Chants of 'shame on you' greet guests arriving for the annual White House correspondents' dinner

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23. It is simplistic to reduce this to "virtue signaling." They are all individual people who have their reasons.

Many are sincerely protesting the war and don't how else to go about it. Many are just egged on by outside agitators.

Many who say "From the river to the sea" are just wanting Palestine to be free of Israel. They are too young and ill-informed to know it is a familiar antisemitic chant.

I know that when I was in college some 40 years ago, I attended protests based on what I believed a situation to be instead of actually researching it.

In reality, these protests won't amount to anything but more trouble for Jewish students, the University presidents, and those who are protesting.

But to dismiss this as virtue signaling -- to say they are insincere -- well, that's just another reason why they feel they have to protest. They are not being heard. They are being dismissed.