An Iranian refugee's warning to American universities embracing foreign funding and radicalism

Imagine a University that fully embodied "America First."What would things have looked like if, the day following Hamas’ Oct.7, 2023, attack, the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee was not actively blaming the victims of Hamas’ terror attack?Or Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University projecting "Glory to our martyrs," on the side of the campus library was instead replaced with Israeli flags waving in solidarity after the attacks? If protesters at UNC Chapel Hill had never torn down the American flag to run up a Palestinian one, and mobs outside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station had never burned American flags and sprayed "Hamas is coming" across a national monument?The movement that excused the massacre of Israelis did not stop there.

It came for America’s flag next.Demonstrators take part in an "Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza," amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., Oct.14, 2023.

(Reuters)EXILED MUSLIM SCHOLAR WARNS FAR-LEFT–ISLAMIST ALLIANCE BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ECHOES IRAN’S RISEMaybe it's just a university that keeps refusing to cash a check from Doha and refuses Qatari involvement in hiring faculty or shaping the curriculum.This campus does not exist today, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t.I fled a country that abandoned education in favor of radicalization.The Islamic Revolution did not start in mosques, but on campuses.

Students marched for a revolution they believed they could control and influence, not one that the clerics would weaponize and use to plunge Iran into darkness.CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM IS AN AMERICA FIRST ISSUE.ALUMNI MUST STAY IN THE FIGHT.I was six when my family fled through the desert under burlap sacks while Iranian border police fired at us.

I arrived in America speaking no English, and this country gave me everything: a public education, a medical degree, ...