Israel is working as fast as they can to eliminate every last Palestinian in Gaza with all the bombs and weapons we've given them. The Trump administration has succeeded at shutting down any complaints regarding this in US press or social media.
A country rooted in freedom of religion now under threat by religious zealots. Where is our freedom FROM religion? Ironic that Trump the most unreligious POTUS in history is their "useful idiot".
It may not be ACTUAL law yet -- honestly, it is too hard for me to keep up with Trump's Flood the Zone technique -- but it is the effective law and the Trump administration is post-constitutional, anyway. They have no respect for laws.
Tired of the pretense of moral superiority since many of these same people refused to vote for Kamala Harris so we're in no position to do a damn thing about it now.
People want a lecture on Gaza, show us your damn ballot from 2024 first.
Congratulations on the courage and strength of will to insist on the right of freedom of expression, and other rights, that your forefathers, and their forefathers before them, have struggled for over the centuries.
The MAGA fascists will come after GWU, and Trump will post long, idiotic rants on Trash Social. Young idealists might lead the way out of the insanity. Let's hope.
Palestine and Ukraine and Kashmir and anywhere the drug cartels control and anywhere people are being rounded up for internment or trafficking and anywhere there are women and minorities being oppressed.
What schools should do is develop an in-depth program to explore what is going on in the region and encourage discourse. Telling students to quiet down does no good.
This is supposed to be higher education, where students are encouraged to think for themselves.
Get your diploma. Nothing that kid says or does will make any difference. Get your diploma and a career in politics or whatever profession can actually make change. Change is made by people on the inside.
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When a country has to count on its college students, freshly graduated, In the most debt and not even in the workforce yet, to show how to be goddamn adults and good citizens of the world....
And some at Kent State died for it. Someone was insulting the boomers in the comments. A lot of those boomers protested in colleges and on the streets. Actually I would say they were the protestors that brought about the most change. So glad I was there to witness it.
The anti-Hamas protests have been ongoing for nearly 8 weeks at this point, despite Hamas having beaten or even killed two dozen protest leaders, and are re-instating the murder-squad that they used in 2006 to wipe out Fateh after “winning” the election.
reported that they would agree to Hamas leaders being expelled from the Gaza Strip as a condition for peace, and 34% said they would agree to Hamas being disarmed as a condition for peace, which is a HUGE increase from previous polls.
They do stop, often for years at a time. Then Hamas murders innocent people, and the cycle of violence continues. Palestinians need to get rid of Hamas et al.
They're fighting an apartheid regime intent on wiping them out. Are you really trying to say that 1,200 dead Israelis justifies 53,000 dead Palestinians, most of them women and children, and not Hamas?
If someone had attacked you viciously numerous times and you finally hard your boot on their throat, then they said "I promise not to do it again", would you let them up?
You people are fucking delusional. We're talking about innocent civilians, your attempts to paint women and children as terrorists is psychotic. Your solution to a bank robbery is to have the police shoot the family living in the house next to the bank.
What about the 40 years before Hamas was created by israel.. Whats your excuse for that 🤔... You still think this is about hostages IDF use missiles to look for, or Hamas...🤦♂️Its always been a slaughter of innocents for 'greed' and a land grab for resources by zionists.
What was Israel doing to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state between 1949 and 1967, when the West Bank and Gaza were part of Jordan and Egypt respectively?
Why did Palestinians not declare the State of Palestine during that period?
There are some Palestinians who feel like that. However it’s also the right under intnl law of the Gaza govt, which is Hamas, to resist. The Occupier, Israel, doesn’t have the right to attack BECAUSE it is the Occupier. Another breach of intnl law by Israel.
You are incorrect. Hamas is the democratically elected govt of Gaza, which the militia branch of that govt is also called Hamas. The Palestinian Authority is the govt of the West Bank where the majority of Palestinians reside.
Hamas seized control of the government in Gaza in 2007. They are not a internationally recognized governmental body. There is nothing Democratic about them. They are a terrorist organization.
