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More power to them! These kids are doing the right thing!
possibly - but it’s rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Israel’s government doesnt care about what American college students do.
America’s government might.
That’s the goal. It took a while, but it worked with Vietnam.
To be fair, Vietnam was a war being waged directly by the US. That’s not to say that I think the protests will be ineffective; if they weren’t having some effect then we wouldn’t be hearing about them. However, the situation is somewhat different from the Vietnam war. That’s why (if I understand correctly) they’re mainly protesting to end US involvement as opposed to trying to make Israel stop. Ending US involvement will probably result in Israel stopping, but there’s no guarantee and so the main idea is to make sure the US is not complicit. At least that’s my understanding of the nuance when it comes to the situation.
That’s true. I don’t believe campus protestors are under the mistaken impression that they’ll turn the heart of Netanyahu. Even his own people are calling for his resignation.
Ending or reducing US involvement, however, would be a substantial shift in a continuous, 45-year-long support policy.
They’re protesting for a number of things, including things like divesting university funding from Israel to cutting US weapon shipments to Israel. Will the protests have a direct effect on Israel? No. They might have an indirect effect however.
america is israel’s sugar daddy. without America they have nothing. so fighting here is the correct thing to do
Wasting thousands of dollars to turn their campuses into trashy tent-cities and ultimately accomplish nothing? They probably go to their parent’s upper-class homes at night to sleep, and stop for artisanal coffees on their way back to protesting in the morning.
Performative junk.
'Got any better ideas for stopping the US government, and investment groups, from support a genocide?
A lot of these universities, especially ones like Columbia, MIT, Yale, Cornell, Stanford and Harvard, are “rich people” universities. They’ll survive.
Tbh I’m kinda surprised that we haven’t had an increasing number of rich parents telling the schools to go fuck themselves because their silver-spooned babies are having their things trashed and finding themselves in jail.
They may. And they’re decent enough to wish everyone had access to those privledges. But hey, get yours and fuck everyone else, I guess.
Wasting thousands of dollars to turn their campuses into trashy tent-cities
lmao based
