Anti-Israel protesters who are concealing their identities behind coronavirus masks and other face coverings while wreaking havoc on American college campuses are “gutless” and symbolize the “opposite of courage,” critics tell Fox News Digital.
The cloth coverings that played a prominent role in the lives of Americans during the pandemic have recently been thrust back into the national spotlight as demonstrators around the country are using them to hide their faces while calling for an end to the war in Gaza. But protests involving masked demonstrators at campuses such as Columbia University and UCLA have led to property damage, violence and hundreds of arrests.
“It is the opposite of courage to hide behind a mask and to intimidate and menace, let alone physically harass or assault people,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, told Fox News Digital. “But when schools allow this, it can create not just vulnerability but real danger …