As Columbia kids continue their pro-Hamas protests, we have to wonder if they’re really even thought about what they actually want.
Consider their fellow-traveler, USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum, and her telling plea after getting nixed as a commencement speaker thanks to her social-media posts linking to blatantly antisemitic content.
“When it comes to abolishing the state of Israel I do want to point out the very next sentence that talks about the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews,” she told ABC News.
And: “When it comes to abolishing the state of Israel, I will say I want to abolish apartheid. I’m not committing to a one state or two state solution.”
How sweet: She obviously wants Israel wiped off map but is savvy enough not to say so.
“Abolish apartheid” means Jews would be vastly outnumbered in whatever state takes the place of Israel — and every poll shows that the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have zero interest in sharing a country with Jews.
(Nor does either Palestinian area remotely respect gay rights, freedom of religion or other basic rights, so her “I’m committed to human equality and human rights” makes no sense next to her actual demands.)
No: Just like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib, her actual agenda amounts to genocide of the region’s Jews.
But (slightly) hiding that aim is enough to recruit an army of useful-idiot college students who imagine they’re fighting against “settler colonialism” and “white supremacy” — and can’t be bothered to think through how this merely masks a second Holocaust.
Protest, it seems, is just too thrilling to leave any time for critical thinking.