Berkeley students had a wildly different reaction to a man waving an Islamic State flag and shouting pro-IS slogans than they did to the same man doing the same thing with an Israeli flag. While most ignored the IS cheerleading, and a few even encouraged it, there is a great deal of vitriol directed at the support for Israel.
"I have always thought that there was no connection between intellect and wisdom," Ami Horowitz, who made the video, said of his experiment in a Fox News opinion piece. "To put this theory to the test, I headed out to the University of California, Berkeley."
"The shocking video above unfortunately proves once and for all that there is in fact no connection between intellect and wisdom."
The video shows that no one confronted Ami while he waved the IS flag, but multiple passersby yelled at him as he waved the Israeli flag. One man says "fuck Israel!" several times. One woman said "all of Israel are killers." Another said he's "killing kids."
Yet another student said Ami was "sick" for waving the Israeli flag.