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Patriotic American College Students Pushing Back Against Anti-Israel and Anti-American “Pro-Palestinian” Encampments

Patriotic American College Students Pushing Back Against Anti-Israel and Anti-American “Pro-Palestinian” Encampments

“I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer that we’re going to start throwing hands. We’re not going anywhere, I don’t care. They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body.”
Posted by Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 10:00am
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It’s been easy to feel a sense of despair (along with rage) after seeing the anti-Israel campus “protests” over the last several weeks, demonstrations that were made even worse by the fecklessness of woke faculty types and administrators at some of the higher ed institutions in question.

But in the midst of it all, patriotic students have begun to stand up and say “Enough is enough,” with pushback efforts being undertaken at universities, many of which are in the South because that’s just how we roll down here.

Some, like LSU, are injecting humor into the mix:

I believe this is LSU as well, where “USA, USA!” was chanted at the activists:

At Ole Miss, the pro-Hamas agitators were serenaded with the “Star-Spangled Banner”:

Meanwhile, counter-demonstrators at Alabama sang the National Anthem to the pro-Hamas mob:

And in a rare moment of unity, both sides chanted “FJB!” together:

Michigan students, as we reported Saturday, were having none of it when protesters tried to interrupt graduation ceremonies:

Three guys at George Washington University replaced the Palestinian flag that had been unfurled with the American flag:

At the University of Chicago, “Born in the USA” was played on the loudspeaker:

Then there was this:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the scene of two pretty iconic moments earlier this week, with the first one being interim Chancellor Lee Roberts personally walking to the campus flag pole and re-raising the American flag after the Palestinian one that had been raised by pro-Hamas protesters had been taken down by police:

Roberts also gave a defining statement to the media after all was said and done, declaring, “That flag will stay there as long as I am chancellor.”

A group of frat guys was also later seen holding up the American flag so it didn’t touch the ground after the campus agitators attempted to take it down again:

One of them, political science student Dan Stompel, was interviewed by Fox News, where he stated that he and his fellow students had been willing to do much more than hold the flag up if the situation had called for it:

“It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America’s flag. There’s nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that,” he said.

At one point, the junior made a “joke” about how they would respond if the mob tried to stop them.

“I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer that we’re going to start throwing hands. We’re not going anywhere, I don’t care. They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body,” Stompel said.

Watch:

I admit I certainly didn’t have “frat dudes defend America” on my bingo card this week, but after the insanity we’ve all been witness to over the last month or so, I’ll take it.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —

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scooterjay | May 5, 2024 at 10:09 am

I can hardly wait for Flounder to toss his ten thousand marbles.


 
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Q | May 5, 2024 at 10:40 am

Uh-oh. Those “patriotic students” just made the FBI’s list of known domestic terrorists. I expect expulsion, debanking, search/seizure and Federal indictment may be in their future. Biden’s DOJ is not going to allow that kind of open hate speech and oppressive conduct by white supremacists.


 
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OwenKellogg-Engineer | May 5, 2024 at 10:54 am

Who woulda think the South rising up as the bastion against rebellion. (But those of us that live here are not surprised.).


 
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gonzotx | May 5, 2024 at 10:56 am

American students must take their campuses back because clearly there are no adults on campus


 
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MAJack | May 5, 2024 at 11:07 am

It’s clobbering time!


 
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CommoChief | May 5, 2024 at 11:22 am

Fun fact I saw yesterday, no University in the SEC with an SEC Football Championship Trophy somewhere in its trophy case has allowed pro Hamas encampments or had sustained pro Hamas demonstrations, occupations or disruptions. SEC! It just means more!


     
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    gonzotx in reply to CommoChief. | May 5, 2024 at 11:29 am

    Texas did move them out, last year Big 12, but they may be back


       
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      CommoChief in reply to gonzotx. | May 5, 2024 at 12:50 pm

      Yes they did and given the City and County Govt Austin, Harris County. the pro Hamas mob may indeed come back. Heck, I thought I read the DA dropped all the charges on the first round of arrests in Harris County.

      However TX doesn’t have an SEC Football title in the trophy case, maybe soon given their Coach and the amount of $ for NIL pool available but not yet.


 
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rhhardin | May 5, 2024 at 1:11 pm

The Japanese in WWII died for the Emperor. It was dishonorable to surrender. The repatrioted Japanese soldiers after the war arrived in disgrace. A flag is better an emperor, why?

There’s some serious dysfunctional icon worship around.

Flag ceremonies are military and useful precisely because the flag has no use. Follow the orders even though it has no use, is what you’re learning.

That’s not citizen behavior. Doubt everything connected with a flag.

Most of all, flag-bearing patriots.


     
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    henrybowman in reply to rhhardin. | May 5, 2024 at 2:49 pm

    “Flag ceremonies are military and useful precisely because the flag has no use.”

