Robert Spencer : Any sane country would never have let the likes of Momodou Taal
inside. But we let him in and welcomed him in every possible way as he
chanted support for Islamic terrorism.
While leading an anti-Israel campus demonstration last
year, Taal called on his fellow student protesters to take their “cue
from the armed resistance in Palestine.”
That is to say Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Jihadist groups.
Taal made a similar statement hours after the October 7
attacks, writing, “The dialect demands: That wherever you have
oppression, you will find those who [are] fighting against it. Glory to
the resistance!”
The ‘dialect’ for that perfect synthesis of the red-green alliance.
Cornell responded to this by not only keeping Taal on campus, but letting him teach a class on how much he hates us.
Also in October 2024, Inside Higher Ed reported that Taal
was “banned from [Cornell’s] campus and from teaching his course—What
Is Blackness? Race and Processes of Racialization.” However, in fall
2024, Cornell released a brochure with a list of courses that included
Taal’s class.
While the Biden administration let Taal rampage, the Trump
administration announced that his visa was being pulled and he was told
to come to ICE and surrender.
Even though Taal had left behind statements endorsing terrorism and
calling for the extermination of Jews, the media and lefties are
rallying on his behalf.
This is what they’re fine with.
Taal took aim at “Zionist-Jewish students at Ivy League institutions.”
“Every single Zionist is a sick sick individual,” he tweeted in 2023.
“And there can be no path forward except for the complete eradication
of Zionism; materially and mentally.” In another tweet, Taal wrote,
“Zionists are indeed the chosen people… Chosen for hell.”
This is Nazi rhetoric. And it has the endorsement of the Left.
The Sinister Way Trump’s DOJ Tried to Deport Cornell Student Protester – The New Republic
He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In. – The Intercept
Pro-Israel watchdog takes credit after Cornell pro-Palestinian activist is told to surrender to ICE – JTA
The JTA article is especially egregious as it describes Taal as
merely a “pro-Palestinian activist”, makes no mention of his support for
Hamas or the murder of Jews, but slurs Betar US, which reported him, as
a “militant pro-Israel group”.
It at the end puts “Hamas sympathizers” in quotation marks.
I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again, if you live in an area with
a Jewish paper, it probably runs JTA material, ask it to stop. If it
won’t, boycott it.
CNN likewise covers Taal with the greatest of sympathy, tells the
story from his perspective and that of his Islamist allies, and makes
zero mention of his actual rhetoric, but does repeat the false claim
that the actions against him are “racist, Islamophobic”.
The media is quite okay with Jewish genocide. It’s completely opposed to deporting even the worst Hamas supporter.