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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
When I headed out to UCLA, the campus was quiet. A few students wandered in and out of buildings. A proud mother was taking pictures of her daughter. Students sunbathed on the lawn underneath Royce Hall, the center of the pro-terrorist riots days earlier, which had been secured by an LAPD and campus police presence. Apart from one smear of graffiti on a vending machine and a PLO flag hanging in the window of a dormitory, there was no sign of the riots.
What happened to the rioters? Some may have been sleeping it off, but most weren’t there.
When the NYPD broke up pro-Hamas riots at Columbia and City College, half of the rioters turned out not to be students. While the media has portrayed the terrorist encampments on campuses as the work of outraged students, it’s not clear how many anywhere are students.
The masks commonly worn by the supporters deliberately obscure their identities. But this did not help them when they were finally arrested. What it did do was initially shield the fact that many of the terrorist supporters were clearly older adults, not students, as these photos show.
A bearded 59-year-old man is clearly not a student, but put on a mask, drape a keffiyah around him, and keep him in the background, and he can pass as just another warm “student” body.
While the terror supporters have been careful to send students and faculty, especially sympathetic ones, unmasked in front of the cameras, the mugshots show what they’re hiding.
The truth is that few students support the antisemitic encampments and most want them to go.
Those are the results of a recent survey by Generation Lab which found that only 7% of students took part in them, only a quarter support them and a majority oppose them.
A majority of college students want to see fewer protests, oppose BDS, and don’t agree with most anti-Israel slogans. 34% of college students blame Hamas leaders for the situation in Gaza, as opposed to 19% who blame Netanyahu.
And, more importantly, 81% say that “students who destroyed property, vandalized or illegally occupied buildings should be held accountable”.
What the survey really shows though is that the majority of students don’t really care. When college students were asked to pick the issues they cared about the most, only 13% picked the war. The majority selected issues like free college, racial justice and social justice.
Of all the issues, the Hamas war was the least important one on the list to most students.
The pro-Hamas campus riots did not happen because of widespread support from college students, but because key campuses like Columbia and UCLA had become hubs for anti-Israel groups due to the presence of pro-terrorist faculty and some Muslim and Marxist students.
By setting up terrorist encampments on college campuses, terrorist supporters exploited the cowardice and ineptitude of the administrators who had allowed them to operate on campus all along while manufacturing the narrative that they were a student movement. And as a student movement, they could lay claim to the mantle of the Vietnam War protest movement.
But are they actually a student movement rather than a movement recruiting students?
The campus encampments deployed their own security to keep out not only Jewish students, but the press. Participating students were told not to speak to anyone without approval and when they did, the results were often embarrassing as it became clear that they knew nothing. In one famous video from NYU, a protesting student couldn’t explain why she was protesting.
When the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan visited Columbia University, she observed that unlike past student protesters, “these demonstrators would generally not speak or make eye contact with members of the press”. When she tried to talk to any of the younger members, none would reply except for one who said that she couldn’t talk because “I’m not trained.”
People who already know what they stand for don’t need to be “trained”.
The terrorist encampments were not just set up on campuses to keep Jews out, but to keep students in. Adjuncts held classes inside them to get more students inside the pen. And then used social pressure to try to convince them to stay. Tents and snacks were brought in to make the makeshift terror compounds seem like a comfortable camping adventure.
And masks were worn to make it hard to tell apart the students from the outside activists.
The compounds were not a form of protest, but of control. They did not arise organically from the student body, but were brought in from the outside. After a police crackdown, like the one at UCLA, there was little sign of any interest in the cause by the random students on campus.
And that is the difference between an actual student movement and a “Hello Fellow Kids” one.
Universities allowed Islamic terror states like Qatar and Saudi Arabia to trade money for control. And when foreign students and terror faculty promoted support for terrorism on campus, they turned a blind eye. And students all too often allowed extremists to take over student government and speak in their name. All of that made colleges a perfect target for the riots.
Now after the vandalism and violence, a lot of college students are unhappy with the consequences as graduations have been canceled and classes were replaced with virtual online learning. A fake student movement executed in their name doesn’t have their support.
And it never did.
And the IDF invaded Rafah anyway.
Eat it, pissants. I notice all four of those Jew haters is ugly. They remind me of the dykes who support abortion. All ugly. Put the masks back on. Not everybody can be as incredibly handsome as me but ugly people need to hide those hideous faces away. We don’t want to see them. Just shave your asses and walk backwards.
Ham Asses are not halal.
