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OT: World Politics


View: https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1772618619681194495

and from the article:

One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed. “I’m not calling for a civilian to do it, but I think a military should,” the 23-year-old Stanford University student told a small group of protesters last month. “I’d be happy if Biden was dead.” He thinks that Stanford is complicit in what he calls the genocide of Palestinians, and that Biden is not only complicit but responsible for it. “I’m not calling for a vigilante to do it,” he later clarified, “but I’m saying he is guilty of mass murder and should be treated in the same way that a terrorist with darker skin would be (and we all know terrorists with dark skin are typically bombed and drone striked by American planes).” El Boudali has also said that he believes that Hamas’s October 7 attack was a justifiable act of resistance, and that he would actually prefer Hamas rule America in place of its current government (though he clarified later that he “doesn’t mean Hamas is perfect”). When you ask him what his cause is, he answers: “Peace.”

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At one rally last fall, a speaker expressed disillusionment about the power of “peaceful resistance” on college campuses. “What is there left to do but to take up arms?” The crowd cheered as he said Israel must be destroyed. But what would happen to its citizens? I’d prefer to believe that most protesters chanting “Palestine is Arab” and shouting that we must “smash the Zionist settler state” don’t actually think Jews should be killed en masse. But can one truly be so ignorant as to advocate widespread violence in the name of peace?
When the world is rendered in black-and-white—portrayed as a simple fight between colonizer and colonized—the answer is yes. Solutions, by this logic, are absolute: Israel or Palestine, nothing in between. Either you support liberation of the oppressed or you support genocide. Either Stanford is all good or all bad; all in favor of free speech or all authoritarian; all anti-Semitic or all Islamophobic.
At January’s anti-anti-Semitism event, I watched an exchange between a Jewish attendee and a protester from a few feet away. “Are you pro-Palestine?” the protester asked.
“Yes,” the attendee responded, and he went on to describe his disgust with the human-rights abuses Palestinians have faced for years.
“But are you a Zionist?”
“Yes.”
“Then we are enemies.”
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mbow30 said:
He’d rather live under hamas than joe Biden.

beheading babies and raping teenagers is justifiable resistance.

My god. That person is a fucking nut.
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There are a lot of people that live in a complete fantasyland when it comes to Hamas and Palestinians in general.

One of my favourite phenomenons lately, both in real life (displayed in windows or hung from the front of homes) or online (icons beside a username) is people displaying the LGBTQ & Palestinian flags side by side. I swear, I see it all over the place.

Whenever I see that, I really wish I could transport that person to the Gaza Strip in peacetime with both of those flags in-hand, so they can see how that works out for them.
 
LeafGm said:
There are a lot of people that live in a complete fantasyland when it comes to Hamas and Palestinians in general.

One of my favourite phenomenons lately, both in real life (displayed in windows or hung from the front of homes) or online (icons beside a username) is people displaying the LGBTQ & Palestinian flags side by side. I swear, I see it all over the place.

Whenever I see that, I really wish I could transport that person to the Gaza Strip in peacetime with both of those flags in-hand, so they can see how that works out for them.
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The cognitive dissonance is equal parts shocking, frustrating, and upsetting
 
LeafGm said:
There are a lot of people that live in a complete fantasyland when it comes to Hamas and Palestinians in general.

One of my favourite phenomenons lately, both in real life (displayed in windows or hung from the front of homes) or online (icons beside a username) is people displaying the LGBTQ & Palestinian flags side by side. I swear, I see it all over the place.

Whenever I see that, I really wish I could transport that person to the Gaza Strip in peacetime with both of those flags in-hand, so they can see how that works out for them.
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Queers 4 Hamas. LOL.
 
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