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Anonymous
A simple question for intolerant AIPAC bots like you. Why don’t you go ahead and attend an online college? It is quite obvious that you don’t have the mental strength to cope with the existence of others. Perhaps a nice degree in Starvation or Human Detonation from the Tel Aviv University? |
Anonymous
I agree. And, those students here on student visas need to be expelled and deported. Problem is... these students are so self-centered that they do not recognize that others have rights and that their actions are affecting their rights. They don't care that they are disrupting the lives of others as long as they are able to exercise their "rights." |
Anonymous
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So...if you carefully look at the video snippets from the various campuses, it appears the protesters are anywhere from a few dozen to a low few hundreds on campus with thousands if not tens of thousands of students? Enough to make a lot of noise and intimidate a lot of people who cross paths with them but certainly not even close to even a plurality of students, who probably could not care less. Does that sound right?
I'm reminded of the video of Saddam's statue coming down in Firdos Square, which made it look like all of Baghdad had turned up when in fact there were only a handful of people present: t this point, the handful of Iraqis having a go at the statue seemed inclined to give up and go home. Just then, McCoy came out of the hotel. “I realised this was a big deal,” he said. “You’ve got all the press out there and everybody is liquored up on the moment. You have this Paris 1944 feel. I remember thinking, the media is watching the Iraqis trying to topple this icon of Saddam Hussein. Let’s give them a hand.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/toppling-saddam-hussein-statue-iraq-us-victory-myth |
Anonymous
Is this a serious question? Youth is morally “better?” Who the hell thinks that?? |
Anonymous
Absolutely. If I was paying $80k+/yr. for my kid to attend, only to have this nonsense preventing any instruction, I’d be beyond furious. |
Anonymous
Yes. The left is literally funding terrorism. |
Anonymous
Um, that’s a big citation you just responded to. And the reason I’m not about to click on your garbage propaganda site. |
Anonymous
Touché! |
Anonymous
DP. Well, there’s some wishful thinking for you… but no. Here’s who’s paying these protestors: Two of America’s largest philanthropic foundations are behind a group that has paid some of the anti-Israel activists for the kind of antics disrupting campuses across the country. Consider Malak Afaneh, a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Craig Birckhead-Morton, a senior at Yale. Ms. Afaneh went viral this month for disrupting a dinner at Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s home. This week the Yale Daily News reported that Mr. Birckhead-Morton had been arrested for trespassing—and then re-emerged to address an anti-Israel crowd blocking an intersection in New Haven. Ms. Afaneh and Mr. Birckhead-Morton have both been “youth fellows” of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, whose website identifies them by their first names. As of April 4, the campaign was soliciting applications for a new cohort, whose “campus-based fellows” would receive stipends of $2,880 to $3,360 for three-month terms of roughly eight hours of work a week. That “work” could include aiding campaigns that “demand federal or state politicians cut US military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.” The corporate entity behind these fellowships is Education for Just Peace in the Middle East. Where does it get its funding? George and Alexander Soros’s Open Society Foundation has put $700,000 into Education for Just Peace in the Middle East since 2018, most recently with a two-year grant in 2022, according to the Open Society Foundation’s website. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given Education for Just Peace in the Middle East $515,000 since 2019, most recently with a three-year grant for $225,000 awarded in August 2023. https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-anti-israel-protesters-are-paid-soros-rockefeller-funding-activism-hamas-fba26c20 |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I’m getting really tired of people saying pro Palestine means you support Hamas. Take a step back outside of your Islamophobia and hate and think about what these kids are protesting. So many of these kids are white and black without any skin in the game. They are protesting against a country that has oppressed a group of people for decades, is actively stealing their homes and land in the West Bank, does not have equal rights for its non-Jewish population, has bombed every single university and hospital in Gaza, just completely decimated the country, targeted and killed aid workers, executed doctors, children, people sick in the hospital, mass graves were just found. Israel’s own citizens are also protesting their extremist gov. The country has gone off the rails. Hamas is awful and needs to go but the government of Israel is equally awful if not worse. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Top of the morning to ya. Paid, bussed in, violent Zionist protesters scale the fence at Columbia University and scream at American students to leave the country.
No reports of police presence or arrests. [twitter]https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1783719776889536754[twitter] |
Anonymous
| If they're blocking sidewalks, they should be arrested and/or fined every hour until they clear the walkways for ADA violations. How can anyone with a disability who may be in a wheelchair access the area or buildings around if they're blocking the sidewalks and potential ramps near buildings? |
Anonymous