Rabbi urges Jewish students at Columbia to leave campus

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Send in the National Guard. Disperse the terrorist supporters (and their token kapos) by force.

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I stan Shai Davidai. Kapos and asajews deserve all the withering criticism they're getting.

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I stan Shai Davidai. Kapos and asajews deserve all the withering criticism they're getting.

I support his cause but he personally seems dislikable. Would you really go so far as to say you like him?

Yeah, not gonna lie that he's annoying and doesn't seem to get how the first amendment works. I'm still gonna cheer him on for calling these people what they are. I'm tired of these fringe lunatics being propped up as tokens by those who seek our destruction.

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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.

I don't disagree, but this is far too narrow of a list. For example, the Astor Place riots left 30 people dead over "a dispute between Edwin Forrest, one of the best-known American actors of that time, and William Charles Macready, a similarly notable English actor, which largely revolved around which of them was better than the other at acting the major roles of Shakespeare."

The Age of Jackson was a wild time.