It seems silly to write a column about the recent college protests.
It’s not really news when privileged students who have never been in the line of fire and whose most pressing concern is what pronoun they’ll use on any given day decide to rise up against the establishment.
And yet, here we are.
Across the nation, college students have been raising their voices against what some call a “genocide” and others call “Zionist oppression.”
They have been supported in their misguided crusade by politicians like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, women who have veered so close to antisemitic bigotry in their acts and omissions that it’s no longer possible to play the “both sides” game: their refusal to come out and condemn without equivocation Hamas and its acts of terror is a fitting representation of the sort of bigotry so clearly present at these protests.
And that’s why I’m disgusted with the attempts to compare the anti-Israel protests – which are at heart anti-Jew protests – with what happened on college campuses in the 1960s.
Back then, the Vietnam War was raging on, and young........