Columbia university activist Mahmoud Khalil is calling for more pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests this fall. Perhaps he has been buoyed by the success he enjoyed as lead negotiator for campus protesters last April. Maybe he has been further encouraged by the administration’s apparent revocation of his suspension.

In any case, Khalil vows to continue agitation against Israel.

The Times of Israel reports that he has stated, “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist. Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.” (Italics mine.)

Recently, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal also made it clear that there are to be no limits. He has issued calls to renew “martyrdom” operations, a phrase that indicates that suicide bombings and surprise attacks on civilians such as the one that happened on October 7, 2023 are to continue. No tactic is off limits, as Hamas’s recent execution of six innocent hostages proves.

Doubtless neither Mr. Khalil nor Columbia University’s anti-Israel protesters would dare to display a flag with a swastika on it. Nor would they carry a banner with the word “Judenrein,” a term meaning a given territory is to be “clean of Jews.”

But there is no hesitancy on their part to employ terms and phrases that are the equivalent. The board of Meta has debated the legitimacy of allowing the phrase “from the river to the sea” on the social media platform. There has been a lot of hemming and hawing, with some saying the phrase can be used many ways. But when said by Hamas and other terrorist groups, it unequivocally has but one meaning: the elimination of the state of Israel and the Jews who live there.

In other words, there is a reason Hamas and like-minded groups, including anti-Israel protesters, display maps of the Middle East that eliminate Israel entirely — “from the river to the sea.”

As a number of historians have pointed out, the Third Reich had plans for the extermination of the Jews in Palestine, a plan taken over by Islamists.

The anti-Jew hatred the characterized Nazi ideology remained influential and have been appropriated by Islamist terrorist groups since the 1930s. German and American universities........

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