Today’s Gen Z students have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for caring more about their social-media profiles than they do about history or international politics. So, it’s puzzling why so many would be spurred into activism by, of all things, an Islamic terrorist group committed to the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel, let alone one responsible for the mass murder and rapes of innocent Israeli citizens last year on Oct. 7.

Yet, however illogically, Hamas — which couldn’t be more diametrically opposed to the postmodern secular agenda that predominates academia today — has become the cause célèbre on the campuses of Columbia, Harvard, Yale and other institutions of purportedly higher education around the country.

Seeing students from privileged backgrounds at elite U.S. universities donning black-and-white-checkered Palestinian keffiyehs chanting, “From the river to the sea” — an implicit call for the eradication of the Israeli state — raises grave concerns about the next generation of American leaders.