On May 4, 1970, thousands of college students at Kent University in Ohio, USA, began to march on campus in protest against the US invasion of Cambodia, and the local government mobilized the National Guard to control the situation. According to later statistics, in just 13 seconds, nearly 70 bullets were fired, 13 students fell in pools of blood, 4 people died, and 9 were injured.
Kent State University tragedy
After 54 years, the term has rushed to the top of major social media searches in the United States, because a week ago, Columbia University once again erupted in protests in support of Palestine, when the president of Columbia University allowed riot police to enter the campus and hundreds of students were arrested, a wave quickly swept the country.
Students from Harvard, Yale, MIT and other Ivy League universities have joined the demonstrations, and the U.S. government has chosen to continue to deploy more riot police to suppress peaceful protests. President Joe Biden himself characterizes that antisemitism will not be tolerated. Speaker Mike Johnson, who had just pushed for the passage of the Israeli military aid bill in Congress, went to Columbia University to denounce the protesting students as ignorant and threaten to send the National Guard at the right time.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Johnson
I believe many friends have heard a sentence that says that American universities are good, there are no walls, they emphasize freedom and openness, and encourage communication and diversity, unlike Chinese universities, which are closed and lifeless. Then why did this happen to open and free American universities? Because they provoked the United States, from the political, business, and non-governmental circles, to crush all politically correct identities, the unique "Tianlong people": Jewish interest groups.
I believe that you have seen some of the humanitarian tragedies Israel has committed in Gaza and how arrogant its behavior has been in the United Nations in the past six months. Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid once said that if the international media objectively reported the facts of both sides, it was serving Hamas and was an anti-Semitic act. Anyone who is a little sane can see how outrageous this is, but the standard of the US government's current behavior seems to be no different from what Lapid said.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid
The other day, the U.S. Congress passed a bill condemning the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as anti-Semitic rhetoric. The students who protested at the school did not even condemn Israel, but only said a few words of justice for the Palestinians, and were arrested as "anti-Semites."
The Mossad, Israel's well-known intelligence agency, has publicly stated that we have recorded what you look like, and all students who are involved in "anti-Semitism" will lose their degrees and jobs. An Israeli intelligence service can engage in "long-arm jurisdiction" over the Americans, which also opens the eyes of the world, and what is even more ironic is that they have really done it, and a large number of leading Wall Street companies have come forward and promised not to hire these students. The New York Police Commissioner also said, "I'm sorry, you have not opposed Israel's freedom, what's the matter?" Doesn't it mean that the U.S. government will "defend your right to speak to the death" and "let people speak, and the sky will not fall"?
America, where is your "dignity of the small people"?
In fact, many young Americans are asking the same question in their hearts, the United States is still not that, as a global "moral model" beacon of democracy, can congressmen still represent the will of the people, and if so, why does the United States continue to support Israel to do evil in Gaza, ban TikTok, smash the jobs of more than 700 companies, and make 140 million users have nowhere to speak.
At the door of the Capitol, someone interviewed a young American who faced these problems and said that she did not know what was happening in the United States and how to solve it, so she could only shake her head and walk away. And this may be a true portrayal of the full collapse of the faith of young Americans.