Lara Sheehi, a GWU professor, is a virulent advocate for Hamas terrorists. She’s part of the larger problem of anti-Israel hatred that is coursing through our college campuses.

According to Sheehi, Hamas terrorists are the martyrs and must be supported. 

The professor, Lara Sheehi, uploaded dozens of such posts in the days since Hamas’s terrorist rampage in Israel, screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. In one of those posts, Sheehi praised a statement critical of “anyone condemning the Palestinians’ armed resistance” and argued that the attacks were merely Hamas’s response to “Israel’s genocidal intent.” In another, Sheehi expressed support for George Washington University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The group had described Hamas terrorists as “martyrs,” a message Sheehi boosted. Sheehi also argued that Israelis were “NOT being killed for being Jewish” and blasted “Western media and politicians” for reporting that Hamas raped Israeli women.

As you read through the linked article, you can see how vile her messages of support are. Her hatred of Israel and Jews has been so strong, that she’s been investigated and George Washington University has kept the full report hidden. NOW she’s been under federal investigation since last year since Jewish students filed a Title VI complaint. 

In one case, students said Sheehi started an exercise aimed at “affirming” each student’s identity—until one student said she was born in Israel.

“It’s not your fault you were born in Israel,” Sheehi replied, according to a student in attendance. The professor, who has said she wants to “destroy Zionism,” also invited a speaker to campus last year who praised Palestinian terrorism and denounced “white Israeli racism.”

In the days since the heinous attacks on multiple kibbutz’s through Israel, the ugliness of anti-semitism has been on full display on college campuses across the country. 

Jewish students are terrified. Some are even being attacked.

At a rally at the University of Louisville on Thursday, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas SJP chants included: 'From Palestine to Mexico, all these walls have got to go' and 'not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes.' pic.twitter.com/ngG2L9Myst

— Jennifer Kabbany (@JenniferKabbany) October 13, 2023

A Stanford professor (who counts Colin Kaepernick as one of his best success stories) is on leave for telling Jewish students to go stand in a corner. Yale Professor Zareena Grewel won’t be disciplined because Yale insists her hatred of Jews and Israel is expressed on her own time, not Yale’s. 

Universities are being drug kicking and screaming into issuing statements supporting Israel and condemning Hamas terrorism. Some universities are now losing millions in donor support. 

Israeli billionaire alumni and Harvard board member Idan Ofer:

Ofer, the shipping and chemicals magnate whose net worth was valued by Forbes at $14 billion as of Thursday, said he and his wife were quitting the board, according to the Hebrew-language news site TheMarker.

Ofer and his wife, Batia, said they resigned “in protest of the shocking and insensitive response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations who blamed Israel for the massacres.”

Former Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. has informed his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, that he and his family will permanently close their checkbook.

“The University’s silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel (when the only response should be outright condemnation) is a new low,” Huntsman wrote. “Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate.”

But many of those same colleges and universities are now offering mental health support …to those students who are supporting Hamas! 

All the colleges were quick to jump on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon. Supporting Israel? Not so much. 

The horrors in Israel are seen as the concern of Jewish communities everywhere. But, instead of leading to a global JLM movement, they have led to vandalized synagogues and extra security at Jewish schools. An attack on Jews in Israel is seen not as a metaphysical attack on the worldwide community, but as a trigger for literal attacks on Jews elsewhere.

The difference between BLM and these atrocities lies in the “decolonize” doctrines that dominate our discourse. Society is conceived as a pyramid of privilege. Any group deemed to be oppressed is allowed to hit out at those imagined to be above it. Jews generally, and Israelis particularly, are too successful to be victims. Indeed, the state of Israel exists precisely because Jews had had enough of playing that role.

This way of thinking is why several BLM chapters reveled in the slaughter, posting images of the Hamas bulldozers and paragliders used in the attacks, and identifying black people with Palestinians. It also explains why parts of the Left have struggled to take sides unequivocally — even for babies and against their murderers.

As noted above, colleges and universities had to be coerced into condemning the Hamas terror attacks. Some have issued no statements whatsoever. Their silence is quite telling. 

GWU Professor Lara Sheehi is just one example of how anti-semitism has flourished across college campuses.

Bill Maher Gets Moment of Clarity: I'm Not So Sure the Anti-Semitic Left-Wing Faction Is 'Small'

MAHER: “I just want to finish with the values first, because it just amazing to me that the American left, so much of it, throws their lot in with people whose values I hope they… pic.twitter.com/kHxwWppDm4

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 15, 2023

Now, with the attacks on Israel and the fact that very few people were held accountable for all the Black Lives Matter riots, it seems they feel they can crawl out from under their rocks and proudly wave their pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel flags and receive applause instead of pushback. 

Feature Photo Credit: Israel flag on fire via iStock, cropped and modified