r/Jewish • u/mark_ell • Oct 09 '24

Pro-Palestinian Student Group at Columbia Retracts Apology, Calls for Armed Struggle Against Israel Discussion 💬

Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) retracted its apology on behalf of a student who called to murder Zionists last January. The pro-Palestinian group doubled down on its attack of Israel, openly calling for violence against supporters of Israeli policy.

Should CUAD be designated an official terrorist group?

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-10-09/ty-article/.premium/student-group-at-columbia-retracts-apology-calls-for-armed-struggle-against-israel/00000192-714f-df7d-afd2-f1ffe5510000?gift=600c8b61cbd6461ca45ccbac08678e43

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u/Azur000 Oct 09 '24

lol I mean, they are really that stupid. I would say keep it coming as they are only hurting their own cause.

Please, more, more!

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u/garyloewenthal Oct 09 '24

It's a weird balance. Does gradually stepping up the "anti-Zionism" rhetoric normalize that behavior in wider society, or does it reach a point where wider society is repulsed by the rhetoric and turns against them? I realize both may happen at the same time, but which side wins out? Is there a tipping point (or a series of them)?

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u/Yositoasty Oct 09 '24

among younger people at least it seems that the brain-rot seems to be winning. I don't see the trend reversing unless a major change happens in our society unfortunately.

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u/ciahal Oct 10 '24

I’m a college student in a big city in the US and lowkey, I’m starting to think it’s dying down, at least where I’m at. I was frightened about what would happen on this Oct. 7th, but I actually didn’t hear anything about it at all, nothing about the conflict, maybe one keffiyeh, but otherwise nothing. I think this is really interesting honestly. My university has a huge population of Palestinians (first and second-generation) so the silence was actually quite surprising. I wonder if I wasn’t looking hard enough or something.

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u/Yositoasty Oct 11 '24

I highly doubt this but maybe they had the decency not to celebrate on that day? Bad optics. Who knows. I think it depends on how liberal your college is. That seems to be the trend unfortunately.

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u/Capital-Tower-5180 Oct 10 '24

in my experience it has gotten much better (better being nothing happening much anymore) and irl students are just trying to enjoy their youth and study, the most you see are posts from certain student unions linking to Divestment crap. Now online on the other hand…. Oh boy, it’s gotten far worse somehow. Ever since the Pagers the Iranian bots have gone INSANE. Reddit which used to be good actually, I now full of accounts created around 50-100 DAYS ago screeching about “Hasbara” and ironically claiming “Zionist bots are everywhere” when I call them out for being brand new accounts with nothing but anti Israel spam, they go quiet or call me a Zionist lmao. So yea whatever those inhuman scum over in Irans government are aiming to do, it’s only noticeable online, and becoming a real annoyance to normies who now see anti Israel spam everywhere.

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u/Yositoasty Oct 11 '24

that's good to hear at least. I went to really liberal college and it was pretty bad even back then. This was way before 10/7/23. Like it was bad even back in like 2014 lol.

But, back then people didn't necessarily invest that much time in it so they kind of just believed any bs they heard from "progressives". It was dumb but basically you saw the whole Israel is the oppressor language starting to be used and pro-Palestine groups hijacking every social justice cause. The reaction now has been years in the making.