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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the violent people in masks are really Jewish agitators, why don't the other protesters de-mask them and show the world who they really are? [/quote]

It is an antisemitic trope to imply that protestors need to mask in order to avoid retribution from the pro Israel American community for voicing their views.[/quote]

I’d love to discuss this more. Doxing is a real thing with real consequences.  I personally know of a periodontist in MA who was fired for removing an illegally posted hostage poster in Nov 23 after a photo was taken of her and posted by pro Isreal supporters.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/15/business/palestinian-americans-activists-doxxing

I don’t know who the masked people are at the student rallies.  But I could see if I was one of them I would want to hide my face for fear of retribution which I know has been taken in the past.

How exactly is that antisemitism? [/quote]
If the poster was put up illegally, call the non-emergency police number. Don't look like a Hamas-sympathizing a-hole by removing it yourself.[/quote]

Talk about disingenuous.

The poster wasn't removed b/c it was "illegally posted". The poster was removed b/c the periodontist didn't want people to sympathize with the hostages.

100% deserved to be fired. [/quote]

Someone deserved to lose their job because they removed a poster?

Nah - I wouldn’t have done it, but justifying someone’s life being upended for the act of removing a poster (regardless what that means to you) is 100,000x more outrageous than what she actually did. The people that doxxed her are scumbags, and you’re a scumbag for trying to justify it.

And if you can’t see why removing a poster in Massachusetts that involves people in Israel doesn’t affect anyone at all at the level of someone losing their job, further shame on you. Some people refuse to justify the outrageous history of Israel’s atrocities, knowing that nobody puts up posters for the countless victims of Israel barbarity over the years.[/quote]
You have a good point that doxxing is dangerous. But I don't think that suffering consequences for your actions in public is necessarily out of the question.

The posters are an awareness campaign about the hostages. What is the point in tearing them down, if not to downplay the crimes of Hamas? Most people would just walk past it. I came of age when social media was new and we were drilled and drilled about being careful what we posted online, because it could affect our future employment. They told us in college not to post pictures of ourselves plastered at frat parties, because potential employers might find it years later and pass on interviewing us. In the same vein, how you act in public spaces is out there for employers to see and judge accordingly. It might not be right or fair, but it is how it is.[/quote]

Why do you assume you know the reason she took them down?

I’m the previous poster and she had two reasons for removing the poster:

1) she felt that the posters placed higher value on Israeli lives than Palestinian and was offended by that.

2) she is from the region and thought she was safe in her new country.  The posters made her feel that the conflict would now spill over into the US and she and her kids would be at risk of being grouped together with Hamas.  Yes, she has suffered from Trauma and her instinctive flight or flight response was to remove a poster. [/quote]

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