Apparently too many college students and teachers
support Hamas despite these very obvious facts.
Courtesy of Doug Ross.

Fight! Fight! Fight! At the website Campus Reform one of its reporters, Michael Duke, has been doing magnificent work in identifying in detail college by college the students and professors who rioted this spring on numerous university campuses in support of the terrorist organization Hamas and its October 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1200 people, including the rape, torture, and murder of men, women, children, and babies.

I thought it was time to do the public a service and provide a link to all of Duke’s reports, so that future employees will have a handy place to go to find out whether the future college prospect before them thinks it is acceptable to kill babies in support of an ideology. Duke’s work has only begun, but it appears he is trying to identify every single pro-Hamas rioter this year who was arrested. His list so far:

• Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, and alumni arrested at anti-Israel encampment
• Meet the Florida State University students arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest
• Meet the Dartmouth College students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest
• Meet the Emory University students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest
• Meet the University of Connecticut students and alumni arrested at anti-Israel encampment
• Meet the Indiana University students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed encampment

Several things stand out immediately from this list. First, except for Florida State, in every single protest the mob occupying buildings and facilities illegally were aided by faculty and alumni, who were then arrested with the rioters when they would not obey police orders to disperse. Based on this reality, students and parents looking for a college to attend should seriously reconsider going to any of these schools.

Second, it is not clear how many of these arrested individuals will ever be prosecuted, nor whether these universities are really serious about clamping down on these kinds of violent mob actions. At Indiana all charges were dropped by the local prosecutor. At Wisconsin-Madison charges were dropped and reduced for one of the seventeen students charged. At Indiana, charges have been dropped on all but one of the arrested students, with that one student’s charge reduced to almost nothing. Meanwhile, the final bits of the pro-Hamas encampment there was finally removed only last week, despite the arrests in April. At Dartmouth charges have been dropped against 28 of the 89 arrested, and there is legal action to get the university to drop the rest of its charges as well.

Though not yet on Duke’s list above, at Harvard the university has already caved and dropped all charges against the five students it had suspended for their actions in the spring riots.

I could find little additional information about those arrested and their subsequent prosecution at the other colleges.

Though for decades leftist rioters such as these have routinely been released and all charges dropped, it appears that this time the authorities in many locations are not doing this — despite the actions listed above — and are actually prosecuting some of these people. If so, this is a very good sign. The First Amendment protects their right to demonstrate and express their opinions. It does not allow them to riot, trespass, and damage property. Nor does it allow them to take possession of campus property and impose a “no Jews allowed” rule, as some of these anti-Semites did.

Whether or not these rioters are prosecuted, however, it remains the right of future employers to consider this history in determining whether these people would make good employees. I provide this information for the benefit of those employers.