Well, look who’s back torching the town like it’s a 1920 Ku Klux Klan rally: Antifa, the Democrats’ favorite astroturfed attack squad, is out here turning campuses into bonfire pits ... because a Republican dares to sit in the Oval Office.

With Trump back in charge, the left’s insurrectionist goon squad has dusted off their black hoodies, ready to “protest” by any means necessary—because nothing screams “justice” like a dumpster fire and a barricade.

Pro-Palestinian students and masked activists occupied the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, renaming it the Shaban al-Dalou Building to protest the university’s ties to Boeing.

Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return, a student-led organization at the UW focused on advocating for Palestinian rights and liberation, is demanding that the university sever all financial and material connections with Boeing, repurpose the IEB into a "community-controlled space," and end disciplinary actions against pro-Palestinian activists.

A separate group, dressed in black, barricaded the building’s entrances with furniture, toppled dumpsters to block Jefferson Road, and ignited trash in one dumpster, with reports of e-bike batteries thrown into the fire causing explosions.

Police did nothing as the radical activists set the trash ablaze.

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Insurrectionists are seen in another video surrounding a security guard’s vehicle, prompting the officer to speed away.

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A law enforcement official is later heard asking the rioters to, "Please clear the street."

"Shut the fuck up!" a man shot back while another insurrectionist repeatedly yelled, "Death to the police!"

TERROR: Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived to dismantle the illegal Gaza encampment at the University of Washington, issuing a clear warning: disperse or face arrest. pic.twitter.com/blIwIeL9mL

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At one point, the Antifa mob surrounded four officers, forcing them to retreat down a hill, shouting, "Move back! Move back! Move back!"

UW police were on-site by 5 p.m., reporting that the “trespassers” were covering their faces and stacking furniture to block entryways. The university stated, “Individuals remaining in the building are trespassing and will face legal and student conduct actions.”

UW police contacted the Seattle Police Department for "mutual aid assistance." SPD mobilized a task force, a routine procedure, but did not deploy SWAT.

By 10 p.m., SPD declared the gathering unlawful, issuing a dispersal order as tensions escalated.

Police dismantled an illegal Gaza encampment erected by the mob.

Super UW’s manifesto declared the occupation was part of a "student intifada" following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, accusing UW of prioritizing “blood money” over student demands.

"We’re hoping to remove the influence of Boeing and other manufacturing companies from our educational space, period, and we’re hoping to expose the repressive tactics of the university," Super UW spokesperson Eric Horford told KOMO News.

Horford added, "We are here to negotiate with the university, and we are hoping they’ll hear us and speak with us."

The UW Jewish Alumni Association condemned the university’s failure to prevent the demonstration, citing vandalism and a dumpster fire.

The group’s manifesto called for students and workers to "hinder the US empire" and support Palestinian liberation.

Meanwhile, on January 6, 2021, protesters who entered the U.S. Capitol, even as police held the doors open for many, were swiftly labeled “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists” by Republican and Democrat lawmakers, federal authorities, and corporate media.

Many faced charges obstructing an official proceeding, punishable by a 20-year sentence, despite no evidence of weapons or violent acts in numerous cases.

Over 1,550 were charged, with sentences ranging from months to 22 years for seditious conspiracy.

Police indiscriminately fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and flashbang grenades into the crowd, killing four people and wounding at least six demonstrators—some shot in the face or neck with rubber rounds.

In contrast, the UW activists’ actions—vandalizing property, setting fires, and barricading a building, violently confronting the police — exceed the disruption of January 6, yet their designation as “protesters” rather than “insurrectionists” highlights a stark disparity.

The visceral chaos of exploding e-bike batteries and burning dumpsters posed immediate public safety risks, unlike the largely nonviolent Capitol breach.

January 6 defendants faced relentless FBI manhunts and public vilification, while the identities of UW activists remain largely shielded by masks and pseudonyms.

More than 25 people were arrested after the mob occupied the academic building, ABC News reports.  

Not a single Democrat lawmaker has publicly denounced the actions of UW insurrectionists, despite their parallels to events Democrats previously decried as insurrectionary.

So, will these masked fire-starters face the same wrath as the January 6 grannies who shuffled through the Capitol taking selfies?

Don’t hold your breath.

The left’s darling “activists” can apparently torch dumpsters and barricade buildings without earning the “terrorist” scarlet letter—no FBI task force required, while Trump supporters got slammed with solitary confinement and decade-long sentences for far less.

Justice, it seems, depends on whose flags you wave—and who your friends are in high places.