Protests on college campuses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

So lame. Do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they want to vote for Trump or sit out the 2024 election and have Trump and the white nationalists and Christian fundamentalists running the country, then we will have the republic we deserve.

Well yes. The pro Israel mob really does not want a free society or the Constitution. Vote Israel = the end of America. Too bad so many people have sworn their allegiance to Israel. I guess you all are planning on migrating to Israel?

What percentage of America Jews would Israel accept? There is no way politically, economically and religiously Israel would accept all American Jews. Even a 500k would cause huge problems in Israel. Just like here the right wing would not stand for it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

Brutality????

Kid rushed officers making an arrest, so he got tackled. Exactly what they should do.

After he was restrained, officer made sure he was ok.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what police did here. At all.

This. These entitled kids don’t even know what the struggle is actually like. You rush a cop, you’re getting taken down. You break and enter, you’re probably not getting your stuff back. And no you can’t Uber Eats vegan chicken nuggets in. They have the gall to cry when there are repercussions? lol

Imagine raising a child who though it was okay to do that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

Brutality????

Kid rushed officers making an arrest, so he got tackled. Exactly what they should do.

After he was restrained, officer made sure he was ok.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what police did here. At all.

This. These entitled kids don’t even know what the struggle is actually like. You rush a cop, you’re getting taken down. You break and enter, you’re probably not getting your stuff back. And no you can’t Uber Eats vegan chicken nuggets in. They have the gall to cry when there are repercussions? lol

Imagine raising a child who though it was okay to do that?

It's a stunning amount of privilege

[Anonymous]

Universities are responsible for all students and protesting students do not have the right to ends get other students or to keep them from going to class. These students protesting have not done themselves any favors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

Brutality????

Kid rushed officers making an arrest, so he got tackled. Exactly what they should do.

After he was restrained, officer made sure he was ok.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what police did here. At all.

This. These entitled kids don’t even know what the struggle is actually like. You rush a cop, you’re getting taken down. You break and enter, you’re probably not getting your stuff back. And no you can’t Uber Eats vegan chicken nuggets in. They have the gall to cry when there are repercussions? lol

I blame the universities for coddling these idiots to the point that they think they run the campus. Protesting? Fine. Impacting the rights of others and threatening Jewish students? Absolutely not acceptable.
This will continue because too many of the entitled brats who are getting arrested are not suffering any real consequences.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Macklemore has not been influential in 10 years. Gen Z knows him as the guy who sang the catchy thrift store song when they were in 3rd grade.

People will not forget him for speaking out against ridiculous spending.

Never heard of him. Honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

Brutality????

Kid rushed officers making an arrest, so he got tackled. Exactly what they should do.

After he was restrained, officer made sure he was ok.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what police did here. At all.

This. These entitled kids don’t even know what the struggle is actually like. You rush a cop, you’re getting taken down. You break and enter, you’re probably not getting your stuff back. And no you can’t Uber Eats vegan chicken nuggets in. They have the gall to cry when there are repercussions? lol

I blame the universities for coddling these idiots to the point that they think they run the campus. Protesting? Fine. Impacting the rights of others and threatening Jewish students? Absolutely not acceptable.
This will continue because too many of the entitled brats who are getting arrested are not suffering any real consequences.

Right on cue....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey Biden, if they haven't already, artists are gonna influence the youth voters - the ones your campaign needs!:

Scottie Andrew, CNN
"rapper Macklemore praises college students across the US who are protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, vowing that he will not vote for President Joe Biden come November.

The song, released Monday, is titled “Hind’s Hall” in reference to the new temporary name pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a building they occupied on campus.

With its release, the Grammy-winning rapper becomes one of the first major music artists to explicitly condemn the US government’s continued aid to Israel and praise students who are protesting their universities’ financial investments in companies tied to Israel on campuses across the US.

“The problem isn’t the protests, it’s what they’re protesting,” Macklemore raps. “It goes against what our country is funding.”

The song also criticizes the police dispatched by universities to break up protests on college campuses. Several of the schools who called on police to intervene said its encampments were unlawful and that administrators had attempted to negotiate with student protesters before police got involved.

Hind’s Hall, the name pro-Palestinian protesters gave to Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, was named for the Palestinian child Hind Rajab, who was found dead in Gaza after she became trapped in a car with six of her relatives.

They were fleeing fighting in northern Gaza when their vehicle came under Israeli fire.

Macklemore’s lyrics reference the more than 13,800 children who’ve been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war. The song asks listeners, as well as politicians, university officials and fellow artists who’ve not spoken out against the violence in Gaza, to consider the human cost of the war: “What if you were in Gaza? What if those were your kids? If the West was pretending that you didn’t exist?”

