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Protests have sprouted up across America and around the world as the death toll in Gaza continues to climb. Most U.S. protests are peaceful, expressing empathy for Palestinian civilians and supporting calls for a cease-fire. Some journalists, however, have observed antisemitic rhetoric and behavior inside of protest encampments, alarming universities, politicians, and non-profit watchdog groups.
Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich reviews these developments and concludes that the most radical protesters must not have studied this conflict in much detail. Gingrich accuses some U.S. protesters of being pro-Hamas, and then asks whether or not those protesters even understand what Hamas is or how it intends to accomplish its goals.
And the demonstrators were moving back into that kind of an environment. And we were reminded by this sad video that there are real human beings being held captive against their will, being used as hostages by a terrorist organization, who has a very simple goal: Not a single Jew will remain. That’s the official position of Hamas, that all of Israel will be wiped out. And that in fact, that everybody will be forced either to go back to Europe or America, or just killed.
And I think we have to confront how evil Hamas is, how it proves how evil it is by its actions. And we have to ask for these students: Don’t you feel some embarrassment, campaigning, saying ‘I am Hamas’? Do you have any idea? Have you studied anything? [Do] you know anything about this period? I think this is a very important turning point for America. And the decisions [in] the next few weeks are going to be very, very important.
