An Ole Miss fraternity has determined to boot a pupil after a video of him viciously mocking a morbidly overweight pro-Hamas protester went viral on-line.
As Jim Hoft beforehand reported, lots of of pupil college students gathered at a pro-Hamas protest on Thursday and commenced singing the Nationwide Anthem. However one other video clip of scholars consisting of fraternity brothers taunting a portly agitator whom law enforcement officials had been holding again additionally emerged that very same day.
CNN recognized the agitator as 24-year-old journalism and media graduate pupil Jaylin Smith. She confirmed to the outlet she was the lady within the video.
Roughly 9 seconds into the video clip, a male might be seen apparently making monkey noises towards Smith whereas leaping up and down. The younger particular person was later related to the fraternity Phi Delta Theta.
The opposite college students chorus from making ape-like sounds. They follow cheering the officers and shouting provocative statements akin to “Lock her up!”
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This video from Ole Miss is gorgeous, however guys, please put away the telephones. Be within the second if you’re mocking the Hamas loving fats woman. pic.twitter.com/0ESdQ6a99Q
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) Might 3, 2024
Leftists led by former ESPN anchor Jemele Hill had been fast to label the scholar’s actions as racist. She demanded in an X publish that Ole Miss ban the fraternity for his or her actions towards the protester.
1) What fraternity does he symbolize? That fraternity’s nationwide management must be contacted instantly and that frat must be barred from campus.
2) We have now just lately seen countless conversations and motion gadgets created about antisemitism, however I’m guessing that very same vitality… https://t.co/JvuTXYaMqK
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) Might 3, 2024
On Sunday, Phi Delta Theta bowed to the web outrage and introduced in assertion that that they had kicked the person out of the fraternity for his “racist actions.”
Phi Delta Theta Common Headquarters is conscious of the video concerning the scholar protest on the College of Mississippi. The racist actions within the video had been these of a person and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
The accountable particular person was faraway from membership on Friday, Might 3.
