I think people are just not very good at pattern recognition. The world has seen parallel aspects of the forces that resulted in the holocaust many times in the last 70+ years. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan... "But we aren't anything like those places." might well be a reasonable defense in terms of superficial details, except it really "isn't" the details that are important: it's the patterns. The movement of the societal energy if you will. It also seems to me that this really isn't even a Left/Right movement anymore; it's just that the Left is more articulate about the "program." Both ends of the spectrum have devolved into conspiracy theories, and non-scientific magical thinking. Neither seems to want to read much real history either....
As usual, I am deeply jealous of your ability to assemble a broad range of facts and present them elegantly. And of course, any article that quotes Chesterton automatically goes to the head of the class. Well done. But will those marching in the streets and chanting “from the river to the sea” ever read Chesterton, or this wonderful explication of equitism?
Thanks, Mark. If one of those marchers reads this and rethinks, then it's worth it. But I'm not really writing for the river-to-the-sea marchers. Writing for people in the middle, who listen to facts, and who are capable of persuasion. The correspondence I get suggests that there are quite a few of them.
The concept of virtues unmoored from each other is brilliant and so true today. No one thinks of themselves as evil but many are. Truth without pity, charity without discretion or faith without reason are, with the other virtues, so capable of vast damage without guilt to leaven them and that unmooring is our great burden and has resulted in the horrors we see in our age. Truly the killing of faith and it's attendant virutes has been no favor.
Physicians were indeed at the forefront of the Holocaust and I have the sinking feeling that medicine is again starting down a very dark path. The degree to which "equitism" (love the word, btw) has already infiltrated medicine is terrifying--and it's starting to have real world effects, such as prioritizing certain racial groups for scarce resources and procedures in the name of "health equity." I wrote a full Substack about this issue here: https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/save-the-planet-kill-your-patient
"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (primarily to its denigrators) “wokeness.”"
The fact that so much has been written on the topic of “what to call this thing” is, in itself, really interesting. Not sure I quite understand it, or what it means.
Words, words and more words. On October 7, the Hamas terrorists were armed, the Israelis massacred were defenseless. The unanswered question is why did Israel disarm its citizens most of whom are IDF veterans and leave them vulnerable to mass rape and murder by Hamas? An incredibly stupid decision and the Israeli government is clearly culpable. Every Jewish family in Israel (and the US) should have a 9 mm handgun, an AR15 rifle and plenty of ammunition for both. Every adult and teenage member of the family should be proficient in their use. Have anti-gun Jewish politicians in both countries learned nothing from the Holocaust and the latest slaughter? Isn't it time for the Jewish people to tell them to go fuck themselves?
Political bias blinds many to the current danger. Three years ago, the alumnae/i association of my alma mater Hunter College High School organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Zoom, in which several of my former classmates gave moving accounts of their experiences in escaping the horrors of fascist totalitarianism and anti-Semitism. But I was deeply dismayed by the minimal response to the queries I posted to the chat asking about any parallels today and, in particular, about threats coming from the left. To the latter point, the only response I received was from a non-panelist who suggested that my concern was probably due to “watching too much Fox or Newsmax.”
In a follow-up message to the event organizers at hunter, I argued that “the impulse for totalitarian control now evidenced by the Left (from censorship and cancel culture to the lopsidedly ‘progressive’ rewriting of American history and the systemic embrace of critical race theory) probably pose a far graver danger to us all than any fascist-inspired incidents of late.” My subsequent suggestion for an event dealing with those urgent concerns fell on deaf ears.
This is a fantastic article, truly on the mark. In most universities that I have experienced, Holocaust studies amounts to kind of leftist legitimized death pornography. Oh how sad! Oh how bad! Oh how exciting! But the unique focus on Jewish people, the politics and history of actual anti-Semitism throughout history gets short shrift. It is so easily reduced to an analog of how horrible people can be. Unless it focuses on the unique hatred and murder of Jewish people, explicitly for their Judaism, it is cynical rubbish.
Thank you Professor Graboyes for sharing your gifts in this piece of journalism. This is the most concise and sharable essay written on this topic that I have found. Thank you so much for summarizing and defining "Equitism". Equitism has taken over so many institutions, including many mainline protestant religions. Hoping to evangelize the term among my small sphere of influence.
