Pro-Israel protests have been raging on college campuses across the country since the attack on Gaza on October 7th, and the response by Israel has been met with a wave of counter-protest. What should the right do about it?
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00:01:20.180Protests surrounding the Hamas terror attacks on October 7th in Gaza and the subsequent response by Israel have now raged on college campuses across the country for weeks.
00:01:30.280The establishment left is nominally pro-Israel due to a legacy attachment to the nation and the need to maintain a healthy relationship with major donors.
00:01:40.080The more radical leftist vanguard has drunk deeply from the well of wokeness and made the natural connection between anti-European decolonization rhetoric and Israel,
00:01:50.960which is now identified as a white colonial oppressor.
00:01:54.640Jews have been stalwart Democratic voters for a long time and have avoided being dropped to the bottom of the party's oppression hierarchy.
00:02:04.460But the arrangement is now being called into question by other members of the coalition.
00:02:09.420The left has imported and elevated a generation of immigrants who feel no attachment to America's past relationship with Israel,
00:02:19.520and many in the vanguard come from cultures that are openly hostile to the Jewish nation.
00:02:26.000The progressive coalition has always been tenuous,
00:02:28.940and October 7th created an eruption across the most critical fault line that has manifested as an intra-leftist civil war playing out on college campuses.
00:02:38.040Now, most opposing political parties would recognize this as a gift from on high,
00:02:44.260but the Republicans have several specific hang-ups that compel them to solve this problem for their opponents.
00:02:52.560The conservative impulse to protect institutions is an admirable one.
00:02:56.940In a healthy society, institutions are the formal structures that help to enshrine a culture's values and transmit them to the next generation.
00:03:08.460and the long march through the institutions perpetrated by the left has installed a hostile ideology deep into the heart of the university system.
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00:03:49.580College campuses are not places of learning where promising young minds develop the leadership skills necessary to forge a brighter future.
00:03:58.700These institutions are progressive seminaries where students go deeply into debt to learn how to hate their parents, religion, and nation.
00:04:08.720This ideological poison is then distributed through every major corporation, piece of entertainment, and news headline as college graduates take their places as leaders and managers throughout society.
00:04:22.880Conservatives have complained for decades that public schools are hostile indoctrination centers designed to secure leftist hegemony, and they were correct.
00:04:34.100But when the pandemic hit and shut down those enemy institutions, conservatives became the most vocal proponents of reopening them.
00:04:42.180That very same dynamic is currently playing itself out on university campuses.
00:04:49.600Conservatives may complain about the education system, but they're ultimately defenders of the status quo,
00:04:57.060and would rather see these institutions continue to operate, even if they're calling for the literal destruction of the United States.
00:05:05.580Part of this response is linked to the natural and admirable conservative impulse towards order.
00:05:13.500Conservatives recoil at the idea of violence and intimidation on these campuses,
00:05:18.880and where Republican governors are in charge, they should absolutely protect the physical safety of all students.
00:05:27.360But there's also an impulse among many Republican politicians to punish public criticism of Israel,