Universities Must Stop Negotiating With Terrorists - A new poll shows 36% of college students "support protestors engaging in violent acts" and 40% "sympathize" with the terrorist organization.

Gone is the America that does not negotiate with terrorists. Its 
universities are capitulating to pro-Hamas demonstrators’ antisemitic 
demands. And, make no mistake, their target today is Jews, but their 
terrorist tactics won’t stop there. Higher education’s craven 
concessions have only emboldened these groups.

In exchange for taking down tent encampments and standing down on 
terrorizing students, campus administrators have agreed to meet with 
student protest organizers — often from activist groups such as 
Students for Justice in Palestine — to discuss divesting from Israel 
and other steps to validate the October 7th massacre of Israelis.

Northwestern University and Rutgers University’s concessions advance 
the anti-Israel agenda: new scholarships, teaching and staff positions, 
and programming for Palestinians regardless of the individual’s merit. 
Harvard University revoked suspensions and promised listening sessions 
on a potential Palestine studies center. Princeton University has 
reportedly promised to consider divestment and to waive disciplinary 
measures for student protesters. Brown University, Occidental College, 
Evergreen State College, and the University of Minnesota have agreed to 
consider divestment from Israel.

Appeasement assaults the dignity and hard work of most students who 
tried to study for finals or attend graduation as pro-Hamas militants 
used physical force and intimidation to shut down campuses. It’s the 
coward’s choice. But it is also a direct insult to Jewish students who 
now see those who tormented them for months be rewarded.

Terrorism is “(threats of) violent action for political purposes,” the 
Cambridge Dictionary defines. That is exactly what has been going on on 
our nation’s campuses over the past few months and why I have filed 33 
Title VI complaints with the Department of Education. Earlier this 
month, protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles knocked 
a Jewish female student unconscious. Students at Cal Poly Humboldt 
shoved police as they illegally occupied a building. The janitor who 
was held hostage in Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall told the press 
that protesters stormed the building with zip ties and rope to use 
against anyone who opposed them.

These protesters know what they’re doing. They embrace terrorist 
tactics. A new poll shows 36% of college students “support protestors 
engaging in violent acts” and 40% “sympathize” with the terrorist 
organization. Protesters across the country embody the revolutionary 
zeal for a globalized “Intifada Revolution”. They are terrorists.

These useful idiots get resources and funding from National Students 
for Justice in Palestine, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and other 
outside organizations, many of which benefit from George Soros’ Open 
Society Foundations. Student protesters know what they’re doing but 
they don’t see that they’re stooges for the adults who want a global 
revolution.

Their terror tactics directly push an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel 
agenda, but that’s only step one in a larger anti-America vendetta. 
Schools that negotiate with students will no doubt pay the price of 
additional demands, protests, riots, and violence in the years to come. 
That’s how it goes with terrorists. They don’t honor civility, 
fairness, or “agreements.”

The good news is that some schools have modeled an appropriate and 
effective way to maintain a proper learning – and living – environment 
on campus. The University of Florida’s President Ben Sasse refused to 
tolerate protesters when they not only broke school policy but also the 
law by assaulting and spitting on police officers. He had them arrested 
and their encampments removed, restoring the collegial learning 
environment that the vast majority of students want and deserve.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) has also been resolute in 
quelling protests and has beefed up policing on campus. This zero-
tolerance approach to unlawful and childish behavior will yield 
benefits for these universities unlike schools that cowardly appeased. 
In the words of a Rutgers protester: “We will be back if the demands 
are not met!”. That’s not a negotiation; it’s a hostage scenario.

But to truly fix this crisis, universities need to eliminate the source 
of this weaponized student radicalism: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 
(DEI) programming. UNC has now joined universities in Virginia, 
Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Wyoming in banning DEI. This is the kind 
of leadership we need to see from college and university presidents.

The DEI programming complex has enabled hateful student activism (and 
terrorism) to spread on campuses. DEI’s guiding principles sow division 
between groups to propagate anti-American resentment via antisemitic 
stereotypes that legitimate the complex’s at-all-costs agenda for 
socially engineered outcomes. Anti-Jewish terrorism has made university 
and political leaders see that DEI facilitates the radicalization of 
undereducated youth. To stop the Intifada from spreading off college 
campuses, universities must go after the fount of incitement and 
division: DEI programming and values.

Universities that have taken firm action and have rightly suppressed 
DEI gaslighting provide the blueprint for the way forward. The others 
will learn the hard way that negotiating with terrorists is cowardly 
and weak. They will most certainly be back for more.

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Let's go Brandon!