Bands of Non-Students, Out of Town Instigators, Descend on UTRGV

Some students supported, others denounced and questioned their motives, while many onlookers recoiled from fear of their thuggish demeanor and chants.

Pro-Hamas demonstrators, many of them non-students, and brought in from out of town, descending upon me and a Jewish student who expressed fear as the march approached, defiling our beautiful university.

The same band of thugs and goons who have organized antisemitic rallies in McAllen since the Oct. 7 Pogrom descended upon UTRGV for a so-called “peaceful protest” (my foot).

It consisted of non-students like local musician and activist, Carmen Castillo, and Food Not Bombs RGV founder, Mariam El Haj, as well as out-of-town members of the Maoist Red Star Tx, acting as masked Basiji to intimidate opponents like me, students, staff.

I counter-demonstrated, educating several students, university workers and onlookers, all of whom were receptive and thanked me for my courage.

As I reported earlier in the week, the flyers advertising the event strangely did not list any sanctioned student organization, as is customary with all flyers on campus promoting their events. Many students tore down an…