Nikki Haley student group slams classmates ‘who side with savages’ in Israel attack

EXCLUSIVE — The student coalition supporting former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential run across the country released a statement Thursday reiterating its backing of Israel and slamming the prevalent pro-Hamas and antisemitic demonstrations taking place at U.S. universities.

“Students for Haley stands with Israel and supports Israel’s right to defend itself. We denounce Hamas as a brutal terrorist group,” the group said.

BLINKEN PROMISES US WILL BACK ISRAEL AS NETANYAHU VOWS TO DESTROY HAMAS

“We are appalled by our fellow students who side with savages who behead babies and torture mothers and grandmothers. This is not complicated. This is a battle between good and evil. We stand on the side of good and against evil,” it added, referencing the widespread celebrations of the terrorist attack on Israel and support for the group who conducted it.

On Saturday, Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas, which operates out of the Gaza Strip, attacked Israel, breaching its borders by way of land, air, and sea. The armed terrorists killed hundreds of civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, taking others back to Gaza as hostages. Since the onset of Israel’s war with Hamas, the death toll has risen to more than 2,500. Further, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the number of U.S. citizens who died during the Hamas attack was 25 during a visit Thursday to Israel.

The Haley-supporting coalition boasts 37 chapters backing her 2024 candidacy at colleges and universities across the U.S.

Students for Haley laid out several beliefs held by group members. First, it stated, “Hamas is a brutal terrorist group,” dispelling any claims that the group is resisting an oppressor or is “made up of ‘freedom fighters.’” Additionally, it highlighted the “brutality” of reported actions by Hamas, including “Beheading babies, shooting children in their beds, raping women and parading their bodies through the streets of Gaza, setting whole families on fire, and kidnapping grandmothers.”

The student coalition further slammed claims, which have become particularly prevalent on college campuses, that there is a “moral equivalence” between Hamas and Israel’s plights. “Israel is a democracy that grants religious freedom and individual rights to all its citizens made up of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze people, and many others. Hamas rules Gaza with a fanatical fist, oppressing women, minorities, and anyone who doesn’t toe its line,” it said.

Lastly, the group condemned “fellow students across America who can’t muster the basic human decency to denounce the most vicious and far-reaching antisemitism since Nazi Germany. If they care about human rights — as they say they do — they would denounce Hamas and support Israel.”

This comes after prominent universities across America have seen groups of students and student organizations hold pro-Hamas demonstrations and issue statements of support for the terrorist group’s actions, insisting that Israel is an apartheid state which has colonized the Palestinian people. One of the first universities to make headlines amid the war was Harvard, when the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, along with dozens of other groups, put out a signed statement following the attack, claiming Israel’s “apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”

Following the widespread support among student groups for the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, Harvard President Claudine Gay faced scrutiny for a vague statement on the Israel attack and a lack of condemnation for the student groups supporting it.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Prompted to respond again, Gay issued an additional statement Tuesday. “As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” she said. “Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.”

On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed that the total number of Americans killed in the terror attack in Israel has increased to 25. The country boasts a number of exchange programs and often hosts American college students studying abroad. Several students participating in such programs have been reported to still be in Israel as the war sows chaos and travel is made difficult. Others have fortunately been safely evacuated with help from their universities.