Tensions rise on college campuses as students react to Israel-Hamas war
Tensions rise on college campuses as students react to Israel-Hamas war
The Israel-Hamas war has upended activity on U.S. college campuses, pitting student groups against their own university leaders as long-simmering tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian or…
“On campus, we’re seeing students either turn a blind eye to the conflict, or we’re seeing those who are openly celebrating our pain, you know, glorifying it, justifying it,” Gritz told The Hill. “They’re casting the murder of Jews and Israelis as progressive, as liberation. It’s just honestly very, very scary as a Jewish student on campus who has friends and family in Israel.”
“It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it. That is a core tenet of solidarity,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement after a rally in New York City in support of Hamas.
“The level of anti-Arab hate and rhetoric hasn’t been this high since the aftermath of 9/11. It is far worse than the Trump years,” Abed Ayoub, the national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said on X. “We’ve received many calls for assistance in dealing with threats and intimidation. Schools across the country are vilifying Palestinians, and elected officials are setting up the stage for hate crimes against Arabs.”
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Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic.
Assuming all Jews support the government of a genocidal apartheid ethnostate, on the other hand, very much is.
This. When I criticize the Israel government and Palestine government, and mention that I am in support of civilians of Palestine and Israel, I get called anti-semitic. Apparently, hating the government of Israel means you must hate Jews despite you are in support of the civilians side of Israel.
Oh, America's been laying this groundwork for 30 years. "How to let Zionists Manifest their Destiny, just like we did, and NOT get accused of apartheid!" Difference is, I refuse to bothsides it, considering the brutal, inhuman colonization of my people is a still-living memory for us; and still continues to this day. Occupied Palestine is being settled by a malevolent, murderous movement that claims Judaism as its aegis the same way the Nazis claimed socialism while being straight up fascist.
Genuinely, I despise this existence.
Students take a contradictory side to their government.
And Bears do in fact shit in the woods.
True!
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The Israel-Hamas war has upended activity on U.S. college campuses, pitting student groups against their own university leaders as long-simmering tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian organizations boil over.
“On campus, we’re seeing students either turn a blind eye to the conflict, or we’re seeing those who are openly celebrating our pain, you know, glorifying it, justifying it,” Gritz told The Hill.
It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’s horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she added.
College campuses in the U.S. have been a hotbed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for years, with each flare-up of violence in the Middle East sparking renewed frustrations on both sides.
That’s what the college campus is about, and grieving these vicious and cruel attacks on Israeli civilians,” said Debbie Yunker Kail, the executive director of Hillel Jewish Student Center at Arizona State University.
A recent Ipsos survey from before the conflict showed 57 percent of Jewish students on college campuses say they have witnessed or experienced antisemitism, either at their school or in the general public.
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Going to an anti-Israel rally is being anti-Jewish in the same way that cops who do stop and frisks are being racist.
There may be no hate in your heart, but your selective targeting of one group over another is playing into a bigoted system.
Like, I'm sure the anti-Israel protesters are just as outraged about North Korea, China, all the Arab countries that are oppressing women, killing homosexuals, and are so anti-Jewish that they've killed off or exiled their entire Jewish population.
... But they only ever get around to protesting Israel.
Going to an anti-Israel rally is being anti-Jewish
No, it’s not. Speaking out against an oppressive regime in an apartheid state isn’t targeting Jewish people. It’s targeting the oppressive regime in an apartheid state.
It’s like saying that criticizing the American government is the same as saying you’re anti-American, or speaking against the CCP is being anti-Chinese.
It’s just blatantly false, and an attempt to suppress others from speaking out.
AOC as usual out here being faker than bodega Gucci. How they gonna keep trying to mash ThE sQuAd's "progressive" "bonafides" in our faces when Ocasio-Cortez is out here conflating antizionism with antisemitism? I fear for the 85...
Yes, once she got into office, she stopped supporting the Justice Democrats.
She is the new Pelosi, mama bear; corporate democrat Pelosi as opposed to "progressive" aoc