(I did not want to write about our body politic anymore. I do not understand our culture, and the people who dominate us both politically and culturally turn me off. I found I had to write about what is being said about the current college protests. It seems too big a distortion of fact to ignore. I am sort of taking shelter here in Vermont where I can pretend all of the insanity going on in the world does not concern me – very selfish of me, it concerns us all).
The college protests in the 1960s were not anti-Vietnamese, they were not anti-Asian, they were anti-war. I see the same for the recent college protests. To paint the current protests as being anti-Semitic is a raft of horseshit pushed by the Right.
I ask, where was the outrage on the Right after the Charlottesville, Virginia “Unite the Right” neo-Nazi demonstration in 2017, when Trump was president? Of course, Trump stated after, “…there were a lot of good people on both sides…,” in defense of the neo-Nazis. I remember the chant of the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, “…Jews will not replace us…,” as they marched by torchlight very reminiscent of the Nazi Nuremberg rallies with Hitler – (it was meant to be reminiscent).
Damn, there is a lot of convenient amnesia in our politicians as well as in the general public. The whole bunch makes me sick. I cannot be the only person in the country with a functioning memory.
These current protests are against the war being waged in Gaza. Unfortunately, Israel is waging the war. I am not defending what happened last October 7th. I am also not going to defend Israel’s conduct of its war with Hamas, and this does not make me anti-Semitic.This is not about anti-Semitism. It is about what appears to be against all the rules of war as well as looking very much like a form of genocide. Israel’s continual taking from the Palestinian people for the last 40+ years puts all of this in a bad light when it comes to trying to defend Israel.
I give the current college population credit for being energized about something – there is so much that needs their energy.
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