Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Brendan O'Neill: A howl of rage against civilisation
Media-elite sympathisers with Columbia’s Gaza camp claim these pro-Hamas cries, these demands for the obliteration of Israel and this hanging of target signs around the necks of Jews are rare occurrences in an otherwise peaceful protest. Plus, it’s mostly outsiders doing this stuff, they say. I call bullshit. If you create a space in which anti-Semites feel comfortable, so comfortable that they’re happy to openly glorify Hamas’s cosmic racist violence, then that’s on you.Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Openly Jewish
What’s more, the insistence that it’s ‘only’ a few voices celebrating 7 October, just a handful of agitators who are are cheering the rape, kidnap and murder of Jews, is desperate bordering on sick. That there are any such voices in and around one of the highest seats of learning in modern America should be viewed as unsettling in the extreme. Anyone who cares for the future of academia, and for the future of the West, should be alarmed that at Columbia, the college of Alexander Hamilton, of Amelia Earhart, of Barack Obama, people have been heard saying to Jews: ‘[7 October is] going to be every day for you.’ President Biden is right: this is ‘blatant anti-Semitism’.
We need to be honest about what is happening at Columbia. This is solidarity with a pogrom. It is sympathy for fascism. It is privileged leftists getting a cheap moral kick from a mass act of racist violence against Jews that they catastrophically mistake for a blow against imperialism. It is the Socialism of Fools.
More than that, it is a howl of rage against civilisation. This rancid camp with its flashes of outright Jew hate is not an extension of the anti-war activism of old – it’s an extension of the loathing for civilisation that the young have been inculcated with these past few years. To these protesters, the Jewish State, and Jews themselves, represent Western values and Western modernity, and thus they must be raged against. Israel has become a moral punchbag for the sons and daughters of privilege whose hatred for their own societies has driven them over the cliff edge of reason and decency.
How foolish we were to think that education might deliver the young from the benighted ignorances of the past. For today, it is the most educated, the dwellers of the academy, who have allowed the world’s oldest hatred to wash over them. We can now see the consequences of teaching the young to be wary of Western civilisation and to treat everything ‘Western’ as suspect and wicked. All they’re left with is the lure of barbarism, the demented belief that even savagery can become praiseworthy if its target is ‘the West’. If events at Columbia do not wake us up to the crisis of civilisation, nothing will.
Western societies need to realize – need to remember what we all once knew – that peace, order, and lawful freedoms all need to be actively and publicly maintained. This maintenance needs to come from the state, from civil society, and from all citizens as free individuals. We can no longer afford that tired old liberal myth of a neutral public space.Why Anti-Israel Protesters Won’t Stop Harassing Jews The movement’s ideological character invites rage and violence.
We cannot pretend that there is no difference between peaceful protests and those which come with a threat of Islamist violence. We cannot pretend that there is no difference between different conceptions of the good, of the just society, of human dignity.
We cannot be blind to the way that some Islamist groups – Hamas and Al-Quds supporters among them – have a pretty good grasp of how to wield power in the public square. They know how to exert pressure on agents of the state, and how to project political strength on the streets. This isn’t a naive phenomenon.
Islamism is a world where the minaret towers over all. It’s the burka’s flowing tendrils blanketing women like an invasive vine in a once-flourishing garden. It’s the gathering in the square that proclaims “this is our space now.” It’s the adhan blasted loudly at the Christian or Jewish – or secular! – part of town. Until, one day, there are no non-Muslim parts of town left. The Christians of Istanbul and the Jews of Baghdad found this out the hard way. I pray the monied agnostics of Mayfair and Chelsea never do.
And they may not have to! That is, perhaps the British state can learn to differentiate between legitimate protests (however misguided), and marches that proclaim conquest.
The West needs to recover and to actively, publicly promote some basic ideas about our shared public peace. About the common allegiances and responsibilities of citizens. The public square can certainly be tolerant of a great range of political and religious groups, but it can’t be neutral. Attempted public neutrality is a vacuum that less-than-benevolent groups are always ready to fill.
In a free and democratic society, the day-to-day politics of domestic government, foreign activities, finance, etc., must constantly be debated. This is right and just. But at the same time, Western democracies must demand – in the public square – loyalty not to wispy, vague ideas of procedural neutrality and skin-deep inclusivity. Instead, we need to be a lot better at articulating the importance of public peace, the legitimate authority of our states, mutual fraternity with our fellow citizens, respect for the law, and the dignity of all human beings.
This isn’t a big ask, and it isn’t bigotedly intolerant. A country can be sure of itself and of its fundamental requirements, and still accept newcomers or visitors. Bluntly, people should normally be free to protest against a government’s foreign policy, or to stand in solidarity with those they think are oppressed overseas. But the political deal needs to be clearer, and straightforwardly articulated: the rejection of intimidation, violence, anti-Semitic extremism, and the pursuit of power by unconstitutional means. It’s the difference between having a law-abiding, European-style social democratic party in a country’s parliament, and tolerating organized political violence or state espionage by Communist groups. Western states sometimes benefit from the former, but must have the self-assurance to stamp out the latter.
If we don’t get better at doing this, our public square will be more and more vulnerable to hostile takeover. The present moment is a canary in the coal mine. If we don’t get better at doing this, we risk seeing more of our fellow citizens grimly warned of the dangers of being “openly Jewish.”
