May 1, 2024 08:45 PM
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2024 08:57 PM by C C.)
Cynic's Corner: A rare instance of a mainstream media outlet acknowledging that some protest activity is pro-Hamas and antisemitic. Though agenda still requires them to subsume the majority under the "pro-Palestinian" label, and interpret these situations as "many Jewish students themselves constituting the demonstrations".
To avoid reality being mediated by journalists and selective video footage, there's apparently no substitute for raw audio/visuals and direct personal experience at the crusades -- albeit the latter is limited by being nearby enough to physically access them.
Where is a similarly robust, global outrage on campuses about Uyghur genocide (likewise an Islamic population)? Heh, simple reason. The Han Chinese government isn't going to be mistaken for Jews, who are the favorite nexus for the Left and the far-Right to agree on something.
Note that Wikipedia even recently changed the title to "Persecution of Uyghurs". You don't want anything else under that category concurrently distracting from Israeli implemented genocide. And the excellent opportunity it provides for young and old alike, and political opposites, to have camouflage for engaging in a time-honored tradition. (New antisemitism)
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Pro-Palestinian protests leave American college campuses on edge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palesti...-to-coast/
EXCERPTS: ...many Jewish students have said they fear for their personal safety after incidents of antisemitism.
Near Columbia University, antisemitic slogans including "go back to Poland" were heard among the protesters' chants. In one video, a demonstrator can be seen holding a sign near Jewish students that reads: "Al-Qassam's next targets."
[,,,] That line has been blurred, however, by the actions of some of the protesters, and Adam Lehman, president and CEO of the world's biggest Jewish student organization, Hillel, said the antisemitic chants directed at students in recent days can evoke painful memories for those whose families escaped persecution in Europe just a couple generations ago.
"The issues that we are trying to address for Jewish students and other students are not about speech, they're about conduct. They are about targeted harassment," he told CBS News.
"Those Jewish students themselves, even though they're young, their family members, those who they're going to sit down with at the Seder table, in some cases, themselves experienced… aspects of the Holocaust," Lehman said. "So, when they see these chants as pro-Hamas chants, or as we saw at Columbia… someone indicating that Jews there would be the next Hamas targets, of course they feel it deeply, and they feel it in a post-traumatic sort of way we're working so hard to eliminate."
Speaking Monday, President Biden said he condemned "the antisemitic protests," but he added: "I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians." (MORE - details)
RELATED (scivillage): Message from a Gazan to campus protesters: You're hurting the Palestinian cause
To avoid reality being mediated by journalists and selective video footage, there's apparently no substitute for raw audio/visuals and direct personal experience at the crusades -- albeit the latter is limited by being nearby enough to physically access them.
Where is a similarly robust, global outrage on campuses about Uyghur genocide (likewise an Islamic population)? Heh, simple reason. The Han Chinese government isn't going to be mistaken for Jews, who are the favorite nexus for the Left and the far-Right to agree on something.
Note that Wikipedia even recently changed the title to "Persecution of Uyghurs". You don't want anything else under that category concurrently distracting from Israeli implemented genocide. And the excellent opportunity it provides for young and old alike, and political opposites, to have camouflage for engaging in a time-honored tradition. (New antisemitism)
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Pro-Palestinian protests leave American college campuses on edge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palesti...-to-coast/
EXCERPTS: ...many Jewish students have said they fear for their personal safety after incidents of antisemitism.
Near Columbia University, antisemitic slogans including "go back to Poland" were heard among the protesters' chants. In one video, a demonstrator can be seen holding a sign near Jewish students that reads: "Al-Qassam's next targets."
[,,,] That line has been blurred, however, by the actions of some of the protesters, and Adam Lehman, president and CEO of the world's biggest Jewish student organization, Hillel, said the antisemitic chants directed at students in recent days can evoke painful memories for those whose families escaped persecution in Europe just a couple generations ago.
"The issues that we are trying to address for Jewish students and other students are not about speech, they're about conduct. They are about targeted harassment," he told CBS News.
"Those Jewish students themselves, even though they're young, their family members, those who they're going to sit down with at the Seder table, in some cases, themselves experienced… aspects of the Holocaust," Lehman said. "So, when they see these chants as pro-Hamas chants, or as we saw at Columbia… someone indicating that Jews there would be the next Hamas targets, of course they feel it deeply, and they feel it in a post-traumatic sort of way we're working so hard to eliminate."
Speaking Monday, President Biden said he condemned "the antisemitic protests," but he added: "I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians." (MORE - details)
RELATED (scivillage): Message from a Gazan to campus protesters: You're hurting the Palestinian cause
