University of Mississippi: 'abhorrent' counter-protesters condemned

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sat 4 May 2024 06.00 EDT


Dozens of students at the University of Mississippi gathered this week to protest against Israel’s war in Gaza and to call for the state’s flagship university to be transparent in its potential dealings with Israel.

There were hundreds of counter-protesters, in contrast to the few dozen pro-Palestine protesters. The scene evoked memories of the resistance to the civil rights struggle in the US south six decades earlier.

The counter-protesters included individuals waving American flags and Trump flags. At one point, they sang the American national anthem, drowning out the pro-Palestine group’s chants. The Oxford Eagle reported that one person held a “Come and take it” flag while another flew a “Don’t tread on me” banner. The pro-Palestine students held signs reading “Jesus was a Palestinian”, “Stop the genocide,” and “Cut all ties with Israel”.

Less than an hour after the protest began, police disbanded it – notably after counter-protests threw items, including water bottles, at the pro-Palestine group. Police safely evacuated the pro-Palestine students as the largely white, male group of counter-protesters chanted, “Nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye,” according to Mississippi Today.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/university-of-mississippi-counter-protesters

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Joy actually discussed this on her show last night, with clips, including showing one actual "human ape", making monkey noises at a black protester.

[33taw]

1. Shocking to see a Trump flag in the photo.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. Jesus was Jewish, folks.

Wow, Trumpers don't care about the Palestinians. This was just a show of jingoistic xenophobia.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. The internet has identified the brown hair asshat making monkey noises. We will see what, if anything, happens to him

[TeamProg]

4. As we would expect in MS. nt

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Bigots gonna bigot.

And it’s hilarious that they’re pretending to give a damn about the Jewish people.

[Happy Hoosier]

6. My boss went to Mississippi State....

.... his comment on seeing this: "Ole Miss is full of racist morons. I mean, so is Mississippi State, but they get slapped there."

[Otterdaemmerung]

7. I went to Mississippi State, too.

We call the University of Mississippi "Ole Piss." Every few years there's a major news story about how backward and bigoted Ole Miss attendees and/or alumni get.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. My father used to spell it but replacing the four "S's" with swastikas.

He did that with Alabama too, replacing the "A" with klanhoods.

[Stuart G]

9. K and R (no text)