Press Still Trying to Smear the Student Pro-Palestinian Movement as Anti-Semitic

The 99 Percenters
1 min readApr 27, 2024

For several days, since the start of student protests at Columbia University, there has been an effort by the mainstream press to try and discredit a movement that seeks to try and end the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. It isn’t working. Protests are spreading to more universities, even abroad.

Here is a sample of some of those propaganda headlines:

  • Boston Herald: ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live,’ says Boston student leading Columbia University protests in viral video
  • CNN: Columbia University protest student leader apologizes for saying ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’
  • Independent (Britain): Columbia senate calls for investigation into university president over Gaza protests
  • USA Today: White House condemns Columbia University protest leader’s call for Zionists to die
  • The Hill: White House rips ‘dangerous, appalling statements’ from Columbia protest leader

Then we have the electronic media:

  • Maher is good Zionist:

It’s now in France. And those involved say they were inspired by what’s happening in the universities in America:

Australia:

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