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.
“Father Shouldn’t we put a stop to it” “Aye lad we should, we should it’s our duty”
Policeman 1: [Running into station seeing big fight & massive crowd] Call up Ballinrobe tell them to send the inspector down here send reinforcements the regents. There’s a riot down here!
Policeman 2: [Picking up phone and shouting into it] Ballinrobe, Ballinrobe!
[scene changes to the fight and then returns]
Policeman 1: [On the phone] Yes inspector, thank you sir.
Policeman 2: What did he say?
Policeman 1: He said put Five Pounds on Danaher’s Nose
The Quiet Man 1952
Every now and then people make a wish, a really stupid wish and every now and then the world decides to grant that stupid wish and give said people just what they asked for.
This happened to the “protestors” at UCLA yesterday. Police had arrived in force and the “protestors” being the leftists that they are did not take kindly to their arrival.
They chanted “Pigs Go Home” and had signs up saying “Fuck UCPD” and “ACAB” (all cops are bastards) deriding the police who had arrived to restore order.
This went on for a while, and then the police decided to grant their wish and decided to withdraw…
…coincidently right at the time when a group of people, armed with pipes, upset at an attack the sent a Jewish girl, arrived.
For two hours. Multiple agencies responding to a mutual aid request from campus police apparently had conflicting or limited orders, with people on the campus hearing that officers were warned to avoid using force or making arrests.
It was at this point where those folks who where chanting “Pigs go home” were suddenly shocked SHOCLED and outraged at the lack of police presence to protect them.
Getting texts from terrified @UCLA students in the pro-Palestinian encampment, which is under attack by pro-Israel counterprotesters. "This is urgent. Please. It's getting bad. No police."
No police? Isn’t that what those students showing “pigs go home” just a few minutes before wanted? Why aren’t they all delighted?
Zionist groups at UCLA attacked the pro-#Palestine student encampment. They launched fireworks, assaulted students, and used pepper spray and bear spray. Clashes are still ongoing.
Where are the police? Why they “fucked off” just like you asked them to.
What we seem to have hear is a failure to communicate the redefinition of words which has become common among the left these days. When the pro-hamas anti-Semite radicals where saying:
“Pigs Go Home”
They apparently actually meant:
“Please Mr. Policeman protect us from our enemies who want revenge on us for beating up that girl”
They never meant “fuck the police” as a statement of principle, as any form of expression regarding their personal beliefs. It was cosplay; they were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain. Empty, pathetic, worthless.
Fortunately for the Hamas crowd the Mayor, perhaps realizing that it was a crowd of Democrat voters who were now at risk instead of just Jewish girls, finally called the police giving permission to engage and within an hour things were quiet again.
It’s worth noting that once the police had removed the danger the pro-terrorist protesters faced from their attackers a familiar refrain returned to the anti-Semite encampment:
UCLA 🚨 3:03 am – LAPD closing in on Pro Palestine encampment as they chant “PIGS GO HOME!”. pic.twitter.com/iMXz2M41Xk
— Anthony Cabassa (IWA) (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024
(...until our enemies come back to fight)
On the plus side the students at this place of education were given a valuable lesson about police. One of their primary duties is to protect criminals from mob justice, which can be a life saving task if you’re one of the criminals who the mob is crying for vengeance against.
Expect cries of outrage from Democrat pols who were 24 hours earlier decrying the police moving in at Columbia.
Unexpectedly of course.
For those too young to remember the great fight scene referenced at the top here it is:
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