The anti-Israel movement exists in the United States as a result of a decades-long conflict in the Middle East, the cause of which is complex and has faults on many sides. It was both inevitable and necessary for the United States to have a pro-Palestinian movement. The makeup of that movement is the contingent, tragic factor that has made its activities so ugly and routinely bigoted.
The main national umbrella group for campus pro-Palestinian protests is Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP takes a violent eliminationist stance toward Israel. In the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks, it issued a celebratory statement instructing its affiliates that all Jewish Israelis are legitimate targets:
Liberation is not an abstract concept. It is not a moment circumscribed to a revolutionary past as it is often characterized. Rather, liberating colonized land is a real process that requires confrontation by any means necessary. In essence, decolonization is a call to action, a commitment to the restoration of Indigenous sovereignty. It calls upon us to engage in meaningful actions that go beyond symbolism and rhetoric. Resistance comes in all forms — armed struggle, general strikes, and popular demonstrations. All of it is legitimate, and all of it is necessary.
SJP likewise directed its members to join the struggle directly: “This is a moment of mobilization for all Palestinians. We must act as part of this movement. All of our efforts continue the work and resistance of Palestinians on the ground.”
When you consider this kind of violent rhetoric in the context of slogans like “Globalize the Intifada,” especially when you consider the lack of authentic Israeli military targets outside of Israel, then the pattern of harassment and violence that follows from this propaganda is inevitable.
A second group that has helped organize the demonstrations at Columbia is called Within Our Lifetime. Like SJP, WOL takes an uncompromising eliminationist stance toward Israel, even calling for “the abolition of zionism.” If you suspect it would be difficult to exterminate an idea peacefully, you are correct. WOL, like SJP, endorses all violent attacks on Israeli Jews: “We defend the right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary.”
More pertinently, WOL “reject[s] all collaboration and dialogue with zionist organizations” as “normalization,” which is to say it believes people anywhere in the world who wish to see a Jewish state survive in any form should not be permitted to live normal lives. If there is a theoretical distinction between this doctrine and direct advocacy of systematic harassment of mainstream Jewish people and organizations, it is paper thin.
Matthew Foldi: Punish the anti-Semitic rioters on campuses
Biden absurdly equivocated between the mobs and their victims, but Fetterman went so far as to suggest that retiring Senator Mitt Romney take over Harvard, and Moskowitz walked through Columbia’s campus. None of this is to say that Democrats are basking in glory here. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, a Jewish alum of Columbia, hid behind the human shields in the White House until she put out a statement completely devoid of substance – which is explainable once you remember that now that she is running for statewide office, she needs to mollify the voters in Dearborn, who were recently seen chanting “death to America”.On the left's blindness to anti-Semitism
With the differences between the pre-and post October 7 protests established, the question is: what can be done? Past and present events suggest three buckets of consequences for the perpetrators: academic, professional, and legal consequences.
For the former, look no further than how the University of Chicago famously expelled forty-two students who illegally occupied the administration’s building during the Vietnam era, which bears no shortage of similarities to what we see happening today.
In the present day, these academic consequences must carry weight, lest they create martyrs, like Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter. Even a suspension is meaningless. There is no shortage of school policies these students are violating as they block Jews from walking on campus, as we’ve seen at Yale. Unmask the perpetrators and send them packing.
For the students who remain on campus, they should actually have to spend time in classes. It’s long past time that we acknowledge that most colleges are simply lavish summer camps. Columbia’s decision to suspend in-person classes is the sort of caving to terrorism that always fails, whether it is the Biden administration giving Afghanistan over to the Taliban or Columbia telling protesters that they are actually in charge of the campus.
Another watershed moment on par with Hasson’s coverage was when Winston & Strawn, a Chicago-based law firm, rescinded a job offer to NYU Law’s Ryna Workman, who issued a statement through the campus’s Student Bar Association that “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.” Subsequently, two dozen top law firms wrote to law schools warning them that they need to get their acts together – and quickly.
Finally, there should be legal consequences for violent protesters. Whoever allegedly stabbed a student journalist at Yale in the eye with a Palestinian flag should see the inside of a courthouse tomorrow. Senator Tom Cotton revisited his infamous “send in the troops” proposal again, writing that “if Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.”
The October 7 terrorist attacks revealed something very ugly right beneath the surface of American politics and academia – something that’s been strenuously avoided in polite company, but which can no longer credibly be ignored, even in the esteemed halls of higher education. Passover is ultimately a triumph of Jews returning to our homeland – Israel – after our oppressor du jour failed to break us down. Maybe these protesters can brush up on the book of Exodus, or even just watch Prince of Egypt, while they’re sentenced to academic hard labour, or jail time.
The other main flaw in contemporary anti-Zionist thinking is to understand racism in purely colonial terms. It sees racism as literally a black and white issue involving oppressed people of colour and those with white privilege. This view fits comfortably with identity politics which all too easily casts Jews as hyper-privileged. From there it is a small step to conceive of Israel as representing white privilege while the Palestinians are cast as the oppressed.Why can’t the police admit these are hate marches?
