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SCA's avatar
May 1Edited

It's really a pity that you feel it necessary to comfort and reassure the more rabid amongst the readership lest they scream "traitor" at you through the interwebs.

You're an honest broker. Who knew what a perilous occupation *that* could be!

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Couldn't agree more. Those that scream can't even attempt to analyze situations objectively, so they project/infer their own subjectivity onto others, and then they scream at them.

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SCA's avatar

It's weird how many people drawn to subscribe to erudite Substacks struggle with basic reading comprehension.

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Ted's avatar

Perhaps it's not so weird after all, when we consider how widespread that struggle with basic reading comprehension truly is.

Human pattern recognition is a very interesting mechanism. Time and time again, I've observed people who struggle with reading comprehension "intuitively" discern anomalies within narratives. These folks struggle to comprehend why they have such a strong "feeling" that something is not quite right about the messaging they are induced to accept.

Is it so strange that they turn to Substack writers for interpretation and analysis that they hope may dispel their cognitive dissonance?

To your point; the very difficulty that brought them here, militates against acquiring the discernment they seek. It's really quite the conundrum, seemingly trading one form of credulity for another.

Still, the effort is laudable and worthy of a measure of respect, however often it seems to "gang aft agley."

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SCA's avatar

It keeps ganging right off a cliff.

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Clark's avatar

I think to be grammatically correct you would have to say, "...so they project/infer their own subjectivity onto/of others..."

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

There's absolutely no way these protest will "interfere" with the most "fortified" election in history.

Absolutely no way.....

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SCA's avatar

It's very enjoyable in a gallows humor sort of way. Watching Schumer the Smarm squirm now that our gal Ilhan said something even he can't swallow without serious damage to the kishkes is karma coming around like a mohel with tremors to get him where it hurts.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

lmao. you're good.

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SCA's avatar

I try to always say it with a smile.

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Alias Doe's avatar

Ilhan "our gal" Omar. The Somali Princess we've all been waiting for.

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Freedom Lover's avatar

Can we enjoy that episode too, please? Link, please?

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SCA's avatar

It was just a brief clip the other day of him speaking forcefully in the Senate against Jew-hatred. I try not to look at him, in general, because I value the good working of my stomach but I was so surprised I couldn't help myself.

I don't think he actually rebuked her, by name, of course. It's just I guess there's a daily limit for prostituting oneself and he'd reached it.

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The Cactus's avatar

Oh my!

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VHMan's avatar

Love that metaphor!

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greg hildner's avatar

OMG. That's choice!

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Vdvupur's avatar

Nothing will stop this election. Trump will be installed in order to exacerbate protests and the collapse of the economy. And it will all be blamed on Trump. All of it. Bidenomics failure will be Trump's fault. But Trump is in on it. It's all planned. The West is being taken down. It will all be handed over to the East. The Middle East, that is. Islam has infiltrated everything and will run the Show from behind the Curtain. The North American Continent is going to be a nightmare.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

"Islam has infiltrated everything...."

Really?

Please point out the control and/or influence that Islam has on American politics/culture/media.

Muslims control all legacy media? ABC/Disney/NBC/CBS/CNN/Fox/NYT/WaPo/LATimes?

Muslims control Hollywood?

Muslims control academia/education?

Muslims control Wall St?

Or is that the fevered dream of a Hasbarah practitioner?

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Eidein's avatar

A long time ago, back when I was dumb, I listened to NPR. Specifically Planet Money, which talked about financial stuff.

After the fifth episode that was sponsored by CAIR I stopped listening. I can't speak to the rest of the media, but NPR clearly is unduely influenced by the Islamic world

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

NPR's list of funders is below.

Scroll through and find the "Islamic" influencers, compared to other ethno-religious funders.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/727982638/philanthropic-supporters

Now compare CAIR's sponsorship of anything in the USA to AIPAC and the huge constellation of AIPAC-adherent funders/influencers.

It's a drop in the bucket.

Now compare general political funding. Find "Islam" behind the curtain calling the shots:

"According to OpenSecrets.com, 13 of the top 25 political donors are Jews—That’s 52%. According to the U.S. census, Jews are 2.4% of the population of the United States (7.6 million). Those top 25 donors contributed $966,102,219. The 13 Jews contributed $534,623,998 to that total or 55.3%—more than 23 times their proportional share. Gentiles are 97.6% of the U.S. population, and the top 12 contributed $431,478,221 or 44.7%—less than half of their proportional share."

https://www.unz.com/article/does-jewish-money-influence-american-politics/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=article

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

You're not supposed to notice that, and you're most definitely not supposed to say/write anything about it.

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SCA's avatar

Well. What else are we supposed to do with our money once we've stocked the freezer sufficiently with knishes?

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Hellwood's avatar

That's a massive relief actually. I'd much rather be secretly governed by people of excellence and education than by a baying mob of blue-haired manlets.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

The fuck? Wow, you actually have no idea what you are talking about.

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AgainsttheLies's avatar

Let's just say that these shrieking Muslims and their leftist "allies" are perfect examples of the golems coming home to roost.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

The use of 'inshallah' in the example is incorrect use of the word. There's some great observations in this, but the culture writing articles like this remains profoundly ignorant of the actual culture of the Middle East and how it works; almost everything is based on bad faith caricatures rather. Which is crazy, because this is millions of people. It goes to show how cut off from reality most people commenting on Substack actually are. :)

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AgainsttheLies's avatar

How does that observation, though, which is true in itself, affect Cole's argument that much of this is of the Jews' own making?

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Amen!

Noticed the same thing, but my quota of attempts to help dispel ignorance had been reached already.

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Steve the sailor's avatar

Wow. That explains alot. Top down solutions are commonly misguided and frequently reap unintended consequences. Manipulation of the masses has been a helpful strategy to those in charge. But the stupid masses grow up to learn and develop a mind of their own and goals that may run counter to your original intent. It is playing with fire. The fires we see are basically all of the coopted identity golems fighting incessantly. It politics ever thus?

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Excellent analysis and insights.

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SCA's avatar

One way or another, someone is coming for your foreskin.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Hmmmm....

Well, we've lived under foreskinless domination for the last 50-100 years. And continue to now.

