Left-wing university leaders helped create anti-Israel campus chaos. We don't need to bail them out
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The spectacle of masked Antifa-style protesters occupying campuses over a foreign conflict and supporting Hamas-style 'decolonization' does not offer a clear and significant upside.
Make the left own its pro-Hamas faction. Or, alternatively, force the left to deal with it. Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Sign up for his Substack here.
Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or how it relates to the United States, but for good reason, most support Israel over Hamas. In this context, left-wing protesters will not be able to manipulate the emotions of sympathy and guilt on a mass scale, as they did with George Floyd.
Ultimately, the spectacle of masked Antifa-style protesters occupying campuses over a foreign conflict and supporting Hamas-style "decolonization" does not offer a clear and significant upside.