How do you ensure more campus pro-terror riots? By subsidizing them.

In any discussion about the pro-Hamas riots, it’s important to make the point that they are being ultimately subsidized by the universities. Student activity fees go to fund pro-terror campus groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the pro-terror speakers that are brought in.

At Northwestern University, the message is that the university leadership will boost terror subsidies.

After five days of anti-Israel demonstrators occupying Deering Meadow on Northwestern University’s campus, Northwestern president Michael Schill and the rest of the university’s leadership decided to accede to several of the protesters’ demands.

While not committing to divesting its endowment from companies that do business in Israel and ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, the university released a list of concessions in a celebratory statement Monday afternoon in exchange for the removal of the encampment on the lawn.

Most notable among those concessions is a promise to offer full-ride scholarships to Palestinian students and guaranteed faculty jobs for Palestinian academics.

“The University will support visiting Palestinian faculty and students at risk (funding two faculty per year for two years; and providing full cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern for the duration of their undergraduate careers),” the document reads. “The University commits to fundraise to sustain this program beyond this current commitment.”

The message is that staging pro-Hamas riots will lead to a deal with the university leadership. So there’s no reason not to do it over and over again to extract more concessions. But that’s been the message since the 60s. And the demand here will ensure more pro-terror activists on campus to stage more riots to extract more concessions. Like most leftist activism, it’s a self-feeding extortion loop and the only way to win is to stop feeding it.