[CLIP] Why Are So Many Students Supporting Hamas Terrorism?—Tabia Lee

why is there Marching In the Streets to support Hamas a terrorist organization um that seeks to destroy the West the way of life that enables these students to be able to go out and protest and to make these statements and to do these things I wonder if the students understand and recognize that they would be the first to be tamped down on if Hamas had its way when we see the destruction of Israel the only democracy in the Middle East the one place where you can be yourself where you can be an Arab Israeli you can be a misrahi Jew you can be an lgbtq plus person freely without being beheaded but yet we see these students holding up banners that say queers were Palestine they would be beheaded in an instant they would be despised they are considered despicable why is that taking place what has happened to our educational system when we see our students out there promoting anti-American sentiment and supporting terrorism what are the dangers to us as a result of that as a society where are we heading with that and why and and and how has it how has it gotten so far it used to be a fringe thing but now this is mainstream and students are being told that is being normalized the support of terrorism that concerns me a great deal because I'm someone who I love our country and I love this nation this is a grand experiment it's not perfect we have things to work on and we always will we're human beings you know trying to um realize these aspirations that were set out in the founding documents and some people want to destroy and Shred those documents and lead us into what what kind of system will we be in when the Republic is destroyed as so many people are calling for I I can't support that in in good conscience it's something that worries me a great deal and I don't think we understand the danger um that of embracing these kind of ideologies this is everywhere it's at our doorstep and we all need to take a look into what's happening in our schools those are the breeding grounds for many of these toxic ideologies are you really safe in a world where our youth are being corrupted their minds are being destroyed with terrorist propaganda and anti-American sentiment both you and I uh you know recently kind of reviewed a clip of Hamas leadership explaining what their intentions are right and I I just want to roll that clip for the benefit of the viewers for it is Justified it it seems pretty unmistakable to me and I think information May shift some minds of people that don't actually understand what they're what they've signed up for when they join these protests yes and as you heard you know that Hamas leader say um anything we do is okay because we are the victim that is the mentality of these individuals and of this world view so if you are of the oppressed status or victim status any action you take no matter how immoral uh no matter how brutal is okay including as he says explicitly October 7th type action yes and and justifying that and feeling proud of it and then to see our students out celebrating and saying it is okay because our teachers and our our faculty members and our mentors have told us that this is the response to oppression this is um the response to all of the words they use like settler colonialism apartheid you know all of these things that aren't rooted in any objective reality or history but that students have been taught and that they pair it back because they're not learning anything otherwise they're not learning about the actual history of the region they're not learning and understanding indigeny and what that means uh they're learning a twisted version of it that supports a terrorist vision of the world and it's very toxic and dangerous and we need to start taking a closer look at it uh because it's not just people you know um learned professors in in in you know the small liberal arts college anymore we're seeing this in our medical professionals we're seeing this in our um athletes we're seeing this in every aspect of life uh on the on the campus and off the campus and Civic life and it's really deeply concerning to see our helping professions you know teachers Medical Health Care um proposing and and stating this toxic ideology um thinking of their patients and their students and the people they are there to serve right as victims or oppressors um as some people um should receive certain levels of care and others should not because of their um oppress status or victim status like what kind of world are we headed to you know when our doctor or our teacher doesn't look at us as an individual but they see us as a group representative and um we should be held accountable for everything that that group has done historically uh whether it's historically objectively true or not it based on the narrative that's being taught many times and a toxic one at that you know um when I turn on my TV and I see groups of students yelling gas the Jews that's not freedom of speech that's something else that's calling for murder that's supporting killing innocent people how can we be supportive of that oh because of a a systemic oppression what is that