Posted on 11/01/2025 7:20:33 AM PDT by Libloather
The chancellor of Syracuse University revealed his belief that pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests were encouraged and potentially orchestrated by Iran while speaking on a panel this week in Washington, D.C.
Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke on a panel Tuesday alongside the chancellors from Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis and described the protest activity that took place on his college campus as well as other universities across the country.
"When things happened that I really believe were encouraged from Iran," Syverud explained to the audience. "[The protests] did not have the involvement of very many, if any, of our own students."
Syracuse’s top official also discussed the difficulty of holding individuals, including students, accountable because of the use of face masks or coverings intentionally used to shield identity.
"People were using masks to avoid accountability for what they were saying and doing," Syverud added, noting that people in masks could have been "activists from elsewhere."
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier of Vanderbilt, in Nashville, also pointed out clear coordination and the "playbook" for protests were backed by "organized networks" that could have motivated or directed students and agitators to demonstrate and disrupt campus.
"[Students] were looking at [and] were using the playbook that they had seen at Columbia and other places, and it was the same messaging. It’s more than social contagion," Diermeier explained. "I think there are organized networks as well. And for sure we saw that."
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the demonstrations were most all very well (and uniformly) organized (with the same pre=prepared signs, banners, chants, yells, loudspeaking equipment, uniforms/masks, catered foods, etc....) all prepped in advance, NOT spontaneous as claimed
useful idiots and I’d say probably mostly or largely paid by the same known sources, too
I’m sure they were encouraged from Iran. Worse, they were encouraged from left-wing media outlets (see Tagline) and left-wing college professors.
Matlock has joined the chat 💬💬💬...
Well Doh!.
Of course they were paid protests and by Iranian scum, soros a scum bag, the demoRATS via usaid scum suckers...
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