The staggering ignorance of "students" who shout "From the River to the Sea."

They haven't a clue that they're calling for the genocide of Israel and Jews.

In a survey, about half of the self-satisfied students who are, in effect, calling for the extinction of Israel don’t know what river or what sea they’re shouting about.

Ron E. Hassner, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, reported in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he hired a polling firm to survey 250 students who chanted the extortion.

About 86 precent said they either supported the saying enthusiastically or to a lesser extent. Hassner wrote:

But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew who Yasser Arafat was (12 of them, or more than 10%, thought he was the first prime minister of Israel). Asked in what decade Israelis and Palestinians had signed the Oslo Accords, more than a quarter of the chant’s supporters claimed that no such peace agreements had ever been signed. There’s no shame in being ignorant, unless one is screaming for the extermination of millions….

When confronted with the realty of what they were saying, they recanted, somewhat:

A Latino engineering student from a southern university reported “definitely” supporting “from the river to the sea” because “Palestinians and Israelis should live in two separate countries, side by side.” Shown on a map of the region that a Palestinian state would stretch from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, leaving no room for Israel, he downgraded his enthusiasm for the mantra to “probably not.” Of the 80 students who saw the map, 75% similarly changed their view.

He concluded: “Those who hope to encourage extremism depend on the political ignorance of their audiences.”

It’s hard to overstate the menacing consequences for our democracy. To quote the woke Washington Post, “Democracy Dies In Ignorance.” Especially when ignorance is so widespread and breathtaking.

For where does this ignorance bubble to the surface?

From progressive politicians who call for a “balance” between the Hamas slaughter of innocents and the appeal to anti-semitism now exploding across the nation. From the Washington Post and similar media that are feeding their version of the “truth” to the public, abandoning the highest principles of journalism.

Mostly, this is an indictment of America’s education system—from the earliest grades to post graduate college studies. More than an indictment, actually. This is the clearest evidence of ideological corruption that is democracy’s great internal risk.

A generation of morons.

They’ve cancelled history.

To America’s shame and danger, this coalition of reality deniers has produced at least one generation of Americans who lag far behind other nations—including our enemies—in math and other basics. Add to that a generation of ignoramuses.

As I’ve said before, if engineering schools were turning out “experts” whose bridges and buildings kept collapsing, Americans would demanding to know what crap are their students being taught.

Instead, we have teachers unions and intellectually corrupt professors acting as if they’re doing a good, nay, a great job. Instead, they’re creating a population of morons.