But that's not the point: the point is the assertion that somehow "Islam" is in charge.

That's a fantastic lie that obscures the reality and muddies the waters.

Since Oct 7, we've seen massive legal, political, social sanctions against people speaking the truth about one ethnic/religious group. Hint: It ain't Islam.

New laws and norms make it illegal and professional suicide to criticize one ethno-religious-state. Hint: It ain't Saudi Arabia.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Who is responsible for September 11????

It’s not Islam, as most were led to believe and embrace.

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V. Dominique's avatar

Look into the "Dancing Israelis" or the Israeli art students who seem to have been associated with the Mossad and who had free access to the buildings for several months prior to 9/11.

Considering the amount of damage a flock of birds can inflict on planes, I sincerely doubt that those buildings were taken down by planes. Witnesses, including police and firefighters, reported hearing explosions in the buildings before they came down. I've also seen videos taken by witnesses that show explosions but no planes, making me wonder if what we saw on TV was computer generated. And let's not forget building 7.

Finally, cui bono? 9/11 led to a series of wars and hostile acts (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria) that did nothing to benefit the USA and everything to benefit Israel.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

Wow, an actual educated person making a comment here.

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SCA's avatar

Oh darling, I's a Zionist through and through.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Having trouble with logic and reason?

Silly sarcasm doesn't quite answer the questions, buddy.

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Vdvupur's avatar

"Since Oct 7, we've seen massive legal, political, social sanctions against people speaking the truth about one ethnic/religious group. Hint: It ain't Islam.

New laws and norms make it illegal and professional suicide to criticize one ethno-religious-state. Hint: It ain't Saudi Arabia."

Keep watching the Circus. Don't bother to critically think. Nobody wants that.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Huh?

Those observations ARE critical thinking.

"Oil" is critical thinking?

Please provide another example of critical thinking for the uninitiated to follow. Thanks.

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Steve the sailor's avatar

I

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Vdvupur's avatar

Oil.

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Steve the sailor's avatar

I am legit trying to understand you. I suspect you have a point. I just can't see it.

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Steve the sailor's avatar

They control by undermining, working to delegitmize, promote "myth of meritocracy," oppressor/oppressed dynamic, "equity" and "patriarchy" arguments, using the corporate HR horde dynamics to put themselves in the driver's seat, getting weak administrators/"leaders" by the balls while having sheep become their defenders. Voila, look who's in the driver's seat.

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Ivan Kaltman's avatar

Islam is the most powerful assimilation force humanity has ever known. 54 countries later, you say it is done spreading? Ask those same questions to the previous 53 countries before they converted.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Ok, maybe. Did you consider the Roman Empire? Genghis Khan and the Mongols?

Alexander the Great? The British Empire?

They all "assimilated" more of the civilized world than did/has Islam.

The USA has been exposed to, or in direct contact with Islam, since before it was the USA.

As of today, Muslims in the USA are about 1-2% of the population, pretty much the same portion as Jews in the USA. The Muslim portion grows, due to higher fertility rates. But still, estimates for the growth are in the range of 3-4% in the next 30-50 years.

Conversions?

"Religious conversions haven’t had a large impact on the size of the U.S. Muslim population, largely because about as many Americans convert to Islam as leave the faith. Indeed, while about one-in-five American Muslim adults were raised in a different faith tradition and converted to Islam, a similar share of Americans who were raised Muslim now no longer identify with the faith."

The hysterical American scream: "Sharia! Sharia! Sharia! They're coming for your wives and daughters!" is just that--hysterical nonsense from those loyal to a tiny hostile foreign power.

Rest easy, if you're worried--Islam is not going to take over the USA in your lifetime.

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Ivan Kaltman's avatar

None of those empires lasted over 1,000 years nor were able to assimilate so many vastly different cultures, nor were they even interested in doing so. Romans did not colonize Gaul and convert them to Romanism. The British did not convert Indians to Britishism. I suggest you read Submission to get an idea of what the near future will be like in Western Europe.

Most Western elites abandoned Christianity generations ago. Many were atheists that converted to Wokism in the past decade. They will not hesitate to convert to Islam to retain their status, wealth, and power if/when that time comes.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Not sure what sources you rely on, but you might want to expand your library:

"Romans did not colonize Gaul and convert them to Romanism." Really? Then how did all of Gaul become Roman?

"Roman citizenship was granted to all [Gaul] in 212 by the Constitutio Antoniniana.

Several significant Roman figures were born in Gaul, including Roman Emperors Claudius, Caracalla and probably Carus, as well as the important general Gnaeus Julius Agricola. Another general born in Gaul was Marcus Antonius Primus. In addition, the family of Antoninus Pius, which was also the adoptive family of Marcus Aurelius, came from Roman Gaul. Roman writers born in Gaul include Petronius, Caecilius Statius, Varro Atacinus, Aemilius Magnus Arborius, Frontinus, Ausonius, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus and the authors of the important Panegyrici latini. It's unclear if Tacitus and Cornelius Gallus were born in provincial Gaul or in Cisalpine Gaul, which was part of Italy (many other writers were from the latter region, including Virgil, Catullus and Pliny)."

"The British did not convert Indians to Britishism." Really??!!

Then why is the British Prime Minister today a BRITISH INDIAN?! Rishi Sunak

As is the First Minister of Scotland today: Humza Haroon Yousaf

Suggest you consider reality before sinking into depression.

Politically Correct Progressivism has destroyed American traditional culture, but Islam is not spreading across the USA. LGBTQWERTIUOP is spreading. Man-hating feminism is spreading. Cross-dressing freakism is spreading. Bowing down to the tiny hostile foreign power in the Middle East is spreading (see the "anti-semitism" law passed in Congress this week).

