The student protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza have forced our feral elite to take their mask off, and what we are witnessing is monstrous. The fulsome US support of the genocide Gaza is simply indefensible. And the students sense this and are incensed by it.

The students at American universities are protesting an Israeli genocide that reaches new heights of savagery on a daily basis, but the establishment, including President Joe Biden, is painting peaceful protests on college campuses against the genocide as hotbeds of hatred and antisemitism. There’s a method to the charge of antisemitism as we’re supposed to focus on the college protesters rather than our vital ally–Israel–that murders 15,000 children, destroys hospitals, and hides bodies in mass graves. The IOF uses Lavender, an AI target-selection algorithm to drive their killing machine, for God’s sake!

And just when you think Israeli behavior has reached a new low there’s another outrage. Israel has escalated from sniping Palestinians running to get food and supplies from aid deliveries to leaving food-can-like explosives about to explode when starving children open them.

The student protesters are dangerous not because they disrupt campus life or engage in attacks on Jewish students, in fact many of those protesting are Jewish, but because they expose the abject failure by the ruling elites and their institutions to halt genocide, the crime of crimes. Student protesters across the country exhibit a moral and physical courage — many are facing suspension and expulsion — that shames every major institution in the country. Especially Congress, who’ve reverted to a McCarthy level of Kafkaesque hostility. It’s high time to inquire if our congress-critters represent America or Israel?

Indeed, two-thirds of Americans want the government to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, but this sentiment is being ignored. These students watch, like most of us, Israel’s live-streamed slaughter of the Palestinian people. But unlike most of us, they are putting themselves at incredible risk by protesting. It’s important to understand how powerful their voices and protests are as a potent counterpoint to the moral bankruptcy that surrounds us.

Not one university president has denounced Israel’s destruction of every university in Gaza. Not one university president has called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Not one university president has used the words “apartheid” or “genocide.” Not one university president has called for sanctions and divestment from Israel. Instead they’ve called in the police. Columbia calling on the police effectively paved the way for other universities to do so, most notably University of Texas and Emory. The result is videos of “security” forces brutally throwing students, media workers and even professors to the ground.

Many US police forces have received training from Israel, see Jewish Voice for Peace report: “Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel.”

No matter.

Our feral elite and their congressional marionettes have their priorities. “The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that conflates criticism of the modern state of Israel with antisemitism and will mandate that definition be used by the Department of Education when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The bill can and will be used to crack down on pro-Palestine protesters at college campuses across the country, who have been falsely labeled ‘antisemitic’ despite Jewish students participating in the protests.

Remember kids, this is happening within a political climate in which the Israeli government publicly announces that “antisemitism” includes charging Israeli war criminals for extensively documented war crimes.

Once again, Orwell would stand gobsmacked at the sheer audacity of the propaganda.

And now it’s not just antisemitism. The Biden Administration is now openly stating that the student protesters are simply pawns of Russia, China and Iran. It’s the classic trope of “outside agitators”. These insane justifications are happening even as Israel’s prime minister openly calls for the the US government to crush the protests by any means necessary.

The short-sightedness of the US and Israeli governments is astonishing. Their repression is ensuring that a big portion of an entire generation of Americans – including its next elite – will view Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.

For the rest of the world, America’s moral authority, what little remained, is toast. They understand that the genocide is the desired goal of the US. No other explanation is remotely plausible. There’s no way to believe that Joe Biden is trying to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu, while simultaneously arming and funding Netanyahu and using U.S. forces to fight alongside him. Biden is making no effort to restrain Netanyahu. Biden fully supports the genocide. Biden is not being outplayed by Netanyahu. He is actively abetting Netanyahu and shares with him the objective of full Israeli occupation of Gaza after the Palestinian people are killed or expelled into Sinai.

The mask has come off and we are seeing the iron fist.

Update: Police are in the process of violently arresting the student protesters at university campuses across the country following multiple statements from President Biden attacking the students as “antisemitic” for opposing the Israeli genocide he and the US government have been enthusiastically facilitating in Gaza.

Update 2: Here’s what Glen Greenwald has to say: “If this were in Russia or Iran — a police force of this size deployed against students protesting the state’s war policies — it’d be universally denounced as evil tyranny.”