Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same
Opinion: Protesters focus on a moral panic each summer, to the exclusion of everything else. This year, it just happens to be Israel-Hamas.
by Jon Gabriel
It’s protest season. Again.
This time, the Israel-Hamas conflict is the pretext for activists to block freeways, vandalize buildings and occupy universities.
Protesters took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, renaming it the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
An estimated 800 students set up tents before replacing the American flag with a Hamas banner. They chanted Islamist slogans, told Jewish students to “go back to Europe” and menaced anyone who disagreed.
Being a prestigious Ivy League school (annual cost of nearly $90,000), Columbia administrators quickly shut down the unrest.
Just kidding, they canceled in-person classes, as during the pandemic. Seems $90K doesn’t buy what it used to.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/04/27/college-protests-israel-hamas/73454043007/