Nothing indicates that Islam will dominate the USA.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

agree. but this might not be a "bad" thing...it might be the only thing to wake people up.

hard times coming up no matter what imo

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kertch's avatar

The Liberal Elite is terrified of a Trump win because he threatens their power structure. They can't have an alternative philosophy/policy structure that might show how pathetic their own is. All elites do this, from the Soviet Communists to the American Crony Capitalists. The leftist revolutionaries need Trump to win, because otherwise the Revolution would need to occur against their sponsors, the current elite, which is what's happening now on college campuses. The current prosecution/persecution of Trump is purely an elitist undertaking and is proving to be mostly ineffective. If Trump regains the presidency however, the Elites can once again join with the grassroots left to attack the Trump "establishment" and rebuild their top/bottom coalition. That way they can each have their "revolution". Of course, what each group is planning is different; the grassroots left looking to create a socialist/communist state, and the elite looking to create a fascist oligarchy with a "socialist" face.

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CS's avatar

Great comment.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

100% well said!

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Danno's avatar

I'm betting that this time around Trump has found a way to stay a step ahead of his tormenters. The folks who currently run Washington (whoever they are) aren't that smart.

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Alias Doe's avatar

"Islam has infilitrated everything" lmao. Islam is not a real threat in NA. They're like 1% of the population. There's another group that's a way bigger problem.

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Vdvupur's avatar

You don't know Islam.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

I’m so confused about that .. why do you think it’s Islam & not another group

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GK's avatar

I need some of that tinfoil.

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VHMan's avatar

God! I hope not.

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Taiga Shaman's avatar

Replace Islam with Jews in your comment and you’re correct. Not sure how Islam controls anything in the United States except Minneapolis and Dearborn, MI.

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pyrrhus's avatar

But it will force them to do the steal in a much more blatant manner--which will radicalize many Americans...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I'm about one click away from being radicalized myself...if you know what I mean...

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wolf's avatar

These protest is just another example of lazy useless people rallying behind the latest woke thing. You always see the same people supporting climate scam, trans idiocy, palastine/Hamas, etc. what is really funny is that the majority of those protesters wouldn't be alive in palastine due to their life choices as Hamas doesn't care about those people.

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eugyppius's avatar

the Palestinian cause has many important differences from Wokery. to begin with, it's much older – it has been a pillar of leftist activism for decades and decades. in the Woke perspective, enemies are internal (the privileged) and abstract (structural), and reigning elites offer the remedy. for the pro-Palestinian protestors, the enemies *are* the reigning elite, as representatives of a broader oppressive regime (in this case, some version of colonialism).

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

Correct. I was pro-Palestine long before I knew what a "TERF" was, definitely long before I became one. Old campus lefties like me are currently in the weird position of supporting a campus protest movement we'd almost certainly be barred by woke students from joining.

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CS's avatar
May 1Edited

It's time to grow up. "Campus lefties" have done incalculable damage to the USA. Decades later, you should now try to do something constructive for the country.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

so you don't think this morphs into more election "interference"?

The common denominator is TDS after all.

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eugyppius's avatar

I'm sure the powers that be will try to use these protests for their own purposes, but the energy behind them is much more organic; Biden would surely much rather be dealing with another Floyd-style freakout than with this.

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Danno's avatar

So true. He has to satisfy both the radicals within his party, and the Israel lobby. So far all he's done is piss everyone off.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

true. but it could be fertile ground for another Floyd "incident"....I mean they are Fuhrer-ious after all!!!...:)

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CS's avatar

Isn't it very curious that since January 2021, there has been no burning down of cities because of a police incident?

I guess policing in America has become impeccable and that "structural racism" has been utterly overcome!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Lolol so true!

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kertch's avatar

It's dangerous to rely on a personality-based political strategy like "Stop Trump". It works as a tactic, but not as a strategy. Should something happen to Trump and a suitable replacement for him arise, you would need to create a new "Satan/Hitler/Trump" all over again. They have been trying to do this with MAGA but it's more difficult. The effectiveness of the Anti-MAGA effort is nowhere near as effective as the Anti-AfD efforts in Germany. This is likely because there is no Trump-like figure in Germany to focus on.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

"Hamas doesn't care about those people."

Exactly so. Remember how they dealt with their political opposition when they took over Gaza in 2007. They dealt with their Fatah opponents by throwing them off rooftops. These alphabet people they would simply slaughter en masse.

What should also be noted is that Hamas is simply a mercenary organization, like Hezbollah, which is owned and paid for by Iran. So what we have here is a gang of self-righteous students protesting in support of a gang of hired murderers.

What might help them see reality is closure of their tent city occupation via police batons to the teeth. After all, if Mommy and Daddy can shell out $70,000 a year in tuition for these useless layabouts studying for worthless degrees, then paying a few thousand for reconstructive dental surgery is small change.

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Eidein's avatar

Hamas doesn't even care about Palestinian civilians, why would anyone be stupid enough to think they care about protestors in America?

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kertch's avatar

They only care because they're useful. Kind of like how a farmer cares about chickens. When the hen stops laying it goes into the cookpot.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

Agreed. They expend them as human shields, aided and abetted by UNWRA. Underneath Gaza are mile after mile after mile of underground rooms, vaults, armories, manufacturing sites. All of this is largely built underneath hospitals, residential buildings, schools to shield them from attack. Welcome to Hamas turning its civilian population into targets and victims.

We should not overlook the fact that the Tombstone on the Hudson is directly responsible for the assault on Israel and the associated murders, rapes and beheadings. Perhaps its time to consider that the United Nations, having failed at every one of its projects since it was formed, should be dismantled completely. It is no longer fit for any purpose whatsoever.

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kertch's avatar

"Tombstone on the Hudson" I like that.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

To the best of my recollection, it was US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton who coined that phrase. He loathed and despised the place for its repeated failures to do anything, and its serial incompetence at running all its peacekeeping missions. He once remarked that if you wanted to reform the UN you would start by demolishing the top floor and working your way down.

And let's face it, the UN building looks like a giant tombstone. It's the place where any hopes for improving the world die an immediate and painful death.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

To the best of my recollection, it was US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton who coined that phrase. He loathed and despised the place for its repeated failures to do anything, and its serial incompetence at running all its peacekeeping missions. He once remarked that if you wanted to reform the UN you would start by demolishing the top floor and working your way down.

And let's face it, the UN building looks like a giant tombstone. It's the place where any hopes for improving the world die an immediate and painful death.

