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Tiki Torches Photoshopped Into Campus Riot Photos So Democrats Will Care
Student groups at Columbia and Harvard Universities, among others, formed a task force over the weekend with the specific job of taking photos of the various pro-Hamas demonstrations on those campuses since October 2023, and photoshopping them to include tiki torches of the kind now indelibly linked in the popular consciousness to hateful bigots, and which Democrats often invoke as a symbol of evil, usually in the context of spreading a hoax that then-presidential-candidate Donald Trump called those marching with the torches "very fine people." To date, Jewish students have voiced continual frustration at failure to get enough nationally-influential Democrats, especially in Congress, to take decisive action against the intimidation, threats, violence, and outright disruption of normal academic life that the demonstrations have caused.
Three teams of photo editors will collect photos of the protests from social media and traditional media, and select the ones most suitable for tiki-torch insertion. The effort to identify and alter almost eighteen months' worth of such images is expected to last at least several weeks, according to organizer Herb Rush.
"There will be a sprinkling of current images in there," he explained. "But the main endeavor, for the initial stage, will focus on the existing photos. Once the groups exhaust those photos, and get the tiki torch placement right, we can move on to monitoring media for newer photos. I expect that to require fewer volunteers, but for now we have about twenty."
One of the volunteers, who declined to share her identity, citing privacy and safety concerns on campus, added that the initiative aims to restore sanity to the Democratic Party, which has failed in recent years to take a firm stand against antisemitism - partly in deference to pro-Palestinian voters and voices, who outnumber Jewish voters. "Democrats long claimed to be the party of anti-racism, of inclusion, and we're just trying to help them reassert that," she noted.
Organizers cautioned against premature assessment of the effects of the tiki-torch-photoshopping initiative. "One indication will be if enough Democrats, or the Democratic establishment, stops reflexively siding against Jewish safety just because Jewish safety is a mantle Donald Trump has picked up," Rush suggested.
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