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What started as legitimate and even understandable student protests on American university campuses against the carnage in Gaza have quickly morphed into something much more sinister.
Instead of ‘Give Peace a Chance’, as anti-Vietnam war demonstrators used to shout in the 1960s, it is ‘We Are Hamas‘, ‘Obliterate Israel‘ and even ‘Kill all the Jew’.
This descent into raw anti-Semitism has been fast and frightening. A student generation with little grasp of history, no understanding whatsoever of the complexities of the Middle East conflict and no firm principles beyond the obsessive simplicities of wokery has been easily swayed by rampant nihilism.
Protest leaders claim they are pro-Palestinian. In fact, they are pro-Hamas, with all the evil baggage that entails.
One leader of the so-called ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ established by student squatters at Columbia University in New York openly says on social media that ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’.