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How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses? A look at the language of the protests
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Those are some very well spoken college students representing the protests.
I'd also really like media to start demanding evidence of the claims of bald antisemitism. There are cameras everywhere, and these slogans are supposedly being shouted. You'd think they'd be pretty well documented and not just something you need to trust a claim on. A Jewish girl getting harassed in a corridor, sure, that just has to go on trust, but protesters chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab” should have some video of it. Don't just trust an Israeli professor who was with the counter protesters will relay totally accurate protest quotes.
This is the worst part about reading/hearing about these stories in the news. Really early in this cycle, I heard a story on NPR where they interviewed a student at Columbia who talked about the pain and death happening in Gaza, and then they said, "but some people say the protests are anti-semitic," and they proceeded to interview a woman who was not a student and had not been to campus who said "I feel attacked."
There was absolutely no follow up on what was anti-semitic about what was happening, it was just taken at face-value that that woman saying it was anti-semitic made it so. I actually cancelled my $5/mo NPR contribution after that story
For real, I've heard some recordings, and the only similar thing I heard was "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".
I think it's important to note as well, nearly ALL chants in most protests rhyme, so "... sea, Palestine will be Arab" just doesn't sound like something anyone would be saying.
Yeah, just doesn't seem like a real chant, even if it weren't pretty unambiguously calling for ethnic cleansing. It does seem like something an pro-Israeli interviewee might try to say was what "Palestine will be free" means though.