2) Since election results were close, Hamas and Fatah agreed to share power. You’re correct in 2007 Hamas seized power, breaking the agreement. Hamas held power ever since. The Pales. ppl were powerless to fix it. Once again an American nosed into a sitch he didn’t understand and fucked it all up.
1) Pres. GW Bush stated in 2002 if Palestine wanted intnl recognition as a state, they should hold elections. They did. Monitored by an EU mission. Fatah and Hamas main parties. Hamas won. As govt they managed social svcs, municip. svcs, health svcs., etc. Hamas militia was a branch of govt. /2
Be honest with yourself. You don't have to respond. If you were Palestinian whose 10 year old cousin was captured by IDF without charge, would you trust Israel? There were over 5000 Palestinian prisoners/hostages that were women and children
Who has fucked up whose life? Catholic Zionists,e.g. Biden
I have no connection to Palestinians. I saw this on TikTok. I used to know 2 of Palestinians 4 decades ago in England. One was an Arab Christian & the other was an Arab Jew. Both hated the European Jews' attitude.
Propaganda is saying these are the chosen people?
Have you inherited Adolf's genes.
muslims love to cry to the UN when they pick a fight they can't win as though islam being trapped in the 9th century is everyone's problem but there'. Hey sorry not sorry you religion has kept you barbaric but that's not the wests bloody problem. It is not our job to save muslims from islam.
You make up your mind based on your limited misinformation and brainwash yourself consistently to be sure you never leave the safety of your false narratives 👍
Israel has been oppressing Palestinians for decades, attacking & forcing them from their homes in middle of the night. Every Palestinian has had multiple family members jailed in Israel w/o reason or due process. Israel started this war & genocide by denying food, water, electricity, & aid to Gaza.
Where did I say Oct 7th didn't happen? Oct 7th was retaliation of decades of Israeli white colonialism and human rights' abuse against native Palestinians.
You know people like YOU r the problem. Instead of your comment why don't you speak on her courage to speak AGAINST PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE AND WITH SUPPORT BY OUR COUNTRY! STOP, IF U DON'T HAVE ANYTHING INTELLIGENT OR KIND TO SAY "CLOSE YOUR MOUTH SO FLIES STAY OUT!"
Did you not hear what the other kid at NYU had happened to him for speaking out? I was just making an observation.. she showed great courage and I totally support what she saying but she still could lose her diploma
I agree, she will not be snatched off American streets and be put into detention. They will not call for her to be arrested, and she will not lose her diploma!! I am not or have ever been president of this country!! I did not make a plea for my tax dollars to be used for this purpose...
She won't and that other kid will get his diploma, whether now or in a few months. Courts r going full force against the administration. I apologize thought u were attacking her, please accept my apology 😔 🙂
No worries and i hope you are right both these young people should be celebrated for the courage to speak up.. they have better spines than almost every University president in the country right now
She has more courage and humanity than every Israeli zionist 'new nazi' supporter or any single cowardly complicit western government leader .
True humanity cant be bought.... Even with a 500 million dollar plane.
Despite some cheering, this young woman was not preaching tae a choir.
This is exactly how the value of education, courage and integrity can be seen and utilised.
What I wouldn’t give to be graduating and free to go wherever in the world I wanted right now ( almost anywhere but here). Raising kids through trump 1.0, covid and now trump 2.0,the authoritarian years has taken so many years off my life and has taken so much from my children.
@gwu1821.bsky.social doesn’t seem to be punishing students for exercising their first ammendment rights… that’s going to see given what #nyu did to their graduation speaker…
Thank you for helping him understand. Trump is a racist prick. He hates Muslims, black people, brown people, but if they’re rich Muslims from Oatar that give him money then he likes them.
Such an asshole Trump is.
Ah, A gatekeeper.
You may have misunderstood the poster, who was saying Trump has no concern for Muslims in Gaza or in our universities. That hardly seems like a controversial take
Brilliant!! I agree it’s hard to live life as normal when so many cannot. These seniors should be able to celebrate fully. Wonderful speech and I love the support from members of her graduating class.
I can appreciate that. But words are barely uttered about prison camps in Myanmar, gulags and assassination, as well as civilian targets by Russia, subjugation in much of the Middle East and Asia, dark sites run by the US and other countries, shall I go on? All the press goes here.
