University of Michigan: "Shocking"? What's So Shocking?

"Social media users were shocked and outraged over a recent anti-Israel rally put on by pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Michigan this week."

Fox News, to its credit, is giving prime coverage to the latest anti-Israel demonstration, this time at the University of Michigan. The article reports the chants of, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and "Intifada, intifada" as being calls to murder Jews in Israel, which is exactly what they are. 

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/michigan-university-rally-overthrow-israel-stuns-internet-call-murder-jews

Fox online articles, when linked, often disappear, so here is a similar article from the New York Post. 

"The Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro put out a snarky comment about the protest, stating, “It’s because @UMich spends only $18 million annually on DEI.”

(I hope that's a joke because if any university is giving 18 million dollars to their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices (which don't give a hoot about anti-Semitism), that is a scandal in itself.)

The only issue I have with the Fox article is the use of the word, "shocking". After so many years of these chants being shouted on campuses across the country, who should be shocked? As I have often written, I taught part-time at UC Irvine from 1998-2016. I still have these chants ringing in my ears after hearing them countless times on that campus and from watching videos of demonstrations at other campuses. Yes, they are sickening, and they are shocking, but it's not like a new thing.

As the largest conservative media outlet, I sincerely hope that Fox continues to report on this issue because I know that CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and MSNBC will not. But know this, Fox: This is nothing new. Pro-Palestinian forces on our campuses have been calling for the deaths of Israeli Jews for at least two decades.

It bears watching how the campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily (actually a weekly), will report this. Thus far, as of today, I see nothing on their site. Hopefully, someone on their staff will take the time to dissect the words of the above chants and figure out what they actually mean.