Megyn Kelly asks why so many pro-Palestine protesters are ugly

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Megyn Kelly did not hold back when she addressed the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University.

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A student protest movement has rippled across North America in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. This week, New York City police burst into an administration building protesters had taken over and made dozens of arrests.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said it “was a beautiful thing to watch” police raid a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian students referring to the protestors as “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.”

Kelly took an altogether different tone as she wondered why all of the “little snowflakes” occupying Hamilton Hall on the campus were so “unattractive.”

“The student group behind the encampment posted on social media that the Hamilton Hall had been taken over by a quote ‘an autonomous group of Columbia community members.’ What does that mean?” Kelly said.

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“Yesterday, a deadline set by Columbia’s president for the encampment to be disbanded came and went. And now Columbia is vowing to suspend the students inside the encampment, but it seems they want to hand out the punishments in private. So as not to embarrass the little snowflakes who are acting so tough.”

Kelly added: “I’m telling you, they’re dumb and or unattractive, take it to the bank … I really legitimately want to know. Why are all the protestors so homely?”

Students protesting the conflict are demanding for an immediate ceasefire in the war and want to see their universities cutting ties with companies that provide military aid to Israel.

Kelly then showed a clip in which a Jewish American student was blocked by a masked group from going to class and another that showed a scholar being threatened with a taser.

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“So to recap, students get to ram into universities, ransack them, claim academic halls for themselves, rename them, restrict the movements of others on campus, prevent them from attending class, all without any swift repercussions whatsoever,” she said.

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As she spoke with attorneys Julian Epstein and Lexie Rigden about the disruptors receiving food and “tins of cupcakes” from sympathizers, the conservative pundit suggested that the agitators need “some coverup and some Ozempic.”

Kelly the said “attractive” and “smart” peers of the “unattractive” protesters because they’re too busy “being successful.”

“It’s the unattractive and or dumb people who feel the need to do this to feel like they matter. Sorry, hard truth,” she said.

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On YouTube and Instagram, Kelly’s comments sparked a myriad of comments.

“Do these kids have parents??? I’d be out of my mind if my child was doing this on her campus,” one person commented, while another encouraged Kelly to “stick to the facts and principles, not mean girl attacks on people’s appearances.”

“I say remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students who want a safe place from which to learn,” Trump said.

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Since April 18, more than 1,000 people have been arrested at more than 25 campuses in the U.S., according to CNN. Pro-Palestinian protests have also disrupted Canadian universities, including Montreal’s McGill, the University of Ottawa, Western University in London, Ont., the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.

Like their U.S. counterparts, they are calling on their schools to halt investments with Israeli companies.

The war began after the terror group known as Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping around 250.

In response, the Israeli military has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the ensuing war.

But some have wondered if the students protesting even know what is happening in the region.

Last month, a viral video emerged of a clueless student at New York University being asked why she was demonstrating.

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“I think the goal is showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops … I honestly don’t know what NYU is doing,” the young woman sporting a nose ring replied before asking her friend, “Do you know what NYU is doing?”

“I wish I was more educated!” her friend replied.

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