Israel-Hamas war protesters ✋🤨
Palestinian Genocide protesters 👈😎
I would also accept Israel-Palestinian children war, since the majority of the dead are children.
As long as they all know the difference
You mean the genocide protesters?
Protest are not easy or safe. They are dangerous and could cost you everything. Stand with the protesters and Palestine ✊🏽 🇵🇸
Hold!
Braver than the troops o7
Hope they enjoy going to community college next year!
It’s unclear why you felt the need to act needlessly cruel. It’s even less clear what you get out of it.
Almost certainly someone who chose not to go to college or didn’t get in and see people who spend the money and fail as vindication for themselves.
Same reason people are against loan forgiveness.
The thought of that had occurred to me but I tend not to say that directly to people just to avoid drama.
University Professor with now “prior” students affected by today’s raid. The University is neither partisan to foreign events nor a place to take a building hostage for such. It just boggles my mind how anyone, including my prior students could both assume nothing would happen to them and to fall victim to feed such hatred. Hatred is not the answer, it’s a proven fact.
Hatred? You think it’s hatred to request that a nation stops killing Palestinian children?
Taking a building hostage, did you think the same when they protested Vietnam?
Seems like your students will be in a better place now considering they won’t have to hear more of this drivel.
Funny as a professor that your mind is boggled that a university could be a place for protest.
boggles my mind
Propaganda on social media. Democratic countries are way behind on this one.
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I can’t wait for the surprise Pikachu on their faces when the university takes action. If they think actions should have consequences for others, why shouldn’t it apply to them as well?
There will be no surprised Pikachu faces because anyone out there protesting values innocent human lives more than a suspension, expulsion, or unjust criminal charges unto them.
I think you might not get protesting.
If that’s really true, why weren’t they protesting when the saudis were bombing the hell out of Yemen?
I mean, does it really make a difference? I agree that more things like this should be protested. But even if you think they’re hypocrites that doesn’t mean they’re wrong now. Put it this way: if they had protested the Saudis, would this protest be totally cool with you?
And obviously the answer is because their university and government are backing and funding this one. If you can’t see the difference in relevance to the average American you have a serious problem.
Their government and (probably) university were backing the other one as well
But obviously not to the same extent. And I’m sure we can agree that that was a bad thing to do
I can’t speak for the universities, but by many standards the involvement of the US military was a lot larger.
Asides from supplying weapons and intelligence, they were participating in the naval blockade and flying air tankers to help the genocide. 380k dead, that’s 10 times as much as what’s reported from Gaza.
And sure, it was bad, but I think the above poster as well as myself want to make the point that it’s quite arbitrary to take such risks to protest this conflict in particular. I assume most of the protestors have been Kony’d into thinking that this conflict is somehow very special and worth risking their future for.
That said, I think they should be free to do so peacefully and the fucks who are doxxing them should swing
Is your position that US support for Israel is the same as for the Saudis?
quite arbitrary
Fueled by propaganda using this as a wedge issue to get Trump elected.
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Thank you correct. At least you’re consistent
You pointed at another bad thing and somehow that means that we shouldn’t care about this bad thing?
So disingenuous as you know that you’d be against people protesting that too.
So let’s say the protest works. There’s a cease fire. Good job everyone. So smart and ethically superior.
Now that you’ve all made the world a better place, what is going to happen to the innocent Israeli hostages that Hamas has?
What will happen if Hamas continue to fire rockets into Israel? Like they always have?
If you can’t answer these questions it’s not really because you can’t, it’s because you won’t. It’s a bad faith discussion.
I’m assuming you’re ok with Hamas stealing and diverting the international aid that was intended for improving the lives of Palestinians and diverting it themselves and buying rockets and launching more October 7th style attacks in the future.
I’m sure you’ve all thought this through like the smart people you are.
I would expect them to returned, post haste.
Hamas likely will keep firing rockets, as killing thousands of children will tend to make their fathers turn pro-Hamas.
It seems to me that you think that whilst the hostages are not returned then the killing should continue, is that right?
As for the rest of your points, yes I have thought about them, no I don’t support Hamas. Someone that can put it better than me is Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish man and arguably the foremost expert on the conflict and certainly the most well read. You should check him out if you really are open to listening to a counter argument to the msm.
Will do. And yes I think the innocent civilian hostages should be returned before the attack on the people who kidnapped them and killed 1800 others still exist. In the Lemmy bubble the hostages are non existent for some reason? Probably because innocent people can’t kidnap and murder other innocent people. The other thing is Hamas must be destroyed. Hamas broke the cease fire. They knew this would happen. They happily used the innocent Palestinians as collateral to advance their own cause.
Do I think a genocide is even taking place? Yes and no. I think there have been some poor actions taken by a small number of idf personal who probably want a genocide, I think this is the exception not the rule, this is normal (not right) for every war. Do I support a genocide? Fuck no. The problem that Israel has is they are fighting an enemy that has many shades of grey. Hamas must be destroyed. The Palestine people have strong support for Hamas which also means they likely support what Hamas did on October 7th. Many may be indirectly helping Hamas - even if they fall just short of picking up a gun or deploying an ied themselves. Should these people be spared?
I am fully aware of the 1800 innocent hostages. I just don’t think the deaths of 30,000 innocent Palestinians is acceptable and I think anybody that doesn’t is deplorable.
I don’t need lemmy for my morals mate. I was born this way, I find it staggering that people like you will justify these abhorrent acts.
As for a few rogue units, the ICC is rumoured to be issuing an arrest warrant for Bibi.
The US doesn’t finance Saudis bombing Yemen.
They sell them the bombs don’t they?
You presume that everyone acts selfishly and ignorantly like you do.
Nah, I expect people are dumb enough to think the first amendment protects them from private institutions and consequences. I’ve seen enough people over the years that have proven me right and were then surprised by the consequences of their own actions.
It takes federal funds so it does apply, it’s already been ruled on in like 1968. They aren’t traditional public forums, they’re limited ones but civil disobedience is literally the cornerstone of American peaceful protest.
Are you stupid? You think they haven’t faced action yet? Lol read a book
Their camp is still there on campus past the deadline. They clearly haven’t fully faced the consequences of it yet.
It was literally cleared out and rebuilt…
I’m talking about the deadline today. The university already started handing out suspensions for those still there, but haven’t cleared them out yet.
