Most Anti-Palestine Counter-Protesters are Outsider Zionist Rabble-Rousers

Many Jewish students are taking part in peaceful pro-Palestine protests across U.S. colleges and universities, making all the accusations of the protests being anti-semitic hollow and fabricated to discredit the protests. Some joined the encampments, celebrating Passover among the tents with fellow protesters.

At many of these pro-Palestine protests, counter-protesters are often seen hoisting Israeli flags and banners calling for a Zionist state "From the River to the Sea" as is enshrined in the Likud Party's Charter. A majority of these counter-protesters are not affiliated with the universities, but are dispatched by Zionist agencies as outside rabble-rousers with the specific objective of destroying the encampments and preventing the pro-Palestine tsunami from expanding. When interviewed, these people say without hesitation that they hope Israel would complete the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that began in 1948 by massacring and expelling all the indigenous Palestinians out of their ancestral lands. Their objective is to establish a Jewish-only supremacist state over historic Palestine.

The pro-Palestinian encampments around the country have been largely peaceful, though there have been some clashes. Administrators and campus police at UCLA faced intense criticism Wednesday for failing to act quickly to stop an attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus by racist Zionist counter-demonstrators who converged from outside the campus and threw traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray and tore down barriers. Some pro-Palestinian demonstrators fought back, and skirmishes continued for hours before outside law enforcement agencies were called to intervene.

Vowing to stamp out Hamas, Israel has waged a brutal murderous campaign against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians along the way, according to the Health Ministry there. Israel has also seized the opportunity to conduct raids, assassinations, home demolitions and infrastructure destruction across the West Bank.

Protests in support of Israel or the Palestinians have bubbled up across the U.S. ever since Oct. 7. But the major wave of pro-Palestinian rallies on campuses kicked off two weeks ago, after more than 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia University in New York. They have demanded that colleges stop doing business with Israel and with companies tied to it.

Jewish Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are divided on whether Israel’s post-Oct. 7 military campaign has been acceptable, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in February.  Most ordinary American Jews are decent citizens and do not condone the Zionist violence and land theft against Palestine. To them, Israel cannot be their homeland; that is why they never emigrated there and preferred to remain as decent American citizens. They see Israel as a hellhole of ultra-religious barbarity, both Jewish and Muslim. Still, some do send their children to Israel for summer camp or even go there themselves as tourists.

Inside the Northwestern University protest encampment, the Jewish student Paz Baum held a Passover seder among the tents with the other pro-Palestinian protesters. She said her real Jewish religious values compelled her to protest over the war in Gaza. “I see a direct parallel between the experiences of my Jewish ancestors and the experience of the tens of thousands of Palestinians being slaughtered,” said Baum, whose great-grandparents fled pogroms in eastern Europe.

Baum also said the only antisemitism she witnessed was from several Zionist counter-protesters, mostly older adults who are neither students nor faculty and who confronted the encampment on Sunday.

As Baum held a sign reading “Jews for a cease-fire,” she said they lobbed antisemitic slurs at her. Other pro-Palestinian protesters have said accusations of antisemitism are bandied about merely to discredit their movement. The encampment at Northwestern reached an agreement with the university on Monday and cleared out.