Heather Mac Donald has noticed something that I and a few other have, and she wrote about it in City Journal. That is the fact that the protestors on college campuses are overwhelmingly female. They are also quite young but not quite undergraduate young as Isabel Brown has noted. Heather writes:
The female voices rose high-pitched and shrill above the crowd:
“Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is a terrorist state.”
“We don’t want no Zionists here, say it loud, say it clear.”
“Resistance is justified when people are occupied.”
The voices that answered them were also overwhelmingly female, emanating from hundreds of students chanting and marching around tents pitched in front of Columbia University’s neoclassical Butler Library, part of an effort in late April to prevent the university from uprooting the encampment.
The female tilt among anti-Israel student protesters is an underappreciated aspect of the pro-Hamas campus hysteria. True, when activists need muscle (to echo University of Missouri professor Melissa Click’s immortal call during the 2015 Black Lives Matter protests), males are mobilized to smash windows and doors or hurl projectiles at the police, for example. But the faces behind the masks and before the cameras are disproportionately female, as seen in this recent gem from the Princeton demonstrations.
Keep reading but even watching the videos, she’s obviously correct.
On the other hand, as we see the stiffening resistance to the demonstrators on campus, we are seeing the exact opposite
Yeah, the University of Chicago, the school that was so blue nosed, that it, a charter member of the Big 10, quit and dropped its intermural sports programs before WWII.
And yes, there are God given rights, they go back to Genesis, but God doesn’t do hothouse flowers. If you wan to keep his gifts, there are two things, the book and the sword, both are essential. And what Europeans are so pleased to call universal human rights are nothin of the kind. They are the British development of what the Bible tells us God said, and then written down by the American Founders. You might notice something about both the 10 Commandments, and the 10 rights of the US Bill of Rights. they only cover what you may not do, you can do pretty much anything else. We, Britain and America, pushed these as universal in the UN to try to calm down the world. Well, you can see how well it worked out. 70 years ago the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and a few expatriate governments in exile mounted a crusade (and they used that exact term) to free Europe from the Nazi domination, they found later that the Soviets were at least as bad, and so the crusade continues. It still continues against Putin, it probably always will, its been going about 3000 years so far.,
The Israeli war in Gaza, started by Hamas’s pogrom last October is simply the latest battle. It’s impotent to remember that the United States and Israel are the last two states who have fought to maintain their rights as God gave them to us. And that is why it is proper to see he Stars and Stripes advancing against those who would deprive us all of our rights in company with the Star of David, as we are now seeing on American campuses.
Melanie Phillips, who I’ve followed for well over a decade, give a progress report
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