Chuck DarwinIn interviews, several members of the U.N.C. chapter of #Alpha #Epsilon #Pi, a #Jewish #fraternity, said they were ⭐️disappointed that the money raised on their behalf was paying for a party.
They said they would 🔥rather that a significant portion of the money go to a charity that ✅supports Jewish organizations or ✅relief efforts in Gaza.
“The use of our actions to promote a narrative that we were some
❌right-wing, MAGA heroes
has been a gross misrepresentation and a disservice to many of those who were actually there,”
said Oliver Levine, a junior at the university and the president of its Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter.
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Two dozen or so fraternity members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shielding a wrinkled American flag from pro-Palestinian protesters who had already taken it down once.
Republicans, including Donald Trump, were quick to highlight the episode in speeches and videos.
But a GoFundMe campaign created for the fraternity brothers captured the most attention.
Its organizer, #John #Noonan, who has worked for a number of Republicans in Washington, wrote on the #GoFundMe page that “#commie #losers” had invaded college campuses
and that the U.N.C. “#Brohemians” had protected the flag from an “#unwashed #Marxist #horde.”
So, Mr. Noonan said, he needed America’s help to “throw ’em a #rager.”
In less than a week, he raised $515,492.
A moment of heated emotions over the war in Gaza had become the impetus for a giant party that Mr. Noonan said would feature #beer, country #music and #Greek organizations.
The party, which Mr. Noonan is calling “#Flagstock,” is scheduled for Labor Day
— the location has not been disclosed because of security concerns
— and will feature musical guests closely aligned with Mr. Trump.
⚠️But despite all the pomp, it has prompted frustrations on the Chapel Hill campus, ⭐️most notably from many of the fraternity brothers who surrounded the flag on the school’s quadrangle that day in April.
