Kenneth L. Marcus
Fox News, June 8, 2025
“These aren’t doe-eyed kids with signs calling for a more loving and peaceful world. These protestors are part of an expansive terrorist network taking advantage of those same doe-eyed students, using them to stoke violence and create chaos.”
For decades, “Globalize the Intifada” chants have rung throughout Europe and the Middle East, a blatant and unmistakable call for violence and terrorism against Israelis and Jews. But over the past two years, those chants have only intensified and multiplied, now making their way west to our United States. What started with campus protests has now turned to vigilante violence.
This week in Boulder, Colorado, a man yelling “free Palestine” threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful protestors hosting an event to bring home the Israeli hostages, setting them ablaze. Two young staff members of the Israeli Embassy were murdered outside the Jewish museum, after which the shooter said, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home was set on fire with his family inside because of “what [Shapiro] wants to do to the Palestinian people,” given that he’s Jewish.
These are not isolated incidents. They are all organized and linked to one group: Hamas. The same terrorist ideology behind these attacks was on display on college campuses over the past two years in the form of violent anti-Israel and anti-Semitic encampments. Let’s be clear, these are not the protests of the 1960s. Contrary to what the media may have reported, these were not student-driven “protests” at all. New lawsuits, filed by my organization, expose how the violent takeover of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall and the weeks-long encampments at UCLA were part of an organized, choreographed effort by career professionals to carry out Hamas’ plans of violence, terror, and the eradication of Jews and Israelis.
At UCLA, a rabbi, a doctor, and a law student sued National Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups over encampments that were manned with a sword and “human phalanxes.” Designated teams of security personnel surrounded the area armed with wooden planks, makeshift shields, pepper spray and tasers. Members of the groups involved in the lawsuit coordinated via social media and Google Docs ways in which to plan, fund, execute, and reinforce the encampment. And just a few days after the first encampment was dispersed by police, more than 40 protesters were found with metal pipes, bolt cutters, chains and padlocks, and manuals for “occupying” campus buildings…..SOURCE