Sorry, but there is nothing even remotely reliable about Human Rights Watch. It is a propaganda outlet with a long history of contempt for Israel and apologist for antisemitism elsewhere in the world. The surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia article, "Criticism of Human Rights Watch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watch), currently offers 91 footnotes whose links are loaded with documentation on the organization's dishonesty, corruption, and bigotry. Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) offers a treasure trove of information on HRW (https://www.jns.org/?s=human+rights+watch). The "murderers and animals" quote referred to Hamas, not to Palestinians in general.
This article is typical of the cowardly, shameless lies and propaganda being spewed out by the Israeli government and its subservient mouthpieces, like Mr. Graboyes. His first paragraph alone is filled with many lies, like the beheadings, that have been totally refuted. I'm an American combat veteran who spent 3 months in Israel/Palestine and personally witnessed the daily brutality, degradation and atrocities inflicted upon innocent Palestinians by Israeli troops and rabid settlers. This has been ongoing for over 75 years, and no people on earth should ever have to endure what the Palestinians have, and not fight back against their illegal occupiers. The overwhelming majority of people in the world have condemned Israel's genocide against the Palestinians, and this will never be forgiven, or forgotten.
“Rabid settlers’. I have a name for you. Jew hater. Palestinians have had multiple offers to make peace. Refused every time and useful idiots like you defend them. Yes there were beheadings. Raped. Families burned alive. Maybe you don’t want to face facts: Hamas are Islamic barbarians.
Rabid settlers is an understatement, and using the label 'Jew hater' exposes the emptiness and credulity of your posts. Based on your response, you would fit right in with the maniacal and insufferable settlers in the West Bank, and especially Hebron. They take pleasure in poisoning the Palestinians wells, destroying their olive groves, harassing Palestinian children going to school, etc etc. Hasbara like you are the poster child for the worldwide increase for hatred of Israel and the evil they represent.
Oh of course that old trope ‘the Jew poisoning the well’. There is a rich literature of Jew hatred for people like you to draw upon. And yes you end with Jews being responsible for Jew hatred. How interesting. Well I can see that you are either a raid denier or rape apologist for the the savage Hamas marauders. You share their heart of darkness.
The idiocy of your moral equivalency. Do you actually know what happened October 7? Probably not because that doesn’t fit your insane narrative. Whatever. And yes Hamas are savages. Maybe they overplayed their hand a bit on October 7? Let us know exactly what kind of genocidal maniacs they are. But useful idiots like you never gonna get it.
Dear NSYA, after reading this exchange I just have to reach out to you in support of your position. Let me start by saying I am a scientist and put less stock in the words used than the actual thing being discussed. I rely on the evidence I can see more than the words people speak at me.
Whatever words are used to describe the 'events' of Oct 7th, the physical and photographic evidence remain unchanged: acts of epic barbarism were committed on that day. No matter what inspired them and no matter how much injustice preceded them - the acts were barbaric. The evidence is unambiguous.
I am sure there were crimes committed against Palestinians over the past 3/4 of a century and those crimes should be addressed by a justice system. They should not be used as an excuse to commit further crimes. If no justice system can serve, at least we should not let past crimes justify future crimes.
Why? Because that works both ways: just as Palestinians point to past crimes to justify recent crimes, Israelis will point to Oct 7th to justify future crimes. And so it will go. As long as that cycle is fed no one in that region will have sustained peace. additionally, if the campaign "From the River to the Sea" ever succeeds, it will be unlikely anyone will be left to occupy that land - if, indeed, the land is still inhabitable.
My bloodlust? Ask fucking Sinwar about his. And those of the thousands of Hamas and non Hamas who invaded Israel in October 7. Murder. Beheading. Sexual violence including rape. Kidnapping. Burning entire families alive. That’s fucking bloodlust. If these are the people you think are the liberators that’s on you.
It’s a war. And Hamas is being destroyed. Sewer rats hiding in tunnels popping out. If this is problematic for you that’s too bad. It’s reality. Iranian proxies. The nosy illiberal totalitarian Islamic death cult but omg you want ti defend these people.
Are you a rape defender or rape apologist? How do you feel about burning people alive? If Hamas act like savages (which they do) then they are savages. Or we could call it barbarians. That’s descriptive of their actions. It’s not racism. Reality bites for people like you becusse you are defending Islamist totalitarian murderers. Look at their source. Iran.
