A minor point but they're driving me batty with that "threatening environment for our Jewish students and faculty" shit.
What about the many Jewish students and faculty who support these protests?
It's antisemitic AF to assume that American Jews are loyal to #israel and its far-right government.
https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/campus-updates
@JoshuaHolland So the Jewish students who say they feel threatened are lying? Or do they not count? I honestly don't get your reasoning here, and why you keep dismissing the genuine fears that students are expressing. You don't have to abandon your sympathy to Palestinians, or even to student protesters, to acknowledge that kids are expressing fear. Show some humanity.
@richard_merren First, I don't take anything that an administration that's handled these protests terribly from the beginning says.
And I think it's worth noting that while they justify their heavy-handed response by saying that Jewish students and faculty feeling threatened, they called in the NYPD to arrest a bunch of Jewish student protesters and are currently directly threatening to expel them. I'm sure those students feel threatened too!
They held a seder at the encampment.
@JoshuaHolland Trump held a seder, too. He has "blacks for Trump" at his rallies. Antigay churches frequently feature "reformed" gays. But I am not arguing that the camps are based on Antisemitism I assume the Jews in them are sincere in their beliefs. But to say that there is not real stuff happening that some Jewish students can reasonably be afraid of is naive or dishonest. It is like criticizing women who are afraid to walk alone at night because there are others who do it every day.
@richard_merren @JoshuaHolland That may be true, but the bottom line is that there are laws to protect you from harm, but there is no law to protect you from fear.
So long as the protesters are peaceful and not causing harm, the other party has no claim, no matter how scared they are.
The authorities can protect you from actual harm, but they should not be protecting you from words. You have your own words for exactly that purpose. You just have to be brave enough to overcome the fear to use them.
