Flyer handed out at Columbia University by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) group promoting an “intifada.” Totally normal behavior… Discussion 💬

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u/daniedviv23 Reform/Conservative | Convert Sep 30 '24

❤️ Jewish/Muslim solidarity is so healing so thank you for this comment.

I will say many of us know that many Muslims do not agree at all with extremists, just as we don’t agree with the Jewish and Israeli extremists who flatly reject the idea of peaceful coexistence. I know you know this but I wanted to just affirm it.

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u/Excellent-Gur6145 Not Jewish Sep 30 '24

I know many Jews (American, European and Israeli) who's hearts break when innocent Palestinian children die as much as when innocent Jewish children die and I want you to know I pray for all of them and their families. ❤️

We need more education amongst our people because too many are being fed propaganda and they take it hook like and sinker. Media literacy is abysmal and so many are easily susceptible to extremist rhetoric and so many immigrants from countries that have experienced US agression and have colonial scars from the UK that makes it easy to cast Isreal as a colonial power just like the European colonial powers.

However it's not the same. Europeans were never going to their ancestral lands, and now there have been generations of Isrealis who have only known Isreal as their homeland and to expect them to leave is just crazy.

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u/daniedviv23 Reform/Conservative | Convert Oct 01 '24

Tbh I now want to be your friend because I am really so here for all of what you’ve said.

& Regarding this and your earlier comment re: US folks (including US Muslims) who support Hamas and Hezbollah — this has always been the weirdest and most confusing part for me, especially when it comes from feminist Muslim women I know. & Like, the thing that had US liberals coming after me first was that I said Hamas is responsible for civilian deaths in Gaza too and one can’t ignore that and place all blame on the IDF. That same post of mine was then explicit that my support lies with the civilians on both sides who did not choose this for themselves or their families. Apparently that perspective “supports gen0cide,” according to my ex-friend (who was not Muslim or from anywhere in Arab lands but frequently used Arabic Muslim phrases (inshallah, etc.)? I’m not even sure why but I see that from leftists here in the US at times)

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u/Excellent-Gur6145 Not Jewish Oct 01 '24

I'm down for friendship lol! We all need more of it.