Anti-Israel Protesters at College of William & Mary Held ‘Keffiyeh Day’ Walkout One Day After 9/11 Anniversary
“The protest drew about 50 students at its height, noticeably smaller than demonstrations at previous pro-Gaza events”
The date for this protest was probably completely random and not at all meant to be insulting.
The College Fix reports:
Day after 9/11, pro-Palestinian protesters host ‘Keffiyeh Day’ walkout at College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter — which was placed on probation through the end of the spring semester for aggressive protest tactics — recently made its first public appearance for the fall 2024 semester.
The group held a walk-out protest Sept. 12 as part of a Virginia SJP statewide “Keffiyeh Day,” held one day after the United States commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Members of the group, some of whom in the past have called for peace, could be heard Thursday calling for “intifada revolution” and chanted “we don’t want two states, take us back to ‘48,” which many view as a call for the destruction of Israel.
The group is also promoting the national Students for Justice in Palestine’s plans for a “week of rage” that is scheduled to take place Oct. 7 through Oct. 11, the same time as the anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel’s civilians.
During the Keffiyeh Day walkout, two members of SJP approached a College Fix reporter and demanded their faces be blurred in pictures. Informed they are on a public campus, the two continued to insist and added: “We don’t want to talk to journalists.”
Officers of William & Mary’s police department at the protest affirmed the reporter’s right to take photographs on a public campus.
In an advertisement for the event on Instagram, the William & Mary chapter encouraged participants to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID despite no college mandate to do so. The group also asked attendees to blur the faces of students in any photos they took.
The protest drew about 50 students at its height, noticeably smaller than demonstrations at previous pro-Gaza events on William & Mary’s campus during the spring semester.
Last school year, the William & Mary SPJ chapter was put on probation through end of the spring 2024 semester for “engaging in conduct that infringes on the rights of others, failure to comply with written instructions, (and) endangering health & safety,” according to a report on organizational conduct history at the college.
“Members of the group prevented vehicular traffic from moving freely and placed themselves in danger,” the report states. “This was the organization’s second violation this academic year. The first violation occurred on October 25, 2023 and resulted in a warning.”
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W&M is a small college anyways, so that’s probably a big part of the low numbers.
The city of Williamsburg is very mixed between conservatives that are born and raised and progressive cultists that moved in thinking they’ve made everything better and are smarter than everyone by virtue of being born up north. The conservatives dominate the nearby area of James City County where Jamestown is and ‘Burg has been flooded with those pesky arrogant dickheads I mentioned above.
‘ we don’t want two states, take us back to ‘48,” which many view as a call for the destruction of Israel.‘
And how to others view it? As an invitation to coexistence? An offer of free milk & cookies?
Fools. Every day is Yarmulke Day.
We need a website with the photos of all these ‘Week of Rage’ participants that celebrate the heads of babies being cut off and used as soccer balls by the very evildoers these clowns support.
Anyone who supports Hamas (or any) terrorists and their atrocities against humanity should be unemployable in America.