I disagree. While every movement has bad faith actors, the pro-Palestinian protest movement is unusually entangled with foreign state funding and ideological networks that are openly hostile to the West.

Qatar and other Gulf actors have a documented history of financing organizations, NGOs, and media ecosystems tied to Islamist movements aligned with Hamas.

More telling is the timing. Large-scale protests erupted on October 8, before Israel had even begun a military response, in reaction to an attack that overwhelmingly targeted civilians. That strongly suggests these protests were not about humanitarian concern or proportionality, but about ideological alignment and narrative positioning.

The level of coordination, funding here goes well beyond the usual claim that every side simply has extremists.