Feeding the Alligator
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
— Winston Churchill
Someone murdered Charlie Kirk on campus.
This did not happen in a vacuum. Donald Trump was nearly assassinated months ago. A trans radical in Minneapolis stormed a Catholic school and murdered two children. A young Jewish couple in Washington, D.C., was slaughtered by zealots.
And now, Charlie Kirk—a husband, a father, a proud supporter of Israel—has been murdered during a university event. I am not surprised it happened on a campus; what shocks me is that there have not been more killings.
We should not be surprised. We should be surprised it doesn’t happen more often—because we are feeding the alligator.
Christopher Hitchens once warned, “The barbarians never take a city until someone inside opens the gates.” Today, our gates are not just open—they are being held ajar by university provosts, cowardly politicians, and police forces that prefer appeasing mobs to protecting citizens. The alligator has been stroked, coddled, even kissed on its slimy snout—and now people feign shock that it bites.
Universities and the Culture of Permission
The fact that Charlie Kirk was murdered on campus is telling. Universities are no longer sanctuaries of debate; they are incubators of fanaticism. I do not know whether Kirk was targeted specifically for his views on Israel, but I know this: he was a proud defender of the Jewish state, and on that point I agree with every word he ever said. And we now have campuses where it is not “pro-Palestinian” activism but pro-Hamas agitation that flourishes unchecked.
Students, faculty, and administrators cheer for Hamas—a gangster death cult whose soul is “a desiccated, hateful, satanic raisin of Jew-hatred”—while packaging terror as victimhood. They chant “Intifada!”—not metaphor, but battle cry, violence, chaos. When that becomes the soundtrack of campus life, Jewish leaders will be murdered. The fact that Kirk’s assassination took place at a university is not incidental. It is the natural harvest of what academia has sown. We are feeding the alligator.
The Rot in Academia
At my own institution, the University of Guelph–Humber, I was fired for condemning Hamas, calling them what they are: Nazis. A single reply to a man in Pakistan who advocated Israel’s eradication was enough to warrant suspension, gagging, defamation, and termination without due process.
Meanwhile, the professor who led a vicious assault on my reputation—a man with thousands of anti-Semitic posts, who glorifies Hamas and Hezbollah, who breathes violence in every word—was shielded. He is undoubtedly celebrating Kirk’s death today. I am sure that in the faculty lounge, many of my ex-colleagues are “warm inside” at the news that a right-wing supporter of Israel lies dead.
My story is nothing compared to Kirk’s. Yet I, too, could not safely step on my campus again. When 300,000 people are told you are a racist and a Nazi, it only takes one to decide that “justice” means a bullet. And still, the institution embraced my tormentor and branded me the threat. That is feeding the alligator.
This is not about me—it is about what our society is cultivating. Universities are embracing people who despise Jewish safety, who long for tyranny over free speech, who hate the West, who undermine the fragile freedoms our soldiers died to protect. If they nurture radical savagery, if police stand aside in the name of virtue-signalling, then democracy will not survive. Western civilisation is fragile. This is its breaking point.
Salman Rushdie—stabbed nearly to death for writing - surprise, once again Islamic fanatics—warned that freedom of expression without the right to offend ceases to exist. Hitchens reminded us: “The crocodile will eat you last.” And yet our elites, intoxicated by cowardice, continue to hand it bloodied offerings. And where are the Muslims are the streets saying “not in our name!” when Rushdie was attacked?
The silence is telling.
Canadian Campuses
McGill tolerated an encampment of nearly 100 tents, self-declared a “liberated zone,” until political pressure forced its dismantling. The University of Toronto let Palestine flags dominate convocation, with an encampment just steps away. Across Canada, universities tolerated or half-negotiated with mobs demanding divestment and severance of ties with Israeli institutions.
Violence was always under the surface. Toronto police stood aside at pro-Hamas rallies where Jews were harassed, and when clashes erupted, it was often Jewish counter-protesters—not the mobs—who were arrested. Universities and police tolerated this out of fear: fear that there were more Muslim students than Jewish; fear that tuition dollars mattered more than principle: no integrity, no protection for the vulnerable, just craven politics.
The University of Guelph-Humber allowed a massive Palestinian flag on the stage at convocation, spitting in the face of every Jew and Jew supporter, with a smirking stage faculty presense glorifying in it. Disgusting. This is feeding the alligator, this is supporting violence and terrorism, and this is nice white liberals doing it.
This permissiveness is not neutral—it is a payoff. Politicians court votes by refusing to condemn anti-Semitic violence. CUPE Ontario has openly boycotted Israeli academics since 2009. And while administrations spend millions fighting faculty who criticise Hamas, they turn a blind eye to those who glorify October 7th. They are feeding the alligator.
Feeding the Alligator
Let us speak plainly. The violence is not coming from mythical right-wing extremists. It is coming from the radical left—and above all, from the Islamist left. If that bruises feelings, reality is not obliged to protect egos. We are feeding the alligator, and we must not feign surprise when it bites again.
The murder of Charlie Kirk did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in a culture cultivated by cowardly elites, nourished by appeasement, excused by academics, amplified by media, and sanctified by politicians too venal to defend the civilisation they inherited.
A Call to Action
This must be a turning point. Universities must purge professors who glorify terror. Police must enforce the law against mobs who threaten violence. Politicians must stop trading votes for the nation’s future. Citizens must demand honesty, not appeasement. This is not about right versus left; it is about whether truth, freedom, and life itself still mean anything in the West.
We are feeding the alligator, and unless we stop, there will be more Charlie Kirks, more children, more innocents lying dead while bureaucrats mumble platitudes and radicals cheer.
May God comfort Charlie Kirk’s wife, his children, his family, and his friends.
So sad! I agree 100%. You cannot appease fanatics. Absolute cowards the hypocrites in charge that sold their souls and allowed the Trojan horse and awful ideology to take over western civilization.
Excellent cry from the heart.