Bravo! to the frat boys. If you click on the link at “…young men helping the police clear…” you’ll find a very cogent and heartfelt quote about what they did and why; far more positive and progressive than what their Progressive classmates have been up to.
The frat boys at Ole Miss making monkey gestures at the black lady? That’s what you are cheering?
They are doing what they are doing because they are racist scumbags, obviously. And so are you…
Was not aware of this. Where did you see/read about it?
Allison Barrows
12 days ago
I have lots of favorite moments from the campus “protests”, but the best has to be the little LARPers rushing the police with their plastic garbage can shields and literally hitting a wall of human reality – adult cops in arrest mode.
I can only hope that the howling kid (another great moment) being carried off by a strong, compact state trooper regards this as the moment he put away childish things and grew the h*ll up. I doubt the same will be true for the girls, who will just glom on to the next stupid fad.
Santiago Excilio
12 days ago
trying
Alex Lekas
12 days ago
But about 30% of those arrested were not actually students,
Leaving 70% who are students. History has a lot of “they weren’t all…….” regarding the issue of the time, but they don’t all have to be in order to cause problems. These events were allowed to happen, usually by administrations who at least tacitly supported the message.
Jim Veenbaas
12 days ago
I don’t think most people believe these protestors represent a majority of students on campus. Again, we see the destructive and pernicious influence of NGOs at work here. There needs to be a reckoning here.
Danny D
12 days ago
> The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a Soros-funded group, pays student fellows to engage in activist activity such as pressuring Government entities to cut financial ties with Israel.
Same with climate protesters in Europe. Oil heiress Eileen Getty pays them salaries to glue themselves to roads and then pays their fines when they get convicted. It’s no surprise countries like Hungary or Georgia have introduced “foreign agent” laws. I know organisations like Amnesty International push for open borders for refugees in my country, so maybe those types of laws aren’t the worst idea, even if they’ve been decried as authoritarian and anti free press.
UnHerd Reader
12 days ago
So a majority of GenZ’ers think twenty or thirty eyes for an eye is just dandy?
That’s one of the best arguments for the Israelis to stand down I’ve read so far. But it’s also dead wrong given that Hamas has not just said but shown they will never themselves stand down. Never. Not until all the Israeli eyes have been gouged out.
No, they just see a war that is miles away in a foreign country, and they have priorities that are much closer to home. They also accept that Israel has the right to defend itself, and that the loss of life is mostly down to Hamas refusing access to shelter for Gazans.
Excellent example of how a committed, loud, and determined minority can create all sorts of false perceptions. Hopefully the election results will establish how much of Gen Z’s supposed sympathy for Hamas is real and how much is smoke and mirrors. If, as the author suggests, it turns out these protests were so much manufactured outrage, Democratic politicians will pay at the ballot box and there will be some political hell to pay.
UnHerd Reader
12 days ago
I know that Mr. Soros supports left-wing organizations, but I find it difficult to believe that he would support those calling for the genocide of Jewish people. Soros is Jewish and witnessed the Holocaust of his own people. I also find it difficult to believe that he would be an anti-Zionist. After all, he would understand that after six million murders, Jews would want to flee Europe and return to their homeland. It is likely that he, like some Jews, would object to Israel’s over the top war, but still support Israel’s existence.
The accusations against Soros are complete and utter antisemitic b/s. The people who buy into these Soros conspiracy theories (which have been floating around in the wing-nutosphere for a long time now) need to grow the eff up…. How can these people be taken seriously when they counter the antisemitism of the tent people with antisemitic tropes?
“President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.”
The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
I brought this up in another post, but Unherd’s system of random moderation removed it.
That the conspiracy theories about Soros are based on anti-Semitic tropes straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion “may very well be true.”
You might as well just say it: Jews have all the wealth, Jews control the media (except for the ones conspiracy theorists rely on, of course*)Jews are behind “the great replacement” plot and so on and so on. Soros wants to – well I’m really not sure what you all think he wants to do. Just because one is against the protestors, many, many of whom are indeed anti-Semitic, doesn’t mean one isn’t anti-Semitic themselves.
*Although Neil Cavuto of Fox pushed back against Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) claim that Soros is behind all of this.
Marx was Jewish, and he hated the Jewish people. If you read his “communist manifesto” (deliberate lowercase), it is filled with venom towards his own nation. A curious thing ……
Champagne Socialist
12 days ago
I’m sure you are all very proud of the racist frat boys at Ole Miss.
