For last night opening skit on Saturday Night Live, parents discuss their feelings about the campus protests, including the possibility that graduation ceremonies may be canceled. I can relate- both my daughters graduated from college in 2020, and neither got to have a ceremony. The contrast arises from where you are coming from. Having no undergrads in 2024, my biggest concern is about the demonstrations is the accompanying antisemitism affecting Jewish students.
Israel has had millions of the Palestinians trapped in a virtual prison camp controlling, food, water, and employment for 20 years. Refusing to negotiate caused the PLO to get voted out with hopes than Hamas could do better. Young men who grew up under the oppression were angry and easy for Hamas to recruit.
ReplyDeleteWhen they attacked in October they either caught the IDF flat footed or holding back to make it a bigger justification to destroy caged people. The Hamas fighters didn’t expect to meet so little resistance and the fighters were left to make their own game plan.
So Israel retaliated as expected and justified, but have gone on butchering of civilians that’s unjustified. I’m using the word civilians to avoid using “women and children” and it’s incendiary effect.
When the IDF using weapons I paid for, murdered 7 Samaritans from WCK bringing in food I paid for, to starving civilians they pissed me off. It’s NOT antisemitism to oppose this slaughter.
What concerns me is any criticism of Israel is immediately tossed off as antisemitism which it is not. In the future people hearing reports or complaints of antisemitism will disregard it as more of the same.
xoxoxoBruce
Cancelling graduation in 2024 affects the same students whose high school graduation was cancelled in 2020
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