Rabbi urges Jewish students at Columbia to leave campus

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Will these protests spill outside of college campuses and become full-fledged riots? Seems fitting as we are closing in on four years since the George Floyd protests.

This could age like milk, but I don't think so. Think about what has caused American protests/riots in the past: implementation of a military draft in the middle of a civil war, labor rights, the war in Vietnam, police brutality.

Israel/Gaza is too niche of an issue for full-fledged riots to break out. American soldiers aren't dying in Gaza and unarmed American civilians aren't being killed by the IDF. The death and destruction in Gaza is too distant for most Americans to care, much less start a riot over.

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Joe Biden has condemned these protests

The emperor has no clothes. Pro-Israel Democrats are the last people in America to realize this.

Help me understand. I’m more supportive of Biden than ever.

Biden is an invisible president. What he says has such little impact it’s hardly worth talking about. In a way this is the fault of his voters, who elected him as an anti-TRUMP. Sadly when you aren’t elected on your merits and elected as a reaction to the previous administration you get the situation we have now.

He’s an 81 year old man with practically nothing left in the tank. If he’s personally doing anything to alleviate the Conflict it sure doesn’t seem like it. Everywhere around the world tensions are rising and disagreements are turning into armed conflicts. 6 months after October 7th and Biden has nothing to show for progress. And since he’s so old he’s outsourced foreign policy to people below him. But not even Democrats could say Blinken has handled the Middle East well.

His official statements are obvious attempts at triangulation. His actions in the Middle East have done nothing to make pro-Palestine activists at home think about something else.

I'd much rather Biden's mixed bag Israel-Gaza policy to Trump's "Netanyahu needs to finish the job" policy.