I have said, on Twitter, more times than I could ever have counted, that if the pro-Hamas protesters really wanted to help the poor, poor people in Gaza, they should pick up a rifle and head to Gaza to fight the hated Joooos along with the people they champion. Thus far, I haven’t heard of an American actually doing that, though it’s possible that a few have done so and I missed the media stories about it. National Public Radio reported that “hundreds” of Americans, primarily veterans, have gone to Ukraine to fight the Russians, and a Google search for American volunteers fighting in Gaza turned up several credentialed media sources reporting how Americans have been heading to the Middle East to support and fight for Israel, but if there are any stories about Americans fighting for the Arabs, I’ve missed them.
Then again, just how stupid would you have to be to voluntarily choose to fight the Israel Defence Force? The IDF don’t play.
GWU law professor calls on anti-Israel students to leave ‘mommy and daddy’ paid dorm rooms, go to Gaza
Prof. Roth told students that they should consider volunteering instead of protesting on campus
by Jeffrey Clark | Monday, May 6, 2024 | 1:34 PM EDT
Melinda Roth, a professor at George Washington University Law School, called out anti-Israel students and protesters for spreading “hate” on campus.
“Instead of hanging out in your nice brand new paid from unknown sources green and white tents, why not send them to those displaced in Gaza who really need them?” Roth asked students in a public Facebook post. “After all, you have dorms and apartments that mommy and daddy are paying for right now.”
“You have catered food and an all you can eat snack bar, why not send food to those you claim are starving?” she continued, calling out students for depending on “mommy and daddy” to pay for their apartments and dorm rooms.
This part caught my eye, as I have been reading about the stories of colleges like the University of Pennsylvania have been trying to figure out how to remove the pro-Hamas encampments on their grounds without causing too much of a backlash or unsavory photos of the police hauling off kicking and screaming protesters. It seems to me that, with final exams and commencement season having arrived, the problem will soon solve itself. The students’ dorms will be closed, and if they don’t go and get their stuff, the schools will simply throw it away. Students living in off-campus apartments are seeing leases expire, and even for those whose leases don’t expire, they’re going to have to do something really radical like pay their rent. Columbia cancelled its big commencement ceremony, and some Princeton students have declared a hunger strike, saying that they will consume nothing save drinking water “until the administration meets with students to discuss their demands for disclosure, divestment and a ‘full academic and cultural boycott of Israel.'”
Yeah, these seem like ‘problems’ which will solve themselves. 🙂
I have previously noted how a completely peaceful and non-occupying pro-Hamas protest was held and everything was fine; no police called, and no other students harassed.
“Since you are skipping classes (if you are actually a student), why not go volunteer to help in Gaza?” Roth asked. “Many American Jews have gone to help in Israel on farms and kibbutzes to provide missing labor as so many Israelis have been called up to military service. If you really want to help, why don’t you go where you really could make a difference for the people you profess to be supporting?”
The professor also told students that they are “supporting rape, as your signs ‘resistance by any means necessary’ state.”Also see: Lisa Carr, “Hamas Fangirls Are Hurting The Feminist Cause“
And supporting the Islamic provisions which criminalize, up to the point of the death penalty in some places, homosexuality and advocating for women’s rights, and freedom of speech in general. If seems as though Professor Roth is a bit more educated than the Usual Suspects and their philosophy of intersectionality, which broadly and simplistically holds that every marginalized or oppressed demographic shares experiences with every other marginalized or oppressed group, leading to some sort of common cause between them, has thoroughly infected and infested liberal thinking these days.
Can they really be that stupid?
Well, yeah, apparently they can.
Professor Roth? I sure hope that she has tenure, because after what she wrote, the Usual Suspects will be coming after her, demanding that she be fired.
