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Bridget O's avatar

My children (young adults) said this a year ago. Their news sources were live video feeds on the ground in Gaza, while we were still watching mainstream media who, BTW, was paid for by corporate sponsors. They compared it to the students that spoke and protested against Vietnam. Those same students are now baby boomers, many who are have been hoodwinked by corporate led media. Where are our memories? Being against a genocide does not mean anti-Israeli people or anti-Jewish. And those starving babies and children are not Hamas.

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Rachel Fisher's avatar

Don't you think the antisemitism that did exist as part of the campus protests made it easier to dismiss the correctness of much of what the students were saying? I am a Jew who has been outspoken against the war from the beginning, but I could not defend (and indeed felt threatened by) some of the language coming out of the protests (not the use of the word genocide, but the "all Zionists deserve to die, for example). I have to also say that in my personal experience, the worst antisemitic harassment I experienced was from a fellow adjunct professor at a community college, and it was based on his antiZionism (and happened regardless of the fact that I have never supported the occupation and have worked for Palestinian liberation, but he had no interest in what I actually thought, only in the fact that I'm a Jew). I just find it odd that in an article about language, you skip over some of the language coming out of those protests that made it easier for people to dismiss what they were saying.

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