With President Trump successfully brokering a cease-fire in Gaza, a new question arises: what’s next for the self-proclaimed revolutionaries back home?

For the past two years, these individuals have dedicated their free time to rallying on streets and campuses, passionately protesting a distant conflict. They have honed their cries for change and upheaval during this period.

Now that a semblance of peace has emerged, what will occupy their energies?

Those who once thrived on having a cause will now find themselves searching for a new mission. They’ll need a reason to rise early on a Saturday morning.

Allow me to offer a few suggestions that might help fill the void now present in their lives:

1. They say that charity begins at home. But so does changing the world. Though as the late, great PJ O’Rourke once said, “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

But if there is one thing above all that people in this country should be furious about it is the woeful, abysmal, way in which we are educating our kids.

I was in Chicago earlier this week, and checked in on the school stats while I was there. That’s a habit of mine. Call it “disaster tourism.”

Sure enough, the latest test scores show that fewer than 1 in 3 students in Chicago Public Schools can read at grade level. Fewer than 1 in 5 students can do math at grade level.

Meanwhile a staggering 80 schools in Illinois do not have a single student — not one — who is proficient in math. A further 24 schools have zero pupils who are proficient in reading. This is despite the fact that the average spend per pupil in the area is almost $25,000 per year per pupil.

These figures might be slightly worse than in New York State, but they are not much worse.

Yet this — surely — should be a national scandal. It should be the sort of thing that brings Americans out onto the streets in their thousands. This really is the sort of thing that should make people hold up traffic.

How can the world’s greatest economy even hope to sustain its place in the world if our taxpayer dollars are lavished on an expensive education system that can’t even teach our children to read and add up?

2. While people claim to care about the misery of people in far-off conflicts, how about addressing the misery of people here in New York?

Homelessness rates in New York more than doubled between 2022 and 2024. According to the New York State Comptroller, homelessness rates here in New York are more than four times the national average. That includes more than 50,000 children. Think about that. While people claim to care about children in a far-off continent, what do they plan to do about the 50,000 children who are homeless in our own backyard?

Do any of the activists have a plan for what to do about this? It isn’t normal in a first-world country to have hundreds of thousands of homeless people on your streets. Why not make some noise about that? Why not do something to reverse it or change it, or demand that our taxpayer dollars are better spent to address it?

3. But perhaps protestors feel that the education of the next generation of Americans doesn’t matter much to them. Or that the homelessness crisis doesn’t need to bother them. Perhaps some people really do think it´s better to address their energies to far-off conflicts. In which case I have a few terrific causes that they would do well to address.

Why not throw yourself into the Northern Cyprus question? Cyprus is an EU Member State, and yet the north of the country has been illegally occupied for over half a century. It is 51 years now since the Turkish army invaded the island, killing the locals and forcefully displacing tens of thousands of Greek Cypriots from their homes. Does anyone want to call for the return of these families?

If not then how about the plight of the Christians of Northern Nigeria? I have seen that conflict myself and the relentless massacres against Nigerian Christians by the Fulani militias, Boko Haram and others really does constitute a genocide. It is an effort to wipe out the native Christian population with Kalashnikovs, suicide-bombs and machetes.

Why are there no protests on the streets of New York about this? Is it because the victims are Christians? Or is it because the perpetrators of the violence are jihadists rather than Jews? In any case, if you believe that shouting on the streets of New York can stop a genocide, how about focusing on a real one?

4. But perhaps some of the real die-hard, would-be Che Guevaras, really do want to linger on the tiny bit of territory known as Gaza that nobody — Israel, nor Egypt — wants to govern. If you are one of those people who two years ago had to check exactly where this tiny speck of land is, and decided that it is your spiritual homeland as causes go, why not keep up your interest?

Since last weekend’s ceasefire came into effect, and the Israeli Defense Forces withdrew, Hamas and other jihadist militias have moved in to try to reassert control. Anyone who has spent recent years online passing around terrible videos of violence should not turn away now.

Look at the videos of Hamas members lining up families from clans they oppose, getting them to kneel on the ground and then shooting them all in the head.

If you are somebody who “cares” then these are all very good things to care about. But if you’d rather stay home now that the war has stopped, then do know that the rest of us can see who you were all along.