There’s a reason they were wearing masks.
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.
gary fouse says
Don’t forget the “legal observers” from the far-left National Lawyers Guild in their distinctive lime green caps. On Monday, police arrested 44 people armed with crowbars and other tools they were planning to break into a UCLA building. One of the images from KABC News showed a handcuffed male wearing a lime green cap. However, his back was to the camera, so I couldn’t see the words, National Lawyers Guild legal observer in the front, which have been much in evidence during the UCLA standoff.
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
This government is not enforcing current laws; so how can we expect the enforcement of new ones? This behavior has been criminalized:
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Robert_k says
The protest movement has the support of all those who are Muslim Brotherhood or are payed by Musliim Brothers or Muslim Sisters – Biden, Obama, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, etc
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somehistory says
On one campus where the police went in after being called (unlike the GW’s first request being denied, due to bowser), in the crowds of “protestors,” was a large male, heavy beard, and the clothing many molzum males wear. Guess he forgot his mask, and his jeans and t were at the cleaners.
Some schools went ahead with graduation ceremonies. But those were mainly ones which hadn’t allowed the encampments in the first place.
The mozlums and other non-students cheated many non-participants out of a ceremony and many missed exams.
Chaos, violence, law-breaking run-amok are all part of the goals of the terrorists and terror supporters. Societal breakdown is important to their take-over plans.
CalvinsLutheran says
This is what that pile of driftwood called The Left in America has allowed to insidiously creep into our population. Without citizen control of our civilization with strict adherence to the original Judeo-Christian foundation there will be sudden DHIMMITUDE. Our population is not EDUCATED at all about today’s evil subterranean social agendas because without the knowledge of history taught in The Church in the The West there is no historically substantiated narrative to go by. At this point far too much of The Church is as clueless as the students about the infiltration of The West by the outside anti-Christian and thoroughly demonic extremists we cannot see in our midst. Sleepy Joe of course evidently takes his orders from those similar to these four perpetrators of silent jihad. “Come one come all. Our borders are open unto thee!!!”Notice no Christians who are suffering from persecution are welcome. And furthermore at this point The Church is too sleepy to notice.
2Thessalonians 2nd Chapter
Ephesians 6th Chapter
The Book of Obadiah
Robert Spencer
Dr Andrew Bostom
Brigette Gabriel
Dr Wafa Sultan
Nomie Darwish
Bat Ye’or
Usama Dok Dok
Christian Prince
Sam Shamoun
Dr Jay Smith
David Wood
Dr Bill Warner
Hatun Tash
should be the only required reading on the American Church booklist as promulgation of eternal-based truth besides The Bible itself. Sure enough, Our God Jehovah Elohim will rouse the slumbering children of His SOON AND VERY SOON. Amen.
Fuzxy says
Clarification: David Wood PhD, Fordham University
SKA says
Plus Holy Bible: all k-12 students should be required to read Genesis and Exodus.
SC says
Is there a crime of conspiracy to incite violence. The none students arrested at all locations should be facing that.
Richard Roy (R. Roy) Blake says
Here in Colorado the local mosques have organized protests against Israel in the past so it seems unlikely that they would miss this opportunity, Sure enough the pro-Hamas encampment at the Auraria campus in Denver displayed signs such as :Glory to Our Martyrs” that would have no meaning to an ordinary American college student. Even more tellingly was a bulletin board listing camp activities that included “Dawa Rally.”
BTW Free Kindle edition of “Handbook for the Anti-Islamic Resistance” available from May 9th through May 13th.
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At the risk of violating one of Sun Tzu’s fundamentals, to wit, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,” I thought it might be a good time to once again ask parents of college age children to first determine if the college of choice has either an Islamic Studies department and/or a chapter of the Muslim Students Association. If so, unless parents want their children exposed to Islamist propaganda (Dawah), they need to seek an alternative, and even better, let the rejected college know why.
The pro Hamas demonstrations have turned into hostile homeless encampments on the grounds of the most prestigious of “higher learning” in the land and have clearly gone too far, triggering an increasingly strong reaction everywhere but the White House. That the protests are being led by Islamists has also become apparent. In addition to the “From the River to the Sea,” signs and chants there are signs saying “Glory to Our Martyrs,” and at the Auraria campus encampment in Denver one of the scheduled daily activities is a “Dawa Rally.” At least half of the protesters are non-students, most likely emanating from local mosques, 80% of which adhere to the violent Wahabbist theology, according to law enforcement sources.
somehistory says
Thanks for all of that. If only more people would become aware.
Anonymous says
If all the population of Gaza were ex-Muslims, Gaza would be prosperous and friendly. Islam wants especially to kill ex-Muslims.
Just to show Islam’s face.
FYI says
The 2 perps on the left look like effeminate lefties{probably not sure of their gender..he/she/it/whatever}
The top right hand corner guy has Abdoolism,blankly staring into space and misunderstanding things{Biden probably has it}
The bottom right hand guy follows a cult whose god allah has 1 foot,2 right hands and suffers from a lack of omniscience,…..who thinks he is going to some paradise through lots of false piety[usually in public},running around the kaaba,wearing your pyjamas in public and doing bad stuff
Rick Olsha says
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
This government is not enforcing current laws; so how can we expect the enforcement of new ones? This behavior has been criminalized:
18 ?.?. ???? § 241 – ?????????? ??????? ??????
?? ??? ?? ???? ??????? ?? ?? ???????? ?? ??? ???????, ?? ?? ??? ???????? ?? ???????, ???? ?????? ?? ??????? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ???????? ?? ????????? ?? ??? ????? ?? ????????? ?? ???????—
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JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
This government is not enforcing current laws; so how can we expect the enforcement of new ones? This behavior has been criminalized:
18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
somehistory says
These ghouls are abusing freedom of speech by terrorizing little kids….it’s child abuse….and they should all be arrested and charged.
“NYC protesters shout ‘baby-killers’ at Jewish elementary school children”
One mom expressed her horror and said how much she was upset that the neighbors were egging them on.
““They were cheering them on, shouting, ‘We love you,’” Gruber told The Post. “That was the worst part.”
Gruber confronted the protesters, including a man who had been recording her and her 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. She alleges that he threatened to upload their images onto a “Zionist Jew watchlist.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-protesters-shout-babykillers-at-jewish-elementary-school-children/ar-BB1meAO6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=950d6b50bbfd426b9f23bb9237a4ef06&ei=44