re: Of The 80 People Arrested At Columbia’s Library, 61 Are Women

"How do write women so well??"

"I think of a man, then I take away all reason and accountability."

quote:

---

forced into apartheid by genocidal attacks

---

I don’t have as much sympathy when their actions prolong the conflict. Does a bomb on a bus discern innocent from guilt? Do the rockets seek military, or are they as likely to hit a playground.

An unfortunate reality from all human conflicts is innocents die. When your friends and loved ones die it’s easy to follow an eye for an eye until everyone is blind. Both sides have lost many friends and family.

If you don’t think the walls built by Israel was for protection from a deranged group, then why were Egypts walls bigger. Many Palestinians were working in Israel before 10/7. One woman killed on that day had dedicated her life to bringing Palestinian kids into Israel for medical care. The concert was promoting peace when it was attacked.

Next time you go to an outdoor concert, look up and imagine being attacked from the air with machine guns. Those people’s good intentions were repaid with terror , rape, bullets and imprisonment for over five hundred days.

Death rates have never determined the winners in war. The Israelis were boldly and violently attacked and they have every right to make sure it doesn’t happen again. You could have predicted their response just like tha attackers knew. They did it anyway.

The Israelis aren’t blameless but only one side has a history of making and maintaining peace. The only thing that would satisfy the Gazans is if the Israelis comitted suicide. The Gaza’s reestablished control of this land as part of a peace deal and have tirelessly continued to wage war. No I don’t have as much sympathy for those that support the intifada as you do.

No mugshots yet but there are updates...

quote:

---

Around midnight, the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society wrote in an Instagram story that the “first of our comrades have been released.”

---

Their demands seemed reasonable...

quote:

---

According to a Wednesday Substack post by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the protesters had five demands: divestment from “Zionist occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” an academic boycott of “all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center,” “cops and ICE off our campus,” an end to “Columbia’s occupation of Harlem; return land to Harlemites and open the gates,” and amnesty for all students, staff, and faculty “targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.”

---

The reason that security and NYPD were checking IDs was that they were going to arrest anyone who was not a Columbia student for trespass. They were not going to arrest any Columbia students. When the protesters refused to show ID, or could not show ID, they were arrested.

Columbia Student Newspaper

quote:

---

But.....is it a coincidence that all the "news" coming out of Gaza originate from the Hamas controlled news agency? There is no independent verification of 1) the number of deaths or 2) what civilians ....adults / chidren....are being killed.

---

No coincidence at all.

Israel has killed over 200 journalists in or near Gaza.

Feel free to slurp up Israeli propaganda my American friend. You’re not alone.

The videos of the hostages being brought into Gaza make me believe your 98% to be wildly inaccurate. I find it hard to believe 2% can impose their will on the others in such a chaotic situation. The actions I see underlying any propaganda still points to the Palestinians wanting to violently overthrowing Israel. The term intifada being heard on campuses back me.

You sound like someone that argued to defund the police. Assignment of innocence in opposition of actions is always a losing proposition. It glosses over the evil in a percentage of humans soul. The past few years has proven those good intentions have hurt those that needed protection.

Just like most people must lock their doors , Israel must protect itself from unrelenting attacks. You accuse me of presumably believing Jewish propaganda. I believe you are looking at Palestinian propaganda through the prism of oppression.

One thing we probably can agree on is this is too complicated to be solved by a couple of well meaning key board warriors.

quote:

---

How many will be deported for expressing their political opinion against Israel?

All of them if up to AIPAC.

When arguments get too tough, deport them

---

You mean violence not arguments don't you? Destruction when you have no real standings on issues but you like to be against something or someone. Just destroy something to be seen, not even necessarily heard, because you can't articulate your position when you don't know the history of the issues you claim to be protesting.

Women love to take free money to be a bitch!

quote:

---

You sound like someone that argued to defund the police.

---

You don't have a clue.

Your statements are incongruent and WAY out of sync when you add "defund the police" bunk

assignment of relative strength can be ascertained in Gaza

apartheid is unquestionable in this case