PA leaders are pleased with the anti-Israel protests at American universities but are unwilling to tolerate similar demonstrations at their own universities, fearing that they could be used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to create instability and insecurity.
In recent weeks, PA security officers have been removing Hamas flags from electricity poles in villages and towns in the West Bank. PA security forces have also foiled attempts by some students to set up encampments at Palestinian campuses similar to the ones at Columbia University and other campuses in the United States.
So let me get this straight. As far as the Palestinian Authority in the west bank is concerned here in the US it’s perfectly OK to target Jews to tear down the US flag and fly the Palestinian flag instead and to blockade and occupy college buildings, property and even set up checkpoint to restrict people in support of Hamas and to oppose any of that stuff is “islamophobic”
If however you are in lands that are actually controlled by the Palestinian Authority, well we can’t have that since it might help Hamas who they really don’t like much anyways.
Oddly I don’t think I’ve heard a single member of the press or congress who have been defending these “protests” in the US object one bit to their repression by Palestinians in the area where they wish to create a Palestinian state.
Madam Kovarian:You appear to be closing down, Dorium. What have you heard? Dorium: That you pricked the side of a mighty beast, Madame Kovarian, and entirely failed to run. I admire your courage. I should like to admire it from afar. Madam Kovarian:We’ve been waiting a month. He’s done nothing. Dorium:Do you really think so? There are people all over this galaxy that owe that man a debt. By now, a few of them will have found a blue box waiting for them on their doorstep, poor devils. Colonel Manton:You think he’s raising an army? Dorium:You think he isn’t? If that man is finally collecting on his debts, God help you, and God help his debtors. Colonel Manton: Why? Dorium:Colonel Manton, all those stories you’ve heard about him, they’re not stories, they’re true. Really. You’re not telling me you don’t know what’s coming?
Doctor Who, A Good Man Goes to War 2011
A lot of people have talked about “consequences” for the various Student “protestors” but there is one set of consequences that nobody seems to have considered.
Remember, the protests started on October 7, not on October 27, when the IDF went into Gaza. At that point, campus and street protests merely changed from euphoric triumphalism on the news that Hamas had slaughtered, decapitated, mutilated, raped, or kidnapped hundreds of Jews (“exhilarated,” a Cornell professor gushed of the carnage), to furor and violence. So after three weeks of celebrating dead Jews, the street protests grew furious only when the IDF finally began fighting back and destroying Hamas, even as its terrorists cowardly hid beneath mosques, hospitals, and schools to ensure enough collateral damage to incite pro-Hamas Western throngs.
This raises an important question about these “spontaneous protests” that nobody seems to be asking:
To what degree where were they actually coordinated with the Hamas attack, that is, where they PART of attack, planned to demoralize Israel and gather support for the slaughter of Jews as it happens?
This is an important consideration because if they were an integral part of the Hamas attack, then those participating in them are in fact Hamas.
Why is this important? Let’s turn back the clock to October 12th and this speech by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (emphasis mine):
“We saw the beasts. We saw the barbarians we are facing,” Netanyahu said in a televised address, according to The Times of Israel. “We saw a cruel enemy” which was “worse than ISIS.”
“How staggering the atrocity. How great the pain,” Netanyahu said. “We are fighting with full force, on every front, we have gone onto the attack. Every member of Hamas is a dead man.”
Bibi didn’t put a limit on who these Hamas members are, where they were or if they materially participated in the attack, if you’re Hamas you’re dead and given the amount of Israeli soldiers who have tried to bring this about, I suspect the Jewish state is not going to be all that picky over any person who proudly proclaims themselves Hamas.
Do I think that means that IDF soldiers are going to suddenly turn up at US campus’ and start killing students? No, Israel is going to have plenty to do in cleaning up the mess in Gaza they will be tied up for years.
That being said Israel as a state has a long memory and if they haven’t raised October 7th to the level of the Holocaust to them it’s just a tiny bit below it. If you don’t believe me ask those who served as guards in the death camps or those involved in the 1972 Olympic attack. Ask them if the Jewish state ever forgot.
If you’ve been arrested and your name taken down don’t doubt for one minute that the best intelligence agency in the world will know that name. Odds are if your just some dumb kid who doesn’t know better they’ll pass on you, remember your name but pass on you. The worst you’ll face is a blacklist at particular jobs and companies, but if you’re an organizer if you had a hand in this, if the Mossad decides for one moment that you were part of the overall plan right from the start, well I’d be very careful if I travel outside of the US from this point on because I suspect your name is now on a list to die.
