Students Re-Raise American Flag on UNC Campus

Students at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus raised an American flag after it was taken down by protesters demonstrating for Palestine.

Video filmed by Guillermo Estrada shows the flag being raised on a pole located on the Polk Place quadrangle as people gathered and sang the national anthem. Two people were seen holding up an Israeli flag.

“When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flagpole, and was immediately upset at the act that these ‘protesters’ had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict, but it upset me that my country’s flag was disrespected in order to advocate for another,” Estrada wrote in a thread on X.

Estrada said shortly after the flag was raised protesters attempted to take it down again, at which point he and several of his fraternity brothers from the Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi chapter held the flag up to stop it from touching the ground.

“People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect,” Estrada said.

A GoFundMe asking for money for a party to reward the brothers of Pi Kappa Phi for holding up the flag raised over $439,000. This included a $10,000 donation from billionaire Bill Ackman, according to reports.

“Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators,” the GoFundMe said. “But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde — laughing at their shrieks and wails and shielding the Stars & Stripes from Soviet missiles. These boys… no, men, of the UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best. Help us raise funds to throw this frat the party they deserve, a party worthy of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud.” Credit: Guillermo Estrada via Storyful

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