Watchdog names 10 US colleges ‘most friendly to terrorists’

Harvard, Columbia, and Brandeis are among 10 leading American universities named by the David Horowitz Freedom Center as being the “most friendly” to radical Islamic propaganda and anti-Israel incitement.

Analyzing hundreds of examples from the past decade, the center asserts that “there are organizations on American campuses that support the agendas of terrorists groups [Hamas, al-Qaida and Islamic State] and spread their propaganda and lies with the financial and institutional support of university administrations.”

The report lists the 10 worst offenders alphabetically: Brandeis University; Columbia University; Harvard University; Rutgers University-New Brunswick; San Francisco State University; the University of California, Irvine; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Diego; the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; and the University of New Mexico.

The report names the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, both established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, as examples for organizations that sponsor annual campus events such as “Israeli apartheid week,” during which “they lead chants calling for the destruction of the Jewish state ‘from the river to the sea.’ They are the chief sponsors of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, inspired by Hamas, whose goal is the economic strangulation of the Jewish state.”

Moreover, “These terrorist-supported organizations are afforded campus privileges, including university offices and the right to hold events on campus grounds that would be denied to any other group preaching the hatred of ethnic groups or supporting barbaric terrorists, who slaughter men, women and children as part of a demented mission to cleanse the earth of infidels,” David Horowitz, who founded the nonprofit Freedom Center in 1989, said in a press release.

“We are publishing this report to put a spotlight on the American college campuses most supportive of these sinister activities, which put not only our ally Israel in danger, but our homeland as well.”

Professor Peretz Lavie, chairman of the Association of University Heads and president of the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology said the report was troubling. “It is unfortunate to see how prominent universities across the U.S. are allowing and supporting anti-Israel activities, even if not explicitly.”