When anti-Israel protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tore down the American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag this week, one group came forward to defend Old Glory: frat bros.

A group of young men stood at the bottom of the flagpole singing the national anthem, holding up the lowered American flag to keep it from touching the ground. Guillermo Estrada, one of the frat boys, said that “people began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.”

“My parents started a new life in the United States, a country that has helped them flourish and raise two kids,” he explained. “I grew up in a Military community and saw first hand the sacrifices they make.” He said he would “not stand for the disrespect these ‘protestors'” showed the American flag.

Alumni of UNC and the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity have offered to send kegs to the frat house or contribute to the frat’s next formal. A GoFundMe set up to give the “boat-shoed Broleteriat” the “party they deserve” has already raised over $23,000.

Several fraternity men at Arizona State University also stood up to pro-Hamas campus mobs this week, when they helped police officers clear the school’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” Members of a Jewish fraternity offered to assist university staff already working overtime in cleaning up leftover trash from the encampment. One brother said that when he “saw them clearing the protesters from the lawn and the ASU grounds crew working tirelessly trying to quickly remove the trash they had left all over the lawn, I knew it wouldn’t be right to just sit back and watch.” He and his friends decided “enough is enough” and “if we want to see them off our campus then we should be the ones to do it.”

There’s also this heartwarming story, from November. When members of the University of Missouri’s Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, heard that one Missouri man’s son was killed in Israel on October 7, they traveled to his house. Nearly 20 brothers showed up at the grieving father’s home, prayed with him, and kept him company.

Say all you want about Greek life and its superficiality. But if you have to choose between patriotic, trim men in pastel shorts doing the right thing and keffiyeh-wrapped, terrorist-loving freaks, it’s easy, right? The parents of UNC’s Pi Kappa Phi boys should be proud. Maybe there’s hope for America’s college students yet.