While the potential transformation of a once-anti-Semitic European political party into a pro-Israel one is both surprising and welcome, the reactions to the events of Simḥat Torah from American universities are depressingly predictable. This subject will receive more attention in Mosaic in the coming days. Today, I wish to point you to the reporting of Sahar Tartak, a Yale College sophomore, who comments on the declarations made since October 7 by a campus group called Yalies4Palestine (Y4P):
You can imagine my horror to find that Yalies4Palestine decided that the murderers are absolved of their responsibility in an Instagram post that holds “the Israeli Zionist regime responsible for the unfolding violence,” thereby justifying the use of unlawful violence against civilians (again: terror). An original Y4P post called on “the Yale community to celebrate the resistance’s success.”
The most recent post goes on to express “full support of the Palestinian people’s right to resist colonization and return to their land,” dismissing “nonviolent acts of resistance” as ineffective.
“Breaking out of a prison requires force. . . . We stand with all colonized people fighting for their liberation.” The statement is followed by an invitation to an October 9 rally “to uplift the calls of resistance.”
In short, it turns out this is not a group of students concerned about the wellbeing of Palestinian Arabs, but only about the success of Hamas in fulfilling its murderous goals.
Read more on Yale Daily News: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/10/12/tartak-is-yalies4palestine-a-hate-group/