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Michael Moore called out “fellow boomers” who are not supportive of pro-Palestinian college encampments being broken up by police across the country.
Moore released the second part of a report for his Rumble podcast from some of the encampments in New York where police have intervened multiple times. They even breached an administrative building at Columbia University that had been taken over by demonstrators. Protesters are calling for their schools to completely divest from Israel in objection to their strikes on Gaza, which have led to thousands of civilian casualties.
One exchange captured by Moore’s producers was protesters creating a line as police moved in and warned them they’d be arrested for disorderly conduct.
“White allies!” people can be heard chanting. “To the front of the line!”
At another point, activists could be heard changing “shame” at police officers.
Moore has been a vocal defender of the protests amid concerns about reports about antisemitism. The filmmaker took a shot at his “fellow boomers” who treat the
“I don’t understand why fellow boomers are being so snide and snarky about them or, you know, telling them they’re a bunch of idiots and they don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t understand history,” he said. “Jeez. What they understand is right and wrong.”
Moore added that protesters have been “ridiculed in the media.”
“You may not agree with everything they say or do or whatever, but nonetheless they’re not out there to hurt anybody,” he said.
On the first part of his podcast report on the podcasts, Moore encouraged students to take over more buildings, calling it a necessary part to making their point heard.
Moore previously helped organize a protest vote in the Michigan Democratic primary where more than 100,000 voted “uncommitted” as a way to demand President Joe Biden call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Moore has argued that Biden will lose in November if he does not change his Israel policy.