None of those in the encampments are calling for a two-state solution, or Palestinian self-determination. Just the end of Israel.
American Jews have looked on in horror as pro-Hamas encampments popped up on more than 100 college campuses. But predictably, there have been those voices telling them not to get hysterical.
Novelist Shalom Auslander, in a piece titled “Dear Media, Stop Taking Students Too Seriously,” argues that college kids are inevitably stupid because their prefrontal cortex, which covers decision-making, is not fully formed. (That argument, by the way, has been used by Soros-backed prosecutors to justify lesser charges against murderers in their twenties.)
No doubt Auslander is right that some of today’s pro-Hamas demonstrators might one day actually learn something about the history of Israel — at least the names of the river and the sea about which they are chanting — and some will grow up to be normal, upstanding citizens.
But for every Jerry Rubin of Chicago Seven fame who becomes a stockbroker or James Simon Kunen, who romanticized the 1968 Columbia University student takeover of the administration building in his memoir The Strawberry Statement and ended up writing a second memoir of the rest of his life called Company Man, there are those children of privilege from the generation of 1968 who joined the Weather Underground — e.g., Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Kathy Boudin — and ended up blowing themselves up in Greenwich Village townhouses while playing with bombs or killing two Brinks guards in a robbery gone awry.
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