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The pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests have spread to university campuses across the country, just as the agitators hoped (and planned) for them to do. As was also expected, some of these protests have turned violent. A Jewish student was poked in the face with a flagpole at Yale University and hospitalized; another Jewish student was knocked unconscious at the University of California, Los Angeles. Masked mobs have prevented entry of Jewish students and faculty into university facilities. Buildings have been vandalized and broken into at Columbia University, Cal Poly Humboldt and other locations. Frustrated college presidents at dozens of schools have finally begun calling in police to retake college property and clear unlawful encampments, resulting in hundreds of arrests. Because of their youth, or inadequate education, American college students tend to have insufficient understanding of the political, cultural and economic realities outside the United States. They are easy to rally under the brightly colored banners and simplistic slogans of the latest cause celebre. Their sweeping statements and infantile, attention-seeking behavior often reveal these “protests” to be little more than performative exercises in self-gratification.
