Philip Carl Salzman: Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?

Philip Carl Salzman: Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?
Protesters demonstrate against Israel outside of the Columbia University campus in New York on Nov. 15, 2023. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Tribune Content Agency
Philip Carl Salzman
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As mobs rampage through American and Canadian streets celebrating and championing Hamas and its genocidal anti-Semitism, disrupting university campuses and blocking access to Jewish-owned stores, restaurants, and houses of worship, most citizens and political figures look on in surprise and dismay.

Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
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Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
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