As college campuses nationwide are wracked by anti-Israel protests - sometimes violent - socialists and non-students are emerging as leaders, even if they were not previously affiliated with the Palestinian cause.
Although he said he has never been to the region of Palestine, De Los Santos said he has been at protests "Across the city," including Columbia University and City College, to support the students in their protests against Israel.
At an April 30 press conference, New York Mayor Eric Adams said that the protests have "Basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators."
Author of "Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez," De Los Santos said that the Fordham protest "Is part of a large growing movement of students across the country who all feel very passionately that what their universities are doing by investing millions and millions of dollars, and Israeli genocide against Palestinians is wrong."
David Clawson, who identified as an adjunct professor who teaches Latin American history at multiple schools, including previously at Fordham, said he was at the protest "Because across the city students have been brutalized for standing up and saying that they want an end to genocide," and he's there "Both to support the students, but ultimately to support the cause that they're fighting."
Clawson, who said he is a member of "Multiple unions," said there has been a "Groundswell" of support for the pro-Palestinian movement, both over the past six months, when Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, but also in the "Last few days" as protests have intensified across the nation.
"These protests have remarkably little to do with people in the Middle East. And it has a lot more to do with the desires and needs of people here. And so when I look at the protests, I see a lot of very entitled elite college kids who are cosplaying being revolutionaries," he said.
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