Antisemitism Attacks on Universities and the Hamas Israeli War Seem Like the Anti-Vietnam War Protests Deja-Vu

 

During the Vietnam War millions of Americans across the land
With the growing deaths and maimings of troops and civilians an end to the war in growing numbers would demand
Marches on Washington and cities and universities under student protests occupied
At Kent State, the Ohio National Guard called in and 4 students were shot and died
Americans could no longer support the claim
That peace would the U.S. fight in the Cold War against Communism by the domino effect would be hobbled and lame
Something in America was perceived as not right
College students and those with National Guard connections were exempt from the fight
While high school graduates or dropouts were drafted to be sent to the rice paddies to die
In higher proportions they were brown or black
Than whites who escaped the drafted to Vietnam track
And Tet proved that Westmorland’s claims we were winning we could no longer rely
And the release of the Pentagon Papers was a clarion call the Pentagon had lied
The lottery system designed to remove the draft as the rallying call for the Anti-Vietnam War movement failed to reduce the demonstrations against a war a majority of Americans decried
Today more and more universities are being hit with the Anti-Vietnam War playbook
But the target is now Jews  and Israel and the actions against Hamas in Gaza they took
If you are a Jew in an elite university you have cause to fear
As the angry head of antisemitism is growing and on more campuses appears
Protests growing each day against Palestinian civilian casualties
Collateral damage in a war against Hamas who has vowed to push Israelis back into the sea
13 Blues in Congress even voted against a Congressional Resolution condemning a massive Iranian drone and missile attack
In their minds and those of the Pro-Palestinian protestors it seems like a call to the crimes of the Holocaust again back
There will never be peace in the Middle East while Iran to Hamas writes checks
To wage war against the Jewish state and Israel’s right to exist rejects
If their illegal quest to develop missile borne nukes succeeds, the end of the Jewish mantra of “Never Again!”
But a new Holocaust of nukes ending the question of if with only when

© April 22, 2024 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet