Student Antisemitic
Protests
It is hardly
likely that 18 and 19 year old students have the resources necessary to finance
and organize the recent college protests across the country. These kids are not able, on their own, to raise
the finances, and to resuscitate the perennially dormant antisemitic ideologies
that seem to dwell in western societies, and which have seemed to fuel the
recent student protests.
The above
notwithstanding, a survey around “outside agitators” show this term to be deemed
by the left to be derogatory and against the pursuit of freedom of speech. We are guided by the left wing to accept the
unlikely premise that these protests and all of their creature supports spring
from the ground, are almost holy in nature, and are unaffected by the guidance
of older activists.
At risk of being
called “conspiracy theorists”, we can unpack who really are the 30-40 year old
paid and unpaid activists and agitators fueling these protests, and who is
financing them. Some of these activists are
left-wing professors who have drunk the leftist ”socialist Koolaid”. Others are disenfranchised, unemployed older “post
grad” hangers-on for “social justice”.
Virtually all
protests are left-wing or socialist in nature, hide behind our First Amendment,
and are destructive to our infrastructure.
They cite benevolent tropes such as “social justice” or “racial equality”
as their driving forces, but there is always an undercurrent of
anti-Americanism underpinning these movements.
What
distinguishes the current “pro Hamas”, “anti-Israel” protests is the emergence and
activation of perennially dormant antisemitism.
Again, in spite of the opprobrium of the
left-wing, look to the usual suspects for financing and organization. George and Alexander Soros and their “Open
Society Foundation”, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, retired Wall Street banker
Felice Gelman, and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. These are the groups with ”deep pockets”
buying the Amazon tents, new Palestinian flags, pizzas being hoisted into
buildings, and boutique snacks and drinks.
So, once we
acknowledge that the students themselves are primarily Alinsky’s “useful idiots”
that are being guided by larger organized movements, we can take a look at the movements
themselves.
All protests of
the last 50 years, though coached as “social justice” protests, have some
element of socialist inspired anti-Americanism.
What differs in these pro-Palestinian protests from the big civil rights
protests of the 1960’s and the BLM, Floyd protests of 2020 is the emergence of once
thought buried antisemitism. Rather that
some modicum of “social justice” as a foundation for past protests, these
current protestors proudly chant “we are Hamas”, identifying with the
terrorists that butchered 1200 innocent Israeli civilian men, women and
children on October 7, 2023.
As justification
for supporting the Hamas terrorists, protestors cite the Israeli reprisal in
Gaza against Hamas, forgetting the fact that virtually all of the inhabitants
of Gaza support Hamas. And have been radicalized
against Israel. The analogy is backing
the Japanese after Pearl Harbor after the U.S. chose to respond to their
attack.
These
antisemitic protests were not occurring in some ignorant backwater parts of the
country. They are happening at Columbia,
Harvard, MIT, USC, UCLA, GWU, CCNY, - prestigious bastions of US academia. It is truly alarming that these exemplars of
higher thinking and learning have been corrupted by the driving forces behind
these antisemitic protests.
Ray Gruszecki
May 11, 2024