Yet the view that racism is an entirely black and white issue is completely ahistorical. It fails to recognise that racial thinking can take several different forms. It does not solely apply to how black people are treated by racists. Bassi gives as an example America’s Johnson Lodge Administration Act of 1924. That was the result of a campaign in the early twentieth century to exclude Italian, Polish, Russian and Jewish migrants to prevent “racial mixing” and deterioration. It that instance particular groups of white migrants were perceived to be a race apart from Americans.
Jews more generally have also historically been the subject of racial thinking. The Nazis, for instance, notoriously saw Jews as both sub-human and a powerful force conspiring to dominate the world. In that case Jews were perceived as racially apart from and inferior to Aryans. Yet proponents of identity politics to struggle to understand that it is not necessary to be a person of colour to be subject to racism.
This narrow view of racial thinking as solely an expression of colonialism not only leads to a blindness towards anti-Semitism. It actively contributes to the anti-Israeli form of Jew hatred. It upholds Israel not just as a colonial-settler state but as the exemplar of all the evils of colonialism. As Bassi puts it: “An understanding of Zionism as an especially deplorable colonialism, imperialism, nationalism and racism is commonplace on the academic and activist Left, as is the outright rejection of anti-Zionism as antisemitism” (p116).
The identitarian outlook also all too easily leads to the romanticisation of Islamist groups as heroic resistance movements. Groups, such as Hamas, which make overt anti-Semitic statements that would fit comfortably in Nazi propaganda, are somehow cast as heroic freedom fighters.
That then is what has happened to most of those who still identity as being somehow on the left. A political trend which, broadly speaking, supported freedom and national self-determination, while opposing racism, now all too often does the opposite. It may claim to oppose racism but it is among the most virulent proponents of anti-Semitism.
The Met are not just ignoring or denying the intolerance on display at these marches. No, they are actively appeasing it. Instead of protecting London’s Jews, the force has gone out of its way to protect the feelings of anti-Semites and Islamists.‘Son of Hamas’ Mosab Hassan Yousef: ‘If we finish Rafah, we finish Hamas’
This is no exaggeration. In October of last year, the CAA drove several billboard vans around London showing the names, ages and pictures of children who were taken hostage by Hamas in Israel. When they reached Parliament Square, because a pro-Palestine demo was nearby, police officers told the CAA to turn the screens off and to leave central London – or else face charges for ‘breach of the peace’.
Only a few days later, two police officers were filmed tearing down posters of the kidnapped victims of 7 October in Edgware, north London. Responding to the backlash on social media, the Met claimed that the posters were taken down to ‘avoid any further increase in community tension’. Let’s not beat around the bush here. This is a euphemistic way of saying that these posters could cause offence. Of course, the only people who are likely to be angered or provoked by these images of Jewish suffering are either Islamists or anti-Semites. This is who the Met are trying to appease.
Worse still, some in the Met seem to be acting as a freelance public-relations department for Islamists and other cranks. Earlier this month, a police officer was filmed refusing to say whether a literal swastika might be an anti-Semitic symbol. Most infamously, when members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a now proscribed Islamist-terror group, gathered in London to chant for ‘jihad’ against Israel, the Met claimed in an official statement that there was nothing untoward going on. Jihad could have a ‘number of meanings’, the police assured us – most of them peaceful, apparently.
Now, none of this is to say that the pro-Palestine marches should be banned at a stroke, or that nutcases who chant ‘jihad’ or wave swastika placards should be locked up. Even the most offensive and bigoted views should be protected as free speech. But when the Met continually make excuses for Islamist extremists, and threaten actual anti-racist campaigners with arrest, they have clearly taken a side.
This situation is totally unacceptable. The two-tiered policing of London’s protests is now undeniable. The Met and Mark Rowley should be ashamed.
One of the most passionate voices in support of a large-scale Israel Defense Force operation to clear Hamas from its last major stronghold in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah comes from a man raised by the terrorist organization.Reformed Hamas Militant Speaks Out: The Truth About Israel-Gaza
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the disowned son of a Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, told The Times of Israel last week that the Israeli government must “finish the job” in Gaza to remove Hamas from power, regardless of the unfolding situation with Iran.
“We need to go into Rafah now. Not tomorrow. What are we waiting for? We finish Rafah, we finish Hamas. This will remove them from power, which will be the first step [toward peace],” he said.
The 45-year-old was born in Ramallah and vividly remembers the foundation of Hamas in 1986. Decades ago, Yousef was dubbed the “Green Prince” (also the title of a 2014 documentary based on his autobiography) for his efforts to help Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, in thwarting terror attacks during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s.
After saving countless lives in those harrowing days, he has developed a “fundamental relationship” with the Jewish people, albeit not without bumps along the road.
His sharp-tongued criticism of Hamas has been considered too controversial by some, he said, eventually leading to his disappearance from public activism. However, the October 7 atrocities brought him back.
On that day, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel and butchered 1,200 people, most of them civilians, with stunning brutality in an orgy of violence that saw entire families burned alive, widespread rape and sexual assault, and the torture and dismemberment of victims that included women, children and infants, and the elderly. Two hundred and fifty-three people were also abducted to the Gaza Strip, where 133 are still being held hostage.
“When October 7 happened it was like an earthquake for me,” said Yousef. “I wanted to go into silence. I was leading a very simple life. But that morning, the lion within me awakened, a volcano was about to erupt. I made a decision to burn this evil down to ashes.”
Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Ramallah to one of the founders of the Islamist movement. Growing up, Mosab embraced his father’s ideology and was arrested by Israeli authorities multiple times, starting at age 10, for crimes like throwing stones at Israeli settlers and purchasing guns. But during a stint in Israeli prison in the late 90s, at age 18, he became an Israeli informant.
Eventually, he became Israel’s most valuable intelligence asset, foiling suicide bombings and other terror attacks. Mosab has since been outspoken about Hamas and radical Islamic terrorism more broadly.
For a while, Mosab stopped doing press and lived a quiet life in California, but on October 7, Mosab decided to speak out again against the terrorist group he knows all too well. Since then, Mosab has been publicly supportive of Israel’s war to remove Hamas from power.
The Free Press contributor Douglas Murray sat down with Mosab in Tel Aviv. They talk about the mindset of an Islamist terrorist, the atrocities of October 7, and the future of Israel-Palestine geopolitics.
Legal Insurrection: Anti-Israel Protests Are Also Anti-American
The atrocious antisemitic actions at Columbia University are deeply disturbing. To quote civil rights activist Professor Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - who marched side by side with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - we need a “Leap of action”. Indeed, firm and strong action must be…
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) April 21, 2024
President Trump: “What’s going on at the college level, Columbia, NYU, is a disgrace. And it’s really on Biden. He’s got the wrong signal. He’s got the wrong tone.” pic.twitter.com/Z1AgTYTE8g
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) April 23, 2024
NEW: Tom Cotton leads 27 Senate Republicans in letter urging AG Garland and HHS Sec. Cardona to address "the outbreak of anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs on college campuses."
— Emily Jacobs (@emilyfjacobs) April 23, 2024
The entire Senate GOP leadership team (McConnell, Thune, Barrasso, Daines, Ernst, & Capito) signed on. pic.twitter.com/g3DKITe8jr
Jewish students attacked on campus: Thom Waye | The Israel-Hamas War
Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.
Our guest today: Thom Waye
Thom is the Chief Strategy Officer of Chabad on Campus International. He comes from both a background in business and philanthropy, with a strong connection to the Jewish community and Israel.
00:00 - Introduction
02:14 - Chabad on Campus International
03:34 - The antisemitism task force
06:25 - Chabad-Lubavitch
11:30 - Conversions in Judaism
13:33 - Rabbi Schneerson's teachings
18:38 - Reactions to Oct. 7th
21:20 - Academic freedom
23:40 - University donors and politics
25:10 - Codes of conduct and accountability
27:55 - Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism
29:05 - Choosing universities for Jewish kids
32:00 - Jews coming together
Obama’s Passover Message Adds Palestinians Into the Story; Omits Hostages
Did @BarackObama just ‘all lives’ Passover of all holidays? https://t.co/ZJQzpGyfho
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 23, 2024
“The Democrats who are now openly talking about putting conditions on aid to Israel are hardly on the fringe.”
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 23, 2024
Count the Dem votes against Israel—that’s the fringe and that’s how many votes they got.
I’m AYE with no conditions for Israel and $9B in Palestinian aid. pic.twitter.com/gl6TJ4flof
There was significant bipartisan advocacy for Aya Hijazi’s release from prison, and President Trump got it done. Were she not an American, she would still be in an Egyptian prison in all likelihood. And this is what she has to say about the country that helped free her:… https://t.co/ETZ7rGSa4S
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 23, 2024
Amid anti-Israel protests, Jewish students at Columbia University don't feel safe.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) April 23, 2024
It’s become so dangerous that students were forced out of the classroom.
Let’s be clear: these are not peaceful protests, these are antisemitic mobs. pic.twitter.com/mHwOOireTJ
Let’s not mince words here - if you’re chanting “from the River to the Sea” or “Globalize the Intifada” on college campuses, you’re parroting Hamas talking points, you’re intimidating Jewish students, and you should face the consequences. pic.twitter.com/VVJwCMmMr0
— Congressman Mike Lawler (@RepMikeLawler) April 24, 2024
Jewish students at @Columbia have been harassed, assaulted, spat on & have had to endure seeing swastikas on their campus.
— Office of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (@RepMalliotakis) April 24, 2024
It’s UNACCEPTABLE that this vile antisemitism exists and President Shafik has not taken control of her institution to put an end to it. She has to go! pic.twitter.com/Hg57VZfbHw
We all remember the horrific scenes in Charlottesville 7 years ago of neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us”.
— Congressman Jared Moskowitz (@RepMoskowitz) April 23, 2024
The Columbia students shouting “Go back to Poland!” and “burn Tel Aviv to the ground” share the same hateful message: Jews are not welcome. pic.twitter.com/BjbquUGgn9
"I'm Frightened Of My Peers" | Debate On Israel-Hamas Protests
As The White House condemns what it calls 'blatantly antisemitic statements' at student protests across America against the war in Gaza, Piers Morgan is joined by Sahar Tartak, a Jewish student who was poked in the eye by a flag at a protest at Yale, Yoseph Haddad, who also claims to have been assaulted by pro-Palestine activists, Breaking Points host Krystal Ball and author of Go Back To Where You Came From Wajahat Ali.
