Florida State University (FSU) student Eden Deckerhoff was suspended from school for assaulting another student because he dared to wear an IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) t-shirt.
Deckerhoff decided confrontation was better than conversation when she assaulted a fellow student, who was working out at the gym. The guy wisely videoed Deckerhoff’s rant and assault, and when the school got wind of it, they issued a well-deserved suspension.
The suspension was justified. Her “reasons” don’t matter—and anyone who says otherwise might want to revisit the fundamental values that make our communities safe and free. If you condone this, what lesson do you want the next generation to learn? Is brute force an acceptable answer to dissent?
BREAKING: Eden Deckerhoff, a graduate student at Florida State University, who violently attacked a Jewish peer at the gym and screamed “Fuck Israel,” has been suspended until an expulsion hearing and has been trespassed from campus.
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Eden’s motives, whatever justification she or her supporters scream from the rooftops, are irrelevant. In America, we cherish—no, demand—the freedom to express ourselves. That includes the right to wear an IDF t-shirt, a rainbow pin, a MAGA hat, a Kefiyah, or anything else that makes a person proud, no matter how offensive anyone finds it. If you see it and don’t like it, you walk away or make some sort of snide comment, if you can’t control yourself, but that’s the limit. Resorting to physical violence because you disagree with a symbol or cause is not an act of “resistance” or “activism”—it’s a crime.
Some will try to make Eden the victim, and already have based on comments on social media, by spinning tales about her feelings, beliefs, or provocations she supposedly endured. Some will say she was “triggered,” a bullshit term meaning the person has zero control over their actions. Some have mentioned her background and are making her out to be a “good girl.” Meanwhile, the guy she assaulted is a genocidal terrorist who deserves whatever bad things come his way, when all he was doing was expressing what’s important to him personally. What’s next? Will people justify ripping a Star of David off of someone’s neck because they feel that Jews are white nationalists who make them feel sad, just because they exist? Here’s the bottom line: you do not assault someone because you do not like their shirt or what it stands for. That’s not just basic morality; that’s the law. Anyone’s little momentary feelings of upset don’t matter. By crossing that line, Eden made her feelings everyone else’s problem.
And yet, predictably, there’s a chorus of apologists. “But she was upset,” they’ll say. “But the IDF is controversial,” they’ll insist. They’ll dredge up every rationalization under the sun to soften her actions, but all that does is erode our collective sense of right and wrong.
Let me be clear: Once you start excusing violence based on personal grievance or ideological disagreement, we lose the very fabric of civil society. You have forgotten right from wrong. We teach toddlers not to hit when they’re angry. Why should older kids get a pass to do it when they disagree politically?
No. Not in Florida—not anywhere. Nothing like this will fly in this state. We don’t settle disagreements by assaulting and harassing people. That’s not the American way.
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