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Palestine protests - what to do

I am hearing from one side that National Guard should be called. Given what happened at Kent State in 1970, I think this would make the issue worse. MUCH, MUCH WORSE. Generally, trying to forcefully remove people may seem like you are protecting people, but instead you are making things worse.

On the other hand, these protests have gotten serious and violent. How does one restore safety to campuses without infringing upon rights? We do have rights in the USA. If your campus is closed to students only, you can arrest non students. But if your campus is open (like most universities) - that's tough. I was once escorted off of a college campus for being a non-student. In my case, I walked onto a campus at night, by myself, not knowing I was on a campus. The campus police put me in the back of a police car and drove me off, saying they cannot charge me with anything, but they can warn me that I was trespassing and if I came back on campus without official business they could charge me with trespassing because I have already been warned. Not sure if that was legal, but I didn't test it.

So, what do people like Mike Johnson expect to be done? Clearly there is unchecked antisemitism amongst many of these protesters. And clearly there are non-student agitators joining the crowd. But what many people don't know, is that there are many Jewish people amongst the protesters, also protesting funding Israel's war machine, and the treatment of Palestinians. And they are facing harassment - from fellow jews and other Israel supporters.

I just feel like it is hard to find the truth here. I should point out that I have a Jewish family member who is faculty at Columbia, and she isn't fearful for her life. She seems to be more concerned with having to teach online classes for the rest of the semester.
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dakotaviper · 56-60, M
View the following documentary about 'Palestine' and you might learn something.

https://youtu.be/FWB8IW5k2Sw
Justice4All · 36-40, M
@dakotaviper Biologically, they also share DNA with ancient Jews.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@Justice4All when I lived there , unless they wore religious garb, I couldn’t tell a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew (not euro Jew ) apart .
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@AthrillatheHunt neither could I.

Or look at it this way.
If you take a photo of Bella Hadid and a photo of Gal Gadot, put them side by side in American Style Clothing, which one is a Jew.
@dakotaviper Who cares where they came from? They're human beings, they shouldn't be murdered.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@BohemianBoo anyone calling Israel a European colonial occupier cares (which is most of the Arab world ).
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trollslayer · 46-50, M
@BohemianBoo and i learned from one of you folks today that some blame palestinians for the holocaust.
Justice4All · 36-40, M
@trollslayer Right, and the people of Germany are completely innocent. It was Hitler and the Palestinians, and Iran.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@Justice4All That’t what Bibi claimed. It is out of the “delegitimize the Palestinians” playbook. If you can paint them a a people prone to evil that nobody likes or came from somewhere else, you can justify ethnic cleansing.
@trollslayer The origin of that myth is even worse. During WWII there was a Palestinian activist named Amin al-Husseini who had meetings with Hitler, Himmler, and Eichmann. We don't know what was said at these meetings because nobody involved talked about them publicly. But eventually, Zionists started saying that al-Husseini convinced the Nazis to do the Holocaust. Again, no evidence of that, but it became a common talking-point anyway.
And of course, al-Husseini was just one person, not the entire Palestinian people. But Zionists will still say "the Palestinians" convinced the Nazis to do the Holocaust.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@BohemianBoo well, its a common tactic to try and pass blame onto others through a lie to justify one’s own misdeeds. The USA has done it all the time (wmd), Putin, and ironically Hitler himself.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M