And the IDF invaded Rafah anyway.
as anyone with one eye half open already KNEW would happen. Israels position is very tenuous, they are taking the steps they KNOW they MUST take to continue existing. Even in the face of things like Dopey Joey deciding Israel are NOT his best friends hese days… then never were, but he’s been playing charades long enough he fooled some of the people some of the time. But so far no one with even one eye half open has been fooled by the Pre Tender in Cheef…..
I think I saw Mark Rudd there at the Columbia campus ….
At 80 years old he is having trouble dragging his knuckles.
Yeah, all these protests are phony. Well funded and produced political theatre.
A Navy E5 ((Aviation Storekeeper) who lived in The Phillipines and Ja[an told me that many protests in Japan during the cold War consisted of office workers protesting during lunch time after being paid by the Japanese Communist Party.
Paid protesters have been around for over half a century.
I will blame part of it on off shoring.
and much of it is the results of off shoring coming on shore. By the millions. With inspections nowhere near as thorough as that done to hamburger at the meat market.
Absolutely. The next question is who is paying? Those tents are not cheap.
The two on the left look like women, at least the muslims look masculine.
these days they might be women, check their pronouns, then their DNA
Sheesh. You really don’t waste an opportunity to spout hate for a group of people who have nothing to do with what you’re talking about here. Chill, Daniel!
Is respecting gender identity hateful? I thought it was very DEI.
its very basic and natural. And these days, necessary.
I only respect “gender identity” when it perfectly coincides with a chromosome test.
Chances are greater than 90% if a person is transgendered they are down with every good or bad idea the Left has. Pointing it out is fair dinkum,
DNA des not matter! Pregnant “people” count!
simple cheap chromosome test is faster cheaper better more accurate.
I think you need a visit to the eye doctor. None of these look like women!!
The heavy handed, hardened heart of evil plots and schemes under the illusion of power.
There is no serendipity.
Good, on the other hand, is serendipitous. It can appear spontaneously out of nowhere. Good illuminates and inspires.
I believe the campus administrators knew these protest scenarios were going to happen, wanted them to happen, enabled their happening and planned the ensuing staged “negotiations”. This is Obama/Biden policy, separating Israel from the world of nations, and the Jewish people from the rest of humanity.
There’s a parallel here with a planned October 7th massacre, “instantaneous” protest and “negotiations” with and support for terrorists.
Absolutely nothing serendipitous about this evil. Just obvious.
you can make all the excuses in the world . i have yet to see any americans remotely in touch with reality considering biden and his band of criminals have in four years destroyed america . the mid terms were supposed to give the democrats a smacking , nope , didnt happen . the next round wont remove them either . americans are now disenfranchised from making any change the 2020 election was rigged and fraudulent , read mollie hemingway [ rigged ] v.d. hanson [ the dying citizen ] americans have been asleep at the wheel for years and the only spark in an ever increasing darkness was trump even with all his faults . that people clap when biden opens his mouth and word salads come forth tells you america is doomed . the next election will be fixed like the last . the end of higher learning cant come fast enough . its produced a generation of imbeciles .
A couple fellows I watch on Tv have a running “argument” going. One says the problem is the politicians, the other says it’s the people. I tend to agree with the latter. “You get the govt you deserve” comes into play. Ignorance, apathy and the will to submission has far too many of us stumbling about like the walking dead waiting to be told where to go next. The way we bent over and said be my guest during the covid lockdowns told the wannabe tyrants we’re here for the taking. We are no longer a serious people.
Lets have a face reveal party next time these rebrobates show up. A bunch of us run thru the crowds pulling off masks and another group of us makes sure their portraits are seeded in the cloud.
Look how gorgeous the young people at the Nova music festival were and look at the uglies on campus! I am convinced they are partly motivated by pure ENVY AND JEALOUSY of those people better looking (which is most people) and more intelligent and talented than they are .
Possibly. But unlikely.
In photos and videos the majority were students or at least of student age. For sure, outside agitators were involved, trained, and financed. All it takes is a room of airheads and spoiled sophomores. Soros needs to be investigated for sedition and rico issues, as soon as we get a decent prez and AG. It’s time he spent some of his billions on defending his global sedition acts.
There must be some kind of legal cover Soros, et..al. are taking advantage of. We’ve known for years how he and his fellow travelers have been the money behind any number of anti-American movements. There probably is some violation of IRS tax exempt rules for non-profits but why would the communists in the govt go after one of their own?
Someone’s financing these protests their not doing it on their own dime