Youth, Poor Education Make Students Easy to Rally for Causes

The pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests have spread to university campuses across the country, just as the agitators hoped for them to do.

Because of their youth, relative geographic isolation or inadequate education, American college students tend to have insufficient understanding of the political, cultural and economic realities outside the United States. They are therefore easy to rally under the brightly colored banners and simplistic slogans of the latest cause celebre.

Take Russia, for example. Yes, the czarist system was bad; the country's poor labored under medieval-style serfdom until 1861, by which time western Europe and the United States were 100 years into the Industrial Revolution. Almost 70 years after the Cuban communist revolution, the country remains in a stranglehold of economic deprivation, with upwards of 70% of the country's population living in poverty.

The current condemnation of Israel — the only democracy in the Middle East — is even more appalling than was support for the "revolutionaries" of earlier generations, whose murderous intentions were arguably less well known.

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