Radicals bringing violence to campuses and justifying it with claims of caring for the Palestinians does nothing, and radicals’ deep-seated desire for death for Israel and death for America does nothing. Are you frustrated with your university president even though it seems so?
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Congress is doing better than that. After the National Park Service granted permits to extremists who used protest permits this summer. burn the american flag and damage federal property; At Union Station in Washington, members of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Park Service, immediately launched a counterattack.
On that very day, several commissioners rushed to the scene as the American flag was torn down, burned, and replaced with a Palestinian flag. with the american flagyou can pull it up again. And at last week’s committee was held hearing This is to hold the Parks Department accountable.
they are kind invited myself testify About the extremist groups involved. At the outset, I argued that freedom of speech is precious. It is both a symbol of the free nation and an instrument of American self-government. However, as we often hear from extremists, speech is not violence, and violence is not speech. make such a claim.
Many of the extremists have ties to groups supporting insurgencies in the Middle East and the United States, and they glorify violence, teach methods of violence, and justify violence. They are attacking the very possibility of free government. Free government requires that citizens and government officials be able to speak and debate freely in seeking to achieve desired policies through rational debate rather than by forcefully coercing those with whom they disagree. be.
But the kind of extremists the Natural Resources Committee is investigating despise free governments and democracies like those of the United States and Israel. Instead, they love autocracies that rule by violence, like Mao Zedong’s Communist China, Muslim Iranian theocracy, and Lenin’s Soviet Union. Mao Zedong explained the essence of this ideology as follows:Political power comes from the muzzle of a gun. ”
Without violence, how can these extremists achieve the dreams they graffitied on the Columbus Circle monument? Burn” and “Israel is autumn” Or, to put their graffiti slogan another way: “Hamas is coming” This means that these extremists want Americans to suffer the bloody violence that Hamas is perpetrating against Israelis.
i testified The United States also reported to the same committee in April that it was facing a decline in extremist groups. Take, for example, radical environmental activists like Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. friends and family in Pueblo Action Alliancea group that took part in a protest at the Ministry of Interior, which resulted in dozens of people being arrested and detained. Police officer heading to the hospital. These environmental activists also supports radical palestinian activistpeople who flip and support other extremist groups ostensibly dedicated to things like climate change activism and anti-police activism.
In the minds of radicals, all specific causes are part of a single cause: the revolt of the oppressed against the oppressor. As an American radical in the 1960s put it down“A problem is never a problem. A problem is always a revolution.”
Similarly, protesters July of this year chanted“There is only one solution: an intifada revolution.” But supporting the intifada is the same as supporting violence. During Israel’s last intifada, any efforts to persuade others through rational speech or peaceful protests were unsuccessful. As a result, thousands of Palestinians and Israelis died.
Among the more than 250 supporters of the July riots in Washington, D.C., my colleague Ryan Mauro identified 90 extremist groups that openly support Hamas terrorism or call themselves Marxist, communist, or anarchist revolutionaries.
Mauro observed that answerleader of the July protests, “signed Declaration of the Anti-Imperialist Committee in Solidarity with Iran. It supports direct Iranian attacks on Israel and explicitly sides with the Iranian-led “Axis of Resistance,” which is made up of the Syrian government and Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organizations, including Hamas. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Yemen-based Houthis, and the Iranian-backed paramilitary forces in Iraq that are trying to kill the United States. ”
I emphasized to the Natural Resources Committee that not all critics of American and Israeli policies have succumbed to a nihilistic desire for violence and oppression, and I emphasized that not all critics of American and Israeli policies have succumbed to a nihilistic desire for violence and oppression, and that argument is perfectly legal in our free country. But the National Park Service and congressional committees responsible for overseeing protests in the nation’s capital must continue to investigate what went so badly in July and decide how to prevent similar outrages in the future. There is.
Mr. Scott Walter Capital Research Center.
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