Columbia protestors agree to dismantle some tents. Gaza war protest encampments spread across U.S. universities. Columbia says 'alternate options' would be considered to clear the encampment.
The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.
Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.
I was only a kid at the time, so I didn't understand the whole thing. I thought the shantytown on the campus in my town looked cool and I wanted to live there.
This is the new tactic for the dictators, just call <insert literally anything> a nazi. The Ukrainians, the protestors, my dog, all nazi’s. Projection at its greatest.
I didn't think it would ever be possible but Israel managed to completely take the bite out of the word "antisemitism" and comparisons to "Nazi Germany".
Its like the word woke. At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it. Anyone related to the IDF? Then antisemetic just means anti genocide.
At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it.
That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.
When you don't agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don't hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You're no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It's one step away from violence.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Jews and non-Jews to oppose pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States, comparing them to the antisemitism seen in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculties," he said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday.
Netanyahu's entire party are fascists, and Einstein called them out for being fascists shortly after WW2 (before they rebranded to their current name).
Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.
Without delving into this event I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is the common trope of framing something that is Anti-Netanyahu or Anti-Israeli or Anti-Zionism (Read: Far-Right Nationalism) or Pro-Civilian — and associate it with antisemitism. Let me edit upon review to see if I can confirm this hypothesis.
Times of Israel of course has a convenient anonymous student referring to chants that are curiously not captured on video/audio. If someone has something, then do let me know. I suspect like most things this is a matter of colorizing the protest by the few bad apples who, according to an AP article, were not even students. So you may have actual antisemites trying to hijack the movement; or you might have pro-Israelis trying to tarnish the protest by painting it in a bad light.
Either way, the protests should be judged by the overwhelming narrative projected by the mass at large.
What's funny is that the last time a nation which claimed to represent a whole etnicity, which was specifically targetting and mass murdering people of another etnicity with such intensity, inhumanity and extreme racist prejudice, and their leader would when their actions were criticized say that it was an insult to the etnicity he claimed to represent, the time was the late 1930s, the etnicity was the Arian Race, the nation was Germany and the leader was called Adolph Hitler.
It kinda looks a lot like the ones who look like a "duck", walk like a "duck" and quack like a "duck" - hence why most people are saying they're "ducks" - are Netanyahu and his countrymen.