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Antisemitic protests across America are largely driven by one man
American campuses nationwide have been overtaken by pro-Palestine student protesters as they hold rallies, erect blockades, and occupy school grounds in tent encampments. The protests are often explicitly pro-Hamas and invariably antisemitic, although many of the students involved are just there to skip class, do drugs, and hang out with friends. In fact, most have no idea why they are there or what they are saying.
One video by
shows protesters chanting “from the river to the sea” but, when asked what that means, they say they have no idea. I have seen other videos like this. Another video posted by Visegrád 24, who recently appeared on the podcast, includes the following haiku.“What would you say is the main goal with tonight’s protest?” the interviewer asks.
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops,” a student replies. “I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing.”
“Is there something that NYU is doing?”
“I really don’t know. I’m pretty sure…” the student says, then turns to a friend and asks, “Do you know what NYU is doing?”
“About what?” the friend says.
“About Israel. Why are we protesting here?”
The friend replies, “I wish I was more educated.”
This 22-second clip encapsulates these Hamasniks better than anything I’ve seen. The thing about Hamasniks, tankies, and Nazis is that their motivations can be more social and less ideological than we assume. The environment is electric out on the grass lawn with everyone else. Inside is an empty dorm and homework. Maybe you’re already lonely or in a new place. Besides, it’s fun to play rebel. And you make friends.
Most of these protesters seem to care little and know less about politics or what’s happening in Israel in much detail, but as they see it, you can be a liberator or a colonizer, join the Resistance or the Empire, stand with nonwhites or with the politically white.
This is the textbook definition of the useful idiot and the problem appears to be spiraling out of hand here in the United States. Last week, police arrested over 100 protesters at Columbia University. This week, police arrested over 100 protesters at Emerson College in Boston. Things got violent at Emerson and four police officers were injured.
How did all this get kickstarted so quickly and scale up so impressively when so much of it appears to be made up of students who aren’t that serious?
For one thing, beneath the organic and relatively mindless outer layer is a hard kernel of true believers. The deeply racist, easily angered, violent kind. Then you have communist groups making signs and putting together rallies. Watch Kisin’s video above and you’ll hear the protesters who don’t know what they’re saying explain that they got the signs from a nearby stall of communist activists.
But a third factor, and one of the most important with the campus protests we’ve been seeing, is unsurprisingly an antisemitic professor at an elite university in California.
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