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Remember how, during the George Floyd-inspired rioting across America in 2020, the Left-dominated news media tried to gaslight us into believing that the looting, burning, and vandalizing carried out by Black Lives Matter revolutionaries and their allies were “mostly peaceful”? Now the media are attempting to whitewash the Jew-hating, anti-colonialist revolutionaries who are waging campus intifadas across America as merely “anti-war.”
Check out the coordinated use of that term in these recent mainstream media headlines:
From The Washington Post, where journalism dies in darkness: “120 antiwar protesters arrested at NYU; Calif. students form barricade.”
From the taxpayer-funded propagandists at PBS: “Anti-war protesters dig in on campuses across the U.S. as universities, police take action”
From CBS News: “College campus chaos continues amid anti-war protests”
From ABC News: “Campus anti-war protesters dig in from New York to California”
From the Associated Press: “College students, faculty demand amnesty for participating in anti-war protests”
And of course, the chatty co-hostesses of The View, the top-rated daytime propaganda outlet for low-information Democrat women (only 12.6 percent of its audience are Republicans and approximately three-quarters are female – begging the question, why would any man watch The View?) are pushing this narrative point as well.
Discussing the ongoing protests with her co-hostesses on Monday’s episode, former comedienne and current Trump-deranged crank Whoopi Goldberg took the side of the Jew-hating bullies establishing pro-Palestine encampments on campus, pontificating that “it is one of the great rights as an American to stand up and say something’s wrong” and that she is “thrilled” when “students get mad and say, ‘We want a change made.’” But she complained that the clickbait-hungry media needs to focus more on “the folks who are doing peaceful stuff” – in other words, downplay the radicals who are presenting the wrong optics.
Co-host Sunny Hostin argued for identifying the protests as “anti-war”: “I think we need to shift the framing of these college protests back”:
I think college campuses have been the place for anti-war protests for as far as I can remember. I think recent protests haven’t even reached the scale of the major student protest that we saw in the late 1960s against the Vietnam War, or even the 1980s against South Africa’s practice of apartheid.
… and so I think these are anti-war protests, and I think it’s very distressing that we are framing these as pro-Palestinian protests or pro-Israeli protests.
But they absolutely are pro-Palestinian, and the counter-protests are pro-Israeli.
These are anti-war protests, and the students that I have spoken to at many of the Ivy League schools are telling me this is a humanitarian crisis. What we also don’t talk enough about is the fact that 35,000, mainly women and children, that are Palestinians, have been murdered.
What an ugly lie. And yet she had nothing to say about the nearly 1400 Israelis murdered on October 7th, which kicked off the military action by Israel’s IDF, the most civilian-sensitive military force in world history, against Hamas in the first place.
Hostin went on to libel Israel as being guilty of war crimes – again with no mention of the shockingly barbaric war crimes committed by Hamas on October 7th.
To her credit, former White House aide and token conservative co-hostess Alyssah Farah Griffin countered tepidly, “There’s a right to free speech and a right to assembly, but Jews also have a right to feel safe on college campuses”:
Here’s what I will say, as a Lebanese American I’m disgusted at seeing Hezbollah flags, a terrorist organization, fly on American college campuses, and I understand that these young people are coming out protesting for peace, protesting for a ceasefire.
But I also want to say, there was a ceasefire before October 7th. Israel has proposed two since then, Hamas has rejected them, and Hamas’ own charter in Article 13 states that it rejects any peaceful solutions, any negotiated peace.
And beyond that, we have seen this language go into something that is far more radical, anti-Semitic, saying that Jews do not have a place on campus.
This all sailed right over the self-righteous heads of The View’s co-hostesses and audience.
Left-wing anti-war protesters in America are never anti-war; they are anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and so on. The campus protesters during the Vietnam War were not “anti-war” but pro-communist. If they were truly anti-war they would be protesting both sides of a conflict; there would have been marches and chanting in front of the Vietnamese embassy, for example, but there weren’t. At the very least they would be protesting the side that instigated the conflict, which in that case would have been North Vietnam. Instead, so-called “anti-war” protesters invariably turn their subversive energies toward the United States.
The Left, which views everything through the neo-Marxist lens pitting the oppressor against the oppressed, sees the “oppressed” Hamas and the Palestinians (who overwhelmingly support the terror group) as being engaged not in a war, but in righteous resistance against a bellicose, genocidal Israel. CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, for example called the conflict “the war on Gaza,” as if the inhabitants of Gaza didn’t bring the current Israeli retaliation down on their own heads by launching, and then celebrating, the savage October 7th terror attacks on innocent Israelis.
Make no mistake: when every single protest features the waving of Palestinian flags (and often those of Hezbollah and Hamas as well), the chants of “Free Palestine” and the genocidal call “From the river to the sea”; when violent harassment of Jewish students is rampant at these events (videos are circulating showing, for example, a Jewish man on campus being tasered by a female protester, a Jewish student being blockaded from attending class, another Jewish student being told to go back to the gas chambers, and an encampment leader declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live”); and when all these Astroturfed protests are driven by leftwing financier George Soros’ money and American socialist and communist organizations; it is clear to all with eyes to see that these protests are not anti-war but anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, anti-American, anti-capitalist, and even anti-white (the Left considers Jews to be firmly positioned among the white oppressor class).
Despite the concerted media effort to camouflage their true aims, these campus radicals (students and faculty) taking over college campuses are not calling for an end to war in Gaza. They are calling for an end to Israel and America.
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