Pro-Palestine Anti-Israel College Campus Protests

Ron in Regina

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University & College encampments became a “home base” for “climate justice groups, labour activists, trade unionists, gay rights activists (and) socialists/Marxists.”
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While there is no particular reason why such groups should be inherently against Israel — a state that has a strong labour movement, strict environmental regulations and affords more rights to LGBTQ individuals than any other country in the Middle East — the woke ideology of the modern left sees the world through a Marxist lens that views all conflicts as being between oppressors and the oppressed, colonizers and the colonized. And Israel has been branded as a colonialist oppressor state in the Marxist language.
These “outside agitators” were not created in a vacuum. They were churned out by a higher education system that has for years allowed facts and critical thinking to take a back seat to ideology and activism. Indeed, the report found that the encampment received “substantial support from faculty and staff, which contributed to its prolonged existence and the lack of significant consequences for participants.”

This was not merely pro-Palestinian activism, but blatant hatred targeted toward people with a specific religion, ethnicity and worldview. It is the type of speech that would surely not be tolerated by university administrators if any other minority group were being victimized.

Imagine, for a second, if similar levels of hatred were being experienced by Black or LGBTQ+ students. Would the administration still have refused to enforce its code of conduct, which prohibits “vexatious conduct” based on “race,” “ancestry” or “ethnic origin,” along with causing “another person or persons to fear for their safety”?
 

Taxslave2

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University & College encampments became a “home base” for “climate justice groups, labour activists, trade unionists, gay rights activists (and) socialists/Marxists.”
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While there is no particular reason why such groups should be inherently against Israel — a state that has a strong labour movement, strict environmental regulations and affords more rights to LGBTQ individuals than any other country in the Middle East — the woke ideology of the modern left sees the world through a Marxist lens that views all conflicts as being between oppressors and the oppressed, colonizers and the colonized. And Israel has been branded as a colonialist oppressor state in the Marxist language.
These “outside agitators” were not created in a vacuum. They were churned out by a higher education system that has for years allowed facts and critical thinking to take a back seat to ideology and activism. Indeed, the report found that the encampment received “substantial support from faculty and staff, which contributed to its prolonged existence and the lack of significant consequences for participants.”

This was not merely pro-Palestinian activism, but blatant hatred targeted toward people with a specific religion, ethnicity and worldview. It is the type of speech that would surely not be tolerated by university administrators if any other minority group were being victimized.

Imagine, for a second, if similar levels of hatred were being experienced by Black or LGBTQ+ students. Would the administration still have refused to enforce its code of conduct, which prohibits “vexatious conduct” based on “race,” “ancestry” or “ethnic origin,” along with causing “another person or persons to fear for their safety”?
Have to wonder if any of the gays know what muslims do to their kind.
 

Serryah

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Dec 3, 2008
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Have to wonder if any of the gays know what muslims do to their kind.

GLBTQIA+ are well aware what happens in most Muslim countries.

It also happens in Christian countries too (but I guess that doesn't matter?)

They also know what oppression is like, denial of human rights, denial of the right to exist...

Says a lot about anyone GLBTQIA+ that they'd stand up for people who would otherwise see them dead, like humanity is humanity and bullshit aside people should have a right to live regardless? And what is going on in Gaza/West Bank is genocide and not standing up against that is wrong.
 
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Ron in Regina

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As Jewish students gathered at the Fair, proudly proclaiming their cultural and religious pride, they were singled out and accosted by a group of angry protestors chanting hateful slogans with a megaphone and holding up signs reading “Zionism off our campus.” The terms “Zionism” and “Zionist” are now commonly used as antisemitic slurs when referring to Jews.

Let me be clear: targeting Jewish students on campus in Canada because of your hatred for the State of Israel is antisemitism, and substituting “Zionists” for “Jews” does not make antisemitic slogans any more acceptable or less bigoted.
 

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Haters and the hate are back in class
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Sep 07, 2024 • 3 minute read

Hamas U. is back.


Across the country — across the United States and Europe — post-secondary students are returning to class. And, with them, the Israel-hating, Jew-hating lunatic fringe are returning, too.