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CMCM's avatar

Why oh why doesn't anyone question WHY none of the neighboring countries will take in Palestinian refugees? There's a very good reason they all refuse, including next door neighbors Egypt and Jordan: They all know full well that Palestinians always mean trouble and they want none of it. I taught at a Saudi university for 8 years and it became crystal clear that the Saudis thought the Palestinians were the scum of the Arab world.

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MarcusBierce's avatar

Hamas, just like the tragedy of 10/7, is a Mossad/Netanyahu sponsored creation. Good thing to remember whenever this comes up again

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Colin Hunt's avatar

Hamas is a mercenary organization controlled by Iran. Iran hates Israel. How is it possible that Israel's Mossad controlled Hamas?

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Because like we created Al Qaeda, Israel created Hamas .. both turned out to bite us in the butt …

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Colin Hunt's avatar

We created neither one. Israel did not create Hamas.

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MarcusBierce's avatar

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/0000018b-47d9-d242-abef-57ff1be90000 Israel most certainly fed the beast that is Hamas today. The record is clear.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

*This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)*

Go back to bed

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MarcusBierce's avatar

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)

“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

Just admit you are completely wrong on this point, and apologize to anyone you’ve been unintentionally lying to all this time.

Hamas is an Israeli creature.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

So you are reversing the burden of guilt? You pretend that it was Israeli creations that snuck across the border on October 7?

Fact remains, Hamas are a gang of mercenary killers. Your attempt to relieve them of responsibility for what they did is contemptible.

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MarcusBierce's avatar

Hamas IS Israel. Israel prevented all but HAMAS to grow in Gaza. You really are thick

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MarcusBierce's avatar

Fact remains Israel created Hamas, and used them by allowing 10/7 to justify the current land grab.

Your doubling down on naive ignorance in the face of facts is pathetic.

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VHMan's avatar

The students lack of any interest except credentials leaves me sad: world class libraries with $$$ in original documents, sem labs (scanning electron microscope)—oh, not good enough? Then one for the undergraduates and another for the graduates. Fer Chri—‘s sake, just let me have a look before I die.

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Eidein's avatar

I am _so very thankful_ that I got into the tech industry back when merit was valued over credentials. It is not like that anymore, not by a long shot

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Colin Hunt's avatar

I agree with both of you. Welcome to the world of DEI. The world where commercial aircraft have their doors fall off in flight.

Where aircraft undercarridges fall into the airport parking lot.

Where commercial aircraft control systems fly the aircraft into the ground.

Where recently built foot bridges fall onto four-lane highways because they were so badly designed.

Where giant container ships smash more than once into city bridges because of incompetent pilots.

Where computer programs portray historic Catholic Popes as black. Or aboriginal.

Where incompetent peiople are appointed or promoted because of what they look like rather than what they know or can do.

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

I thought I had seen it all when a whole summer was dedicated to honoring a drunk, drug addicted, woman beating thug, burning, looting, and murdering in his honor.

But elite collage students hollered "HOLD MY BEER".

Gays for Palastine?? I swear to God that we are living in a constant rerun of The Twilight Zone

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JP Spatzier's avatar

While I feel for people & victims in Palestine, I am shocked at the level of stupidity of the students .. have you listened to any of them. I can’t believe they are best & brightest 🫢

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

The best and brightest are coming out of technical schools.

They're smart enough to know there is a job waiting for them, often, before they even graduate.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

I watched a video today about AGI that said 💯 of human jobs will be taken bet by AI/Robotics within 3-10 years …

They don’t need us useless eaters anymore… hunger games a coming 🙏

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

Not worried.

I grow my own.

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CMCM's avatar

Their universities have taught them to be stupid. They are taught to let others tell them what to think, who to hate.

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CMCM's avatar

I saw a hilarious clip of one female protester saying to another one "Why are we here?" The second female responded "I don't know, I wish we were more educated about it."

As for all the women in particular who are out there wearing kaffiyehs on their heads and around their necks...someone should tell them that is menswear. Arab women don't wear those. I would also encourage all those protesters, both male and female, and especially the LGBTQ etc. crowd to take a little trip to Gaza and see how well they would be treated. It would be eye opening to them for sure.

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Brad's avatar

I put together examples of the lunacy taking place at the campus encampments across America. Regardless of what one thinks of the cause, what we're seeing is often ridiculous, and at the very least has anti-semitic undertones:

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-lunacy-at-pro-palestine-campus

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Nat's avatar

Excellent analysis, thank you! Btw is it mean to be secretly enjoying this shitshow? Asking for a friend.

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SCA's avatar

It's like being a nice old lady sitting on the sofa crocheting while watching one of one's favorite movies, "The Wild Bunch." One might think those two tastes don't go together but mayhem can be extremely entertaining. Of course "The Wild Bunch" was extremely well-done and this is just spilling gas inadvertently while trying refilling the tank so the car can keep going in the planned direction and the driver is so startled that he drops the joint he was smoking.

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Danno's avatar

Your identification of a subsidized "permanent protest" on college campuses is insightful. It certainly matches what I observed as a student during the 70s, when the members or the 60s radical left had mostly graduated and moved on. A few remained as grad students, or took up residence near the campus as grungy weirdos passing out leaflets about Trilateralist/Rockefeller/Bilderberg and even CIA conspiracies (!).

Breaking the permanent protest down into "adversarial protest" and "collaborative protest" brings back memories of history and political science classes where I learned that popular revolutions by the peasantry are almost never successful unless they sponsored by members of either the monarchy or the aristocracy, and the true objective is either a coup or a purge, depending on the sponsor.

It also begins to explain why such divergent pressure groups as LBGTQs, Hamas, Wall Street bankers, and academic leftists can all support a kind of permanent protest class, yet remain violently opposed to each others' ideology.

I really enjoy this kind of content, because I've been struggling to understand the dynamics behind recent current events, and the lying news media with its endless parade of phony "experts" supports such implausible narratives that I can no longer bear to watch it or read it. I believe that someday you and others here on Substack will be cited by future historians regarding the plague (aka plandemic) and its political and historical significance.

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greg hildner's avatar

nice post!

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Vdvupur's avatar

Another summer of love. Just watch.

