Stupid Is As Stupid Does

From The College Fix as seen at Legal Insurrection on Monday, September 16, 2024:

Ben Franklin statue at U. Pennsylvania defaced by pro-Hamas activists

"Pro-Hamas activists at the University of Pennsylvania tossed red paint onto a statue of Benjamin Franklin early Thursday, claiming the Founding Father’s monument “stands proudly as a symbol of imperial violence and colonialism.”

"In an Instagram post by Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine, activists posted photos and video of the vandalized statue and told the university its “hands are red” as it’s “complicit in the Palestinian genocide.”

"The post said an “autonomous group” was responsible for the defacement, a “visual reminder” of the (alleged) more than “186,000 martyrs” killed in Gaza by Israel.

“The University has tried to supress [sic] the student intifada, supressing [sic] Palestinian voices, all in the name of ‘campus safety,’” the post reads. “There are NO Universities left in Gaza. There are NO first days. The education system of Gaza has been systematically destroyed, and the genocide has only expanded.”

"The Penn Division of Public Safety told The Daily Pennsylvanian that “personnel from Facilities and Real Estate Development are working to repair the damage” and that university police are investigating.

"Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine also had called on activists to “shut down” Tuesday’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris."

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Two questions: 

1. What does Ben Franklin remotely have to do with Israel?

2. Did these losers, who don't deserve to be taking up space at college, assume that his first name, Benjamin, meant he was Jewish?   I wish he had been -- he was a genius.