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Pro-Hamas protests have escalated across college campuses in the United States; at UT at Austin 100s of state troopers immediately descend, make dozens of arrests
2024-04-25
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

…in support of the Palestinian cause.

American security forces now confront protestors.

As usual, Netanyahu likened US campus encampments by ‘antisemitic mobs’ to 1930s "Nazi Germany".

Courtesy of Skidmark:
Don't mess with Texas! Troopers in helmets swoop on Palestine protesters as anti-Israel contagion rips across the US from Columbia to Harvard - and now the South
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Police arrested four protesters after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse

  • The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter

  • It comes as standoffs with cops kicked off at universities across the country on another day of mayhem in US

Hundreds of troopers have marched on the University of Texas at Austin before scuffling with pro-Palestine protesters as demonstrations kicked off at campuses across the country.

Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed - after warning them they could face criminal charges if they did not disperse.

The rally at the Austin campus was organized by the university's Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSJ) chapter and quickly descended into anarchy.

The group said it was inspired by their 'comrades' at Yale and Columbia University, where in-person classes have been canceled due to the unrest sparked by 'encampments for Gaza.'

It comes as pro-Gaza groups took to universities across the US and clashed with police and Jewish counter-protesters, with furious demonstrators spotted at USC, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Brown and NYU.

Courtesy of Elmaper+McGurque1612, the NY Post has even more on the UT at Austin Texas state troopers action, including more photos and video.
And in a post-midnight update from UPI:
Dozens of demonstrators participating in pro-Paleostine protests at university campuses throughout the country were arrested Wednesday evening, as schools struggle to contain growing anger over the Israel-Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
 war.

At least 34 arrests were made as of 9 p.m. local time at the University of Texas, Austin campus, while an unconfirmed number of arrests were made during a protest at the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in Los Angeles.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the arrests were made at the request for assistance by UT and at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
, stating it was to prevent unlawful assembly and in support of UT police in maintain the pace.

"These protesters belong in jail," Abbott said on X. "Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining the hate-filled, anti-Semitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."
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Palestine Solidarity Committee: 2023-10-19 Harvard students hold 'die-in' and massive protests in SUPPORT of Palestine just 12 days after letter sparked outrage
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Palestine Solidarity Committee: 2023-10-13 Harvard Student Leaves Lecture On Microaggressions To Attend ‘Kill The Jews' Rally
Posted by:Fred

#26  2 phrases keep coming to mind,

what they need is a whiff of the grape; and
Arm the Jews.
Posted by: alanc   2024-04-25 16:17  

#25  Practice Protesting for the Democratic convention
Posted by: Airandee   2024-04-25 13:19  

#24  They are trained to do either crocodile tears or yell that they can't breathe.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-04-25 12:21  

#23  Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed...

The kids are out there having a grand time LARPing, protesting Western Civilization and the Patriarchy, working on their Daddy issues.
It's all fun and games until reality punches you in the face. Waaah 'effing waaah!
Posted by: SteveS   2024-04-25 11:55  

#22  What the hell is going on in this video?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-04-25 11:41  

#21  Most of them have no idea why they are protesting.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues   2024-04-25 11:25  

#20  #18 The need to track is greatly mitigated by the fact the Fed is involved in coordination and funding. Yes, Andy would discover many an interesting detail. If I were him, I'd start with the 2018 collusion of Fed and State Govt/LE to prop up Antifa that was on standby to get crushed by the Proud Boys.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-04-25 10:02  

#19  Police arrested at least four activists - who burst out in tears when they were handcuffed...

Did someone's feelings get hurt? Bwaaaahahaha!
Posted by: Raj   2024-04-25 09:24  

#18   Occupy Wallstreet

All Black Block anarcho-communist syndicalists together, M. They change organization names to match the current hot buttons— which Hamas is, just now — but the cadres, the core purpose, and the methods are unchanged. Were I the FBI, etc, I’d track personnel webs, joint office locations, funding webs. The DoD had a program they used in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purpose — was it called Paragon?

Andy Ngo would discover interesting things, I’m sure, were he to apply it to the names h’s collected since he started causing problems for Portland.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-25 09:14  

#17  This summer's version of the Occupy Wallstreet movement.

Remember that?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-04-25 09:04  

#16  Moment Household Cavalry horses appear spooked

When is someone going to take a stun gun to a crowd control horse?
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-04-25 08:42  

#15  Agreed TW.
The media always seems to find their useful fools.
Posted by: Xyz   2024-04-25 08:16  

#14  The ones willing to claim that are pushed in front of the cameras, Xy, just as at other times females or persons of colour are the public face.

I suspect many claiming to be “a Jew, but…” are like my niece: a Jewish father who died when she was in preschool, reared with no contact with the Jewish side of the family or any Jews at all where she grew up, and the only contact she had with Jews in college were the “a Jew, but” she met in her women’s studies classes and protests.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-25 08:07  

#13  The interview of protesters I see frequently begin with, “I’m a Jew but....”
Posted by: Xyz   2024-04-25 07:47  

#12  Great comments, per usual. Thanks much.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-25 07:33  

#11  the expression is very much cultural.

You can train a circus animal to wear clothing and walk on hind feet. But, I doubt it's very happy.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-25 07:18  

#10  Lots of variation within as well as between the s3xes in Homo sap, Grom, and anyway the expression is very much cultural.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-25 07:09  

#9  Gender roles are genetic - not cultural!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-25 06:52  

#8  A perverted femininity display: competing to show how much they care.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-25 06:33  

#7  
#5 I see a lot of young female protestors in these videos and on teevee. Can someone explain this phenomena? Is there a medical issue? Are medications driving this madness? Is there a frustration or defiance with the natural order of nature concerning motherhood, purpose, happiness ?

Beso,

Funny you should mention that - I've seen the same thought pop up a lot over the last week or so. One writer said that just based on what he was seeing at Columbia, the ratio was 4 or 5 women to 1 male.

And that has brought out a quote from some British fella named Orwell:

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-04-25 06:24  

#6  The DA there won't do anything though, so unless it's state level prosecutors, expect all the arrests to be the peak of the response, with no real consequence.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2024-04-25 05:47  

#5  I see a lot of young female protestors in these videos and on teevee. Can someone explain this phenomena? Is there a medical issue? Are medications driving this madness? Is there a frustration or defiance with the natural order of nature concerning motherhood, purpose, happiness ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-25 03:46  

#4  
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-25 03:15  

#3  I have a message for the protesters: being knocked down by a cop is the closest you are come by to getting laid.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-25 02:40  

#2  The state troopers even arrested a media person.
Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543   2024-04-25 00:18  

#1  Cops detain pro-Palestine protester at USC - only to release him
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-04-25 00:11  

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