There is also a large segment of Israelis who protest and oppose the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and destruction of Gaza, the RW extremist violent crazy fanatic settlers, the corrupt tyrannical politicians like Netanyahu, and the hateful bigots like those in power in Israel's government.
@rbreich unfortunately the anti-Semitic protesters are indeed spoiling the protests for all, and ARE making Jewish students feel unsafe. Protests are only good to the point where they are not disruptive and intimidating to the lives of others. https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1781933305501212872
I'd go further - anyone who characterizes protests against the slaughter in Gaza as antisemitic, is characterizing the slaughter in Gaza as somehow inextricable from Jewishness.
They are the ones saying Jews are inherently murderous. If that doesn't make them the antisemites, I don't know what does.
@rbreich
I think that those in power are crossing the line when they say that standing up for the rights of Palestinians is being antisemitic. It isn't. It's called being a decent human being and recognizing that Israel has done some terrible things and gotten away with it for far too long.
@rbreich a big problem all those similar situation face is that they get abused to be escalated and to divide society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Russia sends their regards.
We have to always keep this in mind and clear up that foreign rule of force use it for their divide and conquer strategy.
We don't take hostages in the US.
Not on January 6th in the US Congress and not today on a private college campus.
Please read the #genevaconventions
The hostages have the right to speak with the Red Cross and Israel has broad powers to rescue hostages from negotiation to assassination. https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icath/icath.html
@rbreich I have not seen any acta of antisemitism at NYU nor Columbia. There have been some provocative shouts of "I am Hamas," but that is in no way threatening (it's an acknowledgment that Israel is treating all of Gaza as Hamas). The Palestinian flag is not a swastika. And tents in a quad is nothing like white nationalists marching through Charlottesville in 2017.
If the past has taught us anything, it is that this form of civil protest is often essential.
Administrators, especially the current generation of corporatized administrators, rarely listen to faculty, let alone students. As in business, learning to ignore their views is a right of passage, like learning to fire someone or to hate labor unions.
Power is not given. It has to be taken. A tool to do that peaceably is to wield shame against those who refuse to be embarrassed.
@rbreich The difficulty with this phrasing is that there is no evidence that, for example, the Columbia protestors are antisemitic (many of the protestors are Jewish) or that they are committing violence (police reported that the protestors they evicted were peaceful and cooperative).
Unfortunately, you placing the concept of antisemitism adjacent to your concern for the actions against people in Gaza, reinforces the Israeli desire to keep objections to their actions in the antisemitic category, and not in the commiting-genocide category.