations on campuses in the USA, I set out to check whether the students tend to stand on the right side of history.

On November 15, a violent protest took place at the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention in Washington. Pro-Palestinian groups blocked the entrances to the headquarters building with several party members besieged inside. When the police tried to disperse the protesters, including by using pepper spray, exchanges of blows began between the parties, and the results of the incident amounted to 6 police officers and nearly 100 protesters who were injured, and for over three hours when the party members were besieged in the building.

A wave of criticism of the protests swept the US, and in response an American named Jeremy Flood wrote the following post on the X Network (formerly Twitter):

"A rule of thumb is that if you find yourself in any period of history opposing a student movement while siding with the elite, you are wrong. Every time. Every time. No matter the issue."

Flood's post, a current and former member of several democratic bodies and even worked in the Bernie Sanders election campaign and in the organization that helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be elected to the House of Representatives, has received no less than 8.5 million views to date.

Now, in the shadow of the violent pro-Palestinian protests at the "Ivy League" universities in the USA, we have returned to prominent student protests in the history of the USA and the world in general to test Flood's claim: are the students always on the "right" side of history?

Before we get to the roots of Flood's claim, it is important to note that student movements played a central role in many positive protests during the 20th century and at the beginning of this century. Student groups joined the resistance movement to Hitler, in the civil rights protests in the USA students were dominant and they also took part in the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic in the late 1980s. Similar examples can also be found outside the Western world, such as: the protesters in Tiananmen Square who were students, movement The Mexican students were the ones who demonstrated and demanded political freedoms and an end to the authoritarianism of the PRI regime in '68 and more.

Whoever claims that students have always been on the "bad" side of history must be wrong, but Flood's claim was that they are always on the "good" side, and this claim will now be examined under a microscope.

You fell on the wrong side
In the service of Hitler

Alongside the student movements that opposed Hitler, there were also those who stood on the other side. Those who led the burning of the books in 1933 were students from 34 universities throughout Germany and tens of thousands of books penned by Jewish and American writers went up in flames.

Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda who led the burning of the books. Photo: Getty Images).

There were also a number of student media outlets that fully embraced Nazi ideology. For example, the newspaper Die Bewegung (the newspaper of the Nazi Student League) declared at the end of 1938: "The goal has been achieved! No more Jews in German universities", when the writer of the article congratulated the students for being the pioneers of Nazism in institutions of higher education.

Until 1945, the Nazi student organizations were a significant factor in the academic surveillance of faculty members and other students. In this framework, students passed information to the Nazi authorities about many lecturers and students who were imprisoned, tortured or murdered.

Guerrilla fighters.

The student organization DR-13-M actively assisted Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba and even organized an attack on the presidential palace that ended in dozens of deaths. In 1959, after the rebellion was successful and Castro seized power, the Revolutionary Committee, a student-based organization, united with Castro's movement, the July 26 Movement, and together they formed the Union of Revolutionary Organizations government. Under Castro's regime, students took an active part in murdering, torturing, re-educating, and arresting those considered suspects.

By the way, the United Party has rebranded itself twice since then, but controls Cuba to this day under the name "PCC", or "Communist Party of Cuba".

The Red Guards.

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the "Red Guards" movement functioned, an extensive movement of students and other young people. The movement believed in spreading Mao's centralist communist ideology, used violence against people who believed they were leading China back to the path of freedom and capitalism and even helped imprison and murder millions. Those students were eager to help eliminate Mao's opponents.

And what about the "elite"? The fate of educated and influential people whose luck was better for them amounted to only being removed from their jobs.

Danny the Red.

In May 1968, student demonstrations broke out in Paris against the French leader at the time, Charles de Gaulle, which developed into a general strike and then into confrontations with the authorities and street fights. The protests were so widespread that about two-thirds of the French workforce at the time was Saturday and in the country there were even fears of a civil war breaking out.

The one who led the protests was Daniel Cohen-Bendit, a German-French Jewish politician, nicknamed "Danny the Red" because of his red hair. The government was on the verge of collapse and the protests even drove de Gaulle, who was certainly no coward, from French soil. Eventually the protests subsided and in the elections that year, de Gaulle's party won.

History is repeating itself.

Did you miss the Democratic convention? Don't worry, here she is back to us.

1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in the USA. The Vietcong attack, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and in addition it was an election year. Several protest organizations, including student organizations such as the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, started a protest against the Vietnam War and elected the Democratic Convention which took place that year in Chicago.

The protest events began in the days before the conference and included several focal points, in many of which the protests deteriorated into violent confrontations, severe violence, including throwing stones at police officers and even live shooting.

Over 500 protesters, over 100 uninvolved civilians and 152 police officers were injured in the riots. One, the civilian who fired the gun, was killed.

