Ask yourself: would you countenance a ceasefire with this entity? Would you be moved by pleas of humanitarian aid dearth and civilian danger, when the perpetrators were hiding in the general population, safe and self-satisfied? I suspect you would not…
Most likely, settler-colonist theory is motivating the keffiyeh-wearing blonde woman holding an “Al-Qassam’s Next Targets” sign next to the pro-Israel counter-protesters at Columbia. (The Al-Qassam Brigades are the Hamas wing that perpetrated October 7.) But we should not let academic rhetoric blind us to the simple ethnoreligious irredentism—not a “left-wing version”—that motivates many of the participants and the main beneficiaries (ie, Hamas) of the protest movement. As historian Jeffrey Herf observed, the pro-Hamas “fusion of the Islamist Right and the secular Left was the first time since the Hitler-Stalin pact that leftist organizations made common cause with a movement of the extreme right.” That crowds chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” in English but "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab" in Arabic encapsulates the dynamic at play.
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Meanwhile, as these camps run riot all across America, the Palestinians have never been less visible. Well done for raising awareness, guys! You’re all over the news, and nothing about Gaza, or the impending invasion of Rafah, or the 130+ remaining hostages is. Instead it's all about you. It was always all about you. You ripped the posters of Israeli hostages down because you had victim FOMO and now you've made yourselves hostages in your own campus grounds.
- How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov
RIP Bernard Hill, who played King Theoden of Rohan. Let us remember him for his legendary speech that rouses the hearts of men:
“Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now!”