When Students Become Terrorists (From the Honestly Archives)

Breaking History

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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*This episode originally ran on September 7, 2024 on Honestly with Bari Weiss* After Oct. 7, 2023—when Hamas attacked Israel— students at colleges across America etched themselves into infamy with the most dramatic campus protests in a generation. In preparation for the 2024 fall semester, some major universities—from NYU to UCLA—have implemented new rules and decided to enforce old ones to protect Jewish students from activists who had declared sections of campus no-go zones for Zionists. Universities that turn a blind eye to the Tentifada phenomenon now risk violating federal statute. Nonetheless, the chaos appears to be returning. At Temple University, protesters marched in solidarity with Palestinian “resistance against their colonizers.” Last week, a man attacked a group of Jewish students with a glass bottle on the University of Pittsburgh campus outside the school’s “Cathedral of Learning.” Meanwhile at the University of Michigan, four agitators were arrested during a “die-in.” So clearly the danger is not yet over entirely for campuses, even though some of the steam may be leaving the movement. The Democratic National Convention, for example, was supposed to be the exclamation mark of rage, but the protests barely registered as a tussle. But history teaches us that it takes only a few student true believers to make quite a mess once they decide that boycotts and sit-ins aren’t making a difference. Eli Lake looks at America’s history with Ivy League domestic terrorists. More than 50 years ago, campus unrest also spilled into the streets and moved off the grid as a small and lethal group of radicals called the Weather Underground took the plunge from protest to resistance. But the Weather Underground railed against the establishment. Today’s campus protesters are supported by it. Call them. . . the Weather Overground. Go to groundnews.com/BreakingHistory to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and stay fully informed on today’s biggest news stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.9	Last year, at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history,
1:20.3	or infamy, with the most dramatic campus protests in a generation.
1:29.4	It's in by our revolution!
1:32.3	It's in by our revolution!
1:36.3	As the fall semester begins, some major universities from NYU to UCLA have implemented new rules and decided to enforce old ones to protect Jewish students
1:46.6	from activists that declared sections of campus no-go zones for Zionists.
1:51.3	On Monday, UC President Michael Drake directed chancellors of all 10 schools to strictly enforce
1:56.9	established rules when it comes to demonstrations.
2:00.0	That includes banning encampments, protests that block pathways, and mass warrant to shield
2:05.7	identities.
2:07.2	Universities that turn a blind eye to the tentafada phenomenon now risk violating federal statute.
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