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A little more than 60 years ago comedian/singer Allen Sherman wrote and performed a novelty song (“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!”) about a young Jewish boy who was sent to camp. The parody describes unpleasant, dangerous, and tragic situations, such as fellow campers going missing or contracting deadly illnesses.

Unlike the late Mr. Sherman’s comical ditty there is little comparison between what took place at the fictional Camp Granada and the seriousness of what’s happening at today’s U.S. colleges, including the dismissiveness by timid and complicit university authorities, and the Biden administration’s disgusting pandering to the vile antisemitic rioters.

If  Mr. Sherman’s song were altered to reflect the reality of the chaos sweeping today’s campuses, the lyrics might read as follows:

Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
Here I am at your alma matah
Your college could be very enlightening
If it weren’t so dreadfully frightening

Saul and I were going to classes
When crazed protestors jumped our asses
When we regained our senses
We considered jumping these ivy fences

Things here are out of hand
As the thugs are screaming  “Go to Poland”
And Jewish students in my dorm sounded alerts
After seeing the faculty all wearing brown shirts

All my professors here are Jew haters
I prefer that school in Florida, with its alligators
Or the one down there filled with Seminoles
Not this one, full of a**holes

Now I don’t want this should scare ya
But Jewish students here are suffering hysterya
We fear what might soon befall us
As the band plays “Deutschland über alles”

Donors say this school’s gone off track
And told its president, who we think’s on crack
To knock it off and ditch the hijabs
Or there’ll be no more checks to pay her tabs

Dearest Faddah, darling Muddah
Warn my precious little bruddah
Not to come here if you love ‘em
Or get him a 38 magnum

Wait a minute, I hear screams and wailing
The cops are here, and the loons are bailing
Getting cuffed and jailed, gee that’s swell
‘Cause mudah, faddah this place is a living hell

I’m going to Fladah, oh muddah, faddah
I’m going to Fladah, because I hate your alma matah
They only scream and yell about an Intifada
So I’m outta here, darling muddah and dear ‘ole faddah

What’s taking place on U.S. campuses, including many of the most elite ones, is support for evil and disdain for morality. Pro-Hamas, Israel-hating students are taking over campuses and disrupting classes and commencement exercises for everyone. They are supported and encouraged by large numbers of faculty members and funded by outside professional agitators.

Alleged students who can’t distinguish between Lichenstein and Palestine or Frankenstein and Gertrude Stein, mindlessly chant Iranian and Palestinian talking points calling for the extermination of Israel and the Jews. They carry professionally designed and mass-produced banners and signs and read from cue cards they were issued. In other words, they are mind-numbing morons and dupes of the left, e.g. useful idiots. It’s no wonder they wear masks.

Fortunately, there are exceptions. For example, while liberal-progressive antisemitic pro-Hamas rioters take over college campuses nationwide, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis directed the Sunshine State’s universities and colleges to make it easier for Jewish students to transfer to Florida.

The state is a safe haven for Jewish students fleeing the insanity of the terrifying antisemitic campuses. Unlike Democrat-led states that declared themselves sanctuaries for law-breaking illegals, Florida, under DeSantis, is a sanctuary for law-abiding residents of all religions, ethnicities, and colors.

On Jan. 9, DeSantis issued an emergency order for the State University System of Florida and the Florida College System directing them to waive certain transfer application requirements that would otherwise hinder Jewish students from transferring from their colleges or universities to one in Florida.

As Jewish students continue to be attacked on campuses from California to New York, no violence or takeovers have occurred at the “encampment-free University of Florida.” Governor DeSantis gave remarks there Wednesday, May 8 condemning campus violence. The university held 21 commencements over the first couple of weeks in May without a single incident, unlike those commencement ceremonies canceled or disrupted by the Hamas allies and sympathizers in the alleged “elite” institutions.

While presidents of some of what is considered the country’s most prestigious universities refuse to condemn calls on their campuses for genocide and look the other way as demonstrators support Islamist terrorists, Florida’s campuses, including students, are taking a stand against intolerance, and endorsing traditional American values and morality.

Ben Sasse, president of the University of Florida is in total agreement with the governor, condemning “the abhorrent violence and destruction on display across the country’s campuses.” The former Nebraska Republican senator told protestors who violate his school’s policies that they will be “thrown off campus and suspended. “If they’re students that means a three-year prohibition from campus. He’s demonstrated previously that he’s serious about maintaining order and curbing the depravity and hate.

In Florida, it doesn’t stop at the universities. The Florida legislature also passed several bills to enhance penalties for those who commit hate crimes against Jews. Over the course of his governorship, DeSantis has invited many people to move to Florida to flee the oppression and discrimination.

After Democratic-led cities and states adopted anti-police policies, the governor and the Florida legislature created a grant program to encourage police officers to relocate to Florida. As of last month, nearly 5,000 new recruits have signed up, including 1,267 from 49 states and U.S. territories, according to the governor’s office.

Serious students are saying “goodbye” to UCLA, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and more, and saying “hello” to Florida State, Miami, Florida, etc. where woke is a joke, ideological indoctrination and ostracization and harassment of students is prohibited, and common sense and traditional American values are flourishing.

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Dave Scott spent several years as a daily newspaper reporter in Florida and New York before joining the corporate world and heading up communications activities for IBM, ITT and other Fortune 50 companies in the U.S. and Europe, eventually running his own Atlanta agency. He lives on Amelia Island, FL, and blogs at www.davescottblog.com. He also writes, edits, and publishes the annual Amelia Island News-www.amelianewswrecker.com, a newspaper parody with the tag line "Amelia Island's sacred cows make the best burgers."

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