Sorry for all of my follow up responses. I think the botched actions we’re seeing across the board against pro Hamas activists (like the above and like the USC commencement cancellation) are being handled poorly because they’re not an organised group with well thought out plans to address a conflict like this. The leaders of the pro-Hama…
Sorry for all of my follow up responses. I think the botched actions we’re seeing across the board against pro Hamas activists (like the above and like the USC commencement cancellation) are being handled poorly because they’re not an organised group with well thought out plans to address a conflict like this. The leaders of the pro-Hamas supporters knew how to play this at every turn. Universities have one tool in response to protests: violence, and they should by now have realised it is antithetical to ethical engagement and to the broader discourse.
Do you not hear what you are saying? "Pro-Hamas supporters" ? There can be no justification of any "Pro-Hamas" movement. If indeed the Columbia demonstrators are "Pro-Hamas" they deserve to be quashed by any means possible, be it NYPD or immediate expulsion from the university. There is absolutely no parallel between late 1960s anti-Vietnam protests at Columbia and today's student-faculty advocacy of a terrorist organization hiding under the umbrella of 'the Palestinian people'. The purpose of anti-Vietnam protests was to expose a genocide being committed by the United States in a wholly illegal and unwinnable military enterprise. The naive and ignorant students at Columbia and elsewhere are ignoring the decades-long history of violent war against Israel, which is the modern extension of centuries-old efforts to exterminate Jews everywhere. What I find absolutely baffling is the total inability of university students across America to see the immediate danger of a fascist takeover of the free world. Why in hell aren't they taking over university administration buildings to expose the profound risk of world war staring us in the face?
Sorry for all of my follow up responses. I think the botched actions we’re seeing across the board against pro Hamas activists (like the above and like the USC commencement cancellation) are being handled poorly because they’re not an organised group with well thought out plans to address a conflict like this. The leaders of the pro-Hamas supporters knew how to play this at every turn. Universities have one tool in response to protests: violence, and they should by now have realised it is antithetical to ethical engagement and to the broader discourse.
Do you not hear what you are saying? "Pro-Hamas supporters" ? There can be no justification of any "Pro-Hamas" movement. If indeed the Columbia demonstrators are "Pro-Hamas" they deserve to be quashed by any means possible, be it NYPD or immediate expulsion from the university. There is absolutely no parallel between late 1960s anti-Vietnam protests at Columbia and today's student-faculty advocacy of a terrorist organization hiding under the umbrella of 'the Palestinian people'. The purpose of anti-Vietnam protests was to expose a genocide being committed by the United States in a wholly illegal and unwinnable military enterprise. The naive and ignorant students at Columbia and elsewhere are ignoring the decades-long history of violent war against Israel, which is the modern extension of centuries-old efforts to exterminate Jews everywhere. What I find absolutely baffling is the total inability of university students across America to see the immediate danger of a fascist takeover of the free world. Why in hell aren't they taking over university administration buildings to expose the profound risk of world war staring us in the face?