As one of the most widely known critics of Israel I would love to hear him express support for these university protests happening recently. Has he said anything publicly about them yet?

We've all seen the pro-Palestine protests taking place on college campuses in recent months. You have a couple hundred to a few thousand students encamped on various campuses around the country. The vast majority of these are completely peaceful, with any violence being isolated incidents typically resulting in very minor harm. Yet despite this, we see the state respond with overwhelming force, positioning snipers on roofs and sending in hundreds of troops armed to the teeth, tasing faculty and students doing nothing but sitting on the grass, etc.

Of course, we see similar responses by the state to other displays of public disobedience, like the ones that occurred during the George Floyd protests. But those protests weren't confined to college campuses, they were much more public and disruptive and consisted of the public at large in mass numbers. Not to say the state response was justified then, it wasn't, but simply to point out the difference in scale. These campus protests are primarily just students and a handful of faculty, taking place on campuses, not out in the streets.

As someone who graduated relatively recently, the notion that my peers while I was at school would require a military-like crackdown from the state seems comically absurd. Obviously, the ideas they are pushing are ones the state does not agree with, but why does this require such overwhelming force? These protests aren't especially disruptive to industry, since it consists mainly of students who either aren't working or work part time. The media is already doing its job and presenting the protesters as a bunch of wacko extremists to be condemned. I don't see why, from the state's perspective, such a huge amount of resources are necessary to brutally crackdown on what are relatively small-scale, minor pockets of protesting.

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Students are risking their financial and academic futures by standing up for what is right: not standing by while our ally Isreal commits genocide. We need to all speak up.

We need to all recognize that our media and social media are being repressed, and yet still Americans are standing up for the rights of Palestinians! Is this why they are suppressing Tik Tok: because they already have Reddit, Twitter, Meta, Google. Chinese won't play Americans propaganda game