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Meth Bear's avatar

It will be a warm up for November. The Democrats already have plans for a color revolution if Trump manages to win the election.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

We are in the middle of a color revolution

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Meth Bear's avatar

We are, but the last few years have been a relative lull in the action. They let off the gas a bit because the general public was angry and exhausted after 2016-2021, and they didn’t want to trigger too much of a backlash. The ratchet will start up again soon.

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CS's avatar

Please elaborate!

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Meth Bear's avatar

Can’t remember where I read it, but basically Democratic strategists, NGOs, etc. have done tabletop exercises and drawn up strategies for a top-down, coordinated response to Trump winning.

The plan is to organize massive street protests and strikes/slowdowns, flood Congressional offices with demands not to work with Trump, coordinate messaging with sympathetic media, file lawsuits, and generally find ways to throw sand in the gears so he can’t govern.

The idea is to create chaos, pin it all on Trump, and tank his popularity with the general public so impeachment is easier once they find a suitable pretext.

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Grape Soda's avatar

But this has all been tried. It’s not going to go over again. Sure, the current regime would rather burn it all down than lose. The shock troops they use want to burn it down too, but not to keep the current elites but to replace them. For both, Trump is a convenient villain. But what happens when the factions stop cooperating? This may be what the regime is facing now. They have a common enemy but they don’t have a common goal.

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Meth Bear's avatar

It doesn’t work on conservatives anymore, but independents are a plurality of the electorate and tend to be more easily swayed. Disorder and economic problems get pinned on whoever is in the White House, regardless of whether they actually have anything to do with them.

And the regime may be having some unpleasantness with the activists right now, but these campus protests will disappear as soon as the semester ends. Most of them will show up to for the next catered, paid-for riot, for the next Current Thing the regime spins up this summer.

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TN Street Cat's avatar

How would this be different from what we’ve seen? There was the women’s March as soon as trump took office and he didn’t acknowledge it. The bureaucracy is always slow and does so little meaningful work, no one would notice if they were protesting. The federal employees I know preferred having only 1 day’s worth of work to do a week even if they hated trump. Trump didn’t require most agencies to participate in his agenda and as long as the staff are all personally getting paid, they don’t care. The media was nothing but trump outrage throughout his presidency. With Covid, there was plenty of chaos and they did pin it on trump. I believe all of that took enough of a toll on his popularity that he did genuinely lose the election. With all the lawsuits, they’re going so overboard on trying to destroy him now that it’s turning favor back towards him. If I learned anything from the past 7 years, it’s that it probably doesn’t matter who is President and the position doesn’t hold the power everyone pretends it does. Trump spent 20 hours a day watching cable news and Biden is practically embalmed, so someone/group/thing is clearly keeping it moving, so to speak.

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CS's avatar

I believe it.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Yes .. 💯

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Elagabalus's avatar

Occupy was a protest in the situationist mode. The protestors didnt want their energy to be dissipated by pursuing minor, easy to satisfy goals. They didn't want alliances with the enemy either. The lack of these goals is probably why it is considered a failure. There were no payoffs to be doled out by the administration while it remained the enemy. It is also why Occupy had to go. It fought being coopted. It was willing to exist side by side with everyday life, there was no real need to destroy it as it was except that, unlike the fake woke, it posed a real danger of real change to benefit all the 90%.

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Grape Soda's avatar

As our esteemed author pointed out, popular uprisings need an elite faction. This happened in both the American and French revolutions. Additionally you need something, however vague and abstract, to be for, rather than merely protesting against the way things are.

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Elagabalus's avatar

I appreciate your views, Kertch and Grape. Who am I to gainsay you? But what I hear are two people who have overlearned the maze and constantly think the same approach should be repeated. Myself I don't consider the French Revolution a success: It was vicious terrorism. The American Revolution could have been a failure too except the uncompromising principles of the Bill of Rights and people like Washington who refused to let people repeat previous failures such as crowning him king or constantly reelecting him.

You have the values of professional agitators who become the elite and of course think the elite are important. "Strategy" and "Tactics" reveal you see everything as a war. You would happily repeat history again and again. I think it is better to integrate politics with life and not allow professionals which is another word for parasite. Let something different happen. Mix politics with feeding people and housing people and caring for the ill. These are things OCCUPY experimented with. It will probably take a few more tries.

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Grape Soda's avatar

I believe you have mistaken observation for endorsement.

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Elagabalus's avatar

It best for sure to avoid the me and you one upmanship and I failed a bit at that. The ideas are what matter

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kertch's avatar

A protest in the situationist mode is like a person setting themselves on fire. A brief show that accomplishes nothing. It is no more capable of existing side by side with everyday life than the burning person. Thier existence REQUIRES that you do something, either for or against. Ignored, it will burn itself out. They do however satisfy a moral need within the protesters, but that's about it.

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That's what all the people who gain money or power from politics say, and they get no real results. What results have we seen? We have traded economic consciousness for a racist race conciousness, effectively sending us backward 80 years while we allow the super rich to profit without sharing and to buy up assets that should be shared, like homes. OCCUPY brought to the common mind the 99% vs 1%, the most important mass realization since the 60s. OCCUPY had nothing to do with self-immolation, that's the woke. Under OCCUPY what you do is live a life not based on power or control or vast riches. You drop out of the BS and you yourself are the change.

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kertch's avatar

Occupy had very little effect except among radicals who held those views already. Occupy Wall Street will be remembered by the vast majority of people as a bunch of dirty hooligans who camped out and protested, because the TACTICS always overwhelm the MESSAGE. The vast majority of the people I know who are away of the depravations of the 1% did not learn it through Occupy. Occupy are legends in their own minds.

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I wasn't an OCCUPIER but there was one in my town. The emphasis on the 1% was eye opening to me. The fact that Obama couldn't even support it for a short while showed what a fake he was. Compared to today OCCUPY was a World's Fair. It effectiveness is underlined by how quickly supposed leftists need to sweep if under the rug. The left today is owned by the rich and only supports ballless symbolic initiatives that don't touch their money or power.

