Rant #3,337: Helter Skelter

I have spoken at great length about what is going on at campuses around the country regarding completely anti-Semitic protests related to the Israel-Hamas War.

These thugs have every right to protest, but their protests--and the encampments that have sprung up on many of the campuses--are reaching levels of harassment, with their very presence upsetting university policies and procedures to a very high level.

Hundreds have been arrested, and the schools sit on their hands basically doing nothing--or at least not enough--to stop this insubordination.

Beyond the fact that we all know why these schools aren't doing too much to rid themselves of these nuisances, the horrid behavior demonstrated by these supposed "students" has stretched beyond the school zone and is creeping into non-school settings, setting up innocent people and putting them in awkward situations due to the harassment.

The latest incident related to these protests involves actor Alec Baldwin, who was verbally assaulted by someone who called herself a "performance artist" named "Crackhead Barney and Friends."

The beleaguered actor was in a coffee shop nearby New York University paying for what he purchased when the harasser stalked him out and constantly demanded that he say "Free Palestine" while he was recorded on a cellphone.

He tried to ignore the person, and wherever he tried to go, the thug followed, shouting increasingly vulgar and anti-Semitic epithets at him while still pleading that he say "Free Palestine" while recording him.

He again tried to get away from this person, but the harasser persisted.

Both were asked to leave the coffee shop, but the thug blocked his way, continuing the demand.

The harrasser even brought up the incident in the "Rust" movie set involving the actor, saying that not confessing to murder was sending innocent people to jail.

Baldwin had finally had enough, and after the phone was again shoved into his face and the demand continued unabated, he then knocked the phone to the ground.

The harrasser told police that she had been assaulted by the actor, and both the thug and the actor refused to press charges against each other.

There is a video going around of this incident, and while I won't provide you with the link, it has been viewed more than 3 million times.

Yes, this is what it has come to, thugs walking around with complete entitlement, that they can attack innocent people with their anti-Semitic views without impunity.

The schools do little to nothing about what is happening on their campuses, while in the same breath, stating that their schools are "safe" areas for learning.

And these protests, these encampments, and the harassment of Jewish students, and professors, continues, without end in sight.

I mean, what can anyone expect from college administrators, whose brethren have actually testified before Congress that the calling for the genocide of the Jewish people has to be taken in context before it can be considered hate speech and prohibited by respective campuses.

This is where we are at now, and it is a very uncomfortable position to be in.

Even if the protesters had a legitimate beef--which I don't believe they do, as they have absolutely no understanding of the situation they are so riled up about--it is being lost in the quicksand of their anti-social and anti-Semitic behavior.

And i am sure Baldwin has better things to do then to get rocked up by some thug who finds this all so amusing.

These encampments must be removed immediately, any student willfully partipating in this harassment should not be suspended, but expelled, and schools should be held to a full level of responsibility for the continuance of this type of behavior on their campuses.

But this nonsense will go on, and on, and on, because the schools won't do anything about it.

The longer they go without doing anything, the shorter leash they will have, and their complicitness becomes even more obvious.

And finally, where are our prominent Jewish and non-Jewish citizens in coming out against this type of anti-Semitic behavior?

Nowhere to be found.

And those sounds of silence are getting louder each and every day.