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Being attacked at antisemitic protest at Columbia University
04:55 - Right for Palestinian protest
12:10 - Smearing pro-Palestine protests
15:30 - Are Hamas villains?
17:30 - Media access in Gaza
20:40 - Conflating Israeli government with Jews
23:00 - Are the American pro-Palestine protesters terrorists?
27:50 - Name an intifada that wasn't a violent uprising?
31:00 - Recommending Jewish students leave campus
'UTTERLY SHOCKING': Holocaust survivor @tovatoks gives powerful account about being a young girl in Auschwitz, says she's "scared" about the rise of antisemitism on US college campuses. pic.twitter.com/xBsQk40sLS
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2024
It’s really painful having to explain to the anti-racism crowd—something I’ve been a part of myself for the better part of the last decade—why this is not okay. What is happening? Why are we silent as we watch this treatment that we would not accept against any other minority? pic.twitter.com/6QUnvI29yg
— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) April 22, 2024
"Israel's fight is #Anzac's too", writes Australian Aboriginal leader @NovaPeris, in this powerful op-ed for the Daily Telegraph, adding she is "perplexed by the vitriol that has been directed at me lately for telling the truth about Jewish indigineity to the land of #Israel." pic.twitter.com/nQ74lHDDB2
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 24, 2024
Iranian Woman Exposes How Democrats Made Iran More Dangerous - Elica Le Bon
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Iranian attorney, activist, and artist Elica Le Bon about how the ignorant Left in America misunderstands Iranian politics; her activism work following the revolution in Iran; the disconnect between the Iranian people and the regime; the West not understanding the situation in Iran and Barack Obama and Joe Biden empowering the regime through deals and funding; her concern about the spread of misinformation through social media and the radicalization it can cause; why we need a more balanced and educational approach to understanding Middle Eastern conflicts; and much more.
This Post on the 'Progressive' Pro-Hamas Mob Absolutely Nails It
Why aren’t the “protestors” demanding that the terrorist group Hamas release hostages and surrender? Literally none of them are calling for that. All the fury is aimed at Israel, none at the party that started the war with an act of mass slaughter and rape and that keeps it going with hostage-taking and human-shielding. Hamas has turned down every “ceasefire” offer. Why would pro-ceasefire activists support the side that refuses a ceasefire? Why would a supposedly anti-war movement overtly support the side of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas, all of whom exist only to wage war? Why haven’t these wonderful humanitarians mounted similar campaigns in response to actual genocides, such as those carried out against Muslims in China, Syria, Sudan, and Myanmar? Slaughters that have claimed many more innocent lives than the war in Gaza? I’ve screamed and written about these atrocities for years. Where were they? Why do protesters cite Hamas statistics as gospel? Why do they ignore the fact that most wars—especially those wars that have been overwhelmingly celebrated as righteous—have far worse civilian to combatant ratios than does the current war in Gaza? World War II comes to mind.
Why did they start protesting Israel immediately after October 7, before Israel even launched its ground invasion in Gaza? Why do people who would be apoplectic over the most microscopic indication of anti-black racism or Islamophobia downplay the flagrant and widespread violent anti-Semitism of these rallies as the unrepresentative behavior of “just a few jerks”? Have they not seen the total saturation of Hamas slogans at these events? Why are these protests growing larger, more active, and more violent at the moment that Gaza has been becalmed? Israel pulled out the majority of its troops weeks ago and the death toll dropped dramatically months before that (even by the bullsh*t Hamas numbers). Why does a political movement that claims to believe in indigenous rights, immigration, gender-equality, refugee acceptance, democracy, and religious pluralism support a non-indigenous, conquering, theocratic tyranny of female servitude, murderous homophobia, religious intolerance, and totalitarian subjugation against a democratic state of an indigenous people that values equal rights and personal liberty?
Israel is being vilified and Jews are being forced out of universities by cult-like mobs of Jew haters, backed by professors and administrators and terror groups and regimes.
— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) April 24, 2024
Where Jew hatred reigns, freedom dies.
The only way to protect freedom is to defeat Jew hatred. https://t.co/Xh4wgt9ltO
It’s a shame the Weathermen and Black Panthers make that difficult. https://t.co/5cNiZ7zvwT
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 24, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters say walk by Jewish campaigners should face restrictions
More than 200 pro-Palestine protestors seen rallying outside Chuck Schumer's New York home are taken into custody as they call for U.S to halt providing weapons to Israel
#NOW Hundreds gathered for "Seder in the Streets" outside of Senator Schumer's home, shutting down Brooklyn street and risking arrests for Gaza and demanding to "Stop Arming Israel". pic.twitter.com/xmFaBB1ck5
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 23, 2024
#NYC OVER 300 ARRESTS as hundreds of "Jewish voices for Peace" activists and their supporters block Brooklyn street outside @SenSchumer house, demanding to "Stop Arming Israel".
