Nasrallah’s useful idiots
A group in New York City held a vigil for Nasrallah on the day of his funeral. Here are some quotes from the vigilistas:
On Sunday evening, multiple collegiate chapters for Students for Justice in Palestine held a vigil service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah—who was killed in an Israeli air strike on September 27—in New York City’s Washington Square Park. The poster encouraged attendees to bring flags, flowers, and candles, and of course mask-wearing was “highly suggested.” The strangest thing about this vigil was not its lack of ceremony or prayer, but that very few of the 100 or so in attendance knew who Nasrallah was. …
Most of the people The Free Press spoke with said they supported Hamas and Hezbollah, even if they didn’t know who Nasrallah was. Haniya, a college-aged woman with a cheetah-print headscarf, said she showed up to “stand in solidarity with Hezbollah, Hamas, and the entire Resistance Axis in the Middle East.” When asked about the murders of the Bibas children, she said, “I don’t think any person from Palestine would celebrate a dead baby. That’s the difference between people with humanity and people without.”
Like so many, she’s got it backwards. And then there’s this:
Back on the other side of the barricades, a protester named Chucky wore a Palestinian flag around his neck like a cape, and a utility vest with a body camera. He was there to “keep the Zionists away,” he said, and was worried that a fight might break out. When asked about Nasrallah and Hezbollah, Chucky said, “I’m not going to speak on Nasrallah’s history. You can do your own research.”
Moments later, he admitted: “I don’t know much about Hezbollah.”
That last quote makes me think of this – a much happier song from happier days:
Has everyone seen the video of Nasrallah getting killed?
https://youtu.be/c1FgzT7L414
The fun begins at about the 17 second mark.
That ignorance of pro-Pali, pro-Hezbollah demonstrators is nothing new. I recall videos of Pro-Pali demonstrators being asked what river and what sea the slogan “From the river to the sea” referred to. They had no idea what river and what sea were being talked about.
Ignorant demonstrators who demonstrate because it is the cool thing to do, or because of virtue signaling–not because they know something and care about the subject–are nothing new. When I was in high school a peer was bubbling over that his father had signed a petition against the Vietnam War which had appeared in the NYT. What really impressed my peer was that a whole bunch of “cool” people had also signed the NYT petition. By extension, that made his father “cool.”
Memo to Tom Homan
ICE agents should check the immigration status of the participants