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hoolstoptheheels

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I totally disagree, unless you’re saying he got SJP’s comments wrong.


Assuming the author was accurate, celebrating the barbarity on Oct 7, and characterizing kidnappings of infants up to grandparents as “capturing occupation soldiers” is not protesting to advance the rights of Palestinians. The largest banner read “no dialogue with white supremacy”. That is patently insane.

Your problem is with a distinction I think many would draw. I saw a great (imo) interview on Firing Line with Bret Stephens, who is Jewish with close ties to Israel, and who felt, when he went to see the first protests in Times Square the day after the attacks, that crowds were cheering the Hamas atrocities “like Argentina cheered their World Cup win”. Sorry, but full throated support for Hamas like that carries antisemitic undertones. Certainly imo.

So I understand this guy seeing underlying antisemitism in the event he described. That doesn’t bother me, and I think his points about obsessive in-grouping and total lack of discourse on different perspectives are spot on.



[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 10/17/2023 4:46PM]

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Posted: 10/17/2023 at 4:44PM



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