On Tuesday, a report surfaced of a journalist being attacked at the City University of New York. The provocation for the attack? He was carrying an American flag.
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A “mob descended” on journalist Ami Horowitz when he brought an American flag into the anti-Israel encampment at the City University of New York, yet he was the one who ended up detained by the police, he tells The Daily Wire.
Horowitz says that he was attacked by the pro-Hamas mob three different times and was detained and questioned by police, all while his attackers were allowed to continue occupying the campus, undisturbed by the authorities.
“Before I had a chance to even wave the flag – I just took it out – this mob descended upon me,” Horowitz told The Daily Wire, explaining that more than a dozen people joined in on the “brutal” and “crazy attack.”
Horowitz took to X to present a video of the attack.
This bears repeating: The police detained, not his attackers, not the people who pummeled him, but Horowitz himself, ordering him not to return to the protest with his “different views. The people who did this faced no consequences:
“It began with punches to the torso, to the kidneys, and one to the private parts,” he said. “I ran back a second time, they grabbed me again. This time there weren’t any punches thrown, but two guys grabbed me in an armlock and dragged me off the property, threw me down. I went back in a third time, this time more punches were thrown, one to the throat, a headbutt. We grappled a whole bunch.”
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Mr. Horowitz also presented a disturbing video shot last year at San Francisco State University, wherein he interviewed several students, claiming he was raising money to “kill Jews.”
Godwin’s Law is an internet trope for a reason, but it’s hard to view these goings-on and not draw comparisons to Germany in 1938.
Previously on RedState: AUDIO: UCLA PD Tells Parent of Jewish Student Blocked From Entering Class Admin Won’t Let Them Intervene
How One Campus Protester Typifies the Problems Universities Have Invited Upon Themselves
It’s not just the antisemitism that’s disturbing. Mr. Horowitz was assaulted for bearing an American flag — the flag of the nation that has nurtured many of these young skulls full of mush throughout their young lives, a nation that has given them the highest standard of living and greater liberty than anywhere, not only on the planet today but at any time in human history. Apparently, these children are taking their cues from Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, who famously (and apocryphally) said after the Russian Empire intervened on Austria’s behalf that Austria would “shock the world by the depth of its ingratitude.”
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There have been arrests, and there have been sweeps of cops cleaning out the rioters and their encampments, but there is a larger problem. The sentiments and prejudices behind these incidents run very deep; they have been put in place throughout several generations, and they will take another span of generations to stamp out. But at least there are journalists on these campuses documenting the hate, the antisemitism, and the fondness for terrorists, so the rest of the world — especially future generations — can see this brush with madness.
Ami Horowitz is documenting campus Hamas sympathizers on his X account here.