    The origin of flags was as a communication tool in battle. It showed your soldiers where your own forces were massed, particularly your commanders, so (among other things) you knew where to send riders for new orders. When your flag went down, you had been beaten and overrun.

    The symbology extended naturally to represent “held ground,” as in sovereign territory. Again, when your flag was torn down and replaced in a town, it signified an active insurrection underway (hey, FBI, are you paying attention??).

    I’m the first one to argue that “pledging allegiance to a flag” is a nonsensical idea with meaningless semantics and dangerous semiotics, but flags DO have rational uses and meanings, and (especially in this case) we should take them into account.


       
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      BierceAmbrose in reply to henrybowman. | May 5, 2024 at 4:30 pm

      “The symbology extended naturally to represent “held ground,” as in sovereign territory.”

      Like an area where we agree to a compact of civil behavior, and how we’re going to govern ourselves (to our advantage as we see it.)


       
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      walls in reply to henrybowman. | May 5, 2024 at 4:56 pm

      Moochelle Obama aka “Big Mike”: “All this for a eff’n flag”. If you don’t remember that, google it.


     
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    Fuzzy Slippers in reply to rhhardin. | May 5, 2024 at 3:48 pm

    Utter garbage.


     
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    CommoChief in reply to rhhardin. | May 5, 2024 at 3:53 pm

    Symbols are important not in and of themselves but for what they represent. The National Colors aka US Flag is one such. Those of us who can claim VFW membership; those among your fellow Citizens who have fought under our Flag in combat abroad almost always react negatively when our Flag is disdained, degraded or damaged. As do peacetime Veterans for the most part.

    I will agree that non combat Veteran politicians, especially those who can’t claim peacetime Veteran service, who always seem to cloak themselves in Patriotic images should be viewed skeptically. Firstly they are politicians who don’t quite bear the ‘mark of Cain’ but are definitely not normal people. Secondly b/c every politician had an opportunity to volunteer to serve in uniform or if physically rejected could have volunteered to serve in the USO handing out coffee. Most didn’t do either. Definitely beware the folks young or old who lead with their claims of Patriotism without having bothered to demonstrate it in a concrete fashion via military service or a history of volunteerism for those service members.


     
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    Tiki in reply to rhhardin. | May 5, 2024 at 3:53 pm

    “The repatriated Japanese soldiers after the war arrived in disgrace.”

    Better to arrive in disgrace than ….

    “At the time of the surrender the USSR claimed to have 594,000 Japanese prisoners in China and Manchuria; Japan claimed there were three times as many. It wasn’t until December 1946—fifteen months into the occupation—that Russia began to release its Japanese prisoners—only 71,000. Such prisoners, when they returned to Japan and were greeted by their families, were not the same men they had been. They had been thoroughly indoctrinated. This loathsome practice, originating in Manchuria under the Soviets, is the origin of the phrase “Manchurian candidate.”


     
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    steves59 in reply to rhhardin. | May 5, 2024 at 7:01 pm

    I get it. You’re just trying to be edgy and “ironical.”
    But trust me… you just sound stupid.
    Lose the schtick. It’s a really bad look.


 
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henrybowman | May 5, 2024 at 2:40 pm

“At the University of Chicago, “Born in the USA” was played on the loudspeaker:”

A tedious, artless tune, performed by a dedicated leftist, overwhelmingly misinterpreted as “patriotic” to those who key upon only the title refrain (quite possibly because the singer slurs nearly every other lyric).

Springsteen denied the Reagan campaign the rights to the song… Springsteen questioned whether Reagan had actually listened to his music; ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ is a criticism of the Vietnam War…’

‘Born In The U.S.A.’ is a prime example of the complexity of Springsteen’s songs and the ways politicians have interpreted them differently, often focusing on the soaring choruses at the expense of the critical political messages embedded in the verses. Republican politicians have often seen the song as a rousing declaration of pride in being American, rather than a critique of the disillusionment and hardship that can accompany being ‘Born In The U.S.A.’…

Bruce Springsteen has long since announced his allegiance to the Democratic Party, advocating for liberal causes and campaigning for every Democratic presidential nominee since 2004.

https://www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/born-to-run-but-not-to-listen-the-misunderstanding-of-bruce-springsteen-in-american-politics


 
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BierceAmbrose | May 5, 2024 at 4:35 pm

Not sure I’m a fan of slogan-fed adolsecents taking a stand they don’t understand, no matter how much I might agree with the “stand” they’re taking.

This is how we do wars: send the wee-wee’d up off to fight the issue, while the people who benefit from a win hold back.


 
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steves59 | May 5, 2024 at 6:59 pm

“Take a stand. Be a man.”
The new Brohemian Rhapsody.
Words to live by.

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