Don’t waste a minute- sign up for the next Holocaust Denial Conference in Durban South Africa - you’ll be quite at home. Share your opinions with your ilk and avoid desecrating the rest of humanity.
No insults- none of your arguments have any basis in fact. An invaded sovereign country has every right to defend itself against a blood- thirsty enemy hell-bent on its destruction. The infrastructure for that purpose was established with billions of dollars from the Iran/Qatar axis aided and abetted by UNRWA for the past 15 yrs. The 400 miles of terror tunnels used for command and control centers and for the purpose of kidnapping hostages is proof of their intentions- made obvious to the world on Oct 7th. The rest of the campaign was to have occurred in the north and in the West Bank. Thankfully it could not be coordinated.
Just some plain old facts from a more than casual observer.
I f every single resident of Gaza harbored genocidal thoughts in their head, including every man, woman, and child, that would not excuse the genocide which the Israeli Defense Force is at present conducting on that unhappy territory.
It is not anti-Semitic to protest this ongoing genocide: even the International Court of Justice has done so. Yes, Holocaust Memorial is hollow, but not for the reason you advance; it is hollow because it helps to foster the excuse the Israeli government propounds as it kills indiscriminately and maliciously, violating the Genocide Convention which it was the first to sign.
It’s not a genocide. It’s a war started by Hamas. Maybe Sinwar should have thought twice before unleashing unspeakable violence against Israel. Oh I’ll speak of it. Murder rape beheading burning alive kidnapping. Only called genocide when Israel is involved. Would you have cried in World War Two about German deaths?
‘Stop pretending to condemn what you enjoy’. A bit of projection from Unclouded the antiSemite. The extent of the cognitive manipulations of these people is quite shocking actually. When you try to explain the savagery of Israel’s enemy Hamas, apparently it’s because you are perverted yourself. There is nothing more screwed up than the mind of an antisemite. Turn itself into a pretzel so that Jews are always to blame.
I certainly don’t ask for pity. But maybe you need it cause you are not used to people calling out your crap. You are the master of projection. I assume you are maybe intelligent enough to know what that is?
You can’t deal with Hamas barbarism so you project it on me? What the fuck is wrong with you.
Who, exactly, are these "intellectuals in America, Europe...waxed lyrical over the rape, torture, mutilation, murder, beheading, and kidnapping of innocent Jews?" I haven't seen any intellectuals in America or Europe who have done this. Names, please, and "lyrical" quotes.
Cornell History Professor Russell Rickford: "It was exhilarating, it was exhilarating, it was energizing! And if they weren’t exhilarated by this, this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated!” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/10/18/cornell-leaders-condemn-prof-exhilarated-hamas-attack. Loads of others. Just try Googling. The intellectuals' exhilaration will come flowing out of your laptop like a backed-up toilet.
There is a popular game on the internet: ask someone to provide supporting material for their position then after time & energy is spent, pooh-pooh it or just ignore it (for example Graboyes' posting of Dr Rickford's comment).
I no longer take the bait unless I have some sort of IRL connection to the requestor - but then again, I am content to let my fellow man wallow in ignorance ;)
If they even are human...
About 30 years ago a cartoon was published in The New Yorker:
I know. I'm a glutton for punishment. A good response might be "Try Google. I'm sure you can find an 8-year-old to help you learn how to use it." I enjoyed the "No one knows you're a dog" story and the habit of drawing a cartoon and then trying to figure out an appropriate caption. David Burge, a.k.a. "Iowahawk" is a longtime Twitter/X wit with a dark, acidic sense of humor. A decade ago, he formulated what he called "Burge's Law": "Every New Yorker cartoon can be improved by recaptioning 'I think I'm going to kill myself'"
I think people are just not very good at pattern recognition. The world has seen parallel aspects of the forces that resulted in the holocaust many times in the last 70+ years. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan... "But we aren't anything like those places." might well be a reasonable defense in terms of superficial details, except it really "isn't" the details that are important: it's the patterns. The movement of the societal energy if you will. It also seems to me that this really isn't even a Left/Right movement anymore; it's just that the Left is more articulate about the "program." Both ends of the spectrum have devolved into conspiracy theories, and non-scientific magical thinking. Neither seems to want to read much real history either....
