Leftist anti-Israel disrupters only adhere to the boundaries enforced upon them; otherwise, they inevitably escalate. The Palestinian “resistance” will not diminish with time or by ignoring its proponents. Pro-Hamas elements will continue to push the envelope wherever they detect sympathy, “tolerance” and appeasement.
Masked hooligans called French lecturer Fabrice Balanche a “terrorist” and “Zionist,” and forced him out of his own lecture. In the absence of accountability, physical violence is the next stage.
“’Zionist, terrorist’: French geographer forced out of lecture by masked pro-Palestinian mob,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2025:
“I was giving a lecture in an amphitheater in front of about fifty students when a group of about twenty people entered, chanting: “Racists, Zionists, you’re the terrorists.”
A French geographer was forced to leave his lecture by 20 masked and hooded pro-Palestinian students who called him a “Zionist” and a “terrorist” on April 1.
Fabrice Balanche, a geographer who specializes in the Middle East, told Le Point on Friday that he had been giving a lecture on Euro-Mediterranean agreements at Lyon-2 University when the protesters burst into the room and began chanting and raising placards.
“I was giving a lecture in an amphitheater in front of about fifty students when a group of about twenty people entered, chanting, “Racists, Zionists, you’re the terrorists,” and brandishing a sign saying, “For a free Palestine, no to ethnic cleansing,” Balanche told Le Point. “They were masked, wearing caps and hoods.”
Balanche added that they surrounded the lectern and insulted him….
SKA says
All of this is a foretaste of what freedom of conscience, if expression, and of assembly will be like under any future supranational caliphate.
Westman says
That’s typical of protesting liberals and Antifa, disrupting the local culture and likely destroying property or impeding traffic for some situation that has no direct effect on their lives.
Could it be these are mostly misfits who gain recognition by participating in events and then feel empowered and accepted for the short time they have fellow traverlers? It would be interesting to know how they are integrated within their own neighborhoods. It would also be interesting to know what proportion show up at multiple venues for unrelated protests, paid or unpaid.
This protesting of Israel, paid and unpaid, seems somewhat like a festival for the misfits, the angry, the uncompetitive, and the arrogant people who lead them.
gravenimage says
France: Anti-Israel mob at Lumière University Lyon 2 jeers at lecturer, forces him to leave
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Just sickening–these thugs want to shut down freedom of speech–even of their professors, and too many of the umniversities seem to condone this barabarism.
This reminds me–in 2007 Nonie Darwish spoke at my alma mater, UC Berkley–or *tried* to speak. She was shouted down. Why? Because she oppossed Jihad trrorism:
https://jweekly.com/2008/11/21/tikvah-victim-of-double-standard-at-u-c/