You’ve declared yourself Hamas and Israel is going to take you at your word.
It might take 5 years, it might take 10 years it might take 20 years but when it comes to long term revenge we Sicilians have nothing on Israel. I don’t care how much the Arab states are paying you. I don’t care how much George Soros or the Tides foundation or Arabella have kicked in. I don’t care how comfortable a life they’ve given you. Speaking as a guy working long hours and struggling financially who can only dream about getting something like the $8K for one days work that some of those folks got, let me say this.
I wouldn’t trade places with you for all the treasure on earth.
In terms of numbers and in geographic reach, America is possibly suffering from its worse outbreak of anti-Semitism ever. I’m referring of course to the pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests at many colleges. Many of these “spontaneous” events are illegal encampments filled with similar tents, exact-copy signs, that are populated with angry students and other interlopers chanting the same slogans.
Fortunately, for now at least, the worst outrages at these hate rallies are isolated incidents.
Last month, a protester at George Washington University held a sign with a Palestinian flag and “the final solution.” At Columbia, a protest leader, the pronoun challenged Khymani James, was banned from campus after a video surfaced where, James declared, “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Can you imagine the uproar–it would be a well-deserved one–if someone screamed, “Go back to Africa” to Black protesters? The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division would be there at Navy Seals speed.
The head of the Department of Justice is Merrick Garland, the US attorney general. When the situation fits, he likes to remind people that he is Jewish and had two members of his family perish in the Holocaust.
Last year, when questioned about the infamous FBI memo that suggested Catholics who favor traditional Latin mass services could connected to “the far-right white nationalist movement,” Garland responded emotionally. “The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous,” he said, “so absurd.”
In March, in an address to the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League’s Never is Now Summit, Garland was more specific about his family and the Holocaust.
“My family fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe at the start of the 20th century,” he said. “My grandmother, who was one of five children born in what is now Belarus, made it to the United States, as did two of her siblings.”
“The other two did not,” the AG continued. “They were killed in the Holocaust.”
Oh yeah, Belarus, the same place the hater at Columbia said, along with Poland, Jews should return to.
Garland is a native of Lincolnwood, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. He graduated–as class valedictorian-from Niles West High School in nearby Skokie. It was in Skokie, several years after Garland’s graduation, where Neo-Nazis attempted to march. Thousands of Holocaust survivors lived in Skokie at the time; Garland almost certainly was classmates with children of survivors of the Shoah.
Why hasn’t Garland specifically and forcefully spoken out against the anti-Semitism at these pro-Hamas protests? His boss, President Joe Biden, hasn’t either, of course.
When the time is right–or better, when the politics are right–Garland speaks out against anti-Semitism.
But is Garland even running the Justice Department? In the May 3rd Chicago Way podcast hosted by John Kass, the great Charles Lipson, a professor emeritus of political science from the University Chicago, had this to say about Garland: “The attorney general’s office right now is being running by a woman named Lisa Monaco, she’s the number two-person, Merrick Garland’s not doing anything.”
Well, he can do something now. Garland can unequivocally denounce the anti-Semitic protests at college campuses and the Biden administration’s weak response to them.
And then resign.
It’s up to Garland to convince me that he’s not a coward.
For decades blue states and even bluer universities have decided to enable and encourage this stuff. They have done so of their own free will and when given the choice of doing so nor not have made the choice to do so.
Maybe for status, maybe for Arab dollars, maybe because they hate their political foes or those who practice the Judeo-Christians faiths in earnest so much that they’d rather suffer if it gives them the slightest hurt.
But for whatever reason they have decided that this is how they want their states, cities and universities run and have rejected chances to change direction.
Part of freedom is the freedom to be stupid and self destructive. So be it:
Let these states hemorrhage the productive and the faithful.
Let these cities lose their tax base
Let these universities lose their reputations and their graduates become unemployable
Let it continue until the pain is so great that they cry out and do something about it, because they will not learn otherwise.
And we must accept the fact that they may never learn at all, so be it.
Closing thought: This reminds me of an exorcist who described the encounter with a demon during exorcism. The demon under noted that at the time of their rebellion they understood what would happen when they rebelled and the suffering of Hell that would be upon them and did it anyways. When asked by the priest doing the exorcism if he would do it again if given a second chance the demon answered with a quick and unequivocal “Yes!” It reminds one of an important point.
Every single person who is in hell is there by their own choice. As so many people choose hell in death, why should we be surprised that they make such choices in life?
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