This shit has been going since the 10/7 attacks btw.
This protest, clearly supportive of the Hamas massacre in Israel, happened just one day after the massacre.
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You are correct. That non-violent protest happened after 10/7. Also, the non-standard message someone wrote "By Any Means Necessary" is deplorable and immoral.
The logical problem you and others face is that you agree with the message of "By Any Means Necessary." When it is Israelis that have been murdered and kidnapped into becoming hostages, possibly tortured and without due process as a form of asymmetrical warfare, you say this is evil, AND EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD HERE AGREES. BUT when it's the flip-side, Israeli extremists, in particular settlers or the extremist right-wing govt, killing civilians in order to free those hostages OR simply the IDF killing Palestinians in unrelated events, you excuse it. We reject the By-Any-Means-Necessary doctrine and we point this out time and time again. We say over and over Hamas is not our ally and what they do is evil, but because you are being logically inconsistent you cannot agree that there must be limits to what the extremist wing of the Israeli govt does.
I have stated and you have read those statements that there is too much association between the campus protests and the outside-of-school movements. I've said it is probably a necessary counter-point in a debate but this is difficult for you to understand because your stance is biased. When all the institutional support of the US is directed toward the Israel govt and there are signs such as "I stand with Israel," they do not have to say "By Any Means Necessary" and they do not have to say "Do more violence"--it's all implicitly there through the power structures exerted, through decades of billions of $ of buying and using bombs, through a system of castes and occupations, a lack of freedom. Do not then respond with the strawman, "Oh yeah, what about Hamas, they are tyrants!" because this is obvious and this is the crux of the problem: Each side wants to rule the so-called holy land, each side wants to be a majority and have the other be subservient. I do not make the mistake of believing that one side, Hamas, for example, is merely a resistance as they have been radicalized beyond that and are a perverse corruption of extremist religion intermingled with resistance ideology. But I also do not make the mistake of believing that particular extremist strains of Zionism that attempt to rule over the whole region by denying a Palestinian state or integration through democracy, only allowing a majority Jewish state and nothing else, led by a means of "By Any Means Necessary" can ever lead to anything else other than a caste system and by that nature will only ever perpetuate a cycle of violence.