Regarding the protests on U.S. colleges and universities nationwide, there are two things Pro-Palestinian activists can do

1. Stop proving the point people have that antisemitism is a problem within the movement. And yes I know that there are Jewish students in the Pro-Palestinian movement showing their solidarity for Gaza who say they haven't been mistreated but that doesn't make the situation any better. From students or even non students (as their faces are hidden), threatening Jewish students with many more October 7ths while ironically calling them "Nazi B*tches", to them being ridiculed, harassed, and even blamed for a war/conflict they have no control over that's in the middle east, students who are apart of the Pro-Palestinian movement should reflect on if antisemitism is something they truly support and excluding those who go out of their way to target their Jewish peers.

2. Realize that sympathizing with Hamas gets them nowhere. Whether you accept it or not, what Hamas did was horrific, how Hamas treats its own civilians is horrific, from some of these activists chanting "Hamas We love you. We support your rockets to" or yelling "We are all Hamas" to passerbys doesn't help their cause. It's a question of, do you want Palestine to truly be free or do you want Hamas to continue being a nuance?

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

What about equality, all lands for all people? Oh right, the gated community said no, and you choose to put up walls and endless wars on every border. No hope. Nobody can hope for peace with such genius around.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Roundandroundwego [quote]What about equality, all lands for all people? Oh right, the gated community said no, and you choose to put up walls and endless wars on every border. No hope. Nobody can hope for peace with such genius around.[/quote]
If you want peace, then stay in your own country and turn it into your own paradise.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Diotrephes peace ends at every border with the checkpoints and the war you can never avoid.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Roundandroundwego [quote]peace ends at every border with the checkpoints and the war you can never avoid.[/quote]
Did you know that America had more borders and checkpoints than all of the other countries combined in the world?

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Diotrephes sounds fine. They're the ones doing eighty percent of the war spending and they resent the low spenders.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Diotrephes [quote]Did you know that America had more borders and checkpoints than all of the other countries combined in the world][/quote]

Perhaps most checkpoints, but only two borders. Unless you count oceans.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@dancingtongue [quote]Perhaps most checkpoints, but only two borders. Unless you count oceans.[/quote]

You are showing you lack of knowledge about American history.

You may want to brush-up on sundown towns =

[b][c=BF0000]Historical Database of Sundown Towns[/c][/b]
https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/

Click on California, Texas, and Michigan.

"“Sundown towns” across the US prevented racial and ethnic minorities from living and working within their borders as they forced minorities to leave these towns after sunset.

Some cities employed signage and slogans explicitly enforcing racial restrictions (Loewen, 2005):

“N----r, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on You in Alix.”

-Alix, Arkansas1

“A Good Place to Live…No Negroes.”

-Edmond, Oklahoma1

“Cool Summers, Mild Winters, No Blizzards, No Negroes.”

-Mena, Arkansas1

An example is the town of Anna, Illinois is infamously known for its long history of racial exclusion. The name of the town itself originates from the acronym A-N-N-A, which stands for “Ain’t No N----ers Allowed.” Towns like Anna are not exclusive, or uncommon (Loewen, 2005); starting around 1890 until 1968 (Loewen, 2005), people in the United States set up thousands of white towns across the country."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10207838/

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Diotrephes I'm quite familiar with sundown laws, Green Books, gated communities, ad infinitium but the topic was national borders and checkpoints on those borders.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@dancingtongue You wrote - [quote]What about equality, all lands for all people? Oh right, the gated community said no, and you choose to put up walls and endless wars on every border. No hope. Nobody can hope for peace with such genius around.[/quote]

I gave examples of gated communities and towns in Ameria that had ptrolled border to keep ut "undesireables."

You then changed to focus to - [quote]I'm quite familiar with sundown laws, Green Books, gated communities, ad infinitium but the topic was national borders and checkpoints on those borders.[/quote]

In effect, all of those sundown towns in America were little nations that had their own immigration laws. Therefore, my comment is germane to the discussion because of the way you phrased your comment.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Diotrephes Your first quote is not from me. @Roundandroundwego then talked about borders, checkpoints, and war -- all terms used in references to countries. Not city limits, not gated communities.