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2 hours ago, B-Man said:

WHY, INDEED? “But who are the outside agitators?

 

If they are not students, who are they?

 

How about some details?

 

Lots of them were arrested.

 

Why isn’t there a torrent of detail about what sort of people they are?”

 

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/05/more-than-quarter-of-protesters.html

 

The complete lack of curiosity by the MSM is telling.

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Pro-Hamas Students Reportedly Trained by Left-Wing Groups Nine Months Before College Protests

by Sarah Arnold

 

Left-wing groups and activists have reportedly been receiving training for months ahead of the chaotic pro-terrorism protests occurring on college campuses.

 

According to a Wall Street Journal report, many of the pro-Hamas agitators have been consulting with groups such as National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for up to nine months. The protestors were reportedly trained on how to encourage college students to join in on the demonstrations and planning such turbulent events. The groups use social media to reach out to potential protestors and give them advice such as informing them to cover their faces.

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/05/pro-hamas-students-reportedly-trained-nine-months-before-college-protests-n2638639

 

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/student-campus-protests-veteran-activist-groups-17ccd094?mod=hp_lead_pos7

 

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Most college students reject protests

 

"Just 8% of students say they have taken part in pro or anti-Israel demonstrations that began at Columbia University April 17 and spread across America — and 81% want universities to hold protesters accountable who destroy property, vandalize, or illegally occupy campus buildings, per the survey carried out by Generation Lab for Axios.

 

In addition, two-thirds of students (67%) said that occupying campus buildings was an unacceptable form of protest, while 58% said the same of refusing orders to disperse.

 

Nine in 10 students said demonstrators blocking pro-Israel or Jewish students from accessing parts of campus — as notoriously happened at UCLA — was also unacceptable.

 

Just 13% of students said the Middle East war was one of the three most important issues to them — far behind topics such as health care, climate change, gun control and immigration.

 

Four in 10 students said healthcare reform was one of their top three issues, followed by educational funding (38%), economic fairness (37%), racial justice (36%), climate change (35%), gun control (32%), immigration (21%) and national security (15%)."

 

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Huh, it's almost as if the protestors aren't representative of students as a whole and would likely be ignored if they weren't protesting at the kind of elitist institutions that journalists venerate. 

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56 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Most college students reject protests

 

"Just 8% of students say they have taken part in pro or anti-Israel demonstrations that began at Columbia University April 17 and spread across America — and 81% want universities to hold protesters accountable who destroy property, vandalize, or illegally occupy campus buildings, per the survey carried out by Generation Lab for Axios.

 

In addition, two-thirds of students (67%) said that occupying campus buildings was an unacceptable form of protest, while 58% said the same of refusing orders to disperse.

 

Nine in 10 students said demonstrators blocking pro-Israel or Jewish students from accessing parts of campus — as notoriously happened at UCLA — was also unacceptable.

 

Just 13% of students said the Middle East war was one of the three most important issues to them — far behind topics such as health care, climate change, gun control and immigration.

 

Four in 10 students said healthcare reform was one of their top three issues, followed by educational funding (38%), economic fairness (37%), racial justice (36%), climate change (35%), gun control (32%), immigration (21%) and national security (15%)."

 

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Huh, it's almost as if the protestors aren't representative of students as a whole and would likely be ignored if they weren't protesting at the kind of elitist institutions that journalists venerate. 

What are you suggesting with your last paragraph? Ignore them? Laugh it off? Blame journalists for reporting on it? 

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Here is who it IS representative of. . . . . . . .  The Left.

 

 

Portland Radicals Admit Torching 17 Police Cars, Their Statement Is Nuts and All About Campus Protests

By Nick Arama

 

I've written before about how crazy the radical left is in Portland. 

 

We saw a recent example of that with how they took over the library at Portland State University. What they left was disgusting: they trashed the place. They had paint all over the floors and graffiti all over the walls, they smashed glass cases, they had makeshift weapons, and there were even reports of value book/comic collections missing from the library. Then when the police raided, many of them seemed to have been allowed to just run right out the front door. After the library was cleared out, they even had the gall to come back the next day to try it again. The police did arrest about 30 people over the course of two days, noting that some of them were not students. 

 

 

As I noted, the timing was highly suspicious considering it happened right before the raid on the PSU campus activists. 

 

Now a group calling itself "Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade" is admitting they did it to strike first at the police, believing a raid was coming. 

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/05/07/portland-radical-group-admits-torching-police-cars-to-strike-first-before-police-raided-campus-occupiers-n2173880

2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

What are you suggesting with your last paragraph? Ignore them? Laugh it off? Blame journalists for reporting on it? 

 

 

Apparently he thinks   feels that Jewish students would not have been bullied if we had just not paid attention.

 

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42 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

What are you suggesting with your last paragraph? Ignore them? Laugh it off? Blame journalists for reporting on it? 


Only that it gets disproportionate coverage because the media has a bias to the elitist institutions.

 

Basically, keep it in context.

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10 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:


Only that it gets disproportionate coverage because the media has a bias to the elitist institutions.

 

Basically, keep it in context.

Part of the polling you cited indicates that a full 10% of students think it’s ok to restrict campus access for Jews. That seems like a story. Replace “Jews” with “blacks” or “lgbtq+” and it’s a nonstop story. I wouldn’t want to be a Jew these days. Very sad what young “progressives” have become. 

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1 minute ago, JDHillFan said:

Part of the polling you cited indicates that a full 10% of students think it’s ok to restrict campus access for Jews. That seems like a story. Replace “Jews” with “blacks” or “lgbtq+” and it’s a nonstop story. I wouldn’t want to be a Jew these days. Very sad what young “progressives” have become. 


10% of students thinking it’s ok to restrict access for Jews is bad. 
 

However, ascribing the behaviors or beliefs of 10% of a population to all of that population is disingenuous. 

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10% of students thinking it’s ok to restrict access for Jews is bad. 
 

However, ascribing the behaviors or beliefs of 10% of a population to all of that population is disingenuous. 

Enabling and encouraging it deserves to be projected to the entire university IMO

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9 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:


10% of students thinking it’s ok to restrict access for Jews is bad. 
 

However, ascribing the behaviors or beliefs of 10% of a population to all of that population is disingenuous. 

Is there some sort of spreading “all college students are bad” movement out there that I’m not hearing about? Please share the details.

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36 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:


Only that it gets disproportionate coverage because the media has a bias to the elitist institutions.

 

Basically, keep it in context.

 

 

Let Frank know.

B-)

 

 

Fresno State Gaza protest was peaceful and calm, unlike others

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article288350010.html

 

 

Fresno State Shows the Nation How a Peaceful Palestinian Protest is Done

https://gvwire.com/2024/05/01/fresno-state-shows-the-nation-how-a-peaceful-palestinian-protest-is-done/

 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Let Frank know.

B-)

 

 

Fresno State Gaza protest was peaceful and calm, unlike others

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article288350010.html

 

 

Fresno State Shows the Nation How a Peaceful Palestinian Protest is Done

https://gvwire.com/2024/05/01/fresno-state-shows-the-nation-how-a-peaceful-palestinian-protest-is-done/

 

 

 

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But what about St Bonaventure?

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12 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Let Frank know.

B-)

 

 

Fresno State Gaza protest was peaceful and calm, unlike others

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article288350010.html

 

 

Fresno State Shows the Nation How a Peaceful Palestinian Protest is Done

https://gvwire.com/2024/05/01/fresno-state-shows-the-nation-how-a-peaceful-palestinian-protest-is-done/

 

 

 

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Brown seemed to handle it fairly well too.

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