There was a planned nationwide day of action for the destruction of the Jewish homeland on April 15 where professional activists blocked highways and airports across America, including SeaTac here in Seattle, causing hundreds of people to miss their flights. This was all still in the news and all over social media on April 16 as you had the predictable day of condemnation and/or defense opinion pieces and plenty of coverage of the police arresting protesters and then protesters being let out of jail by progressive DAs and celebrating.
Then on April 17 Columbia's president testified before Congress on anti-semitism at Columbia and what she was doing to prevent it.
The combination of these two events was what apparently led student activists to create their little protest encampment on the Columbia student commons, because it was a perfect opportunity to get maximum media attention.
The media attention led to a lot of copycats at other universities.
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”
The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.
A RICO investigation and subsequent prosecutions are appropriate, given the damage, disruption, and diminishment of safety for Jewish students on campus that has occurred. These demonstrations were planned, funded, and had the desired effects of their funders. And let's ensure that those who committed felonies during the demonstrations end up with felony criminal records.
