Victor Davis Hanson: DEI Enthusiasts Allowed the Free Palestine Movement to Get This Far

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

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Last week’s killings of two Israeli embassy employees in the name of “Free Palestine” is just another sad example of how the Left has lowered the bar for the justification of political violence. Endemic antisemitism continues to spread on college campus across America because the people responsible, DEI proponents and recipients, feel that they are untouchable, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “So, that is one thing that's happening. And that makes violence more permissible. The other is this endemic antisemitism. Let's be honest. It's not some cowboy in Wyoming in 1950 that doesn't like Jews. We're talking about two nexuses that come together and promulgate antisemitism. The one is wealthy people in the universities—many of them DEI, but not all—who feel that it's either en vogue or, as DEI people, they cannot be criticized as victims for victimizing others, meaning foreign students from the Middle East. And in that cauldron, it becomes permissible to say, “Globalize the intifada,” “River to the sea,” the eliminationist rhetoric about Israel, storm a library, chase Jews into a library, damage the president's office, rough up a Jewish kid on campus. It was all acceptable. There were no consequences. That's why those three college presidents either were fired or had to resign.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1… 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273… 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	in Washington were shot. Apparently the killer emptied his handgun and fired off 21 rounds,
0:41.2	killed them almost instantly, and then ran into the museum where they were working, and started to
0:47.3	act as if he was a victim until he shouted out free Palestine. What we're seeing throughout the United States right now is a lowering
0:56.7	of the bar of what's acceptable in terms of violence. How can we get in there to justify this
1:02.0	in some ways or contextualize it? So what we're seeing is two nexus that come together and promulgate
1:08.9	anti-Semitism. The unhinged come out of the woodwork because the
1:13.5	general climate rewards that type of behavior. And what are we to make of this?
1:32.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:40.6	Recently, two Israeli diplomatic employees in Washington,
1:45.0	Yaron Lyshinsky and Sarah Milgram were shot. Apparently the killer Elias Rodriguez emptied his handgun and fired off 21 rounds, killed them almost instantly, and then ran into the museum where they were working, and started to act as if he was a victim until he
2:05.3	shouted out free Palestine. And what are we to make of this? I think what we're seeing throughout
2:14.3	the United States right now is a lowering of the bar of what's acceptable in
2:20.0	terms of violence. We saw that Luigi Mangione became a cult hero to the left because he, in a
2:27.6	premeditated fashion, killed a United Health Company Corporation executive, shot him down in cold blood on the specious excuse
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