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 24, 2024
Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/UvR1ocAW6k
Jewish groups call for end to funding for Edmonton Pride centre over its response to Hamas attack
How dumb are the woke-Jihadi crowds protesting in New York? Watch Israeli reporter @NeriaKraus revealing their moral and logical emptiness. They don’t even know what the signs they are holding say or mean… simply brainwashed, useful idiots, who hope you’re all stupid and rotten… https://t.co/2yYQQEyPOr
— Tal Heinrich (@TalHeinrich) April 23, 2024
In the anti-Israel demonstrations around the world, they chant for intifada without having any idea what it means! pic.twitter.com/cylnnt6aRl
— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) April 23, 2024
Google fires at least another 20 staffers in wake of anti-Israel sit-ins
Canada’s deputy PM wouldn’t condemn pro-Hamas slogans as hate speech until she saw video of vile chants
Alec Baldwin smacks phone of anti-Israel agitator who demanded he say 'Free Palestine' in coffee shop
Simply brilliant. 😂 pic.twitter.com/DNDjbGdC7A
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) April 22, 2024
Rep. Elise Stefanik demands federal funds for Columbia University be revoked in wake of anti-Israel protests
Today I demanded action from Education Secretary Cardona, DOJ Attorney General Garland, and Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas to address the out of control antisemitic takeover of @Columbia.
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) April 23, 2024
➡️ Revoke any federal funding for Columbia University
➡️ Revoke the student visas…
House Speaker Mike Johnson demands ‘very weak, inept’ Columbia prez Minouche Shafik resign ahead of campus visit
Hey @gatesfoundation, what is Antisemitic terror facilitator Minouche Shafik still doing on your board? https://t.co/dviOUclY0c
— Corrected Media (@correctedmedia) April 24, 2024
I recently sat down with @ShaiDavidai to discuss everything that’s happening at @Columbia University. We must support Shai and the entire Jewish community on Columbia’s campus. pic.twitter.com/RwmRPRgroI
— (((noa tishby))) (@noatishby) April 24, 2024
I just got an email from an Israeli student at @Columbia.
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) April 24, 2024
Don't listen to me. Listen to them:
"Dear Shai,
I am writing to you as a concerned Israeli student at Columbia University, along with 133 fellow Israeli students. On April 23rd at 8:00 AM, we addressed a letter to… pic.twitter.com/oP3P4SDji6
Sparks fly during CNN panel discussion of Columbia University protests.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 24, 2024
"When you're praising Hamas, when you're praising Hezbollah, when you're saying you're gonna globalize the intifada..."
"Excuse me, I'm so sorry."
"Yeah?!" pic.twitter.com/KlbxmJTg1e
Stop the Mideast Money Fueling Campus Anti-Semitism
WSJ: Who's Behind the Anti-Israel Protests? Iran
Lawmakers Ask IRS To Probe Chinese Funding to Anti-Israel Protests
NFL Funded Left-Wing Group Bailing Out Anti-Israel Bridge Blockers
Who is funding today's anti-Israel protests on college campuses?@JSchanzer joins @FoxNews to break down the money trail.
— FDD (@FDD) April 23, 2024
Watch 👇 pic.twitter.com/TYs5g5yxIn
SJP's glowing endorsement pic.twitter.com/sCmOubpzft
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 24, 2024
For those doubting the authenticity of the statement, here it is on the PFLP's official website pic.twitter.com/azEovTn0dY
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 24, 2024
“It felt like a page out of a dystopian novel.”
— The Free Press (@TheFP) April 23, 2024
WATCH: Last night, Jewish Columbia student @JessicaSchwalb7 and her friends were surrounded by pro-Palestine protesters—who demanded the “Zionists” leave their camp immediately.https://t.co/ybJuGReOy9 pic.twitter.com/uz4rel917R
AOC Celebrates Anti-Israel Campus Protests During Event With Biden
My family was also killed in the Holocaust. In Germany and in Poland. My grandmother was in the kinder-transport. They also instilled values in me. It’s why I voted for aid to Israel and for aid to Gaza. We see each other at work, we are both better than doing this here. https://t.co/vawa9NGFto
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) April 24, 2024
The Biden Justice and Education Departments are asleep at the wheel regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Both agencies should hold these universities accountable, and the visa of any foreign student who is championing Hamas should be canceled. pic.twitter.com/sUErXnBACu
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 22, 2024
Impossible for them to just unequivocally condemn antisemitism. https://t.co/Rg5wnqUF6p
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 23, 2024
Oof pic.twitter.com/ADlWENrPS1
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 23, 2024
I was sent this last night by current student at @Columbia. This leaflet was being handed out to students by CUAD, the group @IlhanMN’s daughter was an organizer with. At the top, Jews & Jewish orgs. It portrays them controlling Columbia’s president, the NYPD, & US corporations. pic.twitter.com/dJUuhzqhzh
— Walter Sobchak (@WalterSobchakSr) April 21, 2024
Statement by @NationalSJP immediately after 10/07. We are watching it play out…full steam ahead…right now: “Liberation is not an abstract concept. It is not a moment circumscribed to a revolutionary past as it is often characterized. Rather, liberating colonized land is a real…
— Dan Senor (@dansenor) April 23, 2024
Last week Joe Biden’s @DoDEA celebrated a radical pro-Hamas antisemite. This week she joined chants praising Hamas.
