Chancellor Responds Accordingly After UNC-Chapel Hill Protesters Replace U.S. Flag With Palestinian One

By Sister Toldjah | 5:46 PM on April 30, 2024

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While outright insanity is reigning supreme on college campuses across the country with pro-Hamas protesters and feckless administrators wreaking havoc on once-respected higher education institutions, there have been pockets of sanity elsewhere, as RedState previously reported.

For instance, there was the University of Florida's mic drop response to agitators failing to abide by the rules, as well as how police (and administrators) responded to the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) encampment.

In another rare moment where a spine was shown in the face of lunatics attempting to take control of the asylum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill interim Chancellor Lee Roberts made a bold move Tuesday and also issued a defining statement a short time later after petulant demonstrators upset over early morning arrests took down the American flag at the main campus and replaced it with a Palestinian flag.

Before we get to what Roberts did, let us take a look at the American flag being switched out for the Palestinian flag at this taxpayer-funded university:

BREAKING: Protestors at UNC Chapel Hill have taken down the American flag and replaced it with the Palestinian one: pic.twitter.com/Hf33astp6M
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 30, 2024

In response, Roberts personally went to the flagpole and put it back up himself:

Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts is leading a team of law enforcment officers towards the flag pole. pic.twitter.com/d7Ptmy499e
— The Daily Tar Heel (@dailytarheel) April 30, 2024

HERO: Interim UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts personally restored the American flag at UNC:

(Credit: @dailytarheel) https://t.co/nB0oVSjycx pic.twitter.com/lohD0VCckc
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 30, 2024

In an interview, Roberts told reporters that as long as he was chancellor, the American flag would fly over the campus:

...Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts is shown walking to the quad, surrounded by law enforcement officers, to put the American flag back up. Counter-protesters surrounded the flagpole and chanted “USA,” thanking Roberts for his intervention.
“That flag will stay there as long as I am chancellor,” he told WRAL news in live coverage of the protest. “Tell students that we will keep them safe from a small minority of students who want to disrupt their experience. This university is for everybody.”

Sadly, protesters reportedly took down the flag again sometime after that in what was likely a challenge to Roberts. Let's see if he takes them up on it.

UNC-Chapel Hill is like many institutions of higher learning here in America where students have been radicalized over the years in part by woke professors and other school leaders, but fortunately, they haven't reached Berkeley levels - yet (not that they haven't tried).

My blood runs Duke Blue Devil blue and praising anything done by UNC-Chapel Hill is something I thought I'd never find myself doing.

But like the pro-Israel Congressional Democrats and Republicans who have found themselves on the same side of the Israel-Hamas war debate, the pro-Hamas college encampments are causing unlikely but necessary alliances as well, which is a good thing - because if clear majorities can't come together and stand against the rising tide of antisemitism and anti-Americanism, then we are absolutely lost as a nation.