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kertch's avatar

Perhaps, but without the elite supporting them, the left are a bunch of utopian fools. It's TACTICS, TACTICS, TACTICS. Win the middle class and you get their ideas implemented. Win the elite and they get institutional support, but they HATE the elite and DISPISE the middle class, so the foolish purist minority, who can't compromise with anyone, never wins. At least they can live with their utopian ideology and and brag about how they didn't sell out.

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

This is really useful analysis. University administrators spent years doing "collaborative protests": the most salient being everything LGBT, these sort of showy demonstrations of "resistance" at which the Chancellor and Uni President would be at the head of the parade, everyone in rainbows. On my campus I was useful as pretty much the only figure who could be demonized as the local threat to be resisted: as their pet TERF, I often felt like a kitten being displayed by a lion tamer.

Palestine has wrong-footed the happy clappy administrators, now that students are organizing protests administrators can't use as convenient means of career advancement. It's also seen the deployment of arguments honed over the years by trans activists ("you are trying to erase my EXISTENCE by criticizing me!" "you are causing dangerous HARM by drawing attention to any downsides to my actions and policies!") by Zionists, and the consequent re-discovery by left faculty who spent the past decade trying to get wrongthinkers fired of the importance of what they had been laughing at as "Freeze Peach".

It could be good in the long run for universities, if the whole current global system doesn't collapse first.

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kertch's avatar

Those of great hubris (university faculty and administration) who turn loose the monster, never seem to consider the monster turning back on them.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

The Queers for Refugees people are in this camp too. Utterly deluded.

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Hellwood's avatar

Universities should be places of learning and debate, and everything that sabotages this for anybody should be outlawed at pain of (at least) exmatriculation and fines. I don't get the logic of these institutions, which I would struggle to call "universities".

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SCA's avatar

Universities should be places where smart teenagers are taught to grow up. Unfortunately they've been manufacturing and then employing people who remain toddlers for life.

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Dark Thomas's avatar

can't wait until free online college is widely accepted and then the universities will basically just become pro sports league franchises + leftist/corporate/government research institutions with lazy rivers

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CS's avatar

Columbia University will never become a pro sports league franchise.

I make that statement with apologies to Lou Gehrig!

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CS's avatar

Can you imagine as a parent being asked to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition just to send your kid into this absurd chaos? No, thank you!

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Awilson's avatar

I can imagine this far too easily.

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CS's avatar

Well, those parents are dumb indeed.

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Taiga Shaman's avatar

So you’re in favor of abolishing the first amendment in arbitrary locations? Or just for causes you disagree with?

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Hellwood's avatar

Let me try again ... you cannot have a debate (about whatever) because the very functioning of the institution that is SUPPOSED TO ENABLE DEBATE is being thwarted by a hostile, screaming mob of mental defectives who openly call for the death of Jews, sympathise with rapists and baby murderers and make clear in every way possible that they are enemies of free speech. They are the very enemies of your first amendment, which, it pains me to say, is inherently fragile as it was made for people with a modicum of decency and a sense of fair play, not for a bunch of despicable, infantilised, violent scumbags.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Isn’t it interesting the kiddies who were soooo caught up with trans, binary and net zero/climate change, have as they say “pivoted” and bingo, presto, they are all in a huff because of the Israeli genocide. Hmmmmm I smell a rat. Aren’t these kiddies the age for being drafted into war that Joe Biden and co want so much? Their favourite president and his administration are itching to take these kiddies into war. What is the problem kids, you want this man as your president. Well now you have him!

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baker charlie's avatar

These kids who are pushing this war are not going to be the ones who get drafted.

However, the janitors' kids will be fresh meat to the grinder.

As it ever was.

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Pnoldguy's avatar

There is no draft at this time, unlike the Vietnam days. Those of us that suffered being torn from our daily lives just mere months from losing our 2S status will not let it happen again. Many had their lives altered for several years or even a lifetime.

No, I think the shortsighted plan is to entice a portion the 20 million or so newcomers from all over the world to shore up our dismal enlistment numbers. And it doesn't look so bad like burgeoning welfare numbers and costs.

What could possibly go wrong with this plan? Those not assimilated into American values forced to protect a country they hate. Either way, we the taxpayers will foot the bill.

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Eidein's avatar

Step 1: import millions of Mexican peasants?

Step 2: Send them to die for Israel and/or Taiwan and/or Ukraine?

I mean, it's morbid and horrendously evil but it does seem like a self-solving problem

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MarcusBierce's avatar

That just may be correct: the “illegals” will be the new US military. Bonus is many if not all are not walking around with experimental jab contents swimming in their veins

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Eidein's avatar

Honestly, now that I'm over 30, a draft that killed off a few million male zoomers would do the country good. Especially if it's targetted to the zoomers who are, shall we say, _most suited to infantry work_

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CMCM's avatar

How true.

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CMCM's avatar

And remember that the anti-war protests in the Vietnam era magically disappeared when the draft was eliminated.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Thank you.

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TR's avatar

Have campus protests always been this female-centric?

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eugyppius's avatar

yes.

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Eidein's avatar

Half the reason men go to them at all is just to get laid.

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TR's avatar

If men get political it’s seems to be late 20s onward, whereas women turn 18 and dive on the first mainstream movement they see

I could not have given a fuck about any of this at uni, but if a remotely hot girl had strong political beliefs I’d be somewhat mesmerised lol

So cringe

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GK's avatar

Her last name's not King-Slutzky for nothing!

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Mars vs. Venus: rational vs. emotional

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Grape Soda's avatar

I’m a little tired of old stereotypes, thank you.

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baker charlie's avatar

I have had people comment to me that this is no different than the 60's and Vietnam.

But it is. In the 60's we had the draft. Young people had skin in the game, the actual lives of themselves or loved ones. Don't get me wrong, the ongoing crap that is Israel/Gaza is outstandingly awful, but none of these privileged children are ever going to visit there, much less fight. It is virtue signalling writ large and largely teenage angst bullshit.

Also, what kind of 'socialists' take the working class hostage? The confinement of the janitors (who are most likely the browner people that they otherwise fetishize) did it for me. I am in solidarity with the janitors and the other working class who will have to clean up after these puling babies.

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Rikard's avatar

"Also, what kind of 'socialists' take the working class hostage?"

Upper class liberals with guilty consciences, unwilling to waive their inherited adavantages and financial security, but still feeling a deep need to show "solidarity".

