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August 28, 2024

Iran Is Funding Campus Protests against Israel

Here’s what the U.S. government can do about it.

On Sunday, keffiyeh-clad protesters greeted incoming students at Columbia with a sign reading, “Honor our martyrs” and chants of “We don’t want two states, we want ’48.” At Cornell University on Monday, the first day of classes, anti-Israel groups got right to work smashing doors and graffitiing buildings, while on other campuses plans are underway to boycott Jewish professors. In this context it is worth considering the director of national intelligence Avril Haines’s announcement last month that Iran is “providing financial support to protesters.”

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