https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20635/condorcet-gets-a-keffiyeh
T]he protest feeds on media attention. As soon as TV cameras are switched off, the shouting of slogans dies down.
[E]even if all the UN resolutions were implemented, they would not reassure Israel and won’t quench Hamas’ “from the river to the sea” thirst.
For seven decades, Israelis accepted the “advice” of the US and its European allies to accept a fish-tail end to its wars rather than the victory won on the battlefield. Beyond Hamas, which wants everything, Palestinians, too, have realized that listening to advice from “well-wishers” like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, the inventor of the “roadmap” to a two-state solution, will not provide even half a state for them.
Today’s protesters know little about what they are rebelling against and, at least in our experience of talking to some of them in Paris and reading and/or hearing what their counterparts say on American campuses, don’t even wish to know.
To those of us old enough to remember the good (or bad) old days of student revolt in Western universities in the 1960s, current disturbances in a number of European and American universities appear as a bad remake of a controversial original.
The current disturbances are on a much smaller scale.
In the US, they have affected a handful of universities and attracted a few thousand students out of a total college enrollment of over 15 million.
In France, the “uprising” is centered on the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), which boasts between 12,000 and 15,000 students, a third of them foreign, from more than 100 countries.