Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is comparing “pro-Palestinian” protests to the Black Lives Matter movement. They are alike in more ways than she can express, including that they are both built on myths.

Bush is tying the two movements together by claiming that the antisemitic protesters harassing Jewish students on college campuses and expressing support for terrorism are “agitators” who “infiltrate the movement, manipulate the press, & fuel the suppression of dissent” by police, which is the same thing she alleges happened to Black Lives Matter protests.

Of course, this is a joke, even if Bush didn’t mean it as one. It isn’t right-wing agitators “infiltrating” protests to make people look bad. It was Black Lives Matter supporters who looted and burned businesses in Minneapolis and other cities, and it is pro-Palestinian protesters who are harassing and threatening Jewish students. Bush simply wants both movements to be immune from blame for not controlling their more radical supporters.

Both movements are alike in other ways, too, including the fact that the radicalism is the point. Take Black Lives Matter’s Chicago chapter, which celebrated the Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,200 Israeli civilians with a graphic glorifying the terrorists who used paragliders to infiltrate Israel. The organization deleted it in a separate post but refused to acknowledge the massacre, instead mourning only for Palestinians. This was all just four days after the massacre.

But most importantly, both movements are alike because they are both based on myths. Black Lives Matter started based on the myth of “hands up, don’t shoot,” when, in reality, Michael Brown was shot and killed after assaulting a police officer and trying to grab the officer’s gun. Black Lives Matter is also based on the false assertion that black men are being hunted by police officers, which is contradicted by the data.

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The “pro-Palestinian” movement is also based on a myth that Israel is perpetrating “genocide,” when the only genocide involving Israel and Gaza is the one Hamas wants to commit against Israelis, which we saw a sampling of with the Oct. 7 massacre. The reality remains the same: If Palestinian terrorists stopped attacking Israel (and then using Palestinian civilians as human shields), then there would be no war because Israel isn’t the one that keeps picking this fight.

Both the Black Lives Matter and “pro-Palestinian” movements are built on myths and the obedience of ignorant activists who don’t understand the topics they are, and both draw protesters with violent and hateful tendencies. They are more alike than Bush could imagine, and it has nothing to do with supposed false flag “agitators” making them look bad.