WATCH: How do American college students react to ISIS, Israeli flags?
"If these are our best and brightest then we should all be afraid, very afraid."
By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN
What happens when you wave the Islamic State flag on an American college campus? Filmmaker Ami Horowitz expected at least the same amount of outrage that the notoriously anti-Israel student body at the University of California-Berkley has toward Israel."I went to the bucolic campus armed with a flag that represents the greatest evil known today, ISIS," Horowitz wrote in an article for Fox News. "If these are our best and brightest then we should all be afraid, very afraid."While waving the ISIS flag, Horowitz also chanted sarcastic justifications for the terror organization's use of extreme violence and beheadings of foreign aid workers in Syria."ISIS is misunderstood. We just want our own state. Western and American imperialism are to blame, not us. We just want a state of our own, an Islamic state, no different than America."One passerby wished him "Good luck" while another passerby gave a supportive fist pump in the air. Most people just walked by hardly paying attention, however. The only bout of criticism came from a man telling him smoking is forbidden on campus.When Horowitz did the same thing while waving the Israeli flag, the reaction was much different.Horowitz received verbal assaults, yells and middle fingers. "The shocking video above unfortunately proves once and for all that there is in fact no connection between intellect and wisdom," said Horowitz.