GWU Bans Pro-Palestinian Group

[Anonymous]

Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

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Anonymous wrote:OP you really think projecting "“Glory to our martyrs" about the Hamas terrorists is okay for all the other students to have to see? This is hate speech and it's fine for a college to disallow it. What if it was targeting a different minority group? A private college is not the government subject to the First Amendment.

From GW SJP: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzDPuoRsfVm/?img_index=5

In Arabic, we refer to each of those killed at the hands of the oppressor as a "shaheed" or "martyr", its literal translation meaning "witness." Martyrs are witnesses to the crimes through which they were killed....
We honor our murdered families and loved ones as martyrs because we refuse to allow their deaths to simply be tragedies. We call them martyrs to honor them with dignity, to make clear to the world that every Palestinian civilian slaughtered by the Zionist regime dies a hero, a witness, a martyr in the struggle towards the future liberation of our people

We can say that maybe they could have chosen better language, but again they eventually took down the projections and complied with the GWPD when it became clear that it was considered against school policy (although seemingly arbitrarily, given the link shared by the other poster above with regards to anti-China posters). And it's true that technically the first amendment doesn't apply at private universities, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't value the principle of free speech and freedom of expression anyways. And again, even if we want to say that GW should disallow projections of that sort, that doesn't mean that they should ban the entire group and threaten its members with expulsion.

Okay now where is their word salad about the word "glory"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you really think projecting "“Glory to our martyrs" about the Hamas terrorists is okay for all the other students to have to see? This is hate speech and it's fine for a college to disallow it. What if it was targeting a different minority group? A private college is not the government subject to the First Amendment.

If you knew Arabic or knew anything about Arab culture you would know that Palestinians describe every single person killed by Israel as a martyr--babies, old people, disabled people. It is not just about Hamas. And talking about glory refers to the glory that all of these people will receive in the afterlife. It is really about respecting those who have been murdered by Israel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really think projecting "“Glory to our martyrs" about the Hamas terrorists is okay for all the other students to have to see? This is hate speech and it's fine for a college to disallow it. What if it was targeting a different minority group? A private college is not the government subject to the First Amendment.

If you knew Arabic or knew anything about Arab culture you would know that Palestinians describe every single person killed by Israel as a martyr--babies, old people, disabled people. It is not just about Hamas. And talking about glory refers to the glory that all of these people will receive in the afterlife. It is really about respecting those who have been murdered by Israel.

"If you knew Arabic..." - okay... but this is being projected for all to see, not just those well versed in the culture and linguistic norms.

What if there was something similar from right wing Christians after the Orlando shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub?

Let's be clear this wouldn't be tolerated against other groups.

[Anonymous]

SJP is a specific pro-Hamas organization. It is not all pro-Palestinian orgs in general.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia banned pro-Palestinian student groups, too. It’s pretty shocking to see this type of censorship on college campuses.

LOL. If you think squishy ivory tower administrators restricting open parades in favor of terrorists and suggesting Jewish students shouldn’t be beaten is “shocking”, you’re in for a hell of a ride.

Regular people are done with the CRT, anti-colonialist, fake lefty revolutionary crap. For a while it was sort of cute, in a vaguely pathetic way… like your precocious younger sibling getting into music for the first time. But it’s over now. The leaders of this crap are legitimately sick and should be deported; but the country is collectively waking up to the absolute rot among the young, casual left that those people have wrought.

What does that have to do with People wanting to support innocent Palestinians dying by the thousands? You are a moron and a horrible person.

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Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

I just LOVE how certain Jews just want to dehumanize every Palestinian and make them evil. You are a horrible person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

Israel has been on a terrorist attack for the past month killing women , children, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

I just LOVE how certain Jews just want to dehumanize every Palestinian and make them evil. You are a horrible person.

It’s the same way the German’s dehumanized Jews. Once you dehumanize a group the next step is to take extreme action against that group and justify that action because they are not human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

I just LOVE how certain Jews just want to dehumanize every Palestinian and make them evil. You are a horrible person.

It’s the same way the German’s dehumanized Jews. Once you dehumanize a group the next step is to take extreme action against that group and justify that action because they are not human.

Exactly!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

I just LOVE how certain Jews just want to dehumanize every Palestinian and make them evil. You are a horrible person.

No one has said "all Palestinians." The martyrs referred to in the GWU projections were the actual terrorists. Do we "humanize" the 9/11 hijackers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jewish groups that supported Palestine were not shut down.

Only the ones that said "kill the Jews" were shut. Calling for genocide of people not even living in Israel

How many Jewish groups support Palestine already?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, all Palestinians are terrorists now? That's the new left agenda?

Praising martyrs on the heels of a major terrorist attack against Jews is supporting terrorism.

Sooo, again, all Palestinians are terrorists now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia banned pro-Palestinian student groups, too. It’s pretty shocking to see this type of censorship on college campuses.

LOL. If you think squishy ivory tower administrators restricting open parades in favor of terrorists and suggesting Jewish students shouldn’t be beaten is “shocking”, you’re in for a hell of a ride.

Regular people are done with the CRT, anti-colonialist, fake lefty revolutionary crap. For a while it was sort of cute, in a vaguely pathetic way… like your precocious younger sibling getting into music for the first time. But it’s over now. The leaders of this crap are legitimately sick and should be deported; but the country is collectively waking up to the absolute rot among the young, casual left that those people have wrought.

Really because most people I know are waking up to the fascist impulses of the right — you can’t just deport or put in camps the people you don’t like.

And a lot of young people are pretty shocked by the number of people affirmatively calling for the killing of more civilians. Think Israel has killed more civilians now than Russia has in Ukraine.

The real rot is treating people who have done nothing wrong but be outside your group as vermin that need to be exterminated.

+1 but the people you are talking to are maybe 50 and over and boomers who are pretty fascist (as evidenced in their messages here). The good news is, they are old, and soon the younger generations will take over. The majority of people are not like what you see on DCUM- I hardly even come here anymore because it’s just so … old and fascist and vengeful and murderous. But when you step outside DCUM, you see that these people being grumpy and mad online about stuff like this are the true minority. They know it and it makes them very very mad (online).

Had to chuckle at this. You’re either a college freshman or irredeemably dim.

“Oh you just wait until the young people take over!!”
—every teenager since the beginning of time

I agree, but I think because GenX is parent to GenZ they will be more supportive of this takeover than Boomers *generally* were to their own children.

Getting GenX to care about anything is a tall order.

Whatever. Never mind.