And the worst part is how these things happen. You have workers with radical politics who agitate for something like this and an institution that’s embedded in the subtlest insidious forms of Zionism that yields this as its final product
What the NYer is trying to do is take an audience of progressively minded liberals who may be sympathetic to the cause of the students and focus their attention on the students and not the cause. The students don’t need or want your sympathy. They want you to care about Palestine
This is strategic. The right (& swathes of Zionist liberals) will come after these students for being terrorist sympathizers. The faux-progressives will co-opt and distract, and their narrative has been at play for some time now: a culture war on campuses, threats to free speech
let’s be very clear about what’s going on in this cover because I think it so aptly captures the incredibly subtle and strategic reactionary politics of the @NewYorker ⬇️