[ May 1, 2024 ]
Victor Davis Hanson, the voice of reason:
The Pro-Hamas Crowds will Soon Have a Rendezvous with Reality
For over six months, the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests have accelerated, and now are predictably incendiary and violent.
Recently, they have jumped the shark with unapologetic chants of “Death to America”. Or so a cheering crowd in Michigan chanted in homage to the late king of all Western-hostage-takers, the murderous Ayatollah Khomeini. And the huckster speaker revved them up by quoting Malcolm X that America is “one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth.” (Does such a condemnation of fellow Americans presage mass reverse migration of unhappy Middle Easterners back to the West Bank, Gaza, and Iran?)
Story continues below advertisementThe more these demonstrators shut down major bridges at commute hour, defaced iconic government monuments and cemeteries, disrupted Easter and Christmas services (try that with mosques at Ramadan), broke into the Capitol and congressional chambers (no January 6-like penalties to come?), and hunted down Jewish students, the bolder they became.
Apparently, the demonstrators were convinced that they were either exempt under the woke aegis, or too precious in Joe Biden’s Michigan electoral calculus, or too useful to campuses as rich full-tuition-paying foreign students on gold-plated student visas.
But everything and everyone have limits. They have now crossed them, and are about to face an accounting, and for a variety of reasons.
1) News is leaking out that Hamas may have for some time been bluffing about a ceasefire for hostages. Given Hamas has suddenly announced that they cannot meet the conditions of the proposed ceasefire, since not all the forty women and sick and elderly men taken hostage are still alive.
If true, then their months of bartering and “negotiating” were a likely sham, and their earlier claims that three hostages were collateral damage of Israeli strikes become more dubious.
Why would they kill their escape route?
To hide their torturing and raping of the kidnapped? In furor at their own-self-inflicted dilemmas? Sick hatred of Jews?
Who knows? But, if true, this may remind the gullible West that it cannot trust anything the lying Hamas says: that the ultimate fate of the hostages did not depend on the Israeli entrance into Gaza, given that Hamas had either already killed many of the remaining kidnapped, or had planned to do so under any circumstances.
2) For the first time since the ‘60s, universities are facing protests that they genuinely fear. College presidents are starting to realize that if they continue to allow the pro-Hamas violent demonstrators to make a mockery of campus rules and laws, they soon will have no campus at all. And the mob then will determine who can and cannot speak with impunity. Administrators’ tolerance of overt anti-Semitism and violence against Jews is turning American campuses into something like late-1930s German universities.
3) Yet at Vanderbilt and Pomona we for the first time are witnessing a return to administrative sanity, marked by suspensions and exemptions. And the reactions of those held accountable confirm how pathetic these bullies are. They prove eager to resort to violence and crash into lecture halls, only suddenly to become fragile and terrified for their beautiful career plans endangered by a modicum of accountability. Expect more universities to be encouraged by just how well deterrence can work against woke thuggery.
4) Joe Biden’s pandering in Michigan is reaching the point of obscenity and if continued will be counter-productive. For each Muslim-American voter he thinks he can keep by abandoning Israel and protecting the agendas of the October 7 killers and kidnappers, he is going to lose two voters appalled that fellow-Americans in Michigan are now calling for death to America.
Biden is so confident of the Jewish-American vote and donor class that he is now siding with those calling for the absolute destruction of the Jewish state and everyone inside. Is he convinced that his Jewish base is permanently in tune with Chuck Schumer—or will it finally have had enough?
5) The old myth that being anti-Israel had nothing to do with being anti-Semitic is now exposed for the lie it mostly always was. The pro-Hamas crowd makes no distinction, and certainly not on campus, where the more educated the protestor, the more likely he is to harass Jews first, and ask questions later if at all about whether his targets support Israel.
The new myth that being pro-Gaza has nothing to do with being pro-Hamas is equally exposed as a lie by the chants of “from the River to the Sea” and calls for a return to the pre-1947 borders—in other words, the Hamas charter of destroying Israel.
6) Do these protestors who scream “Genocide Joe” really see an alternative in November? Because the more they show America who they are and what their values and agenda intend, the more they make it clear why we need to reexamine every aspect of immigration, junk DEI and substitute required civic education, and undertake a complete reappraisal of higher education. The latter would revisit current tax-exempt endowment income, government subsidized student loans, massive unaudited federal grants, the huge number of foreign students, and their exemption from federal oversight.
It is long past time to overhaul of the student visa programs, replete with rapid cancellations of visas and deportations for those who come to study but end up breaking our laws.
In sum, the more brazen the pro-Hamas crowd and the more they reveal the cravenness of the Biden administration, the more they may ensure their rendezvous with Donald Trump in 2025.
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23 Comments
20 days ago
The Death to America chant in Michigan is not an isolated situation.
The leader of CAIR, a major Islamist organization, said he was “happy” about Oct 7th; and the crowd applauded. This same leader, Mr. Nihad Awad, also said he supported the Hamas movement.
