Palestine college student protest megathread

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Just because Obama and Trump extrajudicially assassinating US citizen minors in a religious war for Saudi Arabia deserved more attention than it got doesn't excuse what's happening in Gaza.

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Also, this entire movement showed its true face when it organized mass rallies immediately after 10/7 celebrating the slaughter, before Israel had struck back. No matter what they say their demands are, they showed their cards on day one and they will never be allowed to cover that up.

Support for Palestine is still low. But Israel, after having suffered the second worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust (the worst was in Argentina during the dirty war, where tens of thousands of socialists, 12% of them Jews, were killed with weapons bought from the IDF) has lost an incredible amount of goodwill and the polls reflect that too. Pre 10/7 the average American was probably a soft Israel supporter, now the average American says screw em both.

https://twitter.com/USA_Polling/status/1785006429625074159

Lol, even I don't go this far.

When 2/3 of Americans are more pro-Israel than the most pro-Israel posters on this forum!!

People acting like those poll respondents thought about this for more than 2 seconds.

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It's the morning of Tuesday April 30th in a year where the DNC is held in Chicago, Robert F Kennedy is running for President, and the Republicans decided to run someone again who already lost a Presidential election. Protestors are occupying Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

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The governor should call in the national guard

Because that worked out so well in Ohio.

That’s not the only example . It worked out great in California for example

People who take life lessons from a man who sold weapons to Iran to fund authoritarian paramilitaries ought to take a good, hard look at themselves.

You do realize Iran was under invasion from a genocidal dictator, right? That it was basically the Ukraine of it’s time?

Why was given weapons to them to defend themselves bad?

Reagan and Rumsfeld also armed Iraq.

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https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1785179761116954845

Why are Palestinians so desperate to appropriate the Holocaust for themselves

The fact that they have been recategorised as stateless basically is an attempt to strip away their national identity. Then again, you have tried to characterise me as a Hamas supporter before.

Palestinians and the Rohingya are basically the world's 2 largest stateless populations.

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Don’t Forget the Backlash to the ’60s

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The backlash against the left was a key part of the 1968 presidential race. Richard Nixon famously ran a campaign on “law and order” — highlighting both urban and campus unrest. One commercial featured scenes of protest, as Nixon argued that “in a system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies a resort to violence.”

Alabama Gov. George Wallace was a lot more direct that year in his third-party bid. While racism was at the heart of his message, he also denounced student protesters as “silver spoon brats” who advocated “treason” and said of protesters, “Some of ’em lie down in front of my automobile, it’ll be the last thing they’ll ever wanna lie down in front of.”

The scenes of violence in Chicago outside the Democrats’ 1968 presidential convention, meanwhile, further contributed to the notion that left-wing lawlessness had gotten out of control. It was a nightmare event for Hubert Humphrey’s beleaguered presidential campaign, one where the public overwhelmingly sided with the Chicago police, not the demonstrators. (And, of course, guess where Democrats are holding their 2024 convention: Chicago.)

The political consequences of the upheaval became clear. While the doomed liberal campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy draw most of the focus in retrospectives of the era, the fact is that in November of 1968, Nixon and Wallace combined for 57 percent of the vote, close to the levels of historic landslide wins of LBJ in 1964 and Reagan in 1984.

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Seeing how a lot of people like to point to the 1968 protests and say how they were "on the right side of history", this article is a good reminder of what actually came of those protests.

In 1968, 3/4s of whites disapproved of MLK Jr.