Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, earlier this year, college and university campuses across the nation descended into a kind of petulant anarchy as students protested Israel's war in Gaza.

Demonstrations broke out at Columbia University in New York, Harvard, MIT, Emerson College

in Boston, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, to name

just a few.

Protesting students and faculty built so-called Gaza Solidarity Encampments, threatened and assaulted Jewish students, and demanded that campuses, quote, divest from companies linked to Israel and sever academic ties with Israeli universities.

Some Jewish students were told to go back to Poland, an apparent reference to death camps, stop funding genocide, some signs demanded, and, of course, the slogan from the

river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Those sympathetic to student protesters have claimed that

these campus uprisings are really just about ending Israel's war in Gaza, which has been

waged in response to the October 7 terrorist attacks. Clearly, however, some of these students and faculty are calling

for something far more radical, such as so-called decolonization, or an end to Israel as a nation altogether.

Now, left-wing students do have a long history of jumping on bandwagons, including those not so

subtly associated with Islamic terrorism. At least part of this reality is the cult of youth that's long-pervaded American society,

at least since the 1960s.

This idea that young people are the conscience of our nation

and that youth-led movements are always morally right

was articulated by a democratic socialist of America activist who wrote this.

And I quote,

A good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement

while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong.

Every single time, in every era, no matter the issue.

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