From the New York Times:
“Mr. Awad, a Palestinian American…While Mr. Awad said in 1994 that he was “in support of the Hamas movement,” he said in 2006 that “I don’t support Hamas today,” and CAIR has denied any ties to the group or support for terrorism.”
So he said he was “in support of the Hamas movement”, then later claimed he no longer supports them; then years later said he was happy about Oct 7th and refuses to label them terrorists.
Mr. Awad has always been Hamas First. he just gaslights people.
Last edited 20 days ago by T D
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19 days ago
Reply to
T D
It’s just Izlum 101—Deception!… of course they lie—the quran commands it!!!
20 days ago
So, the CIA never recognized Islam as a foreign threat, and the FBI never recognized Islam as a threat that is here but shouldn’t be, and academia never read the doctrine of Islam that clearly defines it as a threat to us (and every non-Muslim nation and person on earth) and never noticed the history of Islam that matches the doctrine and clearly proves it is out to conquer the world by any and every means, and no authority thought this enemy might cross the border that’s been open my entire life, and no one questioned the insanity of buying and protecting oil from Muslim nations when we have more than they do, and no one noticed that the Democrat party embraced this enemy….and by no coincidence the ruling families of Europe embraced the same enemy.
The ruling class hates free people more than they fear Islam.
There shouldn’t be a Muslim on our soil. Not one US dollar should have ended up in any Muslim nation. Not one drop of Muslim oil should have been sold in a western controlled international market. The list goes on and on…
We haven’t been the free nation we’re supposed to be for over a century or this madness wouldn’t be happening today
The ruling class that embraced Islam and carried it into our house always planned to exterminate it. They always knew what it was and they always knew it was also out to rule the world. The ruling class uses Islam as a guarantor of conflict and death, a guarantor of a bloodbath, a guarantor of a slaughter. That bloodbath keeps our eyes off the ruling class that rode us into it.
19 days ago
Reply to
Zeus
Like a silly teen playing with a ouija board, our leftist overlords may well have summoned a demon they cannot control. Time will tell, but if their gamble fails, they will be among the first to lose their heads.
20 days ago
Nicole Brown married O.J. — big mistake.
The mixed race son of another black man who had to possess and impregnate a white girl just jumped to his death from a “cruise ship” to escape his horrible fate.
“Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.”
One more thing the Bible is right about.
“Stay the hell away from black people.”
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19 days ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
I disagree—but 1st A—U have a right 2 ure opinion—& nobody has a right 2 stifle it—Ps; that is not Bible/Torah…Moses had a Cushite (Ethiopia) woman & we all know about Solomon & Sheba!—so while U R entitled 2 ure own! (ignorant!) opinions—U R not entitled 2 ure own ignorant facts!
18 days ago
Reply to
garry pollack
That is verbatim: 1Kings 11:2. The one people like to pretend is unclear.
18 days ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
And Solomon was offensive in His sight and He destroyed the temple.
Over and over.
20 days ago
We can see what the curse of the mixed-race marriage of the parents of “obama” has done to our country.
If we can open our eyes.
Death to America.
Last edited 20 days ago by Chris Wolf
19 days ago
The Fundamental Transformation of these United States of America
What do you think that meant?
From a man named after the father of Shia Islam
D
19 days ago
Bring it, WE THE PEOPLE will fight back and we won’t go down alone!!!! Tired of these evil people. Stop raping, torturing and being cowards, just BRING IT once and for all, we will see who is standing at the end. It beats you being cowardly Satan worshipers!!!! We will give you a faster way to meet your master in the lake of fire! No more talking, JUST DO IT already, dang.We will destroy you deceived, sad, ignorant, evil doers, burn your fake Quran Bible, denounce your Satanic religion and not think twice about it!
Last edited 19 days ago by Staff Sgt Chaos
19 days ago
Islam is a terrorist organisation. Recognise this and treat it accordingly
19 days ago
We mustn’t racially profile. That’s wacist. If you’re ashamed of the colour if your face wear balaclava, sun shades, and wear a mouth piece ti disguise your voice. Nit steal and wear prosthetic nose and eye contacts. That’s wacist too.
19 days ago
Most people in Dearborn appear to be mozzlems. Does anyone know if they have managed to turn the city itself into a land resembling a desert ??
Gaza was once a thriving, green part of Israel. Now….a desert.
Beirut was once the Paris of Lebanon, and the Middle East. Now…a desert.
So is Dearborn-istan a desert yet ?!?!?!
D
19 days ago
Reply to
ed
Just shows ya—in the end everybody gets their just deserts!—what about Paterson NJ?
D
19 days ago
VDH is such an articulate writer I thought I had already gotten 2 the comments—& was just reading another Walter S essay…
D
19 days ago
VDH used 2 B kinda “moderate.” But now he’s got fire in his belly!
19 days ago
There is no other group in the world that has so much hatred as Muslims.
18 days ago
Nuke Dearborn
17 days ago
We must fix our elections before Nov. Trump will confront the Muslim problem this country has been ignoring for years.
