Representative Bowman Gaslights: Campus Protests and Political Narratives

On MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” on Thirsday, Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) indicated that the encampment on Columbia was “completely peaceful” and that “Some of the images that we saw from UCLA and other places made it look like a bunch of disorder. But the majority of these protests are peaceful. When you send in hundreds of military-dressed law enforcement officers into a college, that brings the disorder and that brings the chaos.”

Yeah, it was the police and not the pro-Palestinian Hamas supporting Jew haters’ fault. Right…

Bowman said, “We want the protests to be peaceful. We do not want violent protests. I visited the Columbia encampment last week, and they were completely peaceful. There was a space for mental health supports, there was a library, there was food, there was coffee, there was water, and they were crystal clear on their demands. They are protesting the collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

The so-called civilians in Gaza could have left when the Israelis gave them weeks to do so, but the terror group Hamas told them to remain in place because they wanted to use them as human shields as always. And they did so.

Bowman went on to say, “Some of the images that we saw from UCLA and other places made it look like a bunch of disorder. But the majority of these protests are peaceful. When you send in hundreds of military-dressed law enforcement officers into a college, that brings the disorder and that brings the chaos. And we just heard reports that a gun was fired [at] Columbia by a member of law enforcement. That’s the only gun that’s been fired at any protest. And so, we need educators and professors to do their jobs and create spaces for critical dialogue, critical discussion. And we can’t lose sight what they’re protesting, U.S. dollars going to a country that is bombing and killing and starving children. That is what’s unacceptable.”

It was a bunch of disorder, Jamaal. At UNC Chapel Hill, the Palestinian Hamas supporters tore down the American flag and hoisted up a Palestinian flag in its place. Nothing was more disrespectful. And when police came in to re-hoist the American flag to its proper place, the protesters cursed at them and threw objects at police and fraternity brother students who were holding the American flag so that it didn’t touch the ground.

At every campus protest, they put up banners saying, “From the river to the see, Palestine will be free,” which is a call for the genocide of the Jews.

Bowman ended it with, “We need more protests that are peaceful to hold us accountable towards what we should be working on in Congress.”

How about they hold Jamaal Bowman accountable for “obstructing an official proceeding,” for when he pulled a fire alarm in the Capitol to obstruct a vote the House was about to cast to pass a bill that would avoid a government shutdown because then the bill would be moved to the Senate, where the Democrats are the majority. The Democrats wanted a shutdown so that they could blame the Republicans.

One thing I can tell you with certainty is to never trust anything Jamaal Bowman says.

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