By the way, as you know, this year is also an election year and the destination chosen for the Democratic convention is none other than Chicago.

Kidnapping in the service of the Ayatollah
A large Iranian student movement also aided the rise to power of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as part of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.

On November 4 of that year, a group of Iranian students invaded the US embassy in Tehran and took the embassy employees hostage. The hijackers demanded that the US extradite the deposed ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was staying in its territory at the time to receive medical treatment, to Iran in order to to stand trial for crimes against the state. The plot of the Oscar-winning film "Argo" is based on the fascinating tragedy.

Khamenei goes up to Khomeini's grave. Photo: EPA.

Epilogue.

Student movements are a very young phenomenon on a historical scale. Nevertheless, there are those who wish to grant them a kind of super status of promoting justice and progress that is always on the right and good side. However, in light of the examples we saw here as well as in other cases - many students supported the dark side of history.

Even today, when the prevailing sentiment in the American ivory tower is that students physically harming their classmates in countless anti-Semitic incidents, harassing people on the basis of their origin and calling for genocide are the good side, the world needs to oppose this with a clear voice as Republican Senator Josh Hawley did in his speech in the Senate:

"As a nation, we need to speak with one voice. There is right and wrong, good and bad, and threatening to murder an entire group of people is wrong and bad. Calling it genocide is wrong and bad, threatening the lives of your fellow students because they are Jewish is wrong and bad. These institutions, The so-called higher education institutions have failed with these students because it is quite clear that they have no ability to distinguish between good and bad."

It seems that Jeremy Flood and the masked gang who roam the campuses, terrorizing and calling for intifada should leave the lawn and open a history book every now and then.

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A horror story that you see live’: Hamas raped women on October 7 and forced their families to watch.
After near silence from feminist bodies, Israel’s Association of Rape Crisis Groups is urging the world not to look the other way.
By Imogen Garfinkel.
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Hamas raped Israeli women and forced families to watch - don't turn a blind eye, urges crisis group

After near silence from feminist bodies, Israel’s Association of Rape Crisis Groups is urging the world not to look the other way

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Passover 2024: The timeless and timely messages of the Seder -​

By ELIOT PENN Published: APRIL 24, 2024 11:05

Part of the secret of this perseverance is the timeless messages of Passover and their ability to inspire new meaning in each generation.​

Passover 2024: The timeless and timely messages of the Seder - opinion

Part of the secret of this perseverance is the timeless messages of Passover and their ability to inspire new meaning in each generation.

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The following translated piece from French is important for historical and present events.​

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The roots of 7 October are in the pogroms of 1834.

The Hamas 7 October massacre echoes previous pogroms in Palestine – notably the Safed pogrom of 1834. In this masterful analysis, published by the Fondation pour l’Innovation Politique, Georges Bensoussan identifies the rejection of moves to reform the dhimmi status and introduce equality between Muslims and non-Muslims as one of the primary causes of Arab hostility towards Jews.

The conflict became islamised in the 1920s, and Arab anti-Zionism then drew on the antisemitic themes contained in the notorious Russian forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Pen and ink sketch by Samuel Manning in 1873, showing Jews praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

In the 19th century, under the Ottoman Empire, Jews in Palestine resided mainly in Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias. Haifa and Acre had smaller communities. In Jerusalem, as is often the case in the Arab-Muslim world, the Jewish condition was marked by a climate of humiliation and widespread fear, as witnessed in the 19th century by the Jewish traveler Abraham Yaari in his book Travels in Eretz Israel :

“The Arabs are violently hostile to the Jews, and persecute the children of Israel in the streets of the city. If a notable or even low-class people lay hands on Jews, we do not have the right to lay hands on them in response, whether they are Arabs or Turks, because they are of the same religion. If a Jew is beaten, he must assume the attitude of a supplicant and not retaliate with unkind words, for fear of receiving even more blows, because, in their eyes, we are worthless people. Sephardim behave like this because they are already used to it. But the Ashkenazim are not yet used to being beaten by the Arabs, and they respond with insults if they can speak their language. Otherwise, they gesticulate in anger, and then they receive even more beatings. […] It is the same for the uncircumcised (i.e. Christians) who are in exile [ sic ] like the Jews, except that the uncircumcised have a lot of money, because they receive kingdoms of it from Europe, and with this money they can bribe the Turks. The Jews don’t have enough money to do the same, so they are a little more “in exile.”

In 1831, “Southern Syria” (this is how the province that Westerners refer to as the “Holy Land” or Palestine is called in Arab lands), of which Safed is a part, was annexed by Mehmet Ali, the viceroy from Egypt. The Jewish community of Safed, one of the largest in the country, had long had a Jewish majority. The evidence comes in 1625 from the Italian orientalist Franciscus Quaresmius who wrote of Safed that it is “inhabited mainly by the Hebrews, where they have their synagogues and their schools.” The community grew stronger with the arrival of Russian Jews (1776-1781) then Jews from Lithuania (1809-1816).