In “Hind’s Hall,” Macklemore accuses the music industry of being “complicit in (its) platform of silence,” he sings.

He’s likely the only major artist to write a song about the conflict. Several notable musicians have signed onto the Artists 4Ceasefire letter addressed to Biden, though, including Dua Lipa, Jon Batiste and Selena Gomez. Scottish singer Annie Lennox also verbally called for a ceasefire while performing at the Grammys in February.

Macklemore has said through his social media channels that when the song is released on streaming, all the proceeds will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Macklemore has been an outspoken supporter of Palestinians since last year. Less than two weeks after the October 7 attack on southern Israel led by Hamas, which saw the deaths of at least 1,200 people and the taking of more than 250 hostages, he shared a post in which he mourned the loss of life in both Israel and Gaza.

“My heart deeply hurts for the Israelis that lost loved ones to such an abomination,” he wrote of the October 7 attack. ”… But killing innocent humans in retaliation as collective punishment is not the answer. That is why I am supporting the people around the world who are calling for a ceasefire.”

Later in the post, he wrote, “I stand for a Free Palestine and an end to the looming genocide of its people.”

In the same post, he referenced the controversial claim that criticizing the Israeli government is antisemitic. “I can whole heartedly (sic) love my Jewish brothers and sisters while simultaneously condemning the Israeli government for their mass killings and Apartheid.”

Macklemore also appeared at a pro-Palestinian march in Washington in November. In an Instagram post shared after the event, he said that he was heartened by “Jewish and Muslim youth marching side by side, belting words of resistance together.”

Macklemore has faced accusations of antisemitism before. In 2014, he wore what he called a “random costume” of a large fake nose and thick black beard to surprise Seattle concertgoers. Several detractors, including Seth Rogen, called his costume antisemitic, prompting Macklemore to “acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature.”

The rapper has made political statements throughout his career. He was nominated for a Grammy for the 2012 song “Same Love,” which advocated for LGBTQ equality and support for same-sex marriage. In 2016, he appeared on a remix of the YG song “FDT, Pt. 2,” which stands for “F**k Donald Trump.”

Macklemore continued to speak out against Trump after he entered office. And protesters on college campuses are still speaking out against the war on Gaza, even after some universities canceled or altered commencements and have already disciplined fellow student protesters.

This guy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a very good letter. And the students who wrote it signed their names.

Great. They are welcome to write how they feel and their thoughts on the mattter.

Other Jewish people on campus feel differently and some have participated in the protests, like Jonathan Ben-Menachem. You can read his article here:
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

I notice how the writers of this piece refer to people like Jonathan as "our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves"

You can notice all kinds of things, and keep not noticing the Jew hatred that's been unleashed since Hamas slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped 1200 Israelis on Oct 7.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge the massive imbalance in atrocities committed by the Israeli side in this conflict, the less people hear you.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge those atrocities and instead propagate false claims regarding the events of 10/7, the less people see you.

And the more you do both of those things while demanding that others focus only on YOUR interests and irrational feelings, the less people care about you at all.

The more these protesters pollute and vandalize college campuses, the less people hear or care about the. The more they do things like block highways, the less people hear and care about them. These strategies have been 100% asinine from the beginning.

Actually, the truth is that if they remained completely peaceful and quiet and focused only on protesting the killing of Palestinian civilians, that is when people would ignore them. It's only when they block highways and enter buildings that people pay attention. People like drama and controversy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a very good letter. And the students who wrote it signed their names.

Great. They are welcome to write how they feel and their thoughts on the mattter.

Other Jewish people on campus feel differently and some have participated in the protests, like Jonathan Ben-Menachem. You can read his article here:
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

I notice how the writers of this piece refer to people like Jonathan as "our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves"

You can notice all kinds of things, and keep not noticing the Jew hatred that's been unleashed since Hamas slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped 1200 Israelis on Oct 7.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge the massive imbalance in atrocities committed by the Israeli side in this conflict, the less people hear you.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge those atrocities and instead propagate false claims regarding the events of 10/7, the less people see you.

And the more you do both of those things while demanding that others focus only on YOUR interests and irrational feelings, the less people care about you at all.

The more these protesters pollute and vandalize college campuses, the less people hear or care about the. The more they do things like block highways, the less people hear and care about them. These strategies have been 100% asinine from the beginning.

Actually, the truth is that if they remained completely peaceful and quiet and focused only on protesting the killing of Palestinian civilians, that is when people would ignore them. It's only when they block highways and enter buildings that people pay attention. People like drama and controversy.

this is the reality. There have been protests (mostly peaceful) on campuses since Nov/dec last year. We are only paying attention now because they are getting heard.

