For the past several years, the academic left has been all over the media announcing to the world that words can be violent, free speech has limits and hate speech is violence. Since October 7th-when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli civilians, millions of people around the globe have protested in support of the Palestinians. Rather than proportionately saving their money to buy airplanes with laser-guided bombs so that they could avoid civilian deaths (like the Israelis do), the terrorists sought out civilians, captured them, tortured them, executed them, dismembered bodies, and kidnapped hundreds. This lack of proportional military action didn’t bother the Palestinian people or their supporters. They’ve been on the streets of major cities ever since. Even here in the United States, many of these protesters have attacked people walking on the street or driving their cars. There are several videos of college Jews being trapped in a library by an angry mob of terrorist supporters. Others are attacked for walking on campus.

Why do we permit this? There are zero differences between an Al Queda terrorist, an ISIS terrorist, or a Hamas terrorist. In fact, given the thousands of suicide bombings done by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, they likely have the highest body count, and the highest number of atrocities. Would the NYC police let thousands of Al Queda supporters march down the street calling for the extinction of all Jews? Would the Portland or Seattle police let hundreds of ISIS supporters close streets, attack people in cars, and go on vandalism violence (CNN refers to these tactics as “Mostly peaceful protests.”)? Of course, Al Queda and ISIS supporters can’t run free, but Hamas supporters who openly call for violence, for extermination, and who are at best “mostly peaceful”…these people we allow to run the streets?