A new horror is emerging from the campuses, following in the path of previous revolutions
In the 1960s, the engine of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution was China’s youth. The Red Guards paramilitary movement was led by a vanguard of students.
In 1979, when American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, it was once again students to blame. We live today with the menace of the theocratic regime they midwifed.
The phenomenon that I have come to call the new radicalism – “woke plus Islamism”– has long been brewing in those ivory towers. For years, people laughed it off.
Then came October 7.
Meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last month, Iran’s supreme leader said:
“We have, so far, successfully won the media and PR wars, and have managed to change public opinion across the globe. We must continue with this.”
Telegraph 5 May 2024
More university professors are joining the demonstrations, many of whom are in their 60s and 70s and came of age during the era of Vietnam War protests
Wall Street Journal 4 May April 2024
Från höjdpunkten 1965-66 till 1967-68
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