Also, petty-bourgeoise brats trying to rattle mumsy and daddy by slumming it a little.

And finally the (grand)children of campus radicals of the 1950s and 1960s, jealous of preceding generations for having had real things to protest and struggle with while at best the 20-30 year olds can muster the attention span for half a TikTok-video or outrage over some video game having jiggly physics for the boobs.

What, me biased? Surely not! ;)

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baker charlie's avatar

I've been enjoying watching the gamer response to that 'outrage' right now, especially as the woke machine is pulling out the same death threats and cancelling that sidelined the TERFs nearly a decade ago. Seems gamer dudes aren't going to be easy targets of this tactic. I would find it so funny for woke's Waterloo to be at the hands of a pissed off gaming community over T&A.

BRB, making more popcorn...

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Dollars4Dummies's avatar

The draft part is important; it was an obvious motivator. Six months ago, most of these "impassioned" protestors couldn't find Gaza on a map (most still can't). Four years ago today, virtually nobody even knew the name George Floyd, then his name suddenly inspired "mostly peaceful" arson and looting. This looks orchestrated. It's obviously funded by someone with an agenda. Look how it split the covid dissident movement. Convenient, eh? Even POTUS doesn't dare criticize it directly.

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Eidein's avatar

> Six months ago, most of these "impassioned" protestors couldn't find Gaza on a map (most still can't)

Soon, nobody will be able to!

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Eidein's avatar

> Also, what kind of 'socialists' take the working class hostage?

This is so common there's a derogatory euphemism for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist

When I lived in the Bay Area, the people I knew who were always going to these kinds of protests were all of them, ALL OF THEM, unemployed children of millionaires who just paid for them

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and, in a sense, like all monumental activities, it paradoxically erases the suffering in Gaza and Israel and replaces it with this drama and LARP behavior. The high-low alliance seems to explain how the president of Portland State just caved to Antifa which had taken over and vandalized the Millar library, but I am not sure political science fully explains what is going on. There was an interview with a young woman at a university in Utah, who said she'd left her church (possibly Mormon), who was painting a picture of the guy who self-immolated near the Trump trial, as, she said, "we have to honor our martyrs." Education has changed drastically since the 60's, and fully since two decades ago, but, it is true, the draft created an entirely different situation in those days. I was just thinking about how Canada has always existed in the imagination as such a refuge, for runaway slaves, to escape the draft, in Margaret Atwood's book The Handmaid's Tale, and now it is straight up totalitarian. The anti-war movement fizzled away when the draft ended. But part of the educational mission these days appears to be to create activists who have absolutely no critical thinking skills. I was a brain dead moronic activist myself, not that the causes were moronic, but I was lol. We took a class segment in logical fallacies in high school, and I was totally ecstatic to tell the loathsome attendance lady, when she said "if I let you go, I have to let everyone go," (to clean birds in Bolinas after an oil spill), that that was a logical fallacy, which I then knew the name of. The students don't learn those things anymore, although whether people that age are capable of using what they learn to guide their behavior and participation, probably depends their embeddedness in families and faiths and communities, and the quality of their teachers.

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Grape Soda's avatar

Yep. I’m not a leftist because I feel solidarity with actual working class people. Lefties care about the working class like the IRS cares how much money you make.

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baker charlie's avatar

Agreed.

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Jim Brown's avatar

In the late 60s/early 70s, while I was attending a military academy, my brothers were at the Univ of Texas during the campus demonstrations. They reported the presence of several off-campus organizers, allegedly card-carrying Communists, handing out money to demonstrators.

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Grape Soda's avatar

There are always elites trying to ride the wave.

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Rikard's avatar

The alliance between socialists and palestinians date back far further than 2011 though.

The logic used to be this, in european universities:

[Allies of the US equals bad because US imperialist war machine bad; therefore Israel bad; therefore palestinians good; therefore by proxy all arabs and moslems good.]

Meanwhile, the same leftist academics and students rejected Stalin and swapped him for Mao, Castro and Pol Pot, depending on circumstance (or in some cases doubled down on Stalinism), insisting that one of those was the true interpreter of their prophet Marx, and that any troubles were due to counter-revolutionary elements.

An exact echo of how their predecessors in the 1920s and 1930s handled Lenin's and Stalin's various "transgressions".

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eugyppius's avatar

yes, the alliance is very old indeed - it’s merely been forced to take second place to woke concerns on American campuses until now.

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kertch's avatar

I would like to add an eighth sin to the Seven Deadly Sins: Wokery

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Gamma Draconis's avatar

It’s already covered by an existing one; Pride

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kertch's avatar

Wokery exists at a whole new level. I think you could take 3-4 Deadly Sins and replace them all with Wokery.

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Rikard's avatar

Let's see - Wrath, certainly. Sloth, by the look of them but on the other hand they are very hyper when active, so maybe not. Lust? They are fixated on sex and gender but they don't seem to be pursuing the act, do they?

Definitely gluttony for the majority though.

Hubris and despondency seems to go without saying too.

Raging manic-depressive over-eaters? Sounds like an opening act for Insane Clown Posse.

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kertch's avatar

I just imagine a medieval inquisition where the High Inquisitor states "You are accused of the sins of Gluttony, Sodomy, and Wokery. Prepare the rack!"

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Eidein's avatar

I don't think you need an explanation like this.

Palestinians are brown. Jews are white. This is the template they've been using for 15 years. It doesn't need to be more complicated than this

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

A good number of Jews do not consider themselves white. There are compilations of screenshots of Jews on X stating this emphatically.

A few months ago, several Hollywood actors wrote an article complaining that they are often mischaracterized as being white, and therefore receive negative intersectional Pokémon points for casting and awards. Steve Sailer wrote about it. If you go to his blog and search David Schwimmer (the only signee I remember) you could probably find it.

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Rikard's avatar

"Intersectional Pokémon points"! Laugh or cry, I could do both.

We all know why they call it intersectionality and diversity: calling it what it is - racial quotas - reveals what their actual ideology is.

I will never forget the look on the face of an HR-person when that humanoid was asked: "And in what way is a female employee to use her vagina at work?"

