Skewer Them Pigs?! Demonstrations Run Amok! By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 4/26/2024.

Is it now the world vs. the Jew?! In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, it became fashionable on college campuses to chant “Burn, baby, burn! Also, to condemn all policemen as “pigs” and mock soldiers returning from battle. Now, a new follow-the-leader anthem has erupted, this one against Jews, a protest as mean as a national shingles, one that dismisses America, a higher justice marked by diplomacy, compassion, and peace, and any semblance of normalcy.

ROTC buildings were burned in the ’60s, and military recruitment offices. Now college campuses are being immobilized. Jews, and sometimes Palestinians, are being harassed, threatened, assaulted, and condemned, not just on college campuses but anywhere and everywhere. People thousands of miles away from the Middle East have no dog in that fight, yet find themselves shunned or abused, many of them feeling prejudice for the first time. Jewish students and professors are too afraid to go the class, feel too threatened to pass through hostile crowds changing “From the river to the sea,” and such epithets. It is sexy, now, to engage in armchair combat, and public gatherings combat, against “them.”

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I am not impressed! Here’s the deal. Let’s say a college administration senses trouble brewing. Schedule a formal gathering for speakers and demonstrators reasonably distant from classrooms and admin buildings, perhaps in a nearby park or field. It will be held from, and to, only…