Very broadminded for Israel to destroy a university outside of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or any of the other many, many countries they've launched terrorist attacks on to defend their war crimes.
I think some of the protests went too far, but that doesn’t give them the right to retroactively take away degrees or expel students unless they seriously broke policy. This is pretty transparently an attempt to make nice with Trump. BOOOOO.
Some protesters didn’t exactly condemn the October 7 attack or Hamas, a known terrorist group. I think that’s wrong. There were also some pretty well-publicized incidents of anti-semitism, not just anti-Israel. Still doesn’t make Columbia’s current decision right. I’ll leave it at that. 👋
Ok then you're basing that on some misunderstandings. Hamas is a government that Israel *helped* put in power by financially supporting them against the secular socialist Palestinian party, not a terrorist organization. The October 7 attack happened because Israel put its people in harm's way 1/
and killed many of them themselves (including afterwards, Israel killed a number of the hostages when they were attacking Gaza). It's very much in Israel/The USA/the Likud party's best interests to have an active combatant in Gaza and they have made sure that continues.
The very creation of Israel by the western powers was antisemitic - it was done because the west did NOT want any Jewish refugees in their countries, and they very much did want a military foothold in the middle east. So they broke their promise with the people of the region and annexed it illegally
That is absofuckinglutely the wrong thing. They earned those degrees and protesting is a first amendment right. Just because you disagree with them does not take their right to protest away.
No, genocide isn’t when you fight back against a murderous enemy who hides behind corpses civilians who are sentencing them to death. No, apartheid isn’t when you build a blockade to protect your civilians from a terrorist organization & from those that try to infiltrate
Everyone- people in America have the right to support terrorists. They do it everyday. It remains possible to accuse Israel of genocide without supporting the 10/7 attack or those who want to eliminate Jews.
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There is Hamas genocide in Israel.
Stop supporting terrorists.
This cannot stand
It also will not save them.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-targets-higher-ed-in-pure-authoritarian-move