ANDREW NEIL: Our university bosses will rue the day they failed to stand up to the posh pro-Hamas student protestors wallowing in their own stupidity By Andrew Neil, Daily Mail Published: 21:22 EDT, 19 May 2024 | Updated: 21:22 EDT, 19 May 2024 e-mail View comments The more elite the British university, the more stupid the students. Strange, even counter-intuitive, but sadly — even scarily — true, at least when it comes to Israel and Hamas . As the Mail reported on Saturday, a poll of 1,000 students across 20 campuses found that 29 per cent regarded the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel 'understandable' and an act of 'resistance', which is bad enough.
But when the results were narrowed down to Russell Group universities, Britain's answer to America's famed Ivy League, backing for Hamas rose to 38 per cent, which is shameful. Only one in three saw it as a 'terrorist attack'. So many of our smartest and most expensively educated students have failed to understand that what Hamas mounted was an old-fashioned, barbarous pogrom.
Perhaps they are unfamiliar with the word and its evil history. October 7 should have educated them. Hamas killers poured over the Gaza border into Israel with the primary purpose of murdering as many Jews as they could — as happened so often in the past in Eastern Europe and Russia .
Pro-Hamas student activists stage a protest outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History as the conflict between Israel and Gaza continues They also took some.
