Activist Groups Reportedly Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests Against Israel
“We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests”
If this is accurate, it proves that this was not a grass-roots movement at all, just more occupy movement garbage.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Activist Groups Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests
At Columbia University, in the weeks and months before police took down encampments at the New York City campus and removed demonstrators occupying an academic building, student organizers began consulting with groups such as the National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers.
They researched past protests over Columbia’s expansion into Harlem, went to a community meeting on gentrification and development and studied parallels with the fight over land between Palestinians and Israelis. They attended a “teach-in” put on by several former Black Panthers, who told them about the importance of handling internal disputes within their movement.
“We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests,” said Sueda Polat, a graduate student and organizer in the pro-Palestinian encampment.
Though there isn’t a centralized command overseeing the student movement opposing Israel’s invasion of Gaza, there are connections between longstanding far-left groups and the protesters.
The National Students for Justice in Palestine, or NSJP, has been around some two decades and has more than 300 chapters across the U.S., many of which have helped organize the college encampments and building occupations.
NSJP has for months called on students to stand strong against colleges until they divest themselves of investments in entities doing business with Israel. Its social-media pages have become a scroll of encouragement to protesting students, with videos showing activity at encampments and around the world. As early as October, NSJP was promoting a “day of resistance” with demonstrations at colleges.
Over time, the messages from the national group became more pointed. “The Student Movement for Palestinian Liberation will not be silenced; we will escalate until our demands are met,” NSJP posted on social media on April 25.
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“Though there isn’t a centralized command overseeing the student movement opposing Israel’s invasion of Gaza,”
Um, Hamas invaded Israel.
The WSJ said that. Shame to see a “financial rag” so woke.
I think the WSJ is a Murdoch property so I expect this sort of thing.
The facts: a) the tents were all the same; b) the money for their other supplies (like the preprinted signs) had to come from somewhere; and c) a “national” website and “chapters” doesn’t seem like a “decentralized’ operation.
Reading that some 40-year old trust fund brat (who’s way too old to be hanging around college kids—get a life!) was involved in New York City, and that Soros and other leftist-funded organizations pumped money into these riots tells me that the crescendo will be in Chicago in August. All of the old, atherosclerotic hippies now receiving Social Security will be there reliving their never-glorious oldies egging on gullible students who have no damn clue why they are marching except it pisses off mommy and daddy who they are mad at for not buying them that new iPhone.
You could see exacytly that in the Floyd riots even not identified as BLM operations. Tactics. Training. An embedded cadre screened by the peripheral folks.
There was a video by a student trying to walk through campus – stopped at the border of a ‘camp.’ The guys stopping him sounded much older and not the usual green haired freak. They were calm but insistent that he back off or else. Way too organized. The same crowd who’s been behind protests for the last couple decades,