Pushback works.

That’s the lesson of the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses, and the reaction to them.  It’s a lesson that many of us need to take to heart.

With support from lefty foundations and NGOs, and training from professional leftists activists, pro-Hamas encampments were established at campuses all across America.  Libraries were the victim of rampages, Jewish students literally wound up hiding in attics, were assaulted, and were taunted and greeted with chants of “go back to Poland.”  “Checkpoints” manned by Hamas sympathizers barred Jewish students, or anyone who wouldn’t renounce “Zionism,” from some parts of campus.  American flags were torn down and replaced with Palestinian flags.   It looked as if the protesters had the momentum, as university administrations responded supinely.  And then, something happened.