Protests on college campuses

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Queers for Palestine has to be the most ironic sign ever.

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Any estimate on how many protesters are actual students or are most of then neo-hippie townies looking for a cause?

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Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

[Anonymous]

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Do they think Palestine is like a giant gay bar/drag brunch? So confused.

It's very confusing. Also they think not getting meals delivered to them while they are taking over a building constitutes a humanitarian crisis.

Their demand for a meal plan. Serious bunch.

Israel has been on a meal plan for 80 years. A failure to launch by all definitions.

[Anonymous]

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Do they think Palestine is like a giant gay bar/drag brunch? So confused.

It's very confusing. Also they think not getting meals delivered to them while they are taking over a building constitutes a humanitarian crisis.

Their demand for a meal plan. Serious bunch.

Israel has been on a meal plan for 80 years. A failure to launch by all definitions.

You're so cute!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

How sad that you are so ignorant of anything that has happened in the Middle East to type this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

It could have been. They made some really unfortunate alliances and choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

Answer the question, don’t deflect. Does the righteousness of taking over property include those pro life protesters or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any estimate on how many protesters are actual students or are most of then neo-hippie townies looking for a cause?

Mostly students according to arrest records.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans have the right to peacefully protest.

Nobody has the “right” to:

Damage property

Threaten others

Assault others

Prevent others from accessing public or private property

Prevent students from attending class

Be a total a-hole

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None of that is peacefully protesting. They deserve to be arrested.

It’s shocking to me that our Supreme Court is currently mulling over a case that could criminalize homeless people for simply sitting or sleeping on the street yet these privileged Americans can wreak havoc, damage property, and directly impact others without consequence.

I am baffled as to why Americans are centering themselves in this war…so “American” to make it about themselves.

Embarrassing.

Maybe because America bankrolls the Israeli killing machine and Israel has made it clear they’ll pull every lever at their disposal to stifle any domestic criticism here. Since Israel destroyed every university in Gaza, it’s no surprise students in America with any conscience felt obligated to speak up against the Jewish murderers.

I get that.

But what I don’t get is how protesters can fixate on just one thing (war/killing of innocents) without recognizing the complexity of the situation (a terrorist government fueled by religious extremism hell bent on the destruction of Israel, Jews, America, the West, and everyone who doesn’t adhere to their wacky breed of religious extremism.

Practically speaking, what happens if Israel withdraws its troops and Netanyahu peaces out?

Billions would be pumped into Gaza for humanitarian aid and rebuilding and Hamas would claim victory, divert funds to rebuild tunnels and secure more weapons, and the terror would continue in Gaza and Israel.

If anyone thinks there is a simple solution you aren’t grasping the reality of the situation and the players.

Its actually pretty simple. Palestinians are willing to live with Israelis in a single state, and Israelis are not willing to live with Palestinians in a single state. If Israel grants full rights to Palestinians, all this conflict ends in a generation.

I’m not sure that’s the end game for Hamas or Palestinians, but I’ll take your word for it for the sake of dialogue.

Then let Israel root out Hamas, rebuild a beautiful new civilization that is part of Israel and adheres to the Israeli government’s laws, and zero exceptions allowing people to opt out of adhering to civil rights/human rights based on religion/culture.

If the Palestinians can assimilate and embrace Israel, then that would be amazing.

I just don’t see that happening what with the whole “death to Israel” thing.

I thought they wanted their own state that essentially pushes Israel out of existence? And then onward to the entire West?

+1 and that’s my whole issue with these protests. Yes the Israeli government should stop the indiscriminate bombings. Yes they should have never started to build/annex “settlements” in the Palestinian land. So they stop doing that and then what? Would the Palestinians accept living under Israeli rule in a secular democracy if it meant having full rights? What would the international community think about Hamas members and sympathizers being granted a full Israeli passport? Or we have a two state solution, Israel gives up some of its land … does that stop the Palestinian attacks on Israeli territory? That also creates a new country which would immediately be amongst the poorest in the Middle East and a puppet state of Iran, and ask the governments of Egypt and Jordan how they feel about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

It could have been. They made some really unfortunate alliances and choices.

“Let me out, I have finals!” This was a social activity for these kids. They’re all disappearing for summer vacation or internships soon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any estimate on how many protesters are actual students or are most of then neo-hippie townies looking for a cause?

Mostly students according to arrest records.

Did you look? Other posters have said the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any estimate on how many protesters are actual students or are most of then neo-hippie townies looking for a cause?

We don’t know and it probably varies from college to college but one police department posted that out of 100 arrests, only 23 were students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking over a ship
Taking over a diner
Taking over a bus

These are the acts of America’n heroes that we celebrate on Federal holidays.

A Tennessee court just found six protesters guilty and they face up to 11 years in jail for protesting at an abortion clinic and blocking access. Would you add “taking over an abortion center” to this list?

Americans, over centuries have created the list, not me. Civil disobedience is the cornerstone of a free and just world.

These students cause is as righteous as it gets.

Answer the question, don’t deflect. Does the righteousness of taking over property include those pro life protesters or not?

From my POV, it could have been pro-Israel supporters setting up camps and taking over buildings…and I would have called them jack@sses and supported their forced removal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any estimate on how many protesters are actual students or are most of then neo-hippie townies looking for a cause?

Mostly students according to arrest records.

Did you look? Other posters have said the opposite.

Yes, the reports I’ve looked at showed majority students.