The rise of American universities against the American-Israeli axis of evil

, The nationwide protests and uprising of American academics and elites in various American universities and other parts of the world, especially in Western countries, in addition to its main focus, which is protesting Israel’s crimes in and opposing the West’s cooperation in The crimes of the Zionists include wider dimensions, the most important of which is the emergence of new aspects of the inefficiency of the Western governing system.

Protests and university uprising It started from Columbia University in New York on April 17, and the protesting students demanded the termination of the university’s relationship with the Israeli institutions involved in the Gaza war. Protesters in other universities have similar demands. Students and professors don’t know, The list of American universities that have witnessed student sit-ins and demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people and opposition to the continuation of the Zionist genocide in Gaza continues to grow.Nearly 40 American universities are now active in this confrontation with policies.

Now, with the escalation of the situation and the wide dissemination of the American rulers’ treatment of this movement, the waves of this movement have now reached other countries in the world such as France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Australia, etc.

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From shouting against oppression to opposition to the government’s policy

After the operation called ” The Al-Aqsa storm on October 7 and the beginning of the Gaza war, which has led to various human tragedies against the Palestinians, has raised support for the Palestinian cause in many American universities. This happened in a country whose government was the main supporter of Israel’s crimes in Gaza is a very significant issue and requires analysis. This phenomenon can be looked at from different perspectives.

It is a sign of knowing that resistance to oppression is a natural thing, and even in societies that have been exposed to widespread propaganda for the “banality of evil” (downplaying evil), the natural calls are not completely extinguished, and even if it fades at some point, eventually It seems that this resistance will come to the fore.

When the sensitivity to cruelty to oneself has disappeared, the sensitivity to cruelty to The other one will inevitably disappear, this is a program that many American governments have been trying to institutionalize in the minds of the public regarding the Israeli-Palestinian issue for many years with different policies, including in the form of different public diplomacy programs.

But the war in Gaza and the open crimes of the Zionists have exposed these atrocities to everyone’s eyes to such an extent that all those efforts to “vulgarize evil” and “internalize oppression” have become ineffective.

> Israel and the crimes in Gaza do not end, but these protests are as much focused on opposing the crimes of the Zionist regime as they are challenging the policies of the American government and the approach of the various systems of this country towards the Palestinian issue.

It is no longer a question of a particular party or person, but the people of this commitment to Israel and unquestioning support for its crimes. are considered to be the result of the support of both the Democratic and Republican parties. This is especially true in the democratic government because this party has prioritized the defense of what it describes as human rights. But the crimes in Gaza and Washington’s support in preventing the UN resolutions to end the war along with the command and military assistance, weapons and information from the Zionists was a false line on the priority claim of the Democrats in the defense of human rights.

“Aman Abdul Hadi”, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, says about this: “Young people are increasingly disappointed with the current situation in domestic and foreign policy issues.

This sociologist believes that these activities in the university campus can be the beginning of political changes.

Inefficiency of liberal democracy system once again

Pratap Bhanu Mehta , the vice-chancellor of Ashoka University and the head of the Indian Policy Research Center, believes that these protests and their severe repression indicate three crises in the liberal democratic system.

In an article, he emphasizes that this crisis of liberal democracy can be analyzed from three perspectives: the first crisis is that America, which has the most influence and leverage on Israel, along with the international community, is averse to the responsibilities caused by the terrible issues that It happened in Gaza, they avoided it and ignored it. These protests are the result of the failure of the liberal democracy system, which allowed the hostilities in Gaza to be exposed to public opinion in this way. This action of the students was an attempt to remove this moral deficiency.

According to Mehta, the second crisis of liberal democracy was that the whole world realized this fact. They realized that even in a country that claims freedom of speech and despite having a law known as the First Amendment of the Constitution to protect freedom of speech, the category of freedom is easily exposed to political and party considerations in that society. Humiliating academics, especially university presidents, and arresting professors have sent a disappointing message even to the future of this freedom of expression.

The third inefficiency of liberal democracy in terms Expert, the bipolar atmosphere is deepening in American society and the type of reactions to these protests and their political use will contribute to this bipolar atmosphere.

The way politicians deal with this uprising is also a confirmation of why there are protests against the American government system. Interestingly, both the main parties of the United States, as well as the White House and groups supporting the Israeli regime, along with the leaders of the Zionist regime, including Benjamin Netanyahu, have accused the protesting students of inciting anti-Semitism; Accusations that the protesters vehemently deny.

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Besides these accusations, the use of the harshest measures against students and professors, the entry of security forces into classrooms or university campuses to arrest protesters, and the disclosure of images of snipers on the roofs of universities to counter the uprising. A student is a sign of the insistence of these rulers to continue their ineffective approach. /Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1403/02/09/14030209181654375299099010.jpg”/>

Many scientists in the past years, of course, considering the contradictions The internal values ​​of liberalism have predicted such a situation and have put forward arguments about why the liberal world order led by America will inevitably reach such a point.

“Patrick Denin”, a political science theorist at Notre Dame University, is one of the theorists who has proposed theories about the decline of this ideology in view of the failures of liberalism.

In his book “Why Liberalism Failed?” It argues that inequality, people’s mistrust of government officials, family weakness, environmental crisis, etc. in American society are signs that liberalism has entered a crisis of legitimacy today, but contrary to the idea of ​​its defenders, this crisis is not a temporary external matter, but by Liberalism itself is created.

Throughout the book, Denin argues that the theory of liberalism from the beginning has internal contradictions that inevitably lead to the current situation. will be “Why did liberalism fail?” It is a theoretical rebellion against the claim that every problem in the liberalism system is caused by moving away from the principle of liberalism theory and can be compensated by “more liberal” reforms.

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