Our Battle Against Jew Hatred Comes Full Circle

Always on offense, never defense.

FrontPage Editors | May 10, 2024

Who would have ever expected that the first terror bases in our nation would be on American campus?

We did. And we warned you about it.

Recently, Robert Spencer, the Director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, was invited to speak at UCLA.

Then UCLA blocked him from speaking because of the Hamas riots. But Robert wouldn’t give up and neither would we. The story made national news and his speech, telling the truth about Islamic terrorism at ground zero for terror supporters, is back on.

After the Hamas riots, the Freedom Center went back to UCLA and put up posters telling the truth about the pro-terror hate groups. The last time we did that, UCLA’s DEI boss threatened us with legal action. But we’re not going to be intimidated and we will never back down.

That’s part of our work of over three decades, where David Horowitz, Spencer and the investigative journalists and writers at the Freedom Center have been warning that

Students for Justice in Palestine, a project of the parent organization of Hamas, has been running a Hitler Youth campaign on American campuses to convince a generation of students of the lie that Israel is a colonialist oppressor and the Palestinians are its blameless victims.

Now SJP is playing a leading role in the Hamas campus encampments and riots.

The UCLA Hamas riots are in the news now. When we exposed Hamas supporters on campus, UCLA’s vice chancellor for DEI threatened to sue us for calling SJP “murderers and terrorists.”

Now the entire nation can see what we saw then.

The Freedom Center was among the first to take the war against Jew hatred to the campuses with speeches, ads, and our “Wall of Truth” campaign to refute SJP’s antisemitic lies.  And we were never afraid to call them “Jew Haters,” “Nazis,” and “supporters of terror” or to state openly that Hamas was funding SJP.

We named UCLA, Columbia, Georgetown, SFSU, NYU and many others, along with the professors responsible for the culture of Jew hatred on American campuses that are now in the news on a daily basis. We called out these institutions and urged them to confront the Jew hatred rapidly spreading on their campuses and we were accused of being “Islamophobes.”

When Hamas supporters came to campus, we were there to challenge them.

Unlike a lot of establishment groups, we did not play defense. We went on the offense with our Islamo-Fascism Awareness Weeks, posters and newspapers distributed directly on the campuses, ad space secured in campus newspapers, and speeches given under the threat of violence.

Despite being outnumbered and outshouted, we never backed down. The same universities now hosting anti-Semitic “encampments” refused to run our ads or print our editorials in their campus newspapers because they disputed our conclusion—now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt—that SJP is affiliated with Hamas. They called us liars, but we have been proven right.

In 2016, the Freedom Center papered the campus of San Diego State University with posters identifying prominent students and faculty affiliated with SJP and the BDS movement as having “allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists.”

We took out an ad in the campus newspaper stating: “There is an epidemic of Jew hatred on American campuses and at San Diego State University. This Jew hatred is incited by Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Students Association and assorted leftist groups, all of whom support the terrorist organizations Hamas and Fatah.”

In response, hundreds of students participated in a mass protest, swarming then-university president Elliot Hirshman and demanding an apology for his failure to adequately condemn our posters. The demonstrators were incensed that we would dare insinuate that their social justice movement was affiliated with terrorists. It doesn’t seem quite so crazy anymore.

When David Horowitz spoke about SJP’s push for a second Holocaust at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus he was greeted with anti-Semitic posters depicting him with an exaggerated nose, standing in a garbage can, and wearing a Nazi-style armband. The posters labeled him a “right-wing hatemonger, Israeli apologist and Judeofascist.” These images were plastered all over campus walls, including in the Student Union where SJP was provided with plush offices by UW administrators.

The same university forces who for decades turned a blind eye to the terrorist and neo-Nazi tactics of SJP are responsible for allowing radicals to take over their campuses, turning them into hostile enclaves where Jews and Zionists are prohibited.

This madness could all have been avoided if they had heeded our warnings.

We were the first to warn of the threat posed by The Unholy Alliance of Radical Islam and the American Left – the title of a book David wrote 24 years ago. If we had been joined by other conservatives in our campaigns to isolate the campus Jew haters and refute the lies of the campus neo-Nazis, the campuses might have looked a lot different this month. 

We warned about the escalating persecution of Jewish faculty and students., the complicity of jihadist professors at Columbia and Berkeley. We connected the dots no one else would. And we did it all with little-to-no support and ridicule from the establishment because we were never afraid to call the enemy by its true name.

And we still aren’t.

That’s why we’re not letting up.

The Freedom Center has never relented in our struggle against the scourge of Jew Hatred and the neo-Nazi menace on campuses across our nation.

Our websites, FrontPageMag.com, FreedomCenteronCampus.org, DiscovertheNetworks.org and our deep writing team that includes David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, Daniel Greenfield, Jamie Glazov, Sara Dogan, Hugh Fitzgerald and many more have dedicated their lives to the further education and exposure of this cancer spreading through Academia.

Our daily writing, campus campaigns, events and programs will continue to sound the alarm and we will continue to speak the truth, even if it makes others uncomfortable.  That is what we do. That is our mission.