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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The student statement that the faculty letter “paraphrases” was written long before any Israeli response to Oct 7 and endorses the terrorists as legitimate actors. That is equivalent to saying that 9/11 was a legitimate response to decades of the US interfering in mid-east politics. No, it was terrorism. This isn’t about being Islamophobic, that is a canard. 
I have zero issues with anyone saying that people should be allowed to say what they want. But they also have to understand that actions and words have consequences and no one who publicly signed a letter is being “doxxed”, they already did that to themselves. [/quote]

Again, NO ONE has said 10/7 was a "legitimate" action -- not the students, not the faculty.

The students say it is the action of an oppressed people denied basic rights and freedom AND that as an action in an ongoing conflict, it violates moral principles that bar the targeting of civilians. They are contextualizing the Hamas attack within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which they believe is important because they support the cause of Palestinians (some of them being Palestinian), but they are not defending the attack.

The faculty defend the right of the students to say this, and argue that it is valuable to hear these voices because the conflict in question is complex and a college environment should encourage open discussion of complex issues like this.

The people who are angry about these statements, neither of which endorse or defend the Hamas attacks, would like there to be only one opinion on the matter: that 10/7 was a terrorist act for which Israel has a right to retaliate. Obviously people who are concerned about the fate of Palestinians in Gaza are never going to endorse that view. And the fact that since 10/7, Israel has used that event to justify the killing of many Palestinians, should make it abundantly clear why.

Anyway, OP's family shouldn't vacation with the professor.[/quote]

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