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Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested
(www.theguardian.com)
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This entire article is revolting.
"Back at Columbia, Nicholas Baum, a 19-year-old Jewish freshman who lives in a Jewish theological seminary building two blocks from Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus, told the Associated Press that protesters over the weekend were “calling for Hamas to blow away Tel Aviv and Israel”. He said some of the protesters shouting antisemitic slurs were not students but that Jewish students were scared.
“There’s been so much vilification of Zionism, and it has spilled over into the vilification of Judaism,” he said."
I think you can agree that we can support a group that is suffering from genocide to fight back and it isn't necessarily antisemitic. Of course, there may be antisemitism from some sectors, but Israel conflates criticism and antisemitism all the time. As a result, at this point, I don't think it is a big concern. Allowing the protestors to fight against a genocidal nation is the more important issue.
Honestly, I blame AIPAC. AIPAC has been weaponizing any criticism of Isreal as antisemitism for the past decade - doing this erodes our ability to call out genuine antisemitism. AIPAC is accelerating social acceptance of absolutely vile positions.
For reference, I'm not Jewish but grew up in an antizionist slanted Jewish community and I think that Isreal's actions in Gaza are atrocious but I also don't fucking tolerate any genuine antisemitism (which does pop up on lemmy from time to time).
AIPAC and Israel's government itself.
I was just shocked that there are apparently people who don't hear "zionism" and have the same reaction as hearing the word "Nazism". The whole article is written from the perspective of a Zionist (bad).
Exactly, you have people protesting a genocide, and then there are students carrying the flag of the genocidal nation to provoke the protestors. To me, I would probably treat it as a white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag to a George Floyd protest.
I agree with the other poster, this article is revolting in it's one-sided treatment of the issue.
I saw a TV playing Fox News today, and they were running a bit on this labeled "anti-israel protests", so that certainly doesn't help either.