Safed was part of the vilayet ( wilaya in Arabic) of Sidon, and the Jews of the vilayet lived mainly in Safed and Tiberias. From 1831, the Egyptian governance of “Palestine”, delegated by Mehmet Ali to Ibrahim Pasha, led to modernization which upset the traditional social balance between the communities, and, ultimately, caused an uprising of the rural Arab population which focused its violence on Jews.

One of the main decisions taken by Mehmet Ali was actually to favor the Jews and Christians. Until then the management and administration of his provinces lagged behind, including the Nile valley and “Palestine”. He also sought to surround himself with numerous Westerners to carry out important reforms and large-scale projects.

It was therefore under his reign that the Ashkenazi Jews obtained the annulment of the Ottoman decree which prohibited them from settling in Jerusalem. It created anger among the major notables, both Islamic religious dignitaries and local rural leaders who, from Nablus to Hebron, and from Jerusalem to Jaffa, saw their power now strictly controlled by the administration of Mehmet Ali of Egypt and not through Istanbul. Moreover, Governor Ibrahim Pasha, sent over by Mehmet Ali, brought in a capital tax reform which introduced equality in taxation: this was enough to sicken the privileged class, who had to revert to common law, and upset the social balance: the latter would no longer be able to live, as in the past, from taxes paid by non-Muslims. On top of this new taxes were introduced on harvests, in particular on olive harvests, which remained the major production in the region.

Finally, continuing in the same reforming vein, Ibrahim Pasha established compulsory conscription by drawing lots for the entire population. This is another reason for discontent where the peasantry were the great majority. This policy of openness towards Christian and Jewish minorities provoked the wrath of both conservative and popular circles. They were suddenly forced to recognise that the Jews no longer submitted to the discriminated condition which until then constituted the only marker of presumed Muslim superiority.

They then fomented and led an insurrection to get rid of the taxes by targeting non-Muslims and, in particular, Jews who would pay a high price. It is in this context that in May 1834, a revolt broke out in Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem and Safed. The furious peasants were probably incited by a local preacher named Muhammad Damoor who proclaimed himself an “Islamic prophet”, attacked the Jews, destroyed their homes and stirred up all kinds of violence.

The pogrom itself began on June 15, 1834. It lasted thirty-three days. Utter carnage. The Arab and Bedouin villagers as well as the armed inhabitants of Safed (including Turks) massacred the Jews and raped their women. There were probably more than five hundred dead. Synagogues were looted before being set on fire, precious objects stolen or destroyed.

In his book The Events of Time (Korot Ha Itim) , Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kamenitz testifies to this violence: “On Sunday Sivan 18, looters coming from neighboring villages (from Safed) went on a rampage. Residents of other localities joined them. With swords and deadly tools, they attacked the Jews, crushed them to the ground, tore off their clothes, both men and women, chased them naked from the city and ransacked their possessions. Nothing remained of it. They even tore the Torah scrolls and talettim and tefillin.”

From his hiding place, Rabbi Israel of Shaklov sent several letters to the consuls of foreign states stationed in Beirut. He informed them in detail of the ordeals endured by several of their nationals – Jewish subjects “protected” by foreign powers. In response, the consuls encouraged Ibrahim Pasha to go to Safed to put down the rebellion there. He charged the Emir of the Druze with this mission: Emir Bashir descended into Galilee from his home in Lebanon.. By mid-July 1834, the riot subsided and most of the rioters fled. Several arrested ring-leaders were executed in the street. The Jews of Safed returned home to recover what had escaped plunder and destruction. Despite the aid provided by the consuls to their poorest subjects, most of them faced financial ruin, having saved less than 10% of the value of their assets. The only Hebrew printing press in the entire province of Syria/Palestine, which had been set up three years earlier by an Ashkenazi Jew (Israel Bak, 1797-1834), was destroyed.

The violence quickly spilled over from Safed to Judea, further south. Ibrahim Pasha gathered a few thousand Egyptian soldiers and marched towards Jerusalem. The journey was extremely difficult, hampered by the insurgents who controlled the villages overlooking the road. Arriving in the holy city, Ibrahim Pasha freed six hundred Egyptian soldiers who had locked themselves in the citadel. He puts down the revolt. The Ottoman authorities had let the rioters do their thing.

The pogrom of 1834 brought forth a response in August 1838. For three days, the Druze descended from the heights of Hauran and Lebanon, assisted by the Arabs. They in turn revolted against Egyptian power and once again pillaged the Jewish community of Safed.

We are witnessing the same desolation as in 1834. Jews had their throats slit, houses were pillaged, synagogues were desecrated, women were raped. Many Jews fled to Acre or Jerusalem, leaving fewer than a thousand families in the city.