Bravo! to the frat boys. If you click on the link at “…young men helping the police clear…” you’ll find a very cogent and heartfelt quote about what they did and why; far more positive and progressive than what their Progressive classmates have been up to.
Chanting Black racist chants ?
The one Bro was already suspended .
The frat boys at Ole Miss making monkey gestures at the black lady? That’s what you are cheering?
They are doing what they are doing because they are racist scumbags, obviously. And so are you…
Was not aware of this. Where did you see/read about it?
I have lots of favorite moments from the campus “protests”, but the best has to be the little LARPers rushing the police with their plastic garbage can shields and literally hitting a wall of human reality – adult cops in arrest mode.
I can only hope that the howling kid (another great moment) being carried off by a strong, compact state trooper regards this as the moment he put away childish things and grew the h*ll up. I doubt the same will be true for the girls, who will just glom on to the next stupid fad.
trying
But about 30% of those arrested were not actually students,
Leaving 70% who are students. History has a lot of “they weren’t all…….” regarding the issue of the time, but they don’t all have to be in order to cause problems. These events were allowed to happen, usually by administrations who at least tacitly supported the message.
I don’t think most people believe these protestors represent a majority of students on campus. Again, we see the destructive and pernicious influence of NGOs at work here. There needs to be a reckoning here.
> The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a Soros-funded group, pays student fellows to engage in activist activity such as pressuring Government entities to cut financial ties with Israel.
Same with climate protesters in Europe. Oil heiress Eileen Getty pays them salaries to glue themselves to roads and then pays their fines when they get convicted. It’s no surprise countries like Hungary or Georgia have introduced “foreign agent” laws. I know organisations like Amnesty International push for open borders for refugees in my country, so maybe those types of laws aren’t the worst idea, even if they’ve been decried as authoritarian and anti free press.
So a majority of GenZ’ers think twenty or thirty eyes for an eye is just dandy?
That’s one of the best arguments for the Israelis to stand down I’ve read so far. But it’s also dead wrong given that Hamas has not just said but shown they will never themselves stand down. Never. Not until all the Israeli eyes have been gouged out.
No, they just see a war that is miles away in a foreign country, and they have priorities that are much closer to home. They also accept that Israel has the right to defend itself, and that the loss of life is mostly down to Hamas refusing access to shelter for Gazans.
Why are you misquoting scripture?
This is war, not a trial.
Excellent example of how a committed, loud, and determined minority can create all sorts of false perceptions. Hopefully the election results will establish how much of Gen Z’s supposed sympathy for Hamas is real and how much is smoke and mirrors. If, as the author suggests, it turns out these protests were so much manufactured outrage, Democratic politicians will pay at the ballot box and there will be some political hell to pay.
I know that Mr. Soros supports left-wing organizations, but I find it difficult to believe that he would support those calling for the genocide of Jewish people. Soros is Jewish and witnessed the Holocaust of his own people. I also find it difficult to believe that he would be an anti-Zionist. After all, he would understand that after six million murders, Jews would want to flee Europe and return to their homeland. It is likely that he, like some Jews, would object to Israel’s over the top war, but still support Israel’s existence.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/
https://www.campusreform.org/article/soros-funded-hamas-approved-billionaire-paying-students-organize-anti-israel-campus-protests-nationwide/25324
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w6FKZTn4OabnOzhZ_rvq4rsSgtxPqAFl4P7yryE6TpE/edit#slide=id.p
The accusations against Soros are complete and utter antisemitic b/s. The people who buy into these Soros conspiracy theories (which have been floating around in the wing-nutosphere for a long time now) need to grow the eff up…. How can these people be taken seriously when they counter the antisemitism of the tent people with antisemitic tropes?
Because it is not anti-semitic to point out something that may very well be true: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/
I brought this up in another post, but Unherd’s system of random moderation removed it.
That the conspiracy theories about Soros are based on anti-Semitic tropes straight out of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion “may very well be true.”
You might as well just say it: Jews have all the wealth, Jews control the media (except for the ones conspiracy theorists rely on, of course*)Jews are behind “the great replacement” plot and so on and so on. Soros wants to – well I’m really not sure what you all think he wants to do. Just because one is against the protestors, many, many of whom are indeed anti-Semitic, doesn’t mean one isn’t anti-Semitic themselves.
*Although Neil Cavuto of Fox pushed back against Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) claim that Soros is behind all of this.
Marx was Jewish, and he hated the Jewish people. If you read his “communist manifesto” (deliberate lowercase), it is filled with venom towards his own nation. A curious thing ……
I’m sure you are all very proud of the racist frat boys at Ole Miss.