It's kind of like the situation in the USA. Bibi and Trump are monsters and both of them have a good sized group that support them. The rest of us are stuck with them. The Bibi lovers, like MAGA cultists, are not good or innocent people.
wow, that is a brave young person. her parents should be extremely proud of the woman standing before that student body in this nation’s capital making that speech! that is this country’s future, if anything is left for them.
I understand her pain and agree with her sentiment except she needed to add that the Palestinians willingly or or indirectly allowed a Hamas brutal atrocity against Israel and that they are paying a heavy price for allowing Hamas to operate in their name. It needs to be said.
I dont disagree that Israel has been more militarily dominant but they have a right to exist in peace and the Palestinians must be allowed the same right. The killing must stop. That is the immediate priority.
Putting aside history is hard but needed to move forward.
Yes. They have. There is no military solution. Only a pause in the slaughter to allow parties to find a political solution offers hope. Otherwise we witness war and all that it implies. The Palestinians must have a say in their future and Israel must be allowed to exist in peace.
Hamas didn’t exist until 1987. Israel has, however, been murdering Palestinians since 1948 to steal their land.
I’m not certain how you think that a nation established through slaughter and land theft is going to end, particularly when one nation believes they were promised the land by a fake god.
I was never on Truth Social and I am firmly anti Trump and all he stands for, but Both the Palestinians and Israel have made terrible mistakes. The priority now is to somehow put those mistakes aside and stop military operations on both sides to allow for talks on a peaceful resolution.
There is a staggering difference in both intent and funding for the two sides. One was funneled 50 billion dollars in aid/weapons over the last 19 months and one side was trying to survive the bombardment by 50 billion dollars worth of warfare. "Mistakes" is putting things VERRRRRRRRRRRRRY LIGHTLY.
I did say “ terrible” mistakes. War seems to be one of those things where might makes right and the end justifies the means until they don’t and there is just pure evil begetting more evil.
Putting aside history and those evils to allow enough time for a solution to emerge is the only hope.
Oh, look! Another genius who thinks Israel was just innocently minding its own business before Oct 7th. You’re ignorant. Israel has denied Palestinians the right to exist while slaughtering them for 80 years. Israel is not the victim.
“There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.” PM Golda Meir. 1969.
… and Oct 7 is the means to what end? More and more killings? On and on until what? You are correct, I’m no genius, and have no answer but if you enjoy killing ad infinitum… then have had it . America needs to pressure both sides to stop and find solutions . Both sides have embraced evil for what?
Bravo! This is a true humanitarian..Go forward and unite with your words and heart..God bless your life..may you prosper..you bring hope never let that stop you.
Amazing woman. She has more conscience awareness about the world than most Republicans in the Congress. She knows what is worth speaking up about and has the courage if her convictions. Good job.
So this women receives justified praise for her speech, but the man who delivered similar remarks at NYU has been denied his degree and may face legal action. We don’t live in a real country, but a hodgepodge of local tyrants all posing as “leadership.” At every level, we have no laws.
They may have denied him his diploma that day, but I seriously doubt they can legally withhold his degree. And, they just look small and petty in trying to punish him for the very free thinking they were supposed to be instilling in the first place.
Always good to hear an American student speak out in support of Islamic Jihadist terrorism. Did she at least denounce Hamas' killing of Gazans that are protesting them? Did she get around to calling for the release of Israeli hostages? Did she talk about the real genocides occurring in Syria &Sudan?
“What about this tooism…. “. Is not an argument but a deflection. She speaks about Gazan students … and good on her - better than you discounting her courage. Courage she needs because of people like you. You need to Stand down.
Rewrite: “Its with a heavy heart that I graduate today knowing the Bibas boys (4 and 9 months old) will never attend college because their kidnappers choked them both to death with their bare hands.”
Josef "it is wrong for what was done to those children but it was HAMAS NOT THE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN, AND THOSE INNOCENT CHILDREN ARE STARVING AND BEING MURDERED, SO STOP! YOU KNOW DAM WELL THE FACTS!
