A prominent Arab peace activist tears apart the ignorant, “privileged” college students who are causing hell across America in the name of the pro-Palestinian movement, saying they support the real authoritarian “oppressors” He claimed that
“In the West, you are privileged. You can make demands without understanding,” enraged Rawan Osman, who fled his native Syria during the 2011 unrest. This week’s Instagram video.
Osman claimed that the thousands of students across the country who blindly followed Columbia University’s lead and built their own mini-tent cities were supporting Hamas without understanding what the terrorist organization stood for.
What began as a relatively peaceful trend advocating a “free Palestine” escalated this week when protesters stormed the Ivy League’s academic building, making hundreds of arrests.
Osman, the founder of Arabs Ask, a platform aimed at dispelling anti-Semitic stereotypes, said in an interview in January that he had gone from being a “Hezbollah admirer who hated Jews” to an “Arab Zionist.” ” revealed that it has evolved into
In 2022, she was part of a “groundbreaking” Muslim-Israeli delegation to Auschwitz.
Holding up a prominent yellow pin in solidarity with the Israeli hostages, Osman emphasized that Hamas was an agent of the Iranian regime that drove him from his homeland when he was just a teenager.
She recalled that life was “hell” under the rule of Iran and its neighboring allies, and accused Osman of “Iranian proxies like Hamas that you are defending on the streets of the West.” did.
“Have you ever wondered why there are no large-scale pro-Palestinian protests in the Middle East?” Othman said solemnly, adding that he thought university students were “privileged.”
Osman, who was praised for her “courage” on social media, said: “Where I come from, we don’t make demands. If we can find a way to feed our children, pay our rent and buy our medicine, we will… We would be grateful if we were not arrested, tortured, or raped.”
She ended her video rant with a scathing warning to those who claim to care about the oppressed.
“All of us, Gazans included, need to know that you are supporting and betraying your oppressors.”
The video was posted five days before New York City police stormed Columbia University and the City University of New York, detained 282 protesters and cleared the encampment.
Columbia University students built their first tent city on campus about two weeks ago to demand the school’s withdrawal from Israel and full amnesty for those arrested and suspended in the camp.
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The encampment was cleared the next day, but protesters returned within 24 hours, igniting a trend seen across the country at elite institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Southern California.
The peaceful demonstration quickly escalated late Tuesday night, when dozens of protesters, identified by the NYPD as “professional outside agitators,” invaded Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves in school furniture. Ta.
Hundreds of people were arrested at the City University of New York, including several who were caught scuffling with police officers and hitting them in the head with water jugs.
The Ivy League succeeded in quashing the movement on its own campuses, but it only inspired other universities to step up their own demonstrations.
Fordham University students set up an anti-Israel tent encampment Wednesday, saying they were motivated by the arrests of hundreds of protesters on the campuses of Columbia University and the City University of New York.
