Columbia University has fallen

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The protestors are very similar to the Holocaust Deniers as they don't believe that Hamas did what it did.

I believe that right now we are experiencing something very similar to how the German people were fooled into following Hitler and his beliefs.

I grew up around people who had been through WW2 and Korea and know what is true. I've even spent a few evenings with a former German lady who moved to the US out of love for the US. During WW2 her German father was conscripted into a unit that went to the Russian Front. She was forced to be a servant for an SS officer and a sex slave.  She was not Jewish, she was German. She told me how they threw a parade for the US troops that "liberated the Germans" (her words). She said the women made US flags and flew them when the Allied troops came through their village.

The kids now are not learning real history or even real contemporary history. They don't question the lies the Antisemite agitators tell them.

This is the first time I have felt like the real WW3 is just around the corner. What's happening at the universities now is part of the process. Perhaps its genetic and natures was of thinning the herd.

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If we said to the collective of the protesters, "Take me to your leader." to whom would we be taken?

That is a great question.

It's not new. I'm reminded of the Weathermen (Weather Underground). I was starting to be active in the Peace Movement and sit-ins when they started showing up. I, along with most others walked away as the violent haters tried to take over, using those of us protesting for peace. We wanted peace. They wanted hate.

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First of all, let me say these are not protests. These are criminal actions intentionally executed to deny rights to others. That's the dividing line for me: when a "protest" begins to deny rights to others, it is no longer a protest. That includes denial of access, physical attacks, destruction of property, etc.

But this is even more troubling in a way to me, understanding what the goals of the various players are.

TheRedneck

Agreed. Sadly the universities are in on it. I hate to use his name, but this is the end game and intent of Bill Ayer's and his type who have taken over our schools.

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Second -- no offense meant here but you apparently weren't around in the 1960's.  These protests are pretty mild compared to the ones against the Vietnam War. 

I don't know. I think we are approaching a Kent State moment. I honestly think that the Weathermen are in the mix. New names, new members, but the same.

I found a link to this article on Bill Ayers's biography site.
On Events at Columbia University

As a Columbia alum (College ’69), participant in that university’s 1968 student rebellion, advocate for academic freedom and free expression rights, and as a Jew, I have followed developments at Columbia over the past few days with great interest.  On Wednesday came the appearance by the co-chairs of the university’s Board of Trustees alongside Columbia’s president at the House Education and Labor Committee’s latest sham “hearing” on allegations of antisemitism on campus, a “set up from the get-go” where, as AAUP President Irene Mulvey puts it in her excellent statement issued today, both academic freedom and the faculty were thrown “under the bus.”  Then yesterday, in a chilling echo of 1968, Columbia called in the NYPD to arrest more than a hundred protesting students at a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

The above is worth a read. History repeats and not in a good way. Hate is still the tool of choice for that bunch.