Daily Inspiration Quote by Oriana Fallaci

Fallaci loads a moral verdict into a claim that’s hard to disprove without first accepting her frame. “I find it shameful” is not an argument; it’s an attempt to seize the ethical high ground before the evidence arrives. The sentence then performs a rhetorical sweep: “nearly all the universities of Europe” turns a complicated ecosystem into a single, compromised institution, while “Palestinian students” becomes a stand-in for a much larger set of campus actors, ideologies, and grievances. By the time she lands on “sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism,” the verbs have done their work: this isn’t protest, it’s cultivation; not anger, but a program.

The subtext is the old Fallaci move: contempt for what she saw as Europe’s self-flattering liberalism, paired with suspicion of immigrant politics and the post-1968 university as a factory of bad conscience. Written against the backdrop of the Second Intifada-era anxieties and the post-9/11 hardening of public debate, the line collapses distinctions many people fight to keep separate: anti-Zionism versus anti-Semitism, Palestinian nationalism versus Islamist rhetoric, critique of Israeli policy versus hatred of Jews.

Its intent is less to describe a measurable campus reality than to force a choice: either you accept her diagnosis, or you’re complicit in the “shame.” That coercive binary is why it hits. It also explains why it inflames: it treats a minority student group as the engine of a continental moral failure, turning universities from forums of conflict into accomplices, and conflict into pathology.