The United States is exceptional but no exception

When a horde of masked protesters wearing keffiyehs barge into a school library brandishing anti-Israel signs with “Genocide” and Apartheid” scrawled on them, while shouting “Free Palestine” that is not protected speech, it is intimidation. When Jewish students are blocked from entering lecture halls accompanied by cries of “From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free,” that is not protected speech, it is intimidation. When posters are hoisted by hooligans, emblazoned with the words “Hitler Was Right,” that is not protected speech, it is intimidation. Mugging Jewish students, vandalizing Jewish premises, occupying university buildings, and assaulting public safety officers is not protected speech, it is criminal behavior, the consequences of which should be severe.

It is no coincidence that when a country allows billions of dollars of Qatari, Saudi and other bad actors’ funds to flow into university coffers, accompanied by an influx of Muslim and Arab student activists, the incidences of anti-Israel, and antisemitic rhetoric and violence escalate dramatically. And it should come as no surprise that the United States, although exceptional is no exception, as evidenced by innocent college students subjected to physical and mental abuse by packs of predatory campus brutes.

Well-funded and organized gangs of masked campus and street goons threaten the very protections our Constitution intended to guarantee. Campus academia agitators and student activists are weaponizing our Constitutional protections and using them against us, thereby threatening the safety and security of the citizenry they aimed to protect. Our exceptionalism is being threatened by those who would make dhimmis of us, so that we are no longer the exception but rather become like the hapless countries of Europe whose dystopian future is menacingly in plain sight. Americans of all religions and creeds, must stem the surging tide of hatred aimed against the United States, Israel and the Jewish people if we are to retain our identity, dignity and yes, exceptionalism.