“Other people are enjoying better results and notoriety by waving Palestinian flags than we are.”
New York, June 15 – Student, faculty, and outside agitator activists at Columbia and Harvard Universities, among others, expressed concerns today that their look-at-me provocations ostensibly on behalf of Palestine have suffered as the media have focused on West Coast unrest related to enforcement of immigration laws.
Members of Students for Justice in Palestine and allied groups voiced their frustration over the last several days that the momentum of media attention has shifted away from them and thus away from any future they might have as prominent influencers, because riots in Los Angeles by activists opposed to the removal of people who illegally entered or remain in the US have captured the vast majority of that attention.
SJP Columbia Chapter president Anne Tissemit acknowledged the complexity of challenging the trend. “We’ve allied ourselves with all the organizations and activists making all that noise in LA,” he conceded. “It’s imprudent and career suicide to say or do anything to suggest that’s not where the resources should be going right now. Like, read the burning room. That’s why it’s so frustrating. Our future as speakers, commentators, podcasters, whatever, that’s all going down the drain because we can’t put ourselves at center stage while claiming it’s all about Palestine if center stage is on the other side of the country.”
University of Pennsylvania Jewish Voice for Peace activist Hassan Abdul Razek elaborated. “Palestine long ago ceased to be a cause on its own merits,” he explained. “Palestinians themselves are probably the only ones who are actually fighting in any way for ‘Palestine.’ Every other supporter of the cause is either using it as a virtue-signaling fig leaf for other ambitions – the Ayatollahs come to mind – or trying to harness their pet cause to Palestine, which they think will pull it along. But they fundamentally misunderstand that you can’t ally yourself with ‘Palestine’ and emerge without it taking you over and destroying your efforts, somehow not advancing the cause of Palestine an iota either.”
“Our problem now is that other people are enjoying better results and notoriety by waving Palestinian flags than we are,” he continued. “It’s doubly disappointing because we campus activists had the focus on us for so long. We must have gotten complacent. That’s always the way it is with Palestine activism. We pro-Palestinians put airplane-hijacking on the map, but then others make it more deadly and more dramatic. Suicide bombings were our thing, our trademark, until it started being an everyday thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“Looks like we’ll have to perpetrate some atrocity right here to get the attention back,” he reasoned.
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