UTRGV: No Israel Debate, Unsanctioned Group Calls "Peaceful" Protest
And students tear down the flyers
Update: The Environmental Awareness Club, EAC, confirmed they had nothing to do with putting together this event or distributing flyers.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated Food Not Bombs RGV is holding another rally at Archer Park this Sunday. Their event is actually Saturday, coincidentally just one day before the local Jewish community is set to light a menorah for Hanukkah at the same park.
The UTRGV Poli Sci Department informed me they will not host a debate on the situation in Israel, after I issued a challenge to Professor Kiersey, following his inflammatory quotes published in the student newspaper. Meanwhile, an anonymous and unsanctioned organization on campus has called a “Pro-Palestine peaceful protest.” And students have ripped down and discarded the flyers.
Flyers were located last week on the Edinburg campus. As I scoped them out, I noticed on some pillars of the ‘Bronc Trail,’ they’d been visibly ripped, as seen in the photos above. A few days later I noticed another flyer crumbled into a little ball atop a trash bin. This comes as similar events have been held in the Rio Grande Valley in recent weeks. For my past coverage of them, read here, here, here, here, here and here.
The QR code takes one to a signup page which reads,
“The GENOCIDE in Gaza can no longer be ignored, let’s stand up against the abominations being committed in Palestine. Our silence means compliance with the oppressor, let us be the voice of the oppressed and magnify the cry for help of those in need. Join us in a peaceful call for a ceasefire.”
An anonymous email address, Pro-Palestine_UTRGV@outlook.com, is listed. Whenever events are held and advertised on campus, they always list which student organization is hosting said event, i.e. Geology, Psychology, Biology Club, Student Government Association, Greek life fraternities and sororities, etc. The event being advertised by a shady group is suspicious and nefarious.
A rabidly antisemitic group based in San Antonio and Austin, Red Star Tx, has been operating down here in conjunction with Food Not Bombs RGV. Red Star has been announcing upcoming opportunities for people to get involved. Sure enough, they admit to organizing the event on their social media, calling “Anti-Zionist students” at UTRGV. Food Not Bombs RGV is set to host a “solidarity” rally Saturday in McAllen.
After speculation that the Environmental Awareness Club (EAC) on campus may’ve been involved with the distribution of flyers and putting together the event, given affiliations and recent support for Red Star, the EAC contacted me and clarified they had nothing do with it.
While protests of this kind have occurred on college and university campuses around the world, the two groups have been building up to this, with their hateful and antisemitic rallies, and ‘uncritical mass,’ in McAllen. Now they feel strong enough to do it, as much of the turnout to their events has been college students.
For students who may read this and aren’t experts on the Middle East, and yet somehow can detect and sense the hatred and vitriol coming from these events in the Valley, and across the world, your senses and instincts are correct. Don’t get distracted with allusions to “context” and “history” by these folks whose only aim is to incite and sow hatred against Jewish people and the only Jewish country in the world.
Their foux solidarity with Palestine is not just a cover for antisemitism, it’s also false. Peace between Israel and the Arab, Muslim world was afoot before the Oct. 7 pogrom, including the renewed prospects for a Palestinian state, for the first time in almost 30 years. Hamas will never allow peace, which is why they must be destroyed. The only tenable response good and reasonable people. who just want peace, can have is unconditional support for the IDF and its just war against modern-day Nazis.
If this is your first time reading my work, refuting the messaging of these groups in this article would make it extremely long, and would require me to repeat myself. However, please see my archive containing over a dozen articles and essays in which I have exposed these front groups for the frauds and haters that they are.