Anti-Israel college students want to spew hate with ‘amnesty’

Hundreds of pro-Hamas college demonstrators are about to learn a valuable life lesson: Sometimes there are consequences for your actions.A number and faculty members, upset that hundreds of college activists have been arrested and suspended, are demanding amnesty for students and colleagues.

They’re concerned that suspensions and legal charges might hinder the futures of students by following them into adulthood.We can only hope! If you want to harass Jewish students, violate campus rules, ignore warnings, break the law, vandalize public property, deny other students the right to learn and act like a bunch of idiots, welcome to the repercussions.Maryam Alwan, a “comparative literature and society major” at Barnard who was arrested at a protest, suspended, kicked out of classes and banned from dining halls, says it all “feels very dystopian.”

Now, granted, I’m not sure what they teach in “society” classes, but it is unsurprising that so many of self-absorbed ignoramuses who wear keffiyehs, fly Hezbollah flags and prattle on about imaginary “genocides” struggle to comprehend the basics of a civil society.

Dystopia is a place where people intimidate peaceful neighbors, ignore the rights of others and dispense with decency in the name of ideology.

Dystopia is a Hamas-run Gaza.Here, you don’t get a pass for being passionate about the newest memetic socialist cause.Then again, most of these students probably need remedial civics classes. They seem to be under the impression that free speech means schools have a responsibility to host them and help disseminate anti-American messages.And, though the media has done it’s best to whitewash the ugliness of the protests, most of these demonstrations feature objectively antisemitic messages. Encampments are meant to intimidate fellow students and the administration.

Most of them are also closed off to pro-Israel counter-protesters. “Pro-Palestine” marches are as pro “free speech” as they are anti war. Which is to say, not at all.