Not on My 2024 Bingo Card: Frat Boys Save America
As Palestinian sympathizers tear down American flags, denigrate historic statues, and trash college campuses around the U.S. in the name of “Gaza Liberation,” an unlikely hero rose to prominence in national headlines: the humble frat boy.
Protesters filled the courtyard at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill on Tuesday and managed to tear down the American flag and replace it with a Palestinian flag. Not long after, UNC’s chancellor, escorted by dozens of law enforcement officers, walked through the chaotic scene to re-raise the American flag, which was flying at half-staff to honor police officers killed in Charlotte the day prior.
When the chancellor and law enforcement left the area, protesters again attempted to take down the American flag. Their efforts were thwarted by fraternity members who stood guard around the flag, enduring middle fingers, insults, and objects hurled at them.
“These people wanted to tear down the flag, and we were there to protect it,” Pi Kappa Phi member Brendan Rosenblum told NewsNation.
“All of us felt that America, and the American flag — and for me, the Israeli flag — represent what we believe in,” he said. “And we weren’t going to let anyone stop us from keeping those two things up.”
The fraternity’s actions were caught on video which later went viral on social media, garnering hundreds of thousands of views and even prompting someone to start a GoFundMe fundraiser to “throw [them] a rager”—or a massive party.
“Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators,” the GoFundMe, which was launched anonymously, stated.
“But amidst the chaos … Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia … these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde — laughing at their shrieks and wails and shielding the Stars & Stripes,” it continued. “Help us raise funds to throw this frat the party they deserve, a party worth of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud.”
The fundraiser has already surpassed its goal of $450,000 by more than $20,000.
John Rich, one of the lead singers of Big and Rich, a country music band, offered the students a free concert “for their celebration of freedom party.”
Their actions inspired a movement of students and “frat boys” in other states—and dozens of videos of heroic and fed-up students have since gone viral.
At the University of Mississippi, a group of Palestinian protesters were drowned out by students singing the Star Spangled Banner.
