I’m old enough to have experienced the anti-war protests,       a/k/a riots, of the 1960’s and 1970’s.  As I’ve written on these pages, as disruptive as those protests were, at least the protesters were protesting real and perceived injustices that fundamentally affected every American.  Those protests were about the Vietnam war, and U.S. intervention which steadily escalated from a few hundred advisors to more than 500,000 troops on the ground.  The Vietnam protesters had some legitimate gripes.  Some opposed what they considered the U.S. getting involved in a civil war.  A few were dedicated Marxists, who were doing the bidding of the Communists, but only a few.

Most protesters had much more personal concerns.  The protesters themselves, or their sons, brothers, or fathers, were being shipped to Vietnam, and more than 500 of them per month were being killed, and thousands more wounded.  They protested a U.S. Draft system that tended to send the poor, minority men to Vietnam, while the more affluent remained home in colleges, and thus available to protest the system from which they had profited.  Many college campuses were the sites of encampments and takeovers of school buildings.  And the level of violence of the protests of old dwarfed that of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel protests going on today.

The Vietnam protests got ugly.  People were injured and killed.  Colleges were occupied and disrupted.  But the protests were put down because we had college administrators and elected officials who were willing to uphold the law.  In today’s screwed up world, such people no longer exist, and even the concept of law enforcement is rejected by denizens of the Left.

The clear difference between the Vietnam protests and the current versions is that, in the 60’s and 70’s, the goal of the protesters was peace, while today’s headscarf wearing malcontents are in pursuit of a goal, which if achieved, would result in a 21st Century genocide of Jews.  Now, they may not admit that, and in truth, many of them are so ignorant that they haven’t thought that far ahead.  But whatever they have convinced themselves to believe, that’s what the result would be.

The sad fact is that today’s protesters simply don’t understand what they’re fighting for, or even who they’re supporting.  When the NYPD finally was permitted to go onto the Columbia University campus, about two weeks too late, to break up the encampments, and expel the protesters who had occupied Hamilton Hall, several hundred arrests were made.  I guess it was fitting that they took over Hamilton Hall, because it was Alexander Hamilton who famously said, “The people is a beast.”  Anyhow, the police found that about 40% of the arrestees had no business even being on the campus.

Simply put, the protest sprung not  from some grassroots uprising of young people in support of Palestinians, but instead from the indoctrination of shamefully ignorant Ivy Leaguers by professional agitators, some of whom are of advanced middle age, with records of scores of arrests.  They led the ovine students in chants of “Genocide Joe Biden,” “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the occupation has to go,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”  They failed to grasp that none of these chants made any sense, and the chanters, by and large, had no idea what they were chanting for.

Much as I hate Joe Biden, and must admit that he’s killing Americans in pursuit of Il Duce Obama’s “fundamentally transformed United States,” Joe’s not killing anybody in Gaza.  “The occupation has to go?”  Israel’s not “occupying” Gaza.  The IDF is going through it like shit through a goose in pursuit of Hamas leaders, which is totally justified by the October 7th Hamas attacks.  Worse yet, the pampered, highly entitled, delicate snowflakes of the Ivy League might be singing “from the river to the sea” in tune, but many of them can’t tell you what river and what sea they’re singing about, for if they could, then they would understand that they’re lending aid and comfort to Islamic terrorists and to domestic Jew haters whose goal is to exterminate every Jew found between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The point is that these protests really aren’t in favor of Palestinians, but instead are the work of rabid anti-Semites.  The Ivy League losers are chanting for freedom and peace for Palestinians, who happen to be the least tolerant people on Earth, who happen to enjoy more freedom than the residents of nearly all other Arab nations, and who have leaders who have repeatedly rejected Israeli offers of a peaceful homeland.  In point of fact, the Palestinians are outcasts who are unwelcome is the Mideast Muslim world, because everywhere they go they cause trouble.

When Israel counter-attacked, the nearest place of refuge for Gazans was Egypt, but Egypt wants nothing to do with them.  Jordan is nearby, and the home to many Palestinians, but Jordan won’t let them in.  The last time they tried that, the Palestinians tried to overthrow the Jordanian government.  Yet the ignorant college students have, wittingly or unwittingly joined cause of Hamas, just as they mindlessly joined the BLM riots.  And the same professional anarchists who brought you BLM, and Antifa, are now bringing us the Palestinian Pogrom.

And in another departure from the Vietnam era protesters, the delicate snowflakes expect to disrupt the school during final exam week, occupy buildings, damage property, and even criminally restrain university employees, and yet escape without any consequences.  Columbia has threatened to expel protesters.  I doubt they will follow through, but we’re told that’s too harsh.

Clearly, the law means nothing, because Columbia Law School students don’t even want to have to take exams, claiming, “the violence we witnessed last night (they mean by the police) has irrevocably shaken many of us on the [Law] Review.”  I sincerely hope that none of these delicate beings go into the criminal law, cause brother, they ain’t seen violence yet.

As this is written, Columbia has cancelled it’s commencement ceremony, preferring to placate the mob rather than to ensure the security of its students, parents and benefactors whose money keeps its putrid system in operation.  A number of prominent Jewish benefactors have withheld contributions, and a number of employers have announced that they won’t be hiring Columbia grads.  Hopefully sanity will reign, and college administrations will begin to reverse the alarming trend of putting the inmates in charge of these asylums of higher education.