The Red Badge of Cowardice
Yesterday evening a group of self congratulatory, wealthy people gathered in California to give each other awards. They call it the "Academy Awards", however that title is as offensive to Academia as it is unrepresentative of the term in general. Perhaps one of the more shocking things to come out of the Oscars this year was the number of 'celebrities' donning red pins in order to (allegedly) support demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Much like everything celebrities do, however; they are blissfully ignorant of the origin of their rallying cry for purported social justice. As a symbol of "palestinian" solidarity, the raised bloody hand dates back to the year 2000; when a mob of Palestinians broke into a jail in Ramallah on the West Bank, and proceeded to beat, kick, stomp, stab, etc. 2 Jewish men to death. These 2 men had accidentally taken a wrong term while driving that afternoon, and had ended up in Ramallah by accident....