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) April 24, 2024
The schools we trust to educate our service members’ families should NOT be giving a platform to Jewish hate. This appeasement of antisemitic figures comes from… pic.twitter.com/FRPLLRSxmR
Columbia Jewish alumni demand firing of president Shafik for failing to protect students on campus
NYPost Editorial: Columbia prez must go: She’s now privileging antisemitic protesters over all other students
FLASHBACK: Columbia President After 9/11 Said Terrorism Is ‘A Form Of Protesting’
FLASHBACK: At an event just two months after 9/11, Columbia University's current president Minouche Shafik remarked that terrorism "is a form of protesting" pic.twitter.com/UkSP4iqDZu
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 22, 2024
Three actions Columbia President Shafik must take RIGHT NOW:
— House Committee on Education & the Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) April 22, 2024
1. Order law enforcement to clear out the unlawful encampment of antisemitic protestors
2. Expel the students involved
3. Terminate the Columbia faculty involved
The time for talking is over.
Of course their lawyer is convicted criminal Stanley Cohen, who has represented Hamas, Hezbollah and the Bin-Ladens. Only natural. @Columbia https://t.co/dcAwrtPzWH
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 23, 2024
Columbia Professors Declare Solidarity With Student Protesters and Call for Shafik's Resignation
I Used To Run Columbia’s Pro-Israel Group. This Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New
Columbia Law Students Tell Jewish Classmates Police Presence on Campus Makes Them Feel Unsafe
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) April 24, 2024
Pro-terror radical launched 2-hour anti-Israel tirade at Columbia event before protests exploded: ‘Nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter’
I was on @Varneyco today talking about Columbia and why the NYPD must clear the terrorist encampment which has established itself there. pic.twitter.com/xtiqftCZe7
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) April 22, 2024
Billionaires led by Robert Kraft stop cash for Columbia and call anti-Israeli mob ‘f–king crazy’
Patriots owner Robert Kraft says he will no longer donate to Columbia University until the school protects Jewish students. pic.twitter.com/B0lriqsUzb
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 22, 2024
Robert Kraft condemns antisemitism at Columbia University
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 22, 2024
Watch the full video here: https://t.co/2XI0Vwk1lg pic.twitter.com/vOd8kSta5s
Anti-Israel protesters vow to fight and defend Columbia University encampment as counterterrorism police gather near campus after mob ignored president's midnight deadline to leave
He Refused To Leave Columbia When He Was Suspended. Two Weeks Later, He's Still There—And Leading the Protests Roiling Campus.
Students occupying @Columbia are engaging in zombie-like repeat-after-me sessions in which they gloat about Jewish Prof. @ShaiDavidai not being allowed to enter
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 22, 2024
They say they will “keep ppl at the gates but will open up for internal movement”
CHAZ v2.0 pic.twitter.com/H1HiI2bTuL
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) April 23, 2024
AP reporter faces restrictions from Columbia University's pro-Palestine protest organizers, instructing him not to film certain areas of the public protest. He is directed to the designated media corner in front of Butler, where organizers in yellow vests will guide him on… pic.twitter.com/XcXRsneFde
— Raw Reporting (@Raw_Reporting) April 22, 2024
We finally found the WMD's! https://t.co/CC4ibaoGcA
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 23, 2024
The song says “my blood is Palestinian.”
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) April 23, 2024
The dance is dabkeh, and it is not specifically Arab or Palestinian. It is danced in the Levant. A close cousin is the Jewish Horah.
Kurdistan and Anatolia have a variation of this dance, and to an extent Greece and Macedonia’s Tzorba.… https://t.co/XcxK7hAbsl
Also notice the American flags. You won’t find them inside the Columbia CHAZ. https://t.co/go75grb10R
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) April 24, 2024
#NOW Faculty members WALK OUT of Barnard College to support the encampment protesters.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 22, 2024
"I support people who study and want to build peace" pic.twitter.com/qR6c0PjGhh
We have just made a formal complaint to @Columbia about the antisemitism & denial of rape of Israeli women, by their Adjunct professor Sanam Naraghi Anderlini.
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 23, 2024
Let’s see if they take any action or are content with a Professor rejecting rape claims. https://t.co/90kAsoykBX
Actor Michael Rapaport slams anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia as ‘bullies’ and ‘cowards’
I went to see what was going on in Morningside Heights and ended up speaking a little bit. Take a listen below & hear the full breakdown on a new @iamrapaport podcast https://t.co/xoEgS7FeXC pic.twitter.com/ymiOV7savC
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) April 23, 2024
And @mehdirhasan, noting that the person you chose to platform to show the protests aren’t pro-terrorism spent all of 10/7 repeatedly defending terrorists massacring Jews isn’t a “gotcha,” it’s just a fact that reflects on you.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 24, 2024
If you were smarter or had any decency, you would…
John Fetterman endorses Mitt Romney for president — of Harvard
#BREAKING: Stunning video from @Harvard where a pro-Hamas mob has infiltrated the Harvard campus and started setting up another pro-terrorist encampment. pic.twitter.com/bXLEBgig97
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 24, 2024
The mob at Harvard also has matching tents. And so I ask again, who is funding the mob? pic.twitter.com/T7O0bgxewt
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 24, 2024
#NOW Pro-palestine Protesters LIGHT FLARES march through China Town to "FLOOD 1PP" for Jail support.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 23, 2024
1PP is 1 Police Plaza, NYPD headquarters. pic.twitter.com/pcvhT8XpEJ
Northwestern Investigates Flyer Targeting Jewish Community Center
Jewish NYU professor lashes out at brainwashed student protesters: 'If I said lynch the blacks or burn the gays, I'd never work again'
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 23, 2024
🚨 BREAKING
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 23, 2024
The NYPD have finally gone into NYU and arrested the pro-Hamas radicalist members of faculty and students.