As usual, I am deeply jealous of your ability to assemble a broad range of facts and present them elegantly. And of course, any article that quotes Chesterton automatically goes to the head of the class. Well done. But will those marching in the streets and chanting “from the river to the sea” ever read Chesterton, or this wonderful explication of equitism?
Thanks, Mark. If one of those marchers reads this and rethinks, then it's worth it. But I'm not really writing for the river-to-the-sea marchers. Writing for people in the middle, who listen to facts, and who are capable of persuasion. The correspondence I get suggests that there are quite a few of them.
The concept of virtues unmoored from each other is brilliant and so true today. No one thinks of themselves as evil but many are. Truth without pity, charity without discretion or faith without reason are, with the other virtues, so capable of vast damage without guilt to leaven them and that unmooring is our great burden and has resulted in the horrors we see in our age. Truly the killing of faith and it's attendant virutes has been no favor.
Wow. What a great article. Five stars. Thank you so much. I hope it is widely read.
Thanks so much! Please spread the word.
Physicians were indeed at the forefront of the Holocaust and I have the sinking feeling that medicine is again starting down a very dark path. The degree to which "equitism" (love the word, btw) has already infiltrated medicine is terrifying--and it's starting to have real world effects, such as prioritizing certain racial groups for scarce resources and procedures in the name of "health equity." I wrote a full Substack about this issue here: https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/save-the-planet-kill-your-patient
Fantastic piece--especially that call for "social justice rather than medical expertise."
"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (primarily to its denigrators) “wokeness.”"
The fact that so much has been written on the topic of “what to call this thing” is, in itself, really interesting. Not sure I quite understand it, or what it means.
The less charitable explanation is that it is a tool for obfuscation and motte-and-bailey rhetorical gamesmanship.
Just call it blithering idiocy!
Words, words and more words. On October 7, the Hamas terrorists were armed, the Israelis massacred were defenseless. The unanswered question is why did Israel disarm its citizens most of whom are IDF veterans and leave them vulnerable to mass rape and murder by Hamas? An incredibly stupid decision and the Israeli government is clearly culpable. Every Jewish family in Israel (and the US) should have a 9 mm handgun, an AR15 rifle and plenty of ammunition for both. Every adult and teenage member of the family should be proficient in their use. Have anti-gun Jewish politicians in both countries learned nothing from the Holocaust and the latest slaughter? Isn't it time for the Jewish people to tell them to go fuck themselves?
Political bias blinds many to the current danger. Three years ago, the alumnae/i association of my alma mater Hunter College High School organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Zoom, in which several of my former classmates gave moving accounts of their experiences in escaping the horrors of fascist totalitarianism and anti-Semitism. But I was deeply dismayed by the minimal response to the queries I posted to the chat asking about any parallels today and, in particular, about threats coming from the left. To the latter point, the only response I received was from a non-panelist who suggested that my concern was probably due to “watching too much Fox or Newsmax.”
In a follow-up message to the event organizers at hunter, I argued that “the impulse for totalitarian control now evidenced by the Left (from censorship and cancel culture to the lopsidedly ‘progressive’ rewriting of American history and the systemic embrace of critical race theory) probably pose a far graver danger to us all than any fascist-inspired incidents of late.” My subsequent suggestion for an event dealing with those urgent concerns fell on deaf ears.
Excellent! A true anti-racist organization calling out the racism of the so-called “anti-racism” of White Fragility.
Now to get the NYT and the Atlantic and their ilk to acknowledge the cancer of DEI race essentialism.
This is a fantastic article, truly on the mark. In most universities that I have experienced, Holocaust studies amounts to kind of leftist legitimized death pornography. Oh how sad! Oh how bad! Oh how exciting! But the unique focus on Jewish people, the politics and history of actual anti-Semitism throughout history gets short shrift. It is so easily reduced to an analog of how horrible people can be. Unless it focuses on the unique hatred and murder of Jewish people, explicitly for their Judaism, it is cynical rubbish.
Thank you Professor Graboyes for sharing your gifts in this piece of journalism. This is the most concise and sharable essay written on this topic that I have found. Thank you so much for summarizing and defining "Equitism". Equitism has taken over so many institutions, including many mainline protestant religions. Hoping to evangelize the term among my small sphere of influence.
Thank you so much, and evangelize away! I plan to write a more complete essay on the topic of equitism--the word and the concept itself.
Thank you for this.
