Barnard Attacks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it okay for white people to wear keffiyeh? I keep seeing the protestors wearing them and it seems innately wrong. Isn’t this the worst form of cultural appropriation that these protestors would normally be offended by?

Yes arrest them like they do in Israel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it okay for white people to wear keffiyeh? I keep seeing the protestors wearing them and it seems innately wrong. Isn’t this the worst form of cultural appropriation that these protestors would normally be offended by?

Cultural appropriation died in 2016. Asian people wear dreads now, get over it. People engage with other cultures or they don’t.

[Anonymous]

The bias against Israel in the UN, Amnesty, red crescent, and other so-called human rights groups is well-documented. They cozy up to dictators and are Silent about atrocities all over the middle east and Africa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bias against Israel in the UN, Amnesty, red crescent, and other so-called human rights groups is well-documented. They cozy up to dictators and are Silent about atrocities all over the middle east and Africa.

There’s only one country riding Israel’s meat like it pays us anything and that’s the US. If everyone’s crazy, you just might be the one that’s insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, not really. There was a genocide in Palestine. The whole world knows it. Stop lying.

Barnard alumna who is glad to see that the students are speaking up

Then these thugs can go protest by blocking a highway or marching somewhere. But they aren't entitled to disrupt a college campus. Sorry to disappoint!

No one should ever block a highway or road.

Blocking roads puts everyone at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster here: it's not BS and it's directly on-topic to remind everyone of the ICC, Amnesty, & Human Rights Watch. Many of us are *both* horrified by the events of 10/7 *and* think Israel's post-10/7 actions have been overreach. Go read Haaretz if you want to see the same kinds of criticism of the Israeli government. Not anti-Semitic to criticize Israeli government actions. And, free speech in the US has been used to protect all kinds of viewpoints. Saying a protestor has views that are morally repugnant to you does not mean that that protestor has no right to protest.

Protestors have no right to block people from entering buildings, no right to storm classrooms because of the religious and ethnic content of the course, and no right to target students because of their religion or ethnicity. Doing so violates the civil rights of everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it okay for white people to wear keffiyeh? I keep seeing the protestors wearing them and it seems innately wrong. Isn’t this the worst form of cultural appropriation that these protestors would normally be offended by?

Half of the 4 Columbia students arrested were asian women. One appeared white. At least 3/4 were not from the background the protest claimed to represent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it okay for white people to wear keffiyeh? I keep seeing the protestors wearing them and it seems innately wrong. Isn’t this the worst form of cultural appropriation that these protestors would normally be offended by?

Cultural appropriation died in 2016. Asian people wear dreads now, get over it. People engage with other cultures or they don’t.

Great to know!! Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it okay for white people to wear keffiyeh? I keep seeing the protestors wearing them and it seems innately wrong. Isn’t this the worst form of cultural appropriation that these protestors would normally be offended by?

Half of the 4 Columbia students arrested were asian women. One appeared white. At least 3/4 were not from the background the protest claimed to represent.

Gullible tools come from a wide range of backgrounds, the only common denominator being credulity.

[Anonymous]

PPs saying people from different background should not support the rights of Palestinian people - are you arguing that people who are not Jewish should not support that community? Are you suggesting that wearing a keffiyah or protesting in ways that do NOT impinge on the rights of other students (blocking, storming, targeting per above -- or any other infringement of college policies) is not protected speech? I disagree. I also think, while I would not wear a keffiyah, that the act is one of solidarity and not cultural appropriation. I don't really think that college protests are an effective means of shifting dialogue or even achieving policy change, but they are a protected right.

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Anonymous wrote:They are young college kids speaking out for justice and humanity. Shameful behavior from Barnard and Columbia.

Totally untrue. They are not speaking out for justice and humanity. If they were, they would be for all human rights, not just hamas-Palestinian human rights. They are not out protesting for the starving Yemeni babies, or the Sudanese children being killed by starvation and violence on a great scale. Or the Syrians being butchered. This is pure and simple anti-Jewish rhetoric, performative human rights support (not real, performative.)

These aren't fair comparisons. In the case of Sudan, for example, the U.S. has been its people's primary source of humanitarian aid. This contrasts to U.S. support for Israel, which has enabled, excepting periods of ceasefire, a 10/7 level of killing every two days in Gaza in relation to its population, along with the virtual destruction of the enclave itself.

You forgot the original enablement of killing and destruction of Gaza - Hamas actions. That is the main enablement of the killings in Gaza.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for both Israeli and Hamas officials. However, it is Israel that has been credibly accused of genocide or genocidal acts — of which neither can be excused by precipitating events — by legal scholars and scholars of genocide, and by organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

What BS, and totally off-topic. Go back to creating endless antisemitic threads in the politics section.

This probably isn't very important. However, if you are ever similarly sure about something in the future, don't be. I haven't posted in the poliitics forum. I hadn't known there is one.

Thank you to those of you who understood the factual bases of my post.

[Anonymous]

I would encourage everyone to watch the Oscar nominated film - This Other Land.
It is informative and shocking. I learned a lot from it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster here: it's not BS and it's directly on-topic to remind everyone of the ICC, Amnesty, & Human Rights Watch. Many of us are *both* horrified by the events of 10/7 *and* think Israel's post-10/7 actions have been overreach. Go read Haaretz if you want to see the same kinds of criticism of the Israeli government. Not anti-Semitic to criticize Israeli government actions. And, free speech in the US has been used to protect all kinds of viewpoints. Saying a protestor has views that are morally repugnant to you does not mean that that protestor has no right to protest.

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