The disgraceful spectacle at University College London is the latest proof that Western academia has abandoned truth and surrendered entirely to radical left-wing propaganda. Imagine a once-prestigious institution handing over its very own lecture hall to a speaker who revived the oldest, vilest antisemitic myth of all time—the blood libel—without so much as a whisper of dissent before the fact. This isn’t an accident or a misstep; it’s the natural outcome of decades of intellectual decay and ideological cowardice. When leftist professors prioritize political theater over historical fact, the result is a university campus turned breeding ground for lies and hate.
This wasn’t some fringe event sneaking under the radar, either. The speaker was openly allowed to spread the medieval blood libel accusing Jews of murdering a Christian monk for ritual purposes—an antisemitic falsehood that caused untold suffering across Europe and the Middle East. The university’s initial response? Radio silence until video of the incident spread online and outrage exploded. Only then did UCL apologize and take action, showing they were forced to confront the issue rather than acting preemptively. The lesson is clear: these academic elites are too blinded by their ideological fantasies to stop hate before it happens, allowing poison to pour out until public shaming makes them act.
It’s no coincidence that this contemptible event came under the banner of a “Justice in Palestine” group. Today’s academic “studies” programs—Middle Eastern, Gender, Postcolonial—are nothing more than vehicles for left-wing activism masquerading as scholarship. They have transformed universities into echo chambers where Jew-hatred is disguised as “anti-Zionism” and celebrated as resistance. Meanwhile, the very students who might stand up—Jewish students, of all people—are mocked and silenced, accused of being fragile or privileged for daring to object. It’s an inversion of morality so grotesque it would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous. The survivors of Jewish persecution are now being lectured by academics funded by the West, told to feel guilty for defending their very existence.
What drives this ongoing surrender? A toxic mix of ideological zealotry and cowardice. For decades, academia has pushed a bankrupt moral relativism that insists no culture is better or worse than another—ever. But when you apply that insane logic to Islamist extremism, you’re not just naive, you’re courting disaster. Remember our wasted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? We believed in the fantasy that beneath oppressive regimes beat hearts yearning for Western freedoms. The truth exposed itself brutal and unyielding. Vast majorities in many Muslim countries openly support sharia law, harsh punishments, and antisemitic hatred more suited to the Middle Ages than this century. Yet our universities are silent, terrified of being called “Islamophobic” if they speak hard truths.
The worst part? These so-called champions of justice—trendy professors and student activists—harbor the same medieval antisemitism they claim to oppose. They pretend to fight power, but only the power they dislike; when it comes to Hamas or Hezbollah and their campus allies, they fall deadly silent. Their silence is complicity. And their complicity puts every free society at risk. If tossing out facts to avoid offense means repeating blood libels, obliterating truth, and enabling hate, then why should anyone respect these institutions anymore? Universities used to uplift minds; now they poison souls and incite division. If this is the future of academia, maybe it’s time to rethink their place in our society.
Source: American Thinker
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