Sorry, but there is nothing even remotely reliable about Human Rights Watch. It is a propaganda outlet with a long history of contempt for Israel and apologist for antisemitism elsewhere in the world. The surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia article, "Criticism of Human Rights Watch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watch), currently offers 91 footnotes whose links are loaded with documentation on the organization's dishonesty, corruption, and bigotry. Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) offers a treasure trove of information on HRW (https://www.jns.org/?s=human+rights+watch). The "murderers and animals" quote referred to Hamas, not to Palestinians in general.
This article is typical of the cowardly, shameless lies and propaganda being spewed out by the Israeli government and its subservient mouthpieces, like Mr. Graboyes. His first paragraph alone is filled with many lies, like the beheadings, that have been totally refuted. I'm an American combat veteran who spent 3 months in Israel/Palestine and personally witnessed the daily brutality, degradation and atrocities inflicted upon innocent Palestinians by Israeli troops and rabid settlers. This has been ongoing for over 75 years, and no people on earth should ever have to endure what the Palestinians have, and not fight back against their illegal occupiers. The overwhelming majority of people in the world have condemned Israel's genocide against the Palestinians, and this will never be forgiven, or forgotten.
“Rabid settlers’. I have a name for you. Jew hater. Palestinians have had multiple offers to make peace. Refused every time and useful idiots like you defend them. Yes there were beheadings. Raped. Families burned alive. Maybe you don’t want to face facts: Hamas are Islamic barbarians.
Rabid settlers is an understatement, and using the label 'Jew hater' exposes the emptiness and credulity of your posts. Based on your response, you would fit right in with the maniacal and insufferable settlers in the West Bank, and especially Hebron. They take pleasure in poisoning the Palestinians wells, destroying their olive groves, harassing Palestinian children going to school, etc etc. Hasbara like you are the poster child for the worldwide increase for hatred of Israel and the evil they represent.
Oh of course that old trope ‘the Jew poisoning the well’. There is a rich literature of Jew hatred for people like you to draw upon. And yes you end with Jews being responsible for Jew hatred. How interesting. Well I can see that you are either a raid denier or rape apologist for the the savage Hamas marauders. You share their heart of darkness.
The idiocy of your moral equivalency. Do you actually know what happened October 7? Probably not because that doesn’t fit your insane narrative. Whatever. And yes Hamas are savages. Maybe they overplayed their hand a bit on October 7? Let us know exactly what kind of genocidal maniacs they are. But useful idiots like you never gonna get it.
Dear NSYA, after reading this exchange I just have to reach out to you in support of your position. Let me start by saying I am a scientist and put less stock in the words used than the actual thing being discussed. I rely on the evidence I can see more than the words people speak at me.
Whatever words are used to describe the 'events' of Oct 7th, the physical and photographic evidence remain unchanged: acts of epic barbarism were committed on that day. No matter what inspired them and no matter how much injustice preceded them - the acts were barbaric. The evidence is unambiguous.
I am sure there were crimes committed against Palestinians over the past 3/4 of a century and those crimes should be addressed by a justice system. They should not be used as an excuse to commit further crimes. If no justice system can serve, at least we should not let past crimes justify future crimes.
Why? Because that works both ways: just as Palestinians point to past crimes to justify recent crimes, Israelis will point to Oct 7th to justify future crimes. And so it will go. As long as that cycle is fed no one in that region will have sustained peace. additionally, if the campaign "From the River to the Sea" ever succeeds, it will be unlikely anyone will be left to occupy that land - if, indeed, the land is still inhabitable.
My bloodlust? Ask fucking Sinwar about his. And those of the thousands of Hamas and non Hamas who invaded Israel in October 7. Murder. Beheading. Sexual violence including rape. Kidnapping. Burning entire families alive. That’s fucking bloodlust. If these are the people you think are the liberators that’s on you.
It’s a war. And Hamas is being destroyed. Sewer rats hiding in tunnels popping out. If this is problematic for you that’s too bad. It’s reality. Iranian proxies. The nosy illiberal totalitarian Islamic death cult but omg you want ti defend these people.
Are you a rape defender or rape apologist? How do you feel about burning people alive? If Hamas act like savages (which they do) then they are savages. Or we could call it barbarians. That’s descriptive of their actions. It’s not racism. Reality bites for people like you becusse you are defending Islamist totalitarian murderers. Look at their source. Iran.
