"I think we should've gone into Rafah yesterday already... There are no uninvolved (civilians) there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill... We have to kill them before they kill us"
That's Shimon Boker, vice chairman of the World Likud, the international arm of Netnayahu's party. This is what he had to say three days ago, on Channel 12's "Ofira & Levinson" talk show, regarding the topic of hostage deal vs. Rafah invasion.
Student activism is never perfect. You’ll always find some protestors who are ignorant or overzealous or narcissistic. They’re like 19 years old. But you also can’t wait for the perfect protest. It will never come.
I really do empathize with the difficult position of leftwing Jews who support the ceasefire but are also wounded by protestors saying ignorant or antisemitic shit like “Israelis go back to Europe.” The average US college student is probably not aware that most Israeli Jews are Mizrahi or Sephardi and not in any sense from Europe. They’re probably not aware of a lot of things, and sometimes their rhetoric is tonedeaf or worse. Those protestors should be educated and corrected.
But the central purpose of the protests is to address an urgent humanitarian crisis. Many students are bravely risking police violence to speak out. So obsessing over the occasional broken window or offensive slogan seems to me like a warped sense of priorities.
DISCORD is not a WIKI
DISCORD is not a STORE
DISCORD is not a FILE HOST
this has gotten completely out of hand and its going to be devastating when discord inevitably shutters