And it’s slowly changing the perceptions on campus and elsewhere. I don’t condone the violence or vandalism. I am glad my child is not participating. But I cannot pretend they are not more effective than the peaceful marches she did attend against the Israeli conduct of the war.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a very good letter. And the students who wrote it signed their names.

Great. They are welcome to write how they feel and their thoughts on the mattter.

Other Jewish people on campus feel differently and some have participated in the protests, like Jonathan Ben-Menachem. You can read his article here:
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

I notice how the writers of this piece refer to people like Jonathan as "our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves"

You can notice all kinds of things, and keep not noticing the Jew hatred that's been unleashed since Hamas slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped 1200 Israelis on Oct 7.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge the massive imbalance in atrocities committed by the Israeli side in this conflict, the less people hear you.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge those atrocities and instead propagate false claims regarding the events of 10/7, the less people see you.

And the more you do both of those things while demanding that others focus only on YOUR interests and irrational feelings, the less people care about you at all.

The more these protesters pollute and vandalize college campuses, the less people hear or care about the. The more they do things like block highways, the less people hear and care about them. These strategies have been 100% asinine from the beginning.

Actually, the truth is that if they remained completely peaceful and quiet and focused only on protesting the killing of Palestinian civilians, that is when people would ignore them. It's only when they block highways and enter buildings that people pay attention. People like drama and controversy.

Right? Because that's exactly how people think. When they are blocked in traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters and late for work or picking up their kids or can't make it to the hospital as they're having a heart attack, their first thought is always gosh, maybe these protestors have a good point. We really should "globalize the intifada." Or when an engineering student can't get into the library to study, their first thought is always "We are all Hamas." Who needs an education?

Obviously MLK and Gandhi were idiots with their non-violent protests. Totally ignored. Got them nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stunning level of brutality by the militarized state.

Brutality????

Kid rushed officers making an arrest, so he got tackled. Exactly what they should do.

After he was restrained, officer made sure he was ok.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what police did here. At all.

This. These entitled kids don’t even know what the struggle is actually like. You rush a cop, you’re getting taken down. You break and enter, you’re probably not getting your stuff back. And no you can’t Uber Eats vegan chicken nuggets in. They have the gall to cry when there are repercussions? lol

I blame the universities for coddling these idiots to the point that they think they run the campus. Protesting? Fine. Impacting the rights of others and threatening Jewish students? Absolutely not acceptable.
This will continue because too many of the entitled brats who are getting arrested are not suffering any real consequences.

They get arrested and released. Everyone responsible for their release, is also responsible for the escalating violence. Indeed, stop coddling the entitled brats turned criminals. Lock them up just like you would any R protesters doing the same thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a very good letter. And the students who wrote it signed their names.

Great. They are welcome to write how they feel and their thoughts on the mattter.

Other Jewish people on campus feel differently and some have participated in the protests, like Jonathan Ben-Menachem. You can read his article here:
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

I notice how the writers of this piece refer to people like Jonathan as "our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves"

You can notice all kinds of things, and keep not noticing the Jew hatred that's been unleashed since Hamas slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped 1200 Israelis on Oct 7.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge the massive imbalance in atrocities committed by the Israeli side in this conflict, the less people hear you.

The more you ignore and refuse to acknowledge those atrocities and instead propagate false claims regarding the events of 10/7, the less people see you.

And the more you do both of those things while demanding that others focus only on YOUR interests and irrational feelings, the less people care about you at all.

The more these protesters pollute and vandalize college campuses, the less people hear or care about the. The more they do things like block highways, the less people hear and care about them. These strategies have been 100% asinine from the beginning.

Actually, the truth is that if they remained completely peaceful and quiet and focused only on protesting the killing of Palestinian civilians, that is when people would ignore them. It's only when they block highways and enter buildings that people pay attention. People like drama and controversy.

Right? Because that's exactly how people think. When they are blocked in traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters and late for work or picking up their kids or can't make it to the hospital as they're having a heart attack, their first thought is always gosh, maybe these protestors have a good point. We really should "globalize the intifada." Or when an engineering student can't get into the library to study, their first thought is always "We are all Hamas." Who needs an education?

Obviously MLK and Gandhi were idiots with their non-violent protests. Totally ignored. Got them nowhere.

You seem to be one of those people who only likes the sanitized sepia toned version of MLK.

The reason MLK’s nonviolent protests were successful is because people were shocked that police were deployed against them.

Now the students are being nonviolent and you are cheering the use of militarized police tactics on students.

[Anonymous]

Criminals MUST be held accountable.