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Honestly with Bari Weiss

When Students Become Terrorists

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Last year, at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history, or infamy, with the most dramatic campus protests in a generation. In preparation for the 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. To understand this moment and the risk these student protesters pose, Free Press columnist 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. If you liked what you heard from Honestly, the best way to support us is to go to thefp.com and become a Free Press subscriber today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Last year at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history.

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5,000 people were Russian. history, or infamy, with the most dramatic campus protests in a generation.

0:29.5

It's in fun our revolution.

0:32.7

As the fall semester begins,

0:38.2

some major universities from NYU to UCLA

0:41.5

have implemented new rules and decided to enforce old ones to protect Jewish

0:46.2

students from activists that declared sections of campus no-go zones for Zionists.

0:51.2

On Monday, U. you see President Michael Drake directed

0:54.0

chancellors of all 10 schools to strictly enforce established rules when it

0:58.4

comes to demonstrations. That includes banning encampments, protests that block pathways, and mass

1:04.7

warrant to shield identities. Universities that turn a blind eye to the

1:09.2

tent-of-fata phenomenon now risk violating federal statute.

1:14.0

Nonetheless, the chaos appears to be returning.

1:16.7

And their resistance, against their colonizer. Against their colonizers.

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At Temple University, protesters marched in solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their colonizers.

1:33.0

The attack happened here outside Pitt's largest landmark, the cathedral of learning.

1:38.0

A student returned to class at the University of Pittsburgh,

1:41.0

a man attacked a group of Jewish students with a bottle.

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