Speak softly and carry a big keffiyah?The great-great-great grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt appears to have traded the Rough Riders for Hamas and Hezbollah, as he vocally supports the anti-Israel tent encampments erupting at universities across the country.
Quentin Colon Roosevelt, 18, a freshman at Princeton University who also once served as Washington DC’s youngest elected official, is staunchly anti-Israel despite his famous ancestor’s support for a Jewish state.
Roosevelt wants the Ivy League university, where he serves on the student government, to “divest” from Israel and has vowed “we will not stop, we will not rest” in a recent post on X that included an image of a hand-drawn Palestinian flag.
The teen, who also worked to re-elect ‘Squad” member Summer Lee this spring, retweeted a post from the far left rep likening Israel’s war against Hamas to a “genocide.”
Roosevelt also accused Israel of committing “massacres in Gaza,” but does not appear to have condemned Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 terrorist attacks which left at least 1,200 Israelis dead.
The Bull Moose nepo baby has implied he’s even helped organize the anti-Israel demonstrations at Princeton, where students have displayed the Hezbollah flag, chanted for “intifada revolution,” and shoved Jewish counterprotesters.
“We’ve set up a peaceful student protest in solidarity with our peers at Columbia, Yale, UT Austin, and other universities nationwide,” Roosevelt wrote on X on the first day of protests.
Princeton has seen more than a dozen students arrested since the protests began April 25, and Roosevelt has been outspoken against the police action.
“You can threaten us, but you cannot silence us @Princeton,” the college freshman wrote on X.
Roosevelt attempted to pass an amendment in Princeton’s student government condemning the arrests, but an 11th-hour effort mounted by the school’s Jewish student body forced the vote to be rescheduled.
Theodore Roosevelt, who supported the Balfour declaration — issued by the British Government in 1917 during World War supporting the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region — had a very different attitude toward Israel than his distant descendent.
“It seems to me that it is entirely proper to start a Zionist state around Jerusalem,” Roosevelt famously said in 1918, at the end of World War I.
The 26th president, who himself was a Harvard man, was the first US president to appoint a Jew to his cabinet and lauded Jews who served under him when he was commissioner of the NYPD.
President Roosevelt criticized Russian Czar Nicholas II after the 1903 Kishniev pogrom, in which marauders killed 49 Jews and raped 600 Jewish women after rumors spread that a Jew murdered a Christian child.
Quentin Colon Roosevelt did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.
