Pro-Hamas Madness is Spreading on College Campuses

Pro-Hamas Madness is Spreading on College Campuses

This is not going to stop until it is stopped. They are becoming even more radicalized.

The Washington Post reports:

Pro-Hamas messages intensify on college campuses

When antiwar protests disrupted campuses nationwide last year, signs and chants demanded “Divest!” and “Cease-fire now!” This fall, much of the protest language has grown darker, celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, echoing language used by Hamas and declaring, “Glory to the resistance!”
Mass protests and crackdowns that engulfed colleges in the spring have dissipated, and campuses are far calmer and quieter this fall. But at some schools, student groups have struck a strikingly more militant tone.

Earlier messages were not gentle — Israel’s actions were regularly dubbed “genocide” — but until recently few had openly endorsed Hamas and its leaders.

To some, including many in the Jewish community, it’s an alarming shift. But to others, the new rhetoric is the natural evolution of a movement responding to a brutal war now in its second year, with no end in sight.

Groups often escalate rhetoric when they haven’t achieved their goals, with a small faction urging stronger action, said Mitchell Silber, an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University who runs a nonprofit helping provide security for Jewish communities in the New York metropolitan area.
“We’re at that inflection point,” he said. “We’re starting to see a radicalization of their message.”

Silber, a former director of intelligence analysis at the New York Police Department, sees starker rhetoric: “Blatantly pro-Hamas, blatantly pro-Hezbollah, blatantly pro-Houthis.”

The harsher messaging may soon collide with the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to crack down on campus protests, and his allies expect the Department of Education to more aggressively investigate university responses to pro-Palestinian movements on campuses.

“If you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” Trump told donors in May. He also promised to deport foreign students who participate in protests. “As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave.”

The messages sometimes appear on social media including Telegram and Instagram, and sometimes at public events. Colleges have repeatedly said they do not condone violence but they have also said they respect students’ right to free speech.

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