The future secretary of the great English Jewish philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, Louis Loewe, was then in Palestine. He gives his testimony: “In addition to everything they plundered, the Druze demanded from the Jews a sum equivalent to 2,500 English pounds which, of course, the Jews were not able to pay. The Druze then seized the rabbi who headed the Ashkenazi community, an old man. They tied his hands and feet and placed the blade of a naked sword on his neck. They threatened to cut off his head if the money was not paid to them immediately. He did not ask to be spared his life which he was ready to sacrifice it to save his community. All he asked for was little clean water for his hands so he could say a prayer and proclaim God to be righteous in all his ways. Then, everyone present uttered a heart-rending cry, and the Druze themselves seemed to have been affected. They removed the sword and ended by agreeing to an arrangement with the community, giving it time to find a way to borrow the required sum.”

The Safed pogroms in 1834 and 1838 were of a religious nature, as were the massacres of Christians on Mount Lebanon in 1860 perpetrated by Druze. Between 9 and 17 July 1860, in parts of Lebanon and the Golan Heights, riots spread to Damascus where nearly six thousand Christians were massacred. Nearly a third of the city’s Christian population were abandoned to their assassins by the Ottoman governor, Ahmed Pasha. This massacre ewas to precipitate the exodus of Christians towards Europe, Africa and the Americas, but also towards Egypt, where many Christian families of Syrian and Lebanese origin settled at the end of the 19th century.

When the Ottoman Empire, allied with the central European powers in the Great War, collapsed at the end of 1918, its Arab possessions came under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and France. The territories were parcelled out in 1916 in the secret Franco-British agreements (known as Sykes-Picot), and validated by the San Remo conference (April 1920). In July 1922, the result was the granting via the League of Nations of two mandates to France (Syria and Lebanon) and two more to the United Kingdom (Palestine and Mesopotamia).

In Palestine, through the Balfour Declaration (November 1917), London promised the building of a “national home for the Jewish people”. Framed by the Zionist movement born at the end of the 19th century, this “National Home” was immediately confronted with an Arab refusal. The rejection was of a political nature before 1914 but took on Islamic form from 1920, espousing and doubling down on the ancient rejection of the Jew in traditional Muslim society. In this case it was a re-affirmation of the dhimmi status ( the centuries-old submission of non-Muslim minorities) and a rejection of equality with Muslims.

Before 1914, the Arab protest against Zionism, particularly among the Christian Arab elite of Palestine, more educated than the Sunni Muslim majority, distinguished between Jews and Zionists. This distinction disappeared after the Great War with the Islamization of anti-Zionism. This is how during the first massacres perpetrated in 1920 in Jerusalem and in 1921 in Jaffa (Tel Aviv), we heard “The Jews are our dogs”, “We will drink the blood of the Jews” and not “Death to the Zionists!” A year earlier, in 1919, leaflets distributed in Jerusalem and Jaffa compared “Jews,” not Zionists, to “poisonous snakes.” That same year, blatantly anti-Jewish slogans called for a bloodbath: “The Yarmouk will flow with blood, but Palestine will not belong to the Jews.”

This “unequivocal rejection of Zionism” soon reproduced the oldest themes of Western anti-Semitism familiar to Christian Arabs. While in the immediate aftermath of the Great War, a powerful wave of anti-Semitism swept Europe and made the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (forgery) a success in Palestine, the rejection of Zionism made this forgery of Russian origin with its anti-Semitic objectives a cornerstone of discourse.

Appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in March 1921, Winston Churchill went to Cairo where he received the Palestinian delegates. In the memorandum they gave him, they took up the main anti-Semitic themes conveyed by this false document. They will do this several times again during the interwar period... From now on, Arab anti-Zionism openly drew on the sources of European anti-Semitism.


Les pogroms en Palestine avant la création de l'État d'Israël (1830-1948) - Fondapol.
Georges Bensoussan, April 10, 2024.
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Georges Bensoussan : « Les massacres de 1948 font partie de la mémoire collective des Israéliens » ENTRETIEN. En rappelant les pogroms des années 1830, 1920-1930 et de 1948, l'historien Georges Bensoussan met en lumière les soubassements historiques et anthropologiques de la tragédie du 7 octobre 2023. 16 Apr 2024

Georges Bensoussan : « Les massacres de 1948 font partie de la mémoire collective des Israéliens »

ENTRETIEN. En rappelant les pogroms des années 1830, 1920-1930 et de 1948, l’historien Georges Bensoussan met en lumière les soubassements historiques et anthropologiques de la tragédie du 7 octobre 2023.

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Hamas, guys, will die before Israel leaves Gaza.

The antecedents of the October 7 attack neither justify or deny the fact of mass murder.

Hamas is being executed.

 

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