At the various pro-Hamas encampments being set up on college campuses across the country, the term “liberated zones” is being used by the agitators to describe their set-up as though that’s the only place they can go to feel “liberated” in expressing their feelings of support for Hamas in the Israel-Hamas war.
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The so-called “liberated zone” at Harvard University is one such place. Though it hasn’t gotten as much national media attention as the ones at Columbia University and New York University (NYU), it is definitely a thing, having been formed Wednesday in a frenzy despite administrators warning against it.
Before we get to the sprinklers, here are some of the signs on display, with at least one of them containing the antisemitic “from the river to the sea” messaging that we’ve seen censured Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) promote:
Other clips show demonstrators calling for an “intifada revolution.”
Back to the sprinklers, a funny thing happened in the overnight hours in the “liberated zone,” as recounted by the Harvard Crimson, which provided this play-by-play:
Sprinklers Disturb Sleeping Campers — 2:20 a.m.
As temperatures dipped to 36 degrees, sprinklers near University Hall have begun to turn on — though none on the grass within the encampment.
There is movement throughout the camp as protesters seem to start preparing for more, distributing buckets around various points of the perimeter.
Sprinkler Turns on Inside Encampment — 3:50 a.m.
A sprinkler has turned on within the encampment, in the middle of the tents. A protester covered it immediately with a bucket, and is now seated on the bucket as a puddle forms around it. There is little movement among campers.
“Yellow team needs to come now,” a protester said on a phone call when the sprinkler turned on.
Sprinkler Struggles Continue — 4:05 a.m.
As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard’s sprinklers.
Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall. The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to covered the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them.
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The Harvard “Palestine Solidarity Committee” sent this Instagram update a short time later, alleging that their tents were being “flooded” in cold weather:
Hilarity ensued on social media, where one quipped that the “peace activists” were now being “waterboarded.” Others praised “the groundskeepers at Harvard for not altering the sprinkler schedule.”
On the latter, I’m not so sure that schedule alterations didn’t happen. But whatever the case may be, we eagerly await the self-righteous statements from those impacted who if history is a reliable indicator will make sure to whine severely about the “oppression” over having to be subjected to a cold shower in the overnight hours. They will do this even as the Israeli hostages who are actually being oppressed continue to suffer and be disgustingly subjected to propaganda efforts by Hamas terrorists.
Tuition and fees at Harvard, by the way, are around $83,000 a year.
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