Jonathan Turley's Response to Iranian University Offering Scholarships to Antisemitic Students Is Gold
As RedState reported on Tuesday, Northwestern University folded up like a cheap suit to antisemitic, pro-Hamas demonstrators, and committed to scholarships to Palestinian students, Palestinian faculty appointments, and special housing for Muslim students.
So Iran, being the bastion of education it is, has now offered scholarships to expelled antisemitic, pro-Hamas protesters and their sympathetic professors. Mohammad Moazzeni, head of Shiraz University in Fars, made the offer, according to Iran's state-owned outlet, Press TV. Moazzeni said:
Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz, as well as Fars Province, are also prepared [to provide scholarships].
He added that he was "announcing Shiraz University's decision to offer scholarships to students expelled from European and American universities."
Aww, isn't that nice? Diplomacy at its best. Nonsense.
George Washington University Law School professor and political commentator Jonathan Turley agrees— that the tit-for-tat offer is nonsense. Under the headline "Come for the Education, Stay for the Amputation: Iran Offers Free Scholarships to U.S. Students," Turley wrote in an op-ed:
Now this could truly be educational. ... This could be the single most transformative educational experience of their lives. Of course, Iran is better known for floggings than free speech. Iran is particularly prone to such contradictions like executing homosexuals while denying that there are any homosexuals in Iran or objecting to the treatment of protesters in the West while jailing, beating and killing protesters.
Turley added with a sneer:
Warning: vegan meals are not available at Iranian protests. Instead, it has ordered the arrest and killing of writers and artists while holding such fun events as a cartoon competition on the Holocaust.
All true. Yet, why do I think some of the Hamas-loving, Jew-hating demonstrators — along with demonstrators who had no opinion one way or the other, yet were instructed by organizers to at least pretend they did — would be all over this in a heartbeat?
Turley was on a roll.
In reference to student demonstrators who demanded amnesty in return for clearing their ridiculous encampments, he referenced "expungements" in the U.S. criminal justice system— before taking another shot at the Islamists in Tehran. He wrote:
While expungements are not a common feature of the criminal justice system, it does have unique elements like judicially ordered blindings. Likewise, where else can you go where a criminal defendant was ordered to be executed by being tied into a burlap bag and thrown down a cliff with sharp rocks?
Some universities clearly have space after students were arrested for protesting the death sentence given a rapper. That includes Shiraz University where the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) arrested students for protests.
Turley then focused on student Khymani James, the Columbia organizer who declared: “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Turley noted that while James and similar demonstrators "might have the right viewpoint," Iranian officials are less supportive in other respects.
He closed the op-ed, beautifully:
Just a year studying abroad in Iran is worth a lifetime of education.
So Iranian universities are making the ultimate pitch to come for the free education and stay for the free amputations.
Meanwhile, Team Biden is reportedly considering a plan to welcome Gazan refugees to America as the Israel-Hamas war continues. What could possibly go wrong?
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