Calling a demonstration “pro-Hamas” already reveals your inherent bias on this matter. One group’s safety should never be predicated on the subjugation and extermination of another - and that is what these young people are protesting. To feel uncomfortable in being confronted by that truth, is not on par with actually being unsafe. I hon…
Calling a demonstration “pro-Hamas” already reveals your inherent bias on this matter. One group’s safety should never be predicated on the subjugation and extermination of another - and that is what these young people are protesting. To feel uncomfortable in being confronted by that truth, is not on par with actually being unsafe. I honestly expected more from an organization that calls themselves FAIR.
"If being anti-Israeli is not the same as being anti-Jewish, then why would it be appropriate to "confront" Jewish students with any "uncomfortable truth" regarding the Israeli government? Why should Jewish students be chased into libraries, or Hillel buildings vandalized or menorahs publicly desecrated if hating Israeli policy is not the same as hating Jews."
Sadly, because like it or not -- and this is a problem -- there are too many Jewish people and U.S. government officials who are Zionists who actively try to get Zionism connected to Jewish people. This is due to the attempts to render Zionism and Israel above criticism by trying to pass such criticism off as anti-Semitism.
Also, we can never be certain if the press reporting these incidents is above Zionist bias and is actually reporting opposition to Zionism as "anti-Semitism" by referring to Zionists as "Jews." An increasing number of people, including many Jewish anti-Zionists, are well aware of the difference and are opposing a conflation between Zionism and Israel with Jewish people. But those who deliberately make the conflation for political purposes- are unfortunately feeding into this problem.
"If you truly care about Palestinian victims of war, you should look to who started that war and who has kept the Palestinians trapped in a state of war for 75 years.
Here's a hint: it's not Israel."
Bigger hint: that whole fracas did not start on October 7th. The existence of Hamas only goes back to 1987. And Netanyahu deliberately ignored warnings from both U.S. and Egyptian officials that the rave was likely to be attacked, and he did that because he wanted an excuse to move in, raze Gaza, and seize the oil-rich land for a long time now. It has nothing to do with "defending" Israel.
“Since 10/7 I have discovered that being against the world's only Jewish state - in a world with 50 extremely oppressive Muslim states - actually is a form of Jew-hatred.”
You’ve discovered no such thing.
Anti-Zionism has long flourished within the Jewish community itself. Zionism only won out in the Jewish community after decades of being considered an extremist and dangerous ideology. In today’s world there are still some strong voices against it, including from Othodox religious Jews who deny that God ever intended men to create the Jewish state by themselves. Do you really think they believe this because they hate Jews?
No Jewish student has ever been chased into a library for being a Jew or even for being pro-Israel, not in this century. Obviously you are referring to the incident at Cooper Union in New York.
Calling a demonstration “pro-Hamas” already reveals your inherent bias on this matter. One group’s safety should never be predicated on the subjugation and extermination of another - and that is what these young people are protesting. To feel uncomfortable in being confronted by that truth, is not on par with actually being unsafe. I honestly expected more from an organization that calls themselves FAIR.
"If being anti-Israeli is not the same as being anti-Jewish, then why would it be appropriate to "confront" Jewish students with any "uncomfortable truth" regarding the Israeli government? Why should Jewish students be chased into libraries, or Hillel buildings vandalized or menorahs publicly desecrated if hating Israeli policy is not the same as hating Jews."
Sadly, because like it or not -- and this is a problem -- there are too many Jewish people and U.S. government officials who are Zionists who actively try to get Zionism connected to Jewish people. This is due to the attempts to render Zionism and Israel above criticism by trying to pass such criticism off as anti-Semitism.
Also, we can never be certain if the press reporting these incidents is above Zionist bias and is actually reporting opposition to Zionism as "anti-Semitism" by referring to Zionists as "Jews." An increasing number of people, including many Jewish anti-Zionists, are well aware of the difference and are opposing a conflation between Zionism and Israel with Jewish people. But those who deliberately make the conflation for political purposes- are unfortunately feeding into this problem.
"If you truly care about Palestinian victims of war, you should look to who started that war and who has kept the Palestinians trapped in a state of war for 75 years.
Here's a hint: it's not Israel."
Bigger hint: that whole fracas did not start on October 7th. The existence of Hamas only goes back to 1987. And Netanyahu deliberately ignored warnings from both U.S. and Egyptian officials that the rave was likely to be attacked, and he did that because he wanted an excuse to move in, raze Gaza, and seize the oil-rich land for a long time now. It has nothing to do with "defending" Israel.
“Since 10/7 I have discovered that being against the world's only Jewish state - in a world with 50 extremely oppressive Muslim states - actually is a form of Jew-hatred.”
You’ve discovered no such thing.
Anti-Zionism has long flourished within the Jewish community itself. Zionism only won out in the Jewish community after decades of being considered an extremist and dangerous ideology. In today’s world there are still some strong voices against it, including from Othodox religious Jews who deny that God ever intended men to create the Jewish state by themselves. Do you really think they believe this because they hate Jews?
No Jewish student has ever been chased into a library for being a Jew or even for being pro-Israel, not in this century. Obviously you are referring to the incident at Cooper Union in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/nyregion/cooper-union-pro-palestinian-protest.html