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Clear and present danger

Regarding “Hostile environments for Jewish students” (June 6): It is self-evident that the more left-wing one is, the more likely they are to be anti-American, anti-white and antisemitic. The Left is centered in academia. We have to look back a century to follow the root causes of the antisemitism so prevalent today. "} 80:{"position":32,"content":"

The 1920s saw dramatic changes. At San Remo, the victors of WW1 carved up the territories of the vanquished Germans and Turks, creating a number of Middle East mandates. The British Mandate for Palestine was held as the reconstituted Jewish homeland. In Egypt, Hussein al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, spreading Islamic nationalism with the goal of replacing the West with a caliphate. In Europe, Nazism was taking hold.

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Britain named Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem. Britain betrayed its mandate commitments, joining the mufti in hampering Jewish, and encouraging Arab, immigration.

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Al-Husseini and Hitler became allies. Al-Husseini promoted antisemitism and pogroms in the Mandate and abroad. In Germany, he established Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS units and personally intervened to send 4,000 Hungarian children to the gas chambers in Auschwitz.

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Arab propaganda promoted the al-Aqsa libel, the claim Jews were destroying the mosque so they could build a Third Temple. This is taqiyya, the obligation to lie to the infidel to advance the cause of Islam.

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Radical Islam has manipulated our open, western democratic societies. They bought their way into academia, using their power to demonize and delegitimize Jews and Zionism.

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From 1995 to 2008, eight British

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