It’s really that simple. Nothing that people claim to truly care about when it comes to Israel is truly about the so-called “Palestinians.” It is all about hatred of Jews. Nothing else.
The hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have been killed by other Muslims do not concern the masses on college campuses. The Syrian destruction of hundreds of thousands of their fellow Syrians do not concern the same students on college campuses. After all, there are no Jews in that situation.
So, what truly interests them is not the suffering of Arabs or Muslims. What bothers them is the very existence of a strong, vibrant, and successful Jewish State. Whether it is hatred, jealousy, or some other negative emotion directed against the Jewish people is not clear. But concern for suffering is obviously not the issue.
There is no concern for the suffering of Jewish people by the very people that the college students purport to support. It is simply in style to support all kinds of values today that are accepted as woke. But the tide is beginning to turn. More and more people are waking up to the reality that woke values are man-made, confused, and based on distortions of reality and truth.
Douglas Murray is one of the greatest journalists leading the pushback against the moral confusion.