They aren’t messing around.
I have no idea how they haven’t got into @Columbia yet - is Shafik using a forcefield?
🎥 @VividProwesspic.twitter.com/ZMrmHyrPz2
The University of Texas at Austin said it would keep its community safe. And it is.@UTAustin called in Texas State Troopers to disperse the pro-terror mob. pic.twitter.com/tUaUP1o00H
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 24, 2024
The New School admin reportedly asked that no one hang protest posters in the lobby area of a University building on W 12th Street in Manhattan, #NYC.
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) April 22, 2024
Citing a violation, University administrators took down posters where student protesters have established an encampment zone in… pic.twitter.com/rMTpORp9FJ
🚨 BREAKING - California 📍
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 23, 2024
Police are in 𝗥𝗶𝗼𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗮𝗿 at California State Polytechnic University in Arcata!
What happened at Columbia and NYU has spread across USA like Wildfire.
Anti-Students have taken over a building on Campus and barricaded themselves in with tables… pic.twitter.com/vIljjmXitB
Ivy League University Installs Jew Detectors At All Entrances https://t.co/DCPFxE0IwQ pic.twitter.com/7cQIiOSdM2
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 23, 2024
Cambridge University disables comments following Passover post backlash
Anti-Israel hate marches holding the rest of us hostage while Trudeau shrugs
Islamophobia czar's wild claim that anti-Israel extremism is a 'few individual protesters'
The University of Sydney barely has any ties with Israel. Meanwhile one third of the University of Sydney’s budget depends on China. The University is far more implicated in the genocidal crimes of the CCP. But none of these tankies will ever protest that. https://t.co/rmNzwgZI7Y
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇾 (@DrewPavlou) April 23, 2024
A bunch of sickly looking terrorist supporters shout for the murder of Jews at the University of Sydney.
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) April 24, 2024
The ugly face of Jew-hatred in 2024. pic.twitter.com/SuLJ2T1Sfx
Rutgers SJP and EJC (Endowment Justice Collective) protested on the steps of President Holloway's house where they hand delivered their divestment demands.
— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 23, 2024
"We don't want 2 states. We want 48."
"RUPD, KKK, IOF, they're all the same."
Does this look well meaning to you or is… pic.twitter.com/Cf4M78NzRF
“Wear a mask to avoid losing your job or getting doxxed by the fascists”.
— miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) April 22, 2024
“Black block - you should all wear black and have two changes of clothes, one for anonimity, one to change after, cover your entire head to avoid being recognised and getting arrested”.
These are printed… pic.twitter.com/REMvyktCHO
Ronan Preastuin (Preston) is an open supporter of a proscribed terrorist group (Hamas), he is also a Key Stage 4 Coordinator & Year 9 Tutor at Ursuline High School, London. He is a clear danger to children and should be reported to Counter Terrorism Policing @TerrorismPolice.… pic.twitter.com/WYbr8ulBb6
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 23, 2024
Sarah Wilkinson is a Holocaust denier and a violent antisemite who attacks Jews.
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 23, 2024
She’ll fit in well in Gaza. #BringThemAllHome https://t.co/FjT68bRQrb
Tuesday morning, some Seattle high school students walked out of class and rallied at Cal Anderson Park.
— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 24, 2024
But most of these kids have been indoctrinated with anti-Israel propaganda and espouse far-left ideology. Btw, zero calls for hostages to be released.
Otherwise, the… https://t.co/iMc0kRDQJ6 pic.twitter.com/T7dYtb9Z6a
'Teachers for Palestine' slammed over push to cancel Anzac Day
Charge these terrorist supporters with treason! War heroes slam planned Anzac Day protests | Herald Sun https://t.co/R6BgAqwcMj
— Jeremy Lanzer (@jeremylanzer) April 24, 2024
War heroes’ anger over planned Anzac Day protests in CBD
— Ocarina Jones 🇮🇱 (@OcarinaJones) April 24, 2024
Suzan Delibasic and Regan Hodge Herald Sun April 24, 2024
War heroes and army veterans have unequivocally slammed a group of pro-Palestine protesters who are set to rally at several city locations on Anzac Day.
Activist… pic.twitter.com/WFQGcKiLfm
🚨A 42-year-old MAN armed with a knife attended a children’s school in Melbourne today to “protest Israel with other MOTHERS” because “genocide”.
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) April 24, 2024
Nothing is sacred to these psychos. pic.twitter.com/HAgcbmr6Dq
You see him briefly again here. This video was posted to social media with the following message.
— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 24, 2024
"🚨ZIONISTS ARE TRYING TO SURROUND AND STORM THE ENCAMPMENT. STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS COME TO THE DIAG NOW‼️ WE KEEP US SAFE"
I haven't seen any evidence that anyone was… pic.twitter.com/pcSo4lTFV2
Moses at the New York pro-Hamas encampment plays “Let my People Go, The Game Show”
— Leslie Young ✡︎ (@AkaLazarus) April 23, 2024
“Should Hamas release the hostages?”
Courtesy of @jewhatedb and Instagram. pic.twitter.com/V0VHMvfS35
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