Being “Anti-settlement” Is Being Anti-Jewish, But Universities Don’t Care

In the class that I was watching, 18-year-olds, right in front of my eyes, became indoctrinated and brainwashed. They were impressionable, naïve, unknowledgeable teenagers and they were being indoctrinated with age-old Jew-hatred. It goes without saying that the implicit immorality of the concept that Jews must vacate an area in order to appease others was not addressed in this class, and that further infuriated me.  

And this disgusting and alarming rhetoric is unfortunately happening in virtually every university around the world today. Though the rhetoric is unconscionable, it is still permitted and encouraged. Not only privately, but publicly and loudly in the mainstream media.

Let me be clear here. I always emphasize that being “anti-settlement” is being Anti-Jew, and I maintain that wholeheartedly. A settlement is simply a community or a home. So simply, being anti-Jewish homes is being anti-Jewish. 

We do not need to get into the legalities of the region (the Jews own the Land of Israel in its entirety under international law, of course), because legality is not what we are focussing on in this article. Morality is the paramount point here.

Morally, as a human being, how can anyone be comfortable with  the idea that in order for other people to be happy, and in order for other people to sleep well at night,  Jews have to leave an area of land. Last time we checked, we were not living in 1933 Germany, and yet  the same ideas are being disseminated. 

Since when is it acceptable to suggest that a swath of land has to be Judenrein – Jew-free – in order for there to be peace? As Jews, we CANNOT be told where we can and cannot live, simply by virtue of the fact that we are Jewish. That is ludicrous.

This is our land, our home, our history, and this is basic human morality. I am a proud unapologetic Jew and Zionist. And I’ll live anywhere I damn well please.