SpaceCowboy ,
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Student protests accomplish nothing other than promote antisemitism. Sorry.

You aren't going to convince Netanyahu to halt the assault on Rafah but looking the other way on antisemitic speech by your peers because you're afraid of being ostracized from the fun get-together you call a protest. If anything it's making things worse because Israel isn't going to backing down if you make them feel like the whole world hates them after what happened on October 7.

Sure emotions are running high, but people need to think about the consequences of their actions. Making excuses about hate speech being acceptable because TikTok is telling you that what Israel is doing justifies hate speech isn't going to bring the conflict to an end. If anything, it will prolong it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Joe Biden cares more about the Palestinian people than anyone protesting on college campuses. I get people are lonely and are looking for any reason to go out and hang out with other people, but demanding the faculty of a university to do something about foreign policy is just a cover for getting together to hate a group of people. As exhilarating as that might feel in the moment, it's not actually a positive action. This kind of fervor centered around hate has happened many times before.

How many Palestinians will these protests save compared to Joe Biden negotiating a ceasefire? Do you think the things you hear at these protests work at a negotiation table? If Joe Biden screams "GENOCIDE!" at Netanyahu does that result in a ceasefire? Do you think backing Israel into a corner saves Palestinian lives? They can get munitions from other countries... do you think forcing Israel to use less accurate munitions saves Palestinian lives?

Joe Biden has to consider all of these things, while someone screaming "GENOCIDE" at protest doesn't. There's a reason why Joe Biden says that the college protests don't influence him. Because lonely and emotional children aren't all that good at foreign policy.

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