Anti-Israel demonstrators on college campuses around the country are utilizing their First Amendment rights to protest Israel’s war against Hamas.
The common thread in these organized protests, by left-wing mobs, is chants that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Do these protesters know what is going on? A video posted last Wednesday on X—which garnered over three million views in under 24 hours—raises this question, as two protesters admitted they had no idea why they were protesting at New York University. In the video, one of the protesters confesses, “I wish I was more educated.”
Before calling for Israel to stop committing genocide, they should first understand what it means. Genocide is not the same as war. During World War II, the United States and England carpet-bombed Germany, killing civilians. The purpose was not to eliminate the German culture. Genocide was the intent Nazis had for Jews.
The Genocide Convention, in 1951, defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”:
• Killing members of the group
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
According to an article on vox.com entitled How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza, “victims must be deliberately targeted not as individuals but because of their membership in a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group and as part of a broader plan to destroy that group.”
Since 1951, there have been many examples of genocide in the world with no protesting by the far left. Many of the atrocities are committed by Muslims against Christians.
In Nigeria, during the first six months of 2020, over 1,200 Nigerian Christians are estimated to have been slaughtered, with more than 11,000 murdered in the previous five years. They were killed by the terrorist group Boko Harm because they were Christians.
In 2016, the US House approved a resolution, with a unanimous vote of 383-0, declaring that the Islamic State was committing genocide against Christians in the Middle East. Not long ago, there were 2 million Christians in Iraq. In 2016, that number was less than 300,000.
In 1994 — before most of the current protesters were born — it is estimated that 500,000 to 800,000 Tuti were killed in Rwanda by armed Hutu militants. This happened over 100 days. The Rwanda genocide shocked the world.
The Trump and Biden administrations, in 2021, both agreed that China has, and is probably still committing genocide against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China. The Uyghurs are Muslim.
For further education, let’s remember what started Israel’s war against Hamas, the surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. Next, Israel’s government has pledged to put an end to the Hamas terrorist organization to prevent any further attacks on its territory, not Palestinians.
This is similar to the actions we took against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It’s preposterous for many of these protesters to call Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists genocide and at the same time shout “from the river to the sea,” which calls for the eradication of the State of Israel — the definition of genocide.
The current protests on college campuses threaten the safety of Jewish students. Something similar happened in our history.
In 1957, another angry left-wing group protested on a high school campus in Arkansas to prevent nine African American teenagers from attending Central High School in Little Rock.
President Dwight Eisenhower ordered 1,000 US troops from the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to allow the students to enter the school.
I doubt President Joe Biden will follow Eisenhower’s example. He is doing his best to walk a tightrope to support Israel while at the same time condemn them.
After all, he wants the protesters vote in November.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/watch-anti-israel-protester-admits-doesnt-know-why-nyu-protest
