Are the only 2 choices (1) not caring if Israel ceases to exist, or (2) being “pro Israel”? Obviously not. |
+1. My in-laws are all Jewish in various degrees of observance. My spouse is not religious but still considers himself Jewish. And the general consensus is that Israel has the right (and the imperative!) to exist and to defend itself. And also that Netanyahu and the West Bank settlers do Israel no favors. But that Hamas/Iran/etc are to blame here. |
That's just it. NY elite have always considered him to be a dumb, vulgar clown. They never accepted him. |
What about the rights Palestinians to exist? |
NP This. Also married into the tribe and my Jewish husband feels as I do. Enough of the Israel worship. We shouldn’t be funding their lifestyle, wars and religious supremacy. Neither side has a moral high ground here, but we are not financing the other side and letting them interfere in our elections, our colleges, trample on first amendment rights, etc and then play the victim card. |
Why stop at Columbia? I’d be ok with ending all federal support for Ivy League schools. Let them draw down the endowments instead. |
Exactly. Why can't previous posters see this? Jewish students will get doubly punished. Violent protesters or protesters who trespass or damage property should be arrested and charged. |
The ratio of dead civilians on either side tells a different take. No one who kills twenty-five times more people than, as retribution, has the moral high ground. What happened on Oct 7th what truly horrific. But Israel lost the moral high ground since. It's really sad, because they had all the free nations of the world on their side in the aftermath of Oct 7th, DESPITE oppressing the Palestinians for decades. |
Disagree. The response to Oct 7 has been designed to eliminate the threat and to obtain the release of the hostages, not to exact some kind of moral equivalence. As long as Hamas maintains a military capability and holds hostages, Hamas is fair game. That they hide among civilians does not reduce the threat they pose, or reduce the impact of their continuing to hold hostages. The carnage in Gaza could end immediately, if Hamas releases the hostages and lays down its arms. Until then, there is a moral imperative that the efforts to obliterate them continue. They hold the keys to stopping civilian casualties. |
Yes, and I heard (from a Jewish journalist) that the reason he likes Jewish people is that they were the only ones who didn’t turn their noses up at him. |
How is this not DEI?? |
And this is why peace in the Middle East is so elusive: no empathy for the Palestinians who are truly truly in pain. Have you read the book The Lemon Tree? It tells the story of Israel from the perspective of a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew. Bottom line - the Palestinian had his hand blown up by a bomb disguised as a toy left and outside his family’s home. Think of all Israel has blown up in their current war and all the lives lost. Nothing wrong with protesting that IMO. |
Just angry that his spawn was rejected from Columbia? Everything is petty and personal |
You sound simple. Netanyahu could have obtained the release of the hostages a long time ago. He wants his ‘mighty vengeance’ against ‘human animals’ and the generation that followed the holocaust is ready to kill them all |
Masked keffiah types disrupting a class on Jewish history, and blocking students from going to class. These Stormtrooper tactics have to stop. Columbia did not enforce their own rules. Biden’s Department of Education just talked and slow walked everything. Now it’s Trump time! |