(I personally am unhappy about these protests. The media is
all treating it as a blow by blow news sensation. Nobody
is actually informing the average citizen about the facts
of Israel's creation nor Islamic refusal to compromise.
I think the POTUS, Sec. of State, or ambassadors, and the
college presidents and professors should be teaching and
informing.)

from
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/gen-z-doesnt-know-why-theyre-protesting-for-palestine/

My generation doesn’t know why the heck they’re protesting for Palestine
By Social Links forRikki Schlott
Published April 27, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET

Do the Gen Z pro-Palestine protesters even know what they’re screaming,
yelling, and encamping about? Definitely not.

A Columbia University student who rushed down to NYU’s campus in
solidarity with protesters there said on camera that she actually had no
idea what they were protesting, eventually admitting she needed to be
“more educated” on the issue.

I’m sure that’s very much the case with her countless classmates donning
keffiyehs and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

An unnamed Columbia University student being interviewed
7 An unnamed Columbia University student interviewed when she rushed to
NYU to join the protests there admitted she did not know wha they were
actually protesting.
Forget the three r’s, these Ivy League elitists are schooled in the
three i’s: ignorance, indoctrination and Instagram.

International politics are complicated, and yet Gen Z has appointed
themselves as experts before even graduating from college or bothering
to learn any of the details.

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Diplomats, negotiators, and world leaders have failed to solve the
decades-long conflict.

But don’t worry — the Zoomers have everything figured out!

When I was at Columbia during this week’s protests, I saw signs like
“dykes 4 divest,” “gays for Gaza,” and “lesbians for liberation.”

Tents with a sign in the foreground saying "Dykes 4 divest."
7 At Columbia signs include this “Dykes 4 Divest,” despite the Hamas
regime in Gaza persecuting gay, lesbian and transgender people.
Rikki Schlott
Trans people for Palestine sign
7 Columbia students in the encampment erected a “Trans People 4 Palestine”
sign.
Rikki Schlott
These are Ivy League students with they/he pronouns, and yet they are
woefully unaware of the fact that merely being gay in Gaza can amount to
ten years’ prison time, according to Human Rights Watch.

I have little doubt that the vast majority of students chanting
“Intifada revolution” and “from the river to the sea” don’t really
understand what they’re implying.

In fact when a Berkeley political science professor polled students
about the chant “from the river to the sea,” he found that, while 86% of
students said they supported the chant to some degree, just 47% of those
supportive students were able to correctly name the river and the sea in
question.

The most popular incorrect rivers were the Nile and the Euphrates.

And the most common erroneous “seas” include the the Atlantic, which is
an ocean, the Dead Sea, which is a lake, and the Caribbean.

At least it is a sea.

A group of people against a wall and in front of microphones. They are
wearing keffiyehs.
7 The leaders of the Columbia encampment include Khymani James (second
from left), who uses they/he/she pronouns. In Gaza, being gay can lead
to 10 years imprisonment.
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And what are these students actually doing in the name of Palestine?

Well, at Columbia, they’re pitching expensive North Face branded tents,
pairing their designer clothes with keffiyehs, gorging themselves on
peanut butter and jelly, and participating in silent interpretive dance.

Is this a fight for justice — or a desperate grasp for relevance and likes?

Palestine has an intifada.

We’ve got intifaddists.

As one Jewish Columbia student described it to me, the encampment looks
a whole lot like “Woodstock for antisemites.”

And my generation’s ignorance isn’t just a laughing matter.

Some misguided Zoomers hold legitimately heinous views.

A table with a label saying "nut zone"
7 At Columbia, there is a peanut butter and jelly, not to mention allergy
warnings, but a spectacular lack of knowledge about what is really
happening in Israel and Gaza.
NYPJ
When fellow Post reporter Jon Levine and I talked to masked NYU student
protesters gathering on campus on Wednesday night, they both implied
that Israel should not exist and justified the atrocities of October 7th.

One NYU undergraduate student, who told us his name was Dylan,
confidently declared that, “The state of Israel has no right to exist.”

He also justified the killing of 1,200 people in Israel on October 7th.

“When you perpetrate a genocide for over 75 years and you refuse any
other means of people resisting those extremely violent policies, people
will take up arms to resist against their occupiers,” he said.

Women in keffiyehs and headscarves wrapped in red string, apparently
during a dance move.
7 This is a generation which offers silent interpretive dance, in this
case with red string, as a serious answer to what it’s protesting about.
@OliLondonTV/X
My generation has been force-fed narratives about the
oppressor-oppressed dichotomy by their far-left educators and their
culture, and as a result are used to looking at the world through the
lens of good and evil.

Today, radical professors tell students what to think — and have
completely abdicated their responsibility to teach kids how to think.

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As a result, we’ve churned out a generation which is more activated than
educated.

And that simplistic neo-Marxist narrative blinds them to the possibility
that the conflict between Palestine and Israel could be anything more
complex than the “good guys” and the “bad guys” respectively.

Columbia lion covered in pro-Palestine stickers
7 Slogans favored by Gen Z include “resist by any means necessary.”
Rikki Schlott
Pair that with the fact that nearly half of Zoomers say they get their
news from TikTok (where Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral
because so many young people were praising it), and you have a disaster
on your hands.

They don’t know the truth about Israel, Gaza and Hamas and they can’t be
bothered to check.

But they get likes!

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What do you think? Post a comment.
The reaction to war in Israel over the past several months is a wake-up
call.

Young people have always been progressive and idealist, and this
generation is no exception.

Except, thanks to social media and the politicization of our education,
we’re also indoctrinated — and woefully misinformed too.

FILED UNDER ANTISEMITISM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
GEN Z GENERATION Z ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR IVY LEAGUE 4/27/24

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Donya Know
4 hours ago

Positive outcome is I stopped contributing to my families college funds
and will only support useful education such as trade or manufacturing
type vocations. There is a growing need in these fields in the coming
years, I don't think we need more liberal arts graduates.

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Thomas Saint
3 hours ago

Liberal arts has nothing to do with these demonstrations, but ignorance
across the board does.

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TrutHurts
3 hours ago

Gen Z has not appointed themselves. As another article uncovered the
Soros foundation is paying the protestors $3-7k, buying their tents from
Amazon and providing them with food and coffee. Soros Foundation also
funded blm protests. The plan is to divide and conquer. And Hillary
Clinton’s aid Hama ...

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Mariah Munnis
4 hours ago

Terrific article. The 'truths' mentioned actually made me laugh because
they're so bizarre. The sad realty is that a majority of university
students are woefully uneducated. How can this be?!

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Thomas Saint
3 hours ago

They don't read. I taught in an English department where even the
majors disliked reading anything "long." That includes real news
articles as opposed to propaganda on TikTok.

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Harry Flashman
3 hours ago

Nothing new, only now worse.

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eric thered
4 hours ago

It's basically just another thinly disguised assault on cultural
success. Those who have none want to take and destroy the achievements
of those who have. It's hiding behind cries of racism, colonialism etc.,
but it's basic at its core. The haves vs. the have nots.