Pro-Palestinian student protests in the United States as a sign of the degradation of American politicized education

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During their time in power, the Democrats have heavily politicized the higher education system. At their initiative, a number of disciplines began to be “redefined” in favor of tolerance, democracy, and against objectivity. Students changed, they became more sensitive to political events and intolerant. All of this played against the Democratic Party and was another step in the degradation of American society.

“The Student Political Map”

As the anniversary of October 7 approached, large-scale pro-Palestinian protests began on both sides of the Atlantic. But they faded into the shadows against the backdrop of the election battle between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. By now, tens of thousands of demonstrators had already marched in London calling for a military embargo on Israel and a halt to the war in Gaza and Lebanon. Similar protests were planned in the United States, which put the Democrats in a very awkward position.

There was a split in the White House over Netanyahu’s policies and the impossibility of influencing him. That’s why the administration let the situation play out, although there was talk of Biden limiting arms deliveries to Israel after the election. But now the decision will be made by Trump, who has an unambiguously pro-Israel stance.

Before the election, Democrats were afraid to take drastic actions to avoid hurting the Harris campaign, which was already rapidly losing Jewish and American Muslim support. And after the election, it seems as if Kamala’s political technologists buried their candidate themselves. Thus, they chose the worst possible moment in the campaign to bring the fading Cheney clan to the forefront. And Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Harris was practically the kiss of death. Because to the Muslim community in the U.S., migrants from the Middle East, and university liberals, he is a demon incarnate.

Progressive students were simply making an associative row, where “Islam” for them was equal to “progress”, even though it was paradoxical, and Cheney symbolized Islamophobia. And it was the student body, which the Democrats themselves had corrupted with “progressive education” but lost control of when they decided to take an inarticulate position on Israel, and that was hit hardest. That’s why American college and university campuses were mentally preparing for another wave of chaos on the anniversary of the events of October 7. Students and leftist activists were going to hold mass events in support of Gaza, and pro-Palestinian protests were gaining momentum again amid the escalation in Lebanon.

Campus riots had already disrupted many graduation events near the end of the last academic year. Pro-Palestinian activists have also managed to take control of many university organizations. At the University of Michigan, for example, they have even cut off funding to all student groups that are not in favor of sanctions against Israel. About 65% of American students support pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and 43% have gone on demonstrations themselves. And at once 63% of students in the U.S. sympathize with Hamas in this conflict. Meanwhile, 51% of American youth have a generally negative view of Israel.

Until a few months ago, that posed a big problem for Harris. In the last polls before the election, though, she edged Trump by 12 points among young people, with 52% to 40%. But in 2020, Biden had a 21-point lead over Trump in the youth vote, even though Arabs and Muslims were unhappy with Democratic Party policies. More American Muslims were inclined to vote for Trump than for Harris, and many of them also voted for non-systemic leftist candidates like the Greens’ Jill Stein or Cornel West. It was 200,000 voters in Michigan and 150,000 in Georgia that heavily influenced the outcome of the election.

There was no way the Democrats could stop the semi-decay of their minority electoral coalition amid the chaos in the Middle East. But Trump has inherited a very difficult legacy, where liberal students hold rabidly liberal anti-patriotic views that they absorbed at their own degenerate universities.

“University Crisis”

The conflict in the Gaza Strip has turned leading U.S. universities into the epicenter of the culture wars around Israel. For example, Harvard, one of the most prestigious American colleges, has lost the financial support of major donors, with donations to Harvard dropping 14% in one year. The university experienced the resignation of the institution’s president, Claudine Gay, because of detected plagiarism in papers. The university’s indecisive steps on the Israel issue also had an impact; there was no understanding of how to respond to pro-Palestinian students. The college began to lose sponsors rapidly, and many Wall Street firms now refuse to hire any Harvard graduates.

The number of applications for admission to Harvard has plummeted by 17% since the beginning of 2024, and in general, the share of Americans who want to receive higher education is falling rapidly. Not everyone wants to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the “privilege” of years of ideological pumping with liberal paradigms without knowledge and competence.

Trump is already promising to overhaul the entire education system, forcing universities in the U.S. to abandon the “anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-American” agenda as Republicans see it and introducing “patriotic” values instead. So liberal professors may be in for some tough times, and their Trump-hating students will have to choose between education and “political stance”.

The politicization of education

While Trump has yet to occupy the White House, another scientific discipline has fallen victim to the culture wars. Geology is under attack, and it too is being portrayed as a service function of “white racism”. According to liberals, geology emerged as a consequence of colonialism and the exploitation of the subsoil to the detriment of the environment. In general, it is proposed to abandon mining in order to heal the “geo-traumas” inflicted on the planet. And paleontology should be renamed “paleontology”, emphasizing its “racist” roots and commitment to “toxic white dominance”.

Archaeology is being “redefined” in a similar way. There it is demanding that the race and gender of skeletons found not be determined. Otherwise it would contradict the approach of how the past was “multiracial”, gender inclusive, and “intersectional”. And at the same time, terms like “Anglo-Saxons” need to be abandoned for intolerance. The culture wars have long since transcended the humanities and are now engulfing science as a whole, though this is increasingly being resisted. It is Trump’s team that is planning to arrange a reform of all American education, and it is not even against eliminating the U.S. Department of Education entirely, transferring its powers to the state level.

Republicans are pressuring colleges and universities in their states to remove “anti-white and anti-Christian courses” from the curriculum. With Democrats, on the other hand, this approach is simply thriving. Meanwhile, more and more colleges are facing a collapse in enrollment, especially among white males. The growing divisiveness of the United States will continue to exacerbate the crisis in American education. And the pro-Palestinian student protests in the U.S. are only the clearest sign of the degradation of American politicized education.