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Campus fads come and go, but we’ve come a long way from swallowing goldfish, stuffing as many people as possible into phone booths, and the ever-popular drinking until you pass out. The latest craze among college kids is, as Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) indelibly put it, “living in a pup tent for Hamas.” No sooner do cops clear out one encampment than another one springs up, and it looks as if they’re going to be with us for the rest of this semester and may even be revived once the universities reconvene next fall. This is, however, not even close to being a spontaneous phenomenon. The groundwork for what we’re seeing now has been laid for years.
Not only is it not spontaneous, it’s clearly orchestrated from outside the colleges and universities where the encampments have sprung up. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has acknowledged that “professionals” were involved in the Columbia University encampment. Another sign that this isn’t exactly a grass-roots movement is the fact that a large number of the pro-Hamas protesters have identical tents. Which well-heeled leftist bought them? We don’t know and may never know, but someone certainly appears to have done some buying in bulk.
Still, the movement needed foot soldiers. The cadres had to be recruited and indoctrinated. That has been the work of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the professional organization of Middle East Studies professors at colleges and universities nationwide.
MESA, whose members dominate the Middle East Studies faculties of most colleges and universities in the United States, says that it is “a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom.” That strikes all the right notes, but as you likely suspect, the reality is not so noble and high-minded. MESA is a far-left, pro-jihad activist organization that is dedicated to providing an academic sheen to Marxist agitprop and Palestinian jihad propaganda.
To see what MESA busies itself with doing, scan the 25 items that are currently on the front page of the news section of the MESA website. Two stories are pinned to the top of the page; one of them is actually on the side of genuine justice and human rights, decrying the Iranian Islamic regime’s dismissal of professors who supported the recent Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Russ Wivell says
Palestilians are Muslim,and they often morph into Hamas. And you know what Hamas does.
Troybeam says
It all started when the immigration laws were changed by democrats and the late Sen. Kennedy. Islam entered our nation, from there it set up mosques in and around collage campuses, in neighborhoods etc.
As time progressed Presidents brought in more and more Muslims under humanitarian BS to flood more Muslims in our nation which they do not assimilate into our culture but set up communities that are all Muslim and rule those areas by sharia law. On that note comes sharia law Islamic courts and banking as well.
It is thru seduction and lies that Islam attracts college students, promises that are never full filled and let the college students take the fall to be arrested while the instructors/ Imam’s sit back and watch while planning the next attack on college campuses. Border crossings of Muslim men adds fire to the campus protests turn riots, its all planned people so don’t be fooled. Funds are also being sent from middle east to pay people to protest.
Take your children out of colleges, stop giving your hard earned money to them and see how fast the riots and protests stop.
Emilie Green says
“Which well-heeled leftist bought them? We don’t know and may never know, but someone certainly appears to have done some buying in bulk.”
Among those who know would be manufacturers and retailers of these items who are happy to betray us.
dunk says
Palestinians who are they?until the demise of the Ottoman empire after WW1 ,4 or maybe 8 bedouin clans where roaming to days Syria , Lebanon and Jordan and in good islamic fashion competing with and fighting each others..Suddenly Arafat came on the stage,talking about a non existing Palestinian state for which he was thrown out of Jordan because of trying to unseat the King and later Lebanon got enough too.So 2024
who are the main clan player now??Lebanon was a nice place in 1960 with Christians ,Muslims and Druze
coexisted. then the “palestians” shia and sunny in good islamic fashion unscrewed the whole thing,and was not able to restore a semblance of normal life,industrially or socially for the ordinary “Levantines”
Western politicians standing by and rolling their thumbs unbelievable
Oh come to think about it how about the hostages
truth says
95% of students aren’t at these protest.. These are bought and paid for protest by communist agitators.. People like Soros and Obama fund this stuff.. It definitely needs to be stopped immediately, but i think Biden and his administration actually agree with them, so it probably won’t stop for a while.
when you let people into your country who openly hate your country this is what happens.. most of these “protesters” need to be sent home wherever that may be.!!
Peacelover says
+ you got it
WPM says
True +1
The same people who funded and back the Occupy Wall Street movement about 14 years ago ,the same people who backed BLM in the summer of 2020 ,now they are pushing burn soon to be looting ,and mayhem for Hamas .Even the tents seem all are the same type did the Soros gang get a bulk rate for buying them ,will they be suppling them with ax handles and baseball bats this summer ,fire works and other fun goodies ?Will pallet load of bricks be drop off on street corners right before the fun and games start at a pre arrange time ? Why are these people not arrested on the spot for trespassing if they are not students before they start their nonsense ?
Unbeliever1 says
This is a revealing bit of commentary from an Iranian professor about US university students whom he predicts will fight for Iran in a war with the US.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/chilling-prediction-about-us-college-students-from-iranian-professor/ss-AA1o1QAL?ocid=hpmsn&pc=ACJB&cvid=4c67b64f90ed42668f5de3d786c95681&ei=23#image=1
Walter Sieruk says
Some of the reason for this is because many universities and colleges across the United States and in the United Kingdom have been thoroughly infiltrated and influenced by the insidious stealth jihadists.
There may be little doubt that those stealth jihadists are backed and funded by Qatar as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia.
In addition. It should be made clear that “Palestine” is a man-made fiction and a Muslim fantasy. In contrast, Israel is an historic and Bible based reality , Psalm 135:4.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the American Universities and Colleges across the United States that have heads of those institutions ‘sold out” to the influence of the stealth jihadists, who are, no doubt ,backed by oil rich nation as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, those places of “higher education” which have become more of indoctrination centers for Islam and Islamic causes rather than genuine places of advanced education.
This is betrayal of all those young people who entered into those universities and colleges who sincerely wanted a actual, real, education. This is also betrayal the true spirit of America.
For example the former United States President, William Howard Taft, who in a speech, wisely, declared, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Furthermore there should really no place in America for such un-American indoctrination centers, therefore such universities and collages need to reform or closed down, For those places are now doing more harm than good.
As the other former US President Theodore Roosevelt, had, rightly, announced in a speech that “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
dad5 says
Muslims are racist toward Israel…
Rick Gordon says
It should be clear to all that these demonstrations are not individual spontaneous protests but a result of MESA and SJP groups that are dedicated to our destruction. The students who participate are fed propaganda- untruths about history and current day events. Why doesn’t our government or our media say something????