Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
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Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish students chained themselves to gates at Columbia University Wednesday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now in an ICE jail in Louisiana. On March 8th, federal agents detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment building, even though he’s a legal permanent resident of the United States. They revoked his green card.
They’re obviously antisemites…
(And /s, because in the current climate, that may not be obvious)
Here is everyone's nearly daily reminder that there is a difference between antisemitism and antizionism.
Criticizing the Israeli government and its leaders is not the same as criticising all Jewish people.
The Zionists want to conflate these things so they can hide in plain sight and have people that aren't paying attention defend their war crimes.
I thought zionism was a belief that Israel should exist.
therefore I've always taken anyone who says,"I'm not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn't exist (IE, anti-zionist)" is a closet antisemite at best. Like a smug dork saying,"I'm not Republican, I'm Libertarian!" And I don't really thinks it's a game of semantics. It is semantics.
I can say that I really think the current Israeli gov't should be exiled on St. Helena and not allowed to leave or communicate forever, but that doesn't mean I'm anti-zionist. People who are anti-zionist seem to only have a selective and limited knowledge of a few thousand years of the history of the area.
Edit: Wow. A lot of "fuck the Jews" (historically from the area and persecuted in every surrounding country). Also a lot of "no, that means what I want it to mean, not what the word's definition is". Very right wingy. One of the topics I once again failed to keep away from. Freaking third rail on Lemmy to say anything about the problems in the mideast other than,"It's the Jews fault." I agree, fuck the settlers and the Israeli gov't right now, but that doesn't seem to matter. Again, very right wingy. Something doesn't work to satisfaction, so instead of fixing it, just get rid of it. Seems like the current US gov't approach to "fixing".