The useful idiots belong to somebody, most likely those who are providing the financial wherewithal. That should include George Soros, leftist financiers, and perhaps friends of some Democrats in Congress. TD
Monica Showalter "It's getting to be a maelstrom out there, with weak university responses emboldening pro-Hamas campus protestors.
"Columbia University bought itself a boatload of trouble by ignoring its own deadline yesterday to make protestors clear out, although suspension notices were reportedly issued to some.
"Now pro-Hamas protestors are taking over school buildings and taking hostages. Last night, hooded men crawled up the university building known as John Jay Hall where the administrators work and got out hammers to smash glass to break into the building, barricading it with junked furniture, and taking three maintenance workers in the building hostage. And like the Munich Olympics terrorists of 1972, they put on their black masked skinsuit ensembles and crawled up into a freshman student dorm full of 18 year olds called Hamilton Hall and took it over.". . .
. . ." It's definitely an escalation, and coming at the same time, happening at the most prestigious universities in the largest cities in the U.S. has the feel of a directive given.
If this were a peaceful protest, as these university leaders are treating it, the protestors would have made their point and gone home. But it's not. It's a coercive thug action, as if might makes right, and never mind about the debate of ideas that a university is supposed to be about. The Columbia president is going full 'Clark Kerr' and allowing protestors to crawl all over her. Claudine Gay must be breathing a sigh of relief that at least one university president at these antisemitism-plagued schools is doing worse than she is. The Columbia president, Minouche Shafik, has pleaded, pleaded, with the protestors to leave the premises because graduation is coming up and the kids graduating had already been denied their high school graduations due to COVID lockdowns.
They say they'll clear out the day before the graduation, meaning, Columbia is taking their word for it and good luck if they change their minds. They already know that there are no consequences for them for failing to heed Columbia deadlines:" . . .
A feminist wonders, Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?
These pro-Jihad protests are one way to escape the ongoing female realities in the West.
"Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?
"They are privileged political opportunists posturing as victim-pariahs who feel that they are “occupied” by Western patriarchy.
"Do these educated daughters of affluence understand that were they to express any views deemed dissident in Gaza, Teheran, or Kabul or, were they to announce that they were “queer” or gay, (which is how some of these activists identify themselves), that they would be instantly honor killed?
"In the months since 10/7, in addition to the odious, faux-feminist silence about the gang-rapes of both women and men, the torture of babies and whole families, the kidnapping of civilians — a terrifying tsunami of hatred towards Israel, America, and Jews has exploded into non-stop jihadi-style, belligerent mobs, whose goal is to disrupt civil society and gain both attention and followers for their reprehensible views. The news of Hamas’s pogrom on steroids, unleashed their Jew hatred, and whetted the mob’s appetite for more of same." . . .
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