Don’t waste a minute- sign up for the next Holocaust Denial Conference in Durban South Africa - you’ll be quite at home. Share your opinions with your ilk and avoid desecrating the rest of humanity.
Your sensorium is permanently in a coma - not a chance!
No insults- none of your arguments have any basis in fact. An invaded sovereign country has every right to defend itself against a blood- thirsty enemy hell-bent on its destruction. The infrastructure for that purpose was established with billions of dollars from the Iran/Qatar axis aided and abetted by UNRWA for the past 15 yrs. The 400 miles of terror tunnels used for command and control centers and for the purpose of kidnapping hostages is proof of their intentions- made obvious to the world on Oct 7th. The rest of the campaign was to have occurred in the north and in the West Bank. Thankfully it could not be coordinated.
Just some plain old facts from a more than casual observer.
I f every single resident of Gaza harbored genocidal thoughts in their head, including every man, woman, and child, that would not excuse the genocide which the Israeli Defense Force is at present conducting on that unhappy territory.
It is not anti-Semitic to protest this ongoing genocide: even the International Court of Justice has done so. Yes, Holocaust Memorial is hollow, but not for the reason you advance; it is hollow because it helps to foster the excuse the Israeli government propounds as it kills indiscriminately and maliciously, violating the Genocide Convention which it was the first to sign.
It’s not a genocide. It’s a war started by Hamas. Maybe Sinwar should have thought twice before unleashing unspeakable violence against Israel. Oh I’ll speak of it. Murder rape beheading burning alive kidnapping. Only called genocide when Israel is involved. Would you have cried in World War Two about German deaths?
As in the past, anti-Semites pervert the truth and give Humanity a bad name. A blight on us all!
‘Stop pretending to condemn what you enjoy’. A bit of projection from Unclouded the antiSemite. The extent of the cognitive manipulations of these people is quite shocking actually. When you try to explain the savagery of Israel’s enemy Hamas, apparently it’s because you are perverted yourself. There is nothing more screwed up than the mind of an antisemite. Turn itself into a pretzel so that Jews are always to blame.
I certainly don’t ask for pity. But maybe you need it cause you are not used to people calling out your crap. You are the master of projection. I assume you are maybe intelligent enough to know what that is?
You can’t deal with Hamas barbarism so you project it on me? What the fuck is wrong with you.
That’s your heart of darkness. Right there.
You are utterly ridiculous.
Who, exactly, are these "intellectuals in America, Europe...waxed lyrical over the rape, torture, mutilation, murder, beheading, and kidnapping of innocent Jews?" I haven't seen any intellectuals in America or Europe who have done this. Names, please, and "lyrical" quotes.
Cornell History Professor Russell Rickford: "It was exhilarating, it was exhilarating, it was energizing! And if they weren’t exhilarated by this, this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated!” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/10/18/cornell-leaders-condemn-prof-exhilarated-hamas-attack. Loads of others. Just try Googling. The intellectuals' exhilaration will come flowing out of your laptop like a backed-up toilet.
Lots of university professors.
I repeat: names and quotes, please.
There is a popular game on the internet: ask someone to provide supporting material for their position then after time & energy is spent, pooh-pooh it or just ignore it (for example Graboyes' posting of Dr Rickford's comment).
I no longer take the bait unless I have some sort of IRL connection to the requestor - but then again, I am content to let my fellow man wallow in ignorance ;)
If they even are human...
About 30 years ago a cartoon was published in The New Yorker:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/nobody-knows-youre-a-dog-as-iconic-internet-cartoon-turns-20-creator-peter-steiner-knows-the-joke-rings-as-relevant-as-ever/2013/07/31/73372600-f98d-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_blog.html
I know. I'm a glutton for punishment. A good response might be "Try Google. I'm sure you can find an 8-year-old to help you learn how to use it." I enjoyed the "No one knows you're a dog" story and the habit of drawing a cartoon and then trying to figure out an appropriate caption. David Burge, a.k.a. "Iowahawk" is a longtime Twitter/X wit with a dark, acidic sense of humor. A decade ago, he formulated what he called "Burge's Law": "Every New Yorker cartoon can be improved by recaptioning 'I think I'm going to kill myself'"
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/some-us-professors-praise-hamass-october-7-terror-attacks
Also in Canada, there were profs at Uof T and Ottawa who immediately made celebratory tweets.