I'm thinking one could just swap female for [ethnicity] and vagina for skin colour or whatever is (in)appropriate.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Racism against whites...acceptable.

Criticism against Israel...verboten.

In an affront to the First Amendment, the US House just passed a resolution which would punish certain criticism against Israel for being antisemitic, as defined by a Jewish advocacy group. Couple this with the firm reaction of authorities against Gaza protesters, in contrast to their laissez-faire inaction during the Floyd riots, and it's clear that the string-pullers have come out from behind the curtain and stepped out onto the stage. Our Masters have made themselves known.

Globalization will destroy the middle class, which is overwhelmingly white. Demonize that which you intend to destroy. I would be shocked if anti-white rhetoric does not lead to violence in the near future.

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There's no such thing as "white", though. Jews are a semitic people, same as arabs. They are not a european people, except that many have european culture(s) mixed into their heritage. A very good comparison is the gypsies, who hasn't had a homeland for 1 000+ years, but who hasn't integrated, adapted or adopted cultural traits of their host cultures.

If you put me next to an albanian or a greek, they'd look "coloured" and there are plenty of "african americans" who are lighter skinned than corsicans or sicilians or cypriot greeks.

I mention this because:

The USAmerican fixation on race is in error, and an error. The usage is in error, the definitions used are wrong and counter-reality, and it jumbles pigmentation, genetic heritage, cultural heritage, nationality, citizenship and religion into sludge.

Labels such as "asian" are only correct when they refer to geography, as is european - I have more in common culturally speaking with latvians or ukrainians than I do portuguese or romanians, yet american parlance lumps us all together as "white".

That's about as correct as "indian" is for the indigenous peoples of North America.

I mention this all because if we use the race-terminology, we validate it as real and true, which it isn't.

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"The alliance between socialists and palestinians date back far further than 2011 though.

The logic used to be this, in european universities:

[Allies of the US equals bad because US imperialist war machine bad; therefore Israel bad; therefore palestinians good; therefore by proxy all arabs and moslems good.]"

wrong. Your summary is a soup of prejudices and heterogeneous phenomenons.

Of course Israël is a tied to USA imperialism.

But Arab isn't synonymous of Muslim. Some of my older friends are ... Lebanese. They are Arab and some are Orthodox some are Catholics.

The key problem for Arabs is European colonialism in general, when Brits and French took over the Ottoman.

The problem that Lebanon had with Israel is that Israël tried to get rid off Palestinians by relocating them in Lebanon, after a failure to enforce it on Jordan.

which brings to statement "in european universities". Dans les universités françaises il y avait des échos de plusieurs mouvements du Levant, et dans les années 70 c'était souvent le reflet du socialisme arabe, pas de mouvements islamistes ni mêe musulmans.

Lebanon-Syria being a French protectorate induced a francization of the local bourgeoisie, mostly through schools and institution run by catholic orders (Pères Blancs, Maristes, etc). Frenchs were taking advantage of the fact that Levant is the oldest Christian region and in Catholic tradition there were strong ties. Of course Northern European,, Lutherans, don't have a clue about this, nor they don't want to have.

But what was active inside some French socialist and communist students groups and intellectuals was quite related to Baathims, as founded in Syria. Michel Aflaq was an Orthodox,, and went through studies in France at La Sorbonne.

I don't want to spend more time in didactic efforts. But just another remark about "leftist" , this english word seems to have too much polysemy. It doesn't make much sense, in European context, where there were very strong conflicts and differences between revolutionary communists and democratic socialists. Like Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, but this originates in early trade unions movements in Germany and the way they evolved, SPD vs KPD, Spartakists, etc.

In the 70's there were quite some differences about "leftists" in different ways depending the country: Germany, France, Italy.

For instance in Germany a figure like Heinrich Böll was certainly not a believer of a communist flavor, be it Stalinist, Trotskist or Maoist. Yet he was regularly targeted by the CDU barking doggies like Bild, the Springer gang.

in the 20's and 30's, there were not similar ideological conflicts at universities in the first place because important students protest movements didn't exist, conflicts among socialists and communists were related workers unions and ideological decisions at political parties. A good illustration of this was Spain, the way anarchism, socialism, trotskism were tied to peasants and workers movements.

Etc

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Grape Soda's avatar

I think you overestimate the sophistication of the current crop of leftists.

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AntonioB's avatar

probably, but in the first place I have very hard time to understand what English speakers mean by "leftist". Too wide, too fuzzy. It has become a similar problem in other languages (venstre, gauche, Links, izquierda, etc) but then the issue is that there is no more socialism. In French a word designates this well: bobo ie. "BOurgeois BOhème", mid-class people with a superficial progressive attitude built around imported Americanisms about racialism and sexuality through the prism of puritanism. Imports that are mostly off context in much of Europe.

Instead the core of "leftism" was traditionally since beginning centered on social classes clashes, ie. on economy. Along the 90's ruling elites, politicians and the press, progressively ditched the class struggle theme,, because ruling oligarchies don't want to get bothered on the money level.

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Harry Neuwirth's avatar

Very informative essay that goes a long way to explaining how all these Uni admins are on the back foot in the face of noisy but small protests.

That said, I don’t understand the overwhelmingly female makeup of the protests, to the almost complete exclusion of normal men. I can remember seeing only two athletic college men in hours of protest video from multiple campuses.

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GK's avatar

"I don’t understand the overwhelmingly female makeup of the protests,"

Look at me, look at meeee!

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kertch's avatar

The athletic college men are just there to get laid.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Years ago on red pill forums there was a college gentleman whose whole thing was feminist protesters as they were the easiest to lay. His entire thing was a slightly over the top hyper masculine, women are all weak minded and crazy kind of approach. By all accounts it worked. They all respond to masculine men no matter what color they've dyed their hair 😉

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kertch's avatar

Sounds like me in college. As long as you support their POV and tell them how brave they are for standing up for XYZ, they are easy. You just need to deal with the crazy.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Or not, if you kick them out the next morning.

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kertch's avatar

Exactly! Hit and run.

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Grape Soda's avatar

This seems to be a trend. Vietnam protests were led by the boys who were going to get killed.

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