Columnist Suggests It’s Time to Treat Hamas Supporters on Campus Like the KKK
“Neither group has any place on any college campus.”
This should have been the case from the beginning. If these groups targeted any minority group besides Jews, they would have been shut down instantly.
David Marcus writes at FOX News:
Time to ban pro-Palestine (Hamas) groups on campus, just like KKK
College is a place where differing viewpoints and ideas should flourish and clash, but institutions have long had a responsibility to avoid formal recognition of hate groups such as the KKK or the Nazi Party. Today, in the wake of growing pro-Palestinian terror, groups supporting that terror should be added to this list.
In recent years, since the American campus protests in support of Hamas’ terror attack on October 7, 2023, some colleges like Columbia University have canceled recognition of some pro-Palestine groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, but it’s not enough.
After 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez allegedly murdered Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky two Israeli Embassy staffers on Wednesday night in Washington he can be seen on video yelling, “free free Palestine” in exactly the 60s style, sing-song cadence that echoes across our campuses.
On those campuses we also hear a call to “globalize the intifada,” precisely the call answered by Rodriguez. The intifada, after all, is an invitation to murder civilians in the name of Islam. Why would any American university allow itself to be associated with that?
These schools may argue that it is possible to be a pro-Palestinian group on campus without advocating for violence, that only fights for fairness, but that is not what “from the river to the sea means,” it means the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews.
How much daylight is there between a movement that would presumably eradicate all Jews in the Levant in the name of Palestinian birthrights and one that would kill minorities in the name of racial purity?
The pro-Palestinian movement has many similarities to the banned KKK, both groups cast themselves as ethnic victims, both embrace terror tactics, both wear masks and symbols of violence from the white hood to the green Hamas headband, and obviously both hate Jews, but claim they only hate “what Jews have done,” or something.
Neither group has any place on any college campus.
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And this: https://benjaminkerstein.substack.com/p/smash-the-free-palestine-nazis?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
This may apply to private colleges, but government institutions can’t ban the KKK, or Nazi flags, so they can’t ban these people and their flag either.
You could refuse such a group university funding.
Public colleges can have codes of conduct that forbid participating in racist activities. Seriously if a bunch of KKK popped up in say NC State calling for slavery to be reinstated how fast do you think they would be expelled. I think where you might be right though is several states have designated the KKK as a criminal organization so their right to protest goes out the window. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization so if you do anything suggesting you support Hamas and not just Palestine then they can do something.
No, they can’t.
They couldn’t be. If they were, they’d sue and the court would order them reinstated, with compensation.
That is not only not true, but impossible.
Again, that is impossible. Hamas is a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, so giving it material support is a felony, but giving it moral support is protected speech and there’s nothing the government can do about it.