‘Absolute Hysteria’: MSNBC Host Hammers Media — Including Morning Joe — For Fixation on College Protests ‘As Gaza’s Entire Education System Lies in Ruins’

MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin decried the media’s “absolute hysteria” over protests on U.S. college campuses while ignoring Israel’s bombing of Palestinian universities.

On Sunday’s Ayman Mohyeldin Reports, he cited an NBC digital report, saying, “‘The war has halted the studies of at least 88,000 students, according to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Higher Education.’ But, if you’ve turned on television here in America, apparently it’s American universities that are under attack. As Pro-Palestinian anti-war protests continue to spread to college campuses across the country, coverage of these demonstrations has dominated mainstream media. Here’s just a really small glimpse of how these protesters have been described.”

Mohyeldin cut to clips of everyone from Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld saying, “This might look like Jan. 6, but it’s a thousand times worse,” to CNN’s Dana Bash, who said the protests were “hearkening back to the 1930s, and I do not say that lightly.”

Mohyeldin then quoted MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch, who said on Morning Joe, “We are going to have fascism as a result of these protests.” He continued:

It’s absolute hysteria from the media. Outrage over protesters setting up tents, occupying buildings, or breaking windows, as Gaza’s entire education system lies in ruins. U.S. media have become obsessed with this manufactured idea of violence sweeping across American campuses, all while failing to cover the very real violence that has decimated an entire generation’s access to education.

But the media isn’t doing this alone. Here in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has given them an assist, making himself, as The Nation’s Jeet Heer describes, “The public face of the nationwide campus crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.”At a press conference this week, Adams attempted to rationalize the NYPD’s crackdown on Columbia University, claiming he’s preventing young people from being, quote, “radicalized by professionals.” New York City Deputy Police Commissioner Tarik Sheppard has gotten in on the baseless fear-mongering, as well, touting, bike chains — yeah, bike chains — literally, bike chains, sold at a discount by Columbia University, as some kind of sinister weapon that has been brought in by outsiders.

If you want to talk about sinister weapons inflicting mass destruction on campus, what about the 300-plus mines that the Israeli military used to blow up Isra University back in January? It’s as simple as this: you cannot claim to be worried about violence at universities, about disruptions to students’ education, about safety on college campuses, and ignore what is taking place in Gaza. You cannot be more concerned about the act of students protesting than you are with the very issues they’re protesting against, and what the U.N. Rapporteur on Human Rights described as a “genocide.”

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.

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