Pro-Palestinian Mobs Aid Those Who Seek Israel’s Destruction

As vitriolic mobs on university campuses and in downtowns around the country vociferously assault Israel and sometimes batter Jews and police officers, policy-makers and commentators attempt to justify their ideological and political goals by characterizing the mobs as purportedly anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian rather than antisemitic and pro-Hamas.

That’s not how Democratic senator John Fetterman sees it. He told Semafor that the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University could be broken down into two groups: “There’s the pro-Hamas, and then there’s the really pro-Hamas.” According to a new NBC News poll, just 34 percent of Democratic college students say Hamas deserves blame for the October 7 attack on Israel.

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As vitriolic mobs on university campuses and in downtowns around the country vociferously assault Israel and sometimes batter Jews and police officers, policy-makers and commentators attempt to justify their ideological and political goals by characterizing the mobs as purportedly anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian rather than antisemitic and pro-Hamas.

That’s not how Democratic senator John Fetterman sees it. He told Semafor that the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University could be broken down into two groups: “There’s the pro-Hamas, and then there’s the really pro-Hamas.” According to a new NBC News poll, just 34 percent of Democratic college students say Hamas deserves blame for the October 7 attack on Israel.