Can’t two things be true at the same time? That the Hamas attack on October 7 AND Israel’s acts in retaliation are atrocities? Shouldn’t students, including Jewish students, be able to support non-Hamas Palestinians? In this video, the author Beinart talks about sukkahs that were dismantled by universities just because the Jewish children who built them were voicing pro-Palestinian support: https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/08/video-being-jewish-after-destruction-gaza-reckoning |
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Students should be able to support those Palestinians who resisted Hamas, who called for Hamas to surrender, who called for Hamas to release the hostages, and who called for peaceful co-existence with Israel. Good luck finding those imaginary pro-Palestinian peace activists who worked tireless to redress Hamas' ongoing atrocities. |
Sure. And Zionists should be able to support peaceful Israelis who wholly reject the policies and actions of the Israeli state, if any can be found. Otherwise, they (and those pro-Hamas boogeymen living rent-free in your propaganda dome) should get the Venezuelan drug boat treatment. |
Why should Americans care about Palestinians? What have Palestinians ever done for America? Yeah, in a perfect world the Middle East wouldn’t be such a mess, but it should never be the core issue an American cares about. America has other problems to deal with, like Trump, who by the way makes it worse for Palestinians. Talk about Leopards eating faces. If you care about Palestine so much that you would switch your vote to Trump over it then go find some other place to live. You don’t really care about America. |
In other words, pro-Palestinian demonstrations were entirely one-sided, directed against Israel and not against the Palestinian aggressors and initiators of the conflict. Highly selective protests are nothing more than demonstrable bias, not a genuine call for peace. |
DO. The aggressors and initiators of the conflict are Jews who founded Israel and their descendants who continue to oppress the Palestinians. People have right to self defense. |
| So the college students were right. Where is the apology from all the people who tried to dox them and ruin their lives? |
Many Palestinians who hate Hamas got killed by the IDF in Gaza. Let’s not act like individual politics matter to Israel when 80% of all their wars are spent killing 5 year olds and they crack down heavily on the West Bank where there is no Hamas leadership. Men are the least killed demographic in IDF wars and then Israel wonders why they always have to go to war. They kill women and children at such a high rate that they’re always going to deal with an extremist movement even if Hamas dies out tomorrow. |
I’ve often said the land needs to be divvied among religious lines: secular Muslims and Jews together, and ultra Orthodox Jews and Muslims together. They can have all the dress codes they want. A secular Jew and ultra conservative Hasidic have less in common than a secular Jew and a secular Palestinian |
Maybe the Palestinians have been too grieving for dead family members. Healing from missing limbs, trying to find food and shelter. Oh - and since no media is allowed in we don’t really know what the Palestinians are thinking. What we do know: Israel has killed tens of thousands, wounded thousands more, denied citizenship or free passage, prevented sufficient aid to enter the country. |
Attacking a civilian music festival and a kibbutz are expressions of "self-defense"? As was rape, kidnaping, and murder of civilian elderly men, women, and children? No wonder the Palestinians have for eighty years been inexorably spiraling towards self-obliteration instead of moving towards a peaceful, prosperous civil society by means of negotiation, dialogue, and a commitment to the peaceful resolution of political differences. Poor, "oppressed" Palestinians, who never give anyone any reason to view them as threats, so that they are welcome in all countries, most especially among their Islamic brethren in the region. Not. |
This seems improbable, as the Palestinian population should be shrinking, not always growing, if women and children are being killed "at such a high rate". |
The U.N. did divide the land between Jews and Arabs. The Palestinians wanted it all for themselves, the rest is history. |
Here's what we do know: No Palestinians and no Pro-Palestinian supporters called for Hamas to surrender or to release the hostages. We also know they were quite vocal in blaming Israel for all their woes, so it's not that they were silently grieving. |