Who Do You Stand With?

By: Chris Johnson

As Israel continues to seek to secure the release of elderly, ill, and female hostages taken by Hamas in their bloody terrorist attack on October 7^th last year, pro-Palestinian, Hamas-backed protestors continue to overrun college campuses here in the United States.

Columbia University, UCLA, University of Florida, Indiana University, University of Washington, Emory University – these are just a few of the institutions besieged by keffiyeh wrapped protestors chanting slogans decrying the Israeli reaction to the terrorism which resulted in 240 civilian Israeli hostages being taken, alongside the deaths of 1,160 Israelis.

Offering a temporary cease-fire and the mass release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, Israel is asking for the release of 33 of their own citizens, prioritizing elderly, ill, and female hostages. While Israeli intelligence estimates that 130 Israelis are still captive in Palestine, a previous prisoner exchange offer asking for 40 such hostages was turned down because Hamas didn’t have that many hostages which met those criteria. Officials had estimated that 30 of the Israeli’s had died in Hamas’ custody, but this response triggered concern that perhaps even more had been killed.

Meanwhile, radical leftists camp on the lawns of slightly less radically left institutions, yelling at people going about their business about Israel’s counteroffensive. Increasingly, however, there is more being done than just yelling. Video was shared yesterday of a female protester at UCLA attempting to taser a pro-Israel counter protestor.

Another showed a group of young people with heads wrapped in keffiyeh denying entrance to the library at UCLA. A voice emits from the masked face: “Are you a Zionist? We don’t let Zionists in,” it says.

To top it all however, protesters broke into and occupied the Columbia University Dean’s Office, Monday night, in spite of the heroic efforts of several students. One of those students holding the doors against the mob in hopes that the police would show up to stop the destruction was the grandson of one of Tucker Carlson’s most recent guests, Pastor Douglas Wilson, by the way.

Nevertheless, protestors broke the glass on a locked door, as captured on video reminiscent of the one ending in Ashley Babbitt’s shooting on January 6, and the protestors stormed in and barricaded the building against police, holding three janitors against their will in the meantime.

Finally, last evening New York police were given the green light to enter Columbia and take action against protestors. New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman tweeted this in response: “These are students. In no world should our kids be met with guns when using their constitutional right to peacefully assemble.” Again, the contrast with January 6 protestors who are accused of insurrection for walking in the open doors of the capitol building is too stark not to notice. Likewise, comparisons to the handling of Black Lives Matters protests in 2020, which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to communities around the country, stand out. Where police have been allowed to shut down these protests, their actions have been unequivocal: tents torn down and discarded, uncompliant protestors picked up and carried off, even pouting, incredulous professors arrested without mercy.  Protests can be shut down, if they impact the left’s allies.

Along with destructive pouting of the protestors though, have come stories which grant flashes of sanity and American pride. There’re the boys who held the doors of Columbia’s dean’s office, while awaiting police, but there’s also the inspirational instincts of some fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. They observed protestors seeking to tear down an American flag to replace it with a Palestinian flag and rushed over to hold up the flag before it touched it the ground and stood there defending it as water bottles, rocks, and sticks were thrown at them.

“I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict but it upset me that my country’s flag was disrespected in order to advocate for another,” one of these young men said.

These frat boys have had more courage than President Biden. As the left destroys their own institutions around the country in the name of Palestine, he has remained silent. It’s not hard to understand why he’s been so hesitant to speak out against the chaos on campus.

It’s because these protestors are his base. The students chanting antisemitic slogans that would make an SS officer blush are the students whose votes Biden plans to buy in the coming election with his promises for student loan forgiveness. He can’t afford to tick them off by condemning their temper tantrums!

To quote that frat brother, one doesn’t need to be “fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict” to pause and think: whose side do I want to be on here?

Who do you stand with, the Biden voters barricading themselves in the Dean’s office and replacing the American flag with the Palestinian flag?  Or the young men standing against this chaos, disrespect, and destruction?

Let us stand firm in seeking the Kingdom of God in all that we think and do, taking care that we are not sucked into misleading narratives that will permeate our airwaves and body politic.  May Christ reign and may we have the courage to do right, vote right, love justice and seek mercy as God leads us day by day.

 

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