Governments across the Western world, including in the United States, are mobilizing to shut down criticism of Israel and crush widespread protest movements that have formed in opposition to Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, where civilian casualties and land grabs are continuing to mount.
As large-scale protests at New York City’s Columbia University and other Ivy League schools continue to dominate the national news cycle and political discourse, demonstrations against Israel’s war and America’s support of it are spreading around the country and reached a fever pitch this week after Congress passed a massive foreign aid package that included billions of dollars for Israel. State and local authorities have been blasted across the political spectrum for their handling of peaceful demonstrators, especially when compared to their treatment of previous race rioters and the criminals behind America’s violent crime epidemic, as well as the millions of illegal aliens who receive white glove treatment upon their entry to the United States.
Perhaps nowhere was this contrast more noticeable than it was in Texas, where protestors and members of the press at Austin’s University of Texas were manhandled and arrested by riot gear-clad state authorities called in by Governor Greg Abbott, reportedly leading to at least 50 protest arrests.
“These protestors belong in jail,” Governor Abbott declared in a public statement announcing the deployment of state police officers to the UT-Austin.
“Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period,” he went on.
“Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.”
Watch Video Footage from Texas Below:
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Texas cops are happy to stop an anti-ZIONIST protest, but couldn’t bring themselves to stop a mass shooting at Uvalde Elementary. https://t.co/fEvifkSEo5
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) April 24, 2024
Watch More Video Footage from Texas Below:
It’s chaos now. DPS riot troopers forcefully dispersing protesters, making contact, at least one arrest pic.twitter.com/bQqRqWyzUO
— Ryan Chandler (@RyanChandlerTV) April 24, 2024
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Much like in the United States, large-scale protests are also taking place in Europe. There too, the authorities are cracking down.
Watch Video Footage from France Below:
BREAKING: SORBONNE UNIVERSITY IN FRANCE ARE PROTESTING AND THE FRENCH POLICE ARE TRYING TO SHUT IT DOWN
Students of the World are speaking up and the Zionists are using the power they have over governments to silence them. pic.twitter.com/zk8eqitXo7
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 25, 2024
While protestors opposing Israel have been labeled as left-wing extremists and Middle Eastern terrorists by much of the political and media class, the situation has become far more nuanced than that, as voters identifying as right-wingers and independents are also joining in, both in-person and online, often accusing Republican politicians of enforcing the same anti-1st Amendment “hate speech” rules they decried when pushed by Democrats.
