A political commentator faced white stares from anti-Israel demonstrators at the University of California, Los Angeles when he asked them to define the “intifada” they were calling for.
“Are you guys calling for an intifada?” Cam Higbee in disbelief asked the group on Friday., as chants could be heard in the background. One masked demonstrator nodded weakly, but no one spoke up.
“What is that?” Higbee asked unsuspecting protesters wearing N-95 masks, facial piercings and keffiyeh scarves.
“Are you guys proud to scream intifada? Huh? Hmm,” he said with a surprised laugh.
higbee Later explained as an Arabic word meaning “uprising” on X: “Thousands of Jewish civilians were murdered in the first and second intifadas of the late 80s and early 90s, and again in the early 2000s. By suicide bombings in nightclubs, shopping malls, markets, etc. ”
“What’s wrong? Do the students know what they’re chanting, or don’t they know what they’re chanting?” he added.
Higbee, 24, “infiltrated” the UCLA camp this week carrying a sign that read “Israel is not apartheid…let’s talk.”
The influencer, a contributor to the “anti-woke” media company Today is America, received a similarly dumbfounded response when she asked ignorant students to define “genocide.”
There was another shocking moment, He was told bluntly, “We hate white people.” by protesters.
“Fuck you…you’re just a white man,” the woman said, while one of her companions called out, “You’re a loser.”
Higbee, a native of upstate New York, tried to tell them, “They should be angry that Hamas is hiding behind civilians.”
Another time, a person wearing an orange vest The organizer forcibly stepped in front of Higbee.When he tried to enter the campus lawn as a reporter, he said police told him he was allowed to do so.
Another organizer tried to explain, “It’s… related to the leaking of personal information and student safety.”
Anti-Israel protests began on April 17 at Columbia University and have since spread across the United States, including at Harvard University, Yale University, and Ohio State University.
The protesters even admit to being ignorant about the current Middle East conflict, which began with the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas.
One student who demonstrated at New York University this week told the Post on camera that he needed to “learn more” about the issue.
Kaimani James, the leader of the campus protests, was expelled from Columbia, where chants of “We are Hamas!” were being shouted. After a video of him saying, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” was leaked, chants such as “Hamas, be proud of us” were heard.
Police were called to some campuses and hundreds of people were arrested.
The UCLA encampment emerged a day after police in riot gear arrested nearly 100 protesters at the University of Southern California, which has since forced the university to cancel its “main stage” graduation ceremony. I no longer get it.
