Activist Groups Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests

The Wall Steet Journal ^ | May 3, 2024 | Tawnell D. Hobbs

[KingofZion]

The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.

At Columbia University, in the weeks and months before police took down encampments at the New York City campus and removed demonstrators occupying an academic building, student organizers began consulting with groups such as the National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers.

They researched past protests over Columbia’s expansion into Harlem, went to a community meeting on gentrification and development and studied parallels with the fight over land between Palestinians and Israelis. They attended a “teach-in” put on by several former Black Panthers...

The National Students for Justice in Palestine ....posted drawings with “friendly advice” to protesting students. One suggested they wear comfortable clothes and running shoes and bring water, an energy bar and a bandanna in case of surveillance. Another referred to police as “pigs” and offered this advice: “If someone is arrested, don’t linger too long or pigs will kettle the march,” referring to a crowd-control tactic. “Free the comrade, or else get their name and birthdate for jail support and keep it moving.”

***In March, there was a “Resistance 101” training scheduled at Columbia with guest speakers including longtime activists with Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based group that celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. The administration twice barred the event, citing some of the organizers’ known support of terrorism and promotion of violence. Columbia students hosted the event virtually nonetheless, which prompted Columbia President Minouche Shafik to suspend several of them....

[Saintgermain]

Unfortunately you may be right; too bad this country has sunk this low!

[frank ballenger]

RE: How much training?........

They needed time in safe spaces with a puppy after working so hard to learn to be a destructive rioter. Mindfulness trainer advised them to keep track of their feelings in their gratitude journals.
Exhausted.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

VIDEOS

1. UNC Chapel Hill Students SING NATIONAL ANTHEM While PROTECTING American Flag From WOKE PROTESTORS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaneBtIt6S8

2. Students Sing US National Anthem to Pro-Palestine Protesters at Rutgers University;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBg3o1znadc

3. University of Mississippi
https://www.facebook.com/reel/461074923117076

4. Fraternity Brothers Sing National Anthem Outside Pro-Palestine Encampment at Rutgers
BG On The Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0RZdRMZxc

5. GoFundMe raises $290,000+ for UNC students who protected American flag during protests
CBS 17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-aQPTa3mMY

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

6. UNC Interim chancellor: ‘This university does not belong to a small group of protesters’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7BIw9khR8

7. UNC fraternities join to sing, chant for USA during pro-Palestinian protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_v-qqKxrE

8. WATCH: Police Respond To Pro-Palestinian Protesters At University of Michigan’s Commencement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHIsK4atnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHIsK4atnE