Mao would be proud of how Hamas has successfully brainwashed so many overprivileged and undereducated American college students.

His notorious Red Guard of the Sixties in China could not have done a better job.

In the possibility that the Hamas, anti-Israel, Jew-baiting students demonstrating in colleges across the country today missed their class on world history, it is mass murderer Mao Zedong, China’s authoritarian communist leader, we are talking about.

The Red Guard, like the 200 or so cells of the Hamas’ Students for Justice in Palestine on college campuses in the U.S. today, was a massive, student-led 1966 propaganda campaign, supported by Mao, that almost brought China to its knees.

Like the anti-Israel SJP, Mao’s Red Guard spread pro-Mao, communist propaganda throughout China, hysterically destroying symbols of China’s past, and attacking dissidents the way the Hamas supporters are doing to Jewish American college students in the U.S. today.

Many of these anti-Israel, Jew-baiting organizers on college campuses are in the U.S. on foreign student visas. Others are Islamist operators and terrorists who have come in through Joe Biden’s open borders.

Their job is to destabilize the U.S. and spread hate against American Jews and seek support for Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Before the madness ended in China, and Mao repudiated, the Red Guard even desecrated the cemetery site of Confucius, the ancient and revered Chinese philosopher, teacher and political theorist.

It was much the same way that pro-Palestinian student protestors defaced the statue of George Washington on the George Washington University campus in the nation’s capital last week, covering it with a Palestinian flag and a kaffiyeh.

The kaffiyeh, first made fashionable by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is a symbol of Palestinian nationalism. Having replaced the Che Guevera T-shirt, the kaffiyeh worn with sunglasses has become the latest in college cool among the protestors and their Hamas minders.

Given his moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas, do not be surprised if Joe Biden comes out wearing a keffiyeh with sunglasses the way Arafat used to do.

The keffiyehs, which used to be made in Palestine, are now made in China, although you will not see anyone wearing one in Beijing.

While initially in support of the Israelis’ invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct 7 attack, Biden now is supporting Hamas by delaying the shipment of arms to Israel.

Joe Biden is such a standup guy that he stands up for both sides.

Like the Red Guard of yesteryear, the Hamas-led pro-Palestinian protestors are also shutting down colleges like Columbia, ending college classes and activity, as well as attacking fellow classmates.

In the American version of college student insanity, the classmates happen to be fellow Americans who happen to be Jewish.

In the current case, the antisemitic, pro-Hamas attacks on American Jews are attacks on a people who have done more to help build he United States than have the people of all the Arab and Muslim nations combined, including Palestine.

But that, or anything else, has not stopped the Hamas-led college students, in one of their inane, zombie-like slogans, from chanting “Death to America” or burning the American flag.

They know there are no repercussions, not with Biden in the White House.

But try saying “Death to Hamas” at one of the grimy tent city college encampments at Columbia or Harvard and see what it gets you. It would be like chanting “Death to Hamas” in Rafah.

Even members of Mao’s Red Guard, as ruthless and menacing as they could be, never in their wildest dreams came across dissidents chanting, “Death to China.”

What is missing among the protesting zombies on U.S. campuses today are copies of Mao’s “Little Red Book” of aphorisms that Red Guard activists used to carry, wave, and quote during their rampages.

That and the mindless chants of the overprivileged and under-educated college demonstrators are enough to make you join the Israeli Army.

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Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

Police take a pro-Palestine protester to a Denver sheriff’s bus to be processed as law enforcement officers cleared a protest encampment on the Auraria Campus on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Denver. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post/TNS)