Al Qaeda and Iran Salute the U.S. Campus
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Al Qaeda and Iran Salute the U.S. Campus
Wall Street Journal-June 1st2024
Opinion
If your local campus anti-Israel protester is feeling dejected after the end of an encampment, tell her to buck up. Graduation gifts have arrived in the mail from two very grateful Uncle Als—al Qaeda and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Here’s what al Qaeda’s central leadership had to say in a May 23 statement: “As we support the assassination and beheading of Zionist unbelievers, so also we value and appreciate the movement of Western protesters and occupiers from among the students of Western universities, who by their occupying and protests have expressed their rejection of the ongoing genocide in proud Gaza.”
Osama bin Laden isn’t available to deliver this message himself, but we know how proud he would have been. Pass on the word from al Qaeda to the keffiyeh-chic student in your life: You are valued and appreciated.
The statement, translated on Tuesday by the Hoover Institution’s Cole Bunzel, adds that Muslim youth have the “legal and divine obligation” to undertake jihad by killing Zionists wherever they are found. Stop stealing my lines, Columbia University protest leader Khymani James might complain. He said, “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
Not to be one-upped by a Sunni, Iran’s Shiite Supreme Leader published a letter dated May 25 on Wednesday: “Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.” You know you’re a useful idiot when . . .
“You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front,” Mr. Khamenei writes, and is he wrong? U.S. students who have “All Eyes on Rafah” but couldn’t place it on a map are as integral to the Hamas survival strategy as all of Hezbollah’s missiles.
After blaming “the global Zionist elite” for bribing the media into calling Oct. 7 “terrorism,” Mr. Khamenei adds, “The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government’s police brutality.”
Iran’s dictator, whose thugs have savagely suppressed generations of student protesters, ends on a preachy note. “The Quran’s lesson for human relations is: ‘Do not oppress and do not be oppressed,’” he writes. “My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.” Translation: Drop the Pride flag and we’re good.
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