Campus Protesters are not “Antiwar” or “Pro-Palestinian” or Whatever, they are Anti-Jew and if they are Pro Anything, then they are Pro-Jihad
Let me start by declaring I’m a young person in my mid twenties and October 7th was easily by far the most fucked up thing that has ever happened that I have ever heard about in my lifetime. I guess 9/11 is another event that rivals it in terms of the scope of how fucked up it was, but since I was three years old in 2001, I don’t think it counts.
And though I am not Jewish, I can safely say it appalled me how fast people could forget what happened on October 7th to condemn Israel’s invasion of Gaza as “genocide.” And it equally bothers me—though I think it doesn’t get enough criticism, which is why I’m making this post—that news outlets are referring to these protesters as “pro-Palestinian” or “antiwar.” They are antisemites. These are antisemitic demonstrations. That is how they should be reported. And anyone like Biden who can’t condemn it without talking about “Islamophobia,” too, is ignoring it.
Shameless students wearing headscarves that cover their faces, who in any other setting but a college campus, would resemble ISIS terrorists on Western streets, accuse Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide.” They demand their colleges to “divest” from Israel and demand that Biden end all military aid to Israel. No one who’s claiming to endorse a “free” Palestine “from the river to the sea” can sincerely speak for the suffering of people in Gaza.
And to be clear, even if they were shutting down traffic and occupying quads like homeless people, purely over the civilian casualties of the war, without calling Israel a “settler colonial” state—there would be large room to suspect bad faith: when no one marched for Afghan civilians when Biden ceded Afghanistan to the Taliban, or Iranian women when after Mahsa Amini was beaten to death for wearing her headscarf wrong, the country was roiled with protests (in fact, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators align themselves with Iran, chanting the regime’s slogans, “death to Israel, death to America”); no one marched for Ukrainians after Russia invaded and indiscriminately and systematically massacred civilians in cities like Bucha. In addition, the Palestinians are not even good people like the leftwing press would have you believe, in any way deserving of the outsize, ludicrous sympathy, product of a self-flagellating West, they receive. Like their comrades at Columbia, who chant “we don’t want two-state, we want 48,” the Palestinians have never accepted the UN partition of Palestine, creating Israel since 1948.
As I have written before on this blog, nobody in the world genuinely cares about “the Palestinians” emphasis on the definite article the. The way they intone those words, I recoil at how it sounds like they’re invoking the dignity of a fundamentally noble people, and it makes me smirk to realize how the mythical “Palestine” does not exist as a sovereign state. As a matter of fact, what the name comprises geographically in the West Bank and Gaza is a veritable backwater, a sewer, not least because of Israeli pressure but Palestinians’ own incompetence, a combined unwillingness to democratize and liberalize or renounce violence against Israel.
If Gaza lies in ruins now and the West Bank is a camp under the vigilance of the IDF, this is what you get for stealing humanitarian aid from the West to dig massive tunnels and reward the families of “martyrs,” and indoctrinating and conscripting children in a holy war to destroy Israel. In this respect they are not unlike the universities and their woke faculty with their revolutionary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ideology which views America and the West through an insanely simplistic Marxist paradigm of colonial power, which entitles oppressed minorities to stage perpetual (albeit administrative) rebellion against a “legacy” of structural or systemic racism or inequity, transphobia, Islamophobia, homophobia, etc. etc. Indeed DEI and wokeness is an ideology with strong roots in the Democratic party that is no worse than the nakedly chauvanistic nationalism and trade job fetish that has overtaken the GOP since 2016 championed by the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, JD Vance and Josh Hawley, for which Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk would have to be the bad faith preeminent mouthpieces in the mass media, deluding disaffected right wingers to think that America is no longer a force for good in the world.
People who purport to march for Palestine, rather, knowingly or not use the word as a cudgel, with which to browbeat Jews mainly for going after a terrorist organization that pledges to destroy them in their founding charter after the mini holocaust of October 7th. So it inflames the liver to read the headlines of news organizations that give cover to these protesters who are at the very least a hate group. I have gotten notifications from the Washington Post referring to them as “antiwar” protesters. There is no comparison between the antisemitic intimidation tactics of these far left masked agitators and the shirtless anarchic riots of the late 60s. These people are not tripping acid and preaching free love.
Those among them who are protesting for protesting’s sake I’m sure would like us to believe there is. However though it is generating a similar level of turbulence, substantively there is a critical difference from the Vietnam student protests, which were surely unsavory for their anti-Americanism not to mention the unabashed communists who took part in them, but the object was ending the war in Vietnam, a debacle in the South-Asian jungle that was getting many young Americans, including college-age students killed. On the campuses of Columbia and Yale and all these other schools today, none of these young people have any connection to Gaza or “Palestine.” None of them know the history of the conflict. These various and sundry radical feminists and LGBT activists do not care how Hamas and radical Islamists would treat them ethically in Gaza or Iran.
The terrible truth is that, at the forefront of their minds, it is the international imperialist Jew, for whom they blame “patriarchy,” “white supremacy,” “colonialism,” to say nothing of the suffering Hamas-supporting Gazans. It is the Jew of all people at whose doorstep the antiracists have chosen to lay all their grievances, judging by the Democratic Socialists of America and Black Lives Matter chapters who celebrated the Hamas attack and proclaimed solidarity with their jihadist brethren. This is far worse by an order of magnitude than the Vietnam protests. These kids don’t merely hate America. They hate Jews. And it is a distinction without a difference whether they know it or not. Some commentators harp on how ignorant they are, because they protest in the cause of social justice. It doesn’t matter any less whether they’re aware of their antisemitism or not. The neoconfederate with Confederate flags in his garage who defends the Civil War as a battle over “state’s rights” is no less of a racist who thinks the South really had a right to keep black people in chains than the LGBT types who wave a rainbow flag for Palestine are antisemites who think Israelis brought October 7th upon themselves and deserved it.
No one on campus is pro-Palestinian or antiwar, as much as we like to think well of the innocence of young people and we like to put the Ivy League on a pedestal.
No one who is merely pro-Palestinian says they don’t want two states, they want 1948. Peace activists don’t wave Hamas and Hezbollah flags and identify terrorists as brothers and comrades. No one who’s “antiwar” wants a liberated Palestine free from the river to the sea.
This is on a par with Charlottesville where white supremacists in torch lit ceremony uttered this incantation, “Jews will not replace us.” Arguably it is more disturbing, because no less than Hitler’s brown shirts are pouring out of Ivy League colleges with the faculty’s full-throated support, convinced that Jews are not human beings but rather Zionists, against whom the worst violence is permitted to correct historical injustices.
— Jay