This is a great reminder that not all college students are on the side of Hamas.
From the Cornell Daily Sun:
GLASGOW | I’m Neither Jewish nor Muslim: There Should Be More Support for IsraelI am an American, I am Black, I am half-Russian, I am a Cornellian; I have no relation to the ongoing conflict in the Holy Land. I’ve been trying to ignore the irreversible changes happening to my campus and the world before my eyes. But in this matter, regardless of one’s background, the ongoing conflict and one’s stance on it taps into the very depths of personal identities. The stance of outsiders, especially in the United States, has particular significance because it forms the future of policy and decision-making.As a China and Asia-Pacific Studies major, I focus on International Relations. I feel it fair to say that there has not been as much recent global attention to a single political movement as has been demonstrated by the “Free Palestine” cause. A person’s nationality is not akin to their ethnicity and identity, but we cannot ignore the feeling that much of the demonstration we see today is the result of boiling and pent-up hatred against the Jewish people.To those who rally for the innocent Arab lives lost, I question where the energy had been when ISIS was launched in the name of Islam, beheading thousands of Arabs across the Middle East. The lack of outcry to the U.S. colluding with Arab nations that uphold modern systems of slavery and sexism, that would send college students spiraling, is hypocritical. Just to name one example: Where were the banners and flags, the droves of people taking to the streets when the Saudi government killed and starved 400,000 Yemenis? Yemen has been actively bombing Israel despite having one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with 17.4 million people on the brink of starvation. Forget the Middle East; where is the global outcry for the genuine ethnic cleansing happening to Armenians right now in addition to the groups being erased that will never even come to mind?
This is an important part:
While many call Israel a colonial power, I emphasize that the word Arab is an obvious derivation from the Arabian peninsula. Pan-Arabism and Bilad al-Sham have spread Arabic culture to many non-traditionally Arabic nations. You cannot predicate an argument based on colonialism, because that would mean a mass exodus out of America. In technicality Israel is history’s greatest example of decolonization and Palestinians are themselves descendants of colonizers.
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