Anatomy of A Protest

If, like the throngs of clueless students at Bowdoin College who attended an anti-Israel protest last weekend, you think Benjamin Netanyahu is a big, bad meanie for hurting Palestinians, consider this tidbit from today's Wall Street Journal:

"For 16 months, Alan Ohel's mother wasn't sure if her son, kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, was alive or dead. Last weekend, she found out that he has been kept shackled in an underground tunnel, shrapnel in his eye and shoulder, subsisting on one piece of pita bread a day."

Now, imagine being shackled in an underground tunnel, just for a day or two but you're a perfectly healthy 24-year-old. Next, imagine being held there for 493 days, but with adequate food and water.

Okay, now imagine you're in that tunnel but starving, and you have a piece of shrapnel in your eye, and you're shackled there, underground, for 493 days.

Then imagine you're starving, unable to stand, with that piece shrapnel in your eye but with another one in your shoulder, for 493 days.

Now imagine you are a spoiled rich kid who attends an expensive college and you're tired of getting high and watching movies and playing video games in your dorm and your roommate says hey let's go protest the Jews, they suck and are killing Palestinians, then we can go out for pizza afterwards. Here, hold up this sign.