This week, at the University of British Columbia, a blood-red banner was hoisted alongside a real pig’s head: PIGS OFF CAMPUS, said the “People’s University for Gaza.” At the University of Calgary, a monument to Israeli hostages was vandalized within hours of its creation. At Toronto’s Metropolitan University, at its clubs fair, the Jewish Hillel club was attacked by screaming anti-Israel bullies, telling Zionists (ie., Jews) to get “off our campus.” And, at Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., a professor was propagating misinformation about the war in Gaza — in a course syllabus.


The haters and the hate are back. So, where are students — Gen Z and Millennials, mostly — getting this misinformation about Jews and the Jewish state? Why have so many embraced antisemitism? Because, make no mistake, they have: as one Canadian pollster has revealed, 35% of Canadian Gen Z “support the destruction of Israel,” and 41 per cent say “extreme violence” is “justified against innocent Jewish civilians.”

Young Canadians (and Americans, and Europeans) are getting antisemitic conspiracy theories and disinformation online. And they’re being led by Hamas and its axis into the dark side.

Cyabra is one of the world’s leading firms in fighting disinformation. They uncover fake profiles and disinformation and publicize the results. And they have now published a shocking report about the avalanche of Jew hate that has overwhelmed the internet since Oct. 7, when Hamas killed 1,200 Jews, raped Jewish women and girls, and committed an untold number of atrocities.


Cyabra found that thousands of fake accounts started to sprout up on social media almost exactly 18 months before the terrorist attack. They were at first mostly benign, posting in Arabic or English about cricket matches or kittens. And then, in the early hours of Oct. 7, the fake accounts sprang to life.

One, called “RebelTaHa,” had just 82 followers before Oct. 7. When Hamas attacked Israel, RebelTaHa’s followers suddenly grew exponentially — just one of his antisemitic posts would be seen 170,000 times. It went viral.

RebelTaHa, Cyabra found, wasn’t real. It was fake. And, with the clever use of hashtags and interactions with 162,000 other fake accounts — and, with boosting by what Cyabra calls “non-state actors” — fake accounts like RebelTaHa reached an extraordinary 530 million social media accounts in just two days.


What messages were the fake accounts pushing? That taking Israeli hostages would force the release of “innocent” Hamas prisoners. That Hamas didn’t commit acts of murder and rape on Oct. 7 — that, as one fake account put it: “we knows [sic] the value of human [sic] not like apartheid regime of Israel. Muslims are not terrorists we are peaceful, Quran teach us peace not terrorism.” The third message pushed by the fake accounts, Cyabra found, was justification: they falsely claimed that Israeli troops had attacked Muslim worshippers — and even a 12-year-old girl — at the holy al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

All of the fake accounts were very similar. They displayed near-identical behaviour online, and they engaged with each other like real people would do. Said Cyabra, after examining hundreds of thousands of them: “Typically, fake campaigns employ either similar online behaviour or strategic connections between profiles. However, this campaign demonstrated a higher level of sophistication by utilizing both approaches simultaneously.” In other words: someone, somewhere, had gone to considerable expense and effort to create authentic-sounding online narratives on and after Oct. 7.


Rafi Mendelsohn, Cyabra’s brilliant vice-president, agrees that the fake social media profiles have targeted the biggest users of social media: young people. “That’s definitely what we’ve seen,” said the British-born Mendelsohn in an interview. Hamas and its axis have skillfully used images and emotional language to capture youthful support — and they have falsely claimed that Israel is a colonial, settler, white supremacist state.

Says Mendelsohn: “That colonial narrative has taken hold on university campuses. It’s part of [the anti-Israel, antisemitic] narrative — and it allows them to portray themselves as the underdog. It’s been a very successful playbook they’ve been using for years.”

And, as Mendelsohn and Cyabra say, it’s now dramatically, indisputably working online. Young people are being captivated and captured by online propaganda that is as false as it is hateful.

And we need to stop it before we lose an entire generation.
 
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Tecumsehsbones

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Seems to me a good working definition of "Jew" is "anybody who calls himheritself a Jew." And maybe "anybody some fucking moron wants to kill 'because hesheit's a Jew."