uncle bernard

when have i defended hamas? totally fine. just can’t bomb the apartment building full of children to do it.

literally too stupid to follow basic logical progressions. why don’t you go back to eating glue and let the adults discuss global politics.

just once, can find an example of me saying this? you keep asserting it and it’s a waste of time when you’re arguing against something nobody on here has said. also, a little rich to talk about IQ and not be able to handle the intellectual complexity of “allies get held to a higher standard than terrorists.” i also hold my friends to higher behavioral standards than stray dogs.

well they aren’t the same. hamas is worse. but israel gets billions of tax dollars and weapons from us so i hold them to a higher standard than the terror group. if you don’t believe they can behave better, that’s your opinion. maybe you’re an antisemite?

if you want to believe this fine. our pro-israel government disagrees and i think they probably have better sources than you.

no matter how many times i say its not true you guys just keep repeating the lie anyway. so whatever

so you do or don’t care about war crimes? simple answer will suffice.

why would i waste time bashing a terrorist group? i think we all know they’re bad. do you need to be convinced still about hamas being bad?

so you do care about war crimes? guess who else is under extensive investigation!

the notable example of “kill the jews” was confirmed (on video and by journalists on site) to be from a pro-israel protestor. the vast majority of these are peaceful until the police show up. people will always find reasons for why they support free speech but *this* time is different. a lot of people tend to be anti-war and pro-civil rights except for the war and protests going on right now. i’ve been at a protest for the last 3 days. the only time it gets confrontational is when the police show up to enforce a rule the university instituted overnight to give them an excuse to break up the protest. the rest of the time it’s a few hundred people sitting in the campus designated protest zone sharing food, singing, chanting, doing homework, and getting sun. israeli counter protesters show up and try to provoke us and we just by saying offensive things and we just laugh and ignore them. yet, when you go online, this encampment is described by many sources as violent and confrontational with isolated clips of when the riot police show up and assault people. it’s insane.

find one instance of me defending hamas or saying they’re good.

read this thread. our government is fully aware what’s going on.

@Dark Energy if you have any more questions or i missed one let me know. lot going on today.

this tweet is wrong. there are likely at least several cops in this video.

this is the “danger” they’re talking about. hilarious video. and thank god it’s on video because you know the cops would have believed her.

the irony is that a lot of guys on here can’t comprehend that not all jews believe the same thing and have the same loyalties. too antisemitic to see them as individuals. all jews must be zionists and all zionists must be jews to them.

this is antisemitic

hitting the bottle early today, huh?

he, in fact, did not say that.

Not the best faith response, but I'm patient. I'm not "cool with it." He will be punished. But that's not a life sentence worthy crime. He's a young kid who should have the opportunity to grow. I say the same thing to the Israeli counterprotestor who chanted "death to the jews." And I agreed it created a hostile environment. The protests and chants should be focused on defending the rights of Palestinians, not making threats to Zionists.

1) Many people on here constantly accuse me of supporting hamas. I'm glad you aren't and I jumped the gun. 2) I can't answer for everybody, but I think we all understand that the US has far more power to influence Israel's behavior than Hamas. I also think you'd find disagreement about the "human shields" issue because I think it's largely a convenient line for Israel to justify them taking shortcuts that don't prevent extensive civilian casualties. Yes, Hamas is embedded all over Gaza, but where else are they supposed to go? It's a tiny strip of land with 2 million people and beseiged on all sides. Any military installation would be struck immediately. It is an occupied territory and by nature any military movement within it has to be a guerilla movement. And my criticism is that Israel is perfectly comfortable killing 20 "human shields" if it means they might kill 1 actual militant and that's wrong imo. 3) Which brings me to the next point. You can use the same human shield argument against Israel. Hamas (and the IDF in the crossfire) killed many civilians on 10/7. Some of the most intense fighting took place in Kibbutz with attached military bases targeted by Hamas. Israel is constantly building illegal settlements on the border of Gaza and the West Bank creating a civilian barrier between Palestine and their population centers. If Israel was more concerned with the safety of its citizens, it wouldn't be building settlements next door to a giant prison camp filled with militants who want to kill them. But it's balancing concern with safety and peace with their interest in taking more and more land, which again is in clear violation of international law. *But yes, the murder of civilians on 10/7 (and before and after) is wrong and any person who took place in it can and should be held accountable.*

yes i do if they genuinely believe it! giving people the opportunity to grow is the only way the world gets better! and i think my being glad he apologized implied that i agreed it was a terrible thing to say but i make it explicit here. individual protestors saying bad things doesn’t invalidate an entire movement. israeli’s held signs saying “kill them all” after 10/7. that doesn’t invalidate their right to live peacefully, even though it’s an evil thing to believe.

i answered your nyt question. hopefully you can engage honestly about it. posting it here so everyone can read it and engage if they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student-protest-zionism.html if this is not the article you were talking about let me know and point me in the right direction.

yes i will admit posts get missed. if i don’t respond to you you may have posted while i was typing another response and i missed it.

okay i think i found this. he is wrong and im glad he apologized. he also didn’t call for death to jews. he said zionists don’t deserve to live. zionist /= jew and the repeated conflation is antisemitic. as part of the columbia protest, he was literally protesting with many jews. your description was very disingenuous and as you say, facts and context are important. a quote from him in the article: “But in an interview earlier in the week, Mr. James drew a distinction between the ideas of anti-Zionism, which describes opposition to the Jewish state of Israel, and antisemitism. “There is a difference,” he said. “We’ve always had Jewish people as part of our community where they have expressed themselves, they feel safe, and they feel loved. And we want all people to feel safe in this encampment. We are a multiracial, multigenerational group of people.”