Anti-Israel protesters rally outside New York University’s campus in New York May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
"To me, this resembles much more Ferguson," Gonzalez Said, referring to the riots that sprung out of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Ferguson shooting and riots brought newfound national attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, which led to similar protests in the aftermath of other high-profile deaths, such as the 2020 killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
Gonzalez argued that, unlike Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and the current anti-Israel demonstrations spreading across the country have a "coherent set of demands."
"It was just generally anti-Western, anti-capitalist," Gonzalez said of the Occupy movement. "This group is also anti-Western, anti-capitalist — these protesters — but they do have demands."
"They want to wipe out American culture. Because if we have systemic racism, and if racism is structural, then the only logical conclusion is we must get rid of all the systems and all the structures."
Gonzalez, who wrote a book on the Black Lives Matter movement, "The Making of a New Marxist Revolution," said most of those demands can be traced back to the cultural Marxism of the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the current demonstrations "hide behind" the current events in Gaza as a way to push the Marxist agenda.
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"They want to dismantle American society," Gonzalez said.
For Gonzalez, both the Black Lives Matter and current campus movements tie closely to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, a Chinese sociopolitical movement led by Mao Zedong between the mid 1960s and mid 1970s that sought to strip China of its traditional society.
Students demonstrate against the war in Gaza. (Jay Janner/American-Statesman)
Given the potential for violence, von Spakovsky believes more should be done to break up the current encampments and demonstrations.
"I find it shocking and alarming that steps aren’t being taken to immediately stop this," von Spakovsky said. "For example, any of the students who are participating in these protests … this support for a terrorist group, they are not U.S. citizens, their visas ought to be revoked immediately. And they should be expelled from the country. … I just don’t see any other way."
Gonzalez expressed a similar sentiment, arguing the potential for violence should be enough for the FBI to investigate the groups on campuses.
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"Could we see another summer like 2020?" Gonzalez asked, referring to the riots in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. "Yeah … this is why I think the FBI should be getting involved and why Congress should be getting involved."
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