On Political Messaging |
I remember well that when I was studying at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, we went to classes in the neighboring music school. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas had made a prodigious donation to the University to build a new building for the cinema school, whose architecture style could be described as “Star Wars.”
In my two classes every week at the music school, while the new Star Wars building was under construction, I would see huge gatherings of Palestinianists in the room next door. That’s right, somewhere in 2008, every week, like dutiful ants, the Qatar-funded Palestinianist campus movement would gather in an amphitheater of the music school to plot. Plot what? I don’t know. I was going to class, not to their meeting. What was even more surprising was that when I told the people at the Jewish student union, Hillel, they had no idea that such Palestinianist gatherings of hate were even taking place.
When the first pro-Palestinian demonstration took place on campus the following year, 12 white people showed up and, thanks to the efforts of Charlotte Korshak, 300 Israel supporters showed up in the counter demonstration. But in 2024, fifteen years later, pro-Palestinian captured the entire USC campus in downtown LA and kept it hostage, “Judenrein“, for a week.
This brings me to the point why I invited this small anecdote Americana, to show that the whole........