During the 1960s there was much unrest on American college campuses. Students were protesting against the American roll in the war in Vietnam, and for civil rights. Both of these were just causes. Today, we find young privileged American youth protesting against what they see as Jewish genocide in Israeli. What they don’t see is that they are the problem not the solution. They blame President Biden for his on going support for the Israeli democracy, and ignore the fact that it is the Palestinians who are both the aggressors and the ones with genocide on their minds. They chant from ‘Jordan to the sea’ which is simply a call for the annihilation of Jews. They forget that on October 7, 2023 that the Palestinian army known as HAMAS invaded Israel during an Israeli peace festival in southern Israel.
This is how it was described on Wikipedia:
“The attacks began early on 7 October with a barrage of at least 3,000 rockets launched against Israel and vehicle-transported and powered paraglider incursions into Israel. Hamas fighters breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in Gaza envelope Kibbutz settlements, including in Be’eri, Kfar Aza, and Nir Oz, and at the Nova music festival.] The attackers killed 1,139 people:[f] 695 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of the security forces.] About 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip, including 30 children, with the stated goal to force Israel to exchange them for imprisoned Palestinians, including women and children.] Reports of rape and sexual assault also emerged. Hamas officials denied the involvement of their fighters.
“Hamas said its attack was in response to the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, rising Israeli settler violence, and recent escalations.
“At least 44 countries denounced the attack as terrorism, while some Arab and Muslim countries blamed Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories as the root cause of the attack. The day was labeled the bloodiest in Israel’s history and the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust. Some have called the attack a genocidal massacre against Israelis.”
Where was your outrage when this happened? What did you think the Israelis should do? Turn the other cheek. What do think would happen if Mexico did this to Texas? Where was your outrage when Putin’s Russia invaded the Ukraine? Whaere was your outrage when Assad slaughtered half a million Syrians? Why are you so outraged now? Could it be your anti-Semitism is showing?
While President Joe Biden, and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have been working tirelessly seeking a ceasefire, while all you do is to pollute, and clutter the university grounds you occupy with tents, garbage and who knows what while you chant anti-Semitic phrases. You invade administration buildings, and intimidate Jewish students. This is not free speech, and you are not the heroes of the oppressed. If there is going to be a ceasefire it is up to HAMAS, who are still holding hostages, not President Biden, or even Bibi Netanyahu. Why not take a moment to learn a thing or two about Jewish history, and you will find that this land you call Palestine was ancient Israel, and they were exiled from there homeland by the invading European Romans. It is then that the Palestinians took control and turned the land into a shithole. Only after the holocaust were the Jews allowed to return to their homeland. They sought to live peacefully with their Palestinian neighbors, but were rebuked by constant car bombings and sacrificial human bombers who strapped explosives to their bodies in an attempt to kill as many Jews as possible. This went on for years. After the 6-day war when Israel got Gaza and the West Bank they gave Gaza to the Palestinians who continuously lobbed rockets into Israel. Then in 2000 then President Clinton brokered the Oslo Accord. Finally there would be a 2 state solution, but then Palestinian leader Yassa Arafat balked, and who would blame him, after all Anwar Sadat of Egypt was assassinated after he reached a peace accord with Israel, and Israeli leader Itzhak Rabin who was the then Jewish leader was also assassinated. Who was behind the opposition? HAMAS!
I have an idea. If you are so unhappy with the situation in Gaza why don’t you go to Gaza and negotiate with HAMAS? I’m quite certain they will be willing to sit down with you, but I may be wrong. there is a far better chance that they will hold you as hostages like they are still holding over 100 Israelis, and Americans to this day. You are only allowed to demonstrate because you live in a free country like America. However, if you keep up your protests you will get Donald Trump reelected, and then you will get what you want, an America where people have NO rights. By the way keep your tents since you will need them after your graduation.