Former President Barack Obama should be ashamed of comparing the Hamas terrorist group’s massacre of Israelis with its subsequent occupation of Gaza as it gives license to anti-Jewish forces to “brutalize innocent civilians,” said Harvard Law School Professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.
“Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005. They not only removed all settlers and all soldiers, but even dug up their dead bodies from graves, and took them out of the Gaza Strip.”
Although President Obama did not outright justify Hamas’s attacks, he made them “justifiable” since his claim that life in Gaza is “unbearable” could be construed as giving license to “do anything you want.”
“What he did was contribute to the risks to not only Israelis, but Americans, because it’s coming to a theater near you. If Hamas is not stopped in its tracks from doing the terrorist acts, they will bring them to the United States,” Mr. Dershowitz said.
“And these students, these young Hitler—young students that are marching around calling for the death of Israel, will be participating in terrorist attacks against the United States as they did in the 1970s when students tried to blow up the University of Wisconsin … . This is a very serious matter and Obama is pouring gas on the fire.”
Campus Anti-Semitism
Mr. Dershowitz went on to criticize the proliferation of anti-Semitism on American campuses.
“Remember that students brought Hitler to power,” he said, adding that the same thing happened in the case of communist dictator Joseph Stalin and the Iranian Ayatollahs. “These young people today—they’re not wearing swastikas, but they’re wearing green headbands—they are the modern-day version of Hitler Youth. And there’s no excusing them,” he told Fox.
“And there’s no excusing the faculty members and this bureaucracy of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ which excludes Jews and Asians and is against diversity, [that] is part of the problem.”
The University of Pennsylvania faced heavy criticism for allowing a literary event on campus in September which its leaders admitted would feature “several speakers who have a documented and troubling history of engaging in anti-Semitism by speaking and acting in ways that denigrate Jewish people.”
“What we’re hearing on college campuses is the hatred of America, hatred of Western tradition, a hatred of the Judeo-Christian tradition, a hatred of Israel. And that’s intolerable. We need you, presidents of universities, to address this problem directly.”
The legal scholar said that he thinks President Obama “always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well.”
“He called me to the Oval Office, and he said to me, ‘Alan, you’ve known me for a long time. You know I have Israel’s back.’ I didn’t realize he meant to paint a target on. He has never been supportive of Israel. And finally, his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president and doesn’t have [to be] elected.”
President Obama “should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize, but he won’t.”=
The Epoch Times reached out to the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama for comment.