The university should indeed divest from anything that funds oppression & death; right now the 2 biggest offenders are those attacking Palestine & Ukraine.
Seeing these young people show so much courage in speaking out against the atrocities happening in Palestine and Gaza gives me some hope that the US may have a chance 💙🇵🇸
Her courage when just last week NYU took retribution against one of its graduation speakers for opposing genocide.
The strong support she gets from her classmates.
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People want a lecture on Gaza, show us your damn ballot from 2024 first.
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This is supposed to be higher education, where students are encouraged to think for themselves.
There are atrocities on all sides, but you don’t see folks calling out all Muslims. Hamas, yes.
Your statement is 100% antisemitic.
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Palestine has the internationally recognized right to resist their extermination
israel has the right to fuck right off
The younger generation(s) can force change.
Don’t ever back down.
#resist
America is at a failing tipping point.
I’m a recent PCR poll, nearly 50% of Gazans
Why did Palestinians not declare the State of Palestine during that period?
Who has fucked up whose life? Catholic Zionists,e.g. Biden
The Only Good Arab Is A Dead Arab.
Propaganda is saying these are the chosen people?
Have you inherited Adolf's genes.
Also, maybe we need to come up with a different method of support than cheering and applause when the topic is genocide.
Snapping, maybe. Or disapproving grunts.
...not as this student describes. Which is as disingenuous as it is counterproductive.
Truth is more noble than forcing false narratives.
Using human sheilds is sick.
Killing human sheilds is also sick.
Terrorism and war is sick.
"Free Palestine" protesters misrepresenting that issue for personal attention and justification for harmful tantrums is sick.
I have to assume that is mostly your own fault.
Certainly helped by a robust propaganda campaign, but adults have personal responsibility to avoid false narratives.
However, we've already covered that part of your problem is that you're a disingenuous liar - and a bit short on intelligence...
So, on brand 👍
You make up your mind based on your limited misinformation and brainwash yourself consistently to be sure you never leave the safety of your false narratives 👍
It's nothing new.
...probably a fair amount of this, too:
This is a short tidbit that might help you out some.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election
Are you sad the US committed genocide against the Christian National Arian Race in Germany and stole their Third Reich?
Weird stance
No shame to be called a German now, we helped fix their shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence
I could probably top a worm too, though.
You're entitled to an opinion.
They started it.
Sure.
https://saturday-october-seven.com/
Every American Should Watch The Full Video.
Trump Has Already Set This in Motion!!
https://youtu.be/Wk2cF23CKno?si=JruWjtbFVm2N37ud
Hypocrisy
Tokenization
Infantilization
Orientalism
Bravo for making a scene at your graduation and pretending you as a settler give a damn.
True humanity cant be bought.... Even with a 500 million dollar plane.
This is exactly how the value of education, courage and integrity can be seen and utilised.
FukPalestine and Hamas.
Their problem isn't driven by politics, it's driven by religious zealotry.
This speaker wouldn't be allowed to speak in most Muslim countries.
How antisemitic of her! Photoshop a tatoo on her and pack her off to El Salvador! By accident, of course.
Muslims in Gaza and in our universities no.
Such an asshole Trump is.
You may have misunderstood the poster, who was saying Trump has no concern for Muslims in Gaza or in our universities. That hardly seems like a controversial take
https://www.aol.com/news/nyu-denies-diploma-black-trans-195211796.html
This brought tears.
Putting aside history is hard but needed to move forward.
I’m not certain how you think that a nation established through slaughter and land theft is going to end, particularly when one nation believes they were promised the land by a fake god.
Putting aside history and those evils to allow enough time for a solution to emerge is the only hope.
“There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.” PM Golda Meir. 1969.
This generation is paying attention… and I’m sure they will be voting ~ and running for office.
Power is not always measured by tanks, guns and aircraft.
The same approach should be used for Ukraine.
The university should indeed divest from anything that funds oppression & death; right now the 2 biggest offenders are those attacking Palestine & Ukraine.
She will go far.
If she does not?
Or you do not?
The strong support she gets from her classmates.
Keep up the good fight. Being brave is extremely important.