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Amazing work at ASU. Powerful rebuttal to the hasbara. The film brought chills.
The more they attempt to stifle dissent, the louder the argument becomes. Keep feeding the fire, SJP!
Thank you for posting this. It might be the only chance some people have to see it.
From Youtube: ASU SJP Students Protest IDF Soldier
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You Tube censorship gets worse and worse. They blocked a clip posted by Juan Cole about a Republican climate denier.
This is the problem with monopolies, and YT is close to being a virtual monopoly – the opposite of what the internet is about.
Does it help to “Like” censored youtube clips or am I just alerting my name to the monitors?
munro,
These are sleazy censorship tactics used by various groups. They flag a video as containing graphic material (even when it doesn’t contain such material), thus preventing anyone who’s not logged into YouTube from viewing it. It’s a sleazy tactic to censor criticism of Israel.
It’s not censorship; people can still view the video. My guess is the inclusion of bloody pictures got them flagged.
The ASU kids all moved in perfect and peaceful harmony. It was like watching a living dance and I was very proud of their respectful dissent.
But I became very upset to see fotos of so many murdered and traumatized children standing amongst the ruble of their bombed out homes and weeping.
Ooof sigh I’m a little choked… so… RIP fallen children of Palestine. You are remembered and loved evermore.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
BTW, what did the protesters do AT the event? Were they silent (as it seems)? and what effect on other ASU students?
Wow. Two things especially hit me: one was how dignified and inclusive (lots of non-Muslims) the protest was; the other was the Israeli flag at the podium. The organizations who sponsor this kind of hasbara probably no longer remember to what country they owe their allegiance.
This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country [Canada] on copyright grounds.
Yep, can’t watch it in Harperland. I tried, too
The video does feature a song towards the end. I’m not sure who sings it, but that must be the issue. Too bad. Hopefully they’ll release a version without it.
I don’t know how Canadian copyright issues are different from the US. Maybe they are just faster on this in Canada. Could be
Canada is Zionist-occupied territory, and I doubt if that is a coincidence.
for strong stomachs
In Contempt: Zionism and McCarthyism in Canada
link to ijsn.net
they could probably get permission from lowkey to use his song Long Live Palestine
the video is Swwwweeeeeet. students for justice in palestine rocks!
if they areediting the video again they could include a clip from this video during the awesome part w/the repetition of ‘soldiers are obligated to preserve human dignity’.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- Hannah Arendt
the tipping point draws near.
wow.
I wonder what Witty will approve of this method of demonstration. To maximalist perhaps?
It’s good to see the only attendees — those who stayed behind — were fewer than 20.
Pretty great performance by the speaker, who was obviously not affected by this nonsense. Wonder how many times these students have protested the silencing of dissidents in the Arab world.
Soldiers in the IDF have become hardened to human suffering; it doesn’t affect them because they don’t care.
I also wonder whether they care to include the names of dead Israelis on their shirts.
Couldn’t watch it. Tried creating a you tube account, then when I tried I got the “error occured” message.
This video presents a fundamental truth that is part of the reason for Israel’s existence: There are few people who care about its survival. There will always be way more Muslims and Christians than Jews. Islamic states in particular will use their numbers to dump on the Jewish state and ignore the far greater problems in their own societies. This is an example of that. Unfortunately, it is couched in terms of human rights. But it’s really just politics. It will not bring an agreement any faster, and will not save anyone.
And there will be counterprotests before long; Zionist kids are just as capable of doing exactly the same thing as their garden-variety Student Activist Union colleagues with names of suicide bomber victims, though we don’t enjoy broadcasting all of our bloody pictures on TV like some others do. Or maybe kids will start singing Am Yisrael Chai to make sure the protestors cannot leave in silence. But make no mistake. These things happen on the campus mostly because there are a few Jewish kids and many more Muslim and secular kids who outnumber them. There is little about Sudan, where hundreds of thousands are dead at the hands of Arabs. There is little about fascist Saudi Arabia. There is little support for the Green Movement in Iran. Israel is the cause celebre, because many of these kids unfortunately are ignorant, some willfully, some unwillfully of the world around them, and they usually follow the marching orders of the radical student organizations, which have their own agenda and funding from placing where Jews are unwelcome, and Islamic radicalism is apologized for.
This is also about dehumanization of the Israelis. The proof in the pudding is the refusal of the protestors to ask questions of the soldiers, who doubtless would have been glad to answer them. But allowing the soldier to answer would have forced the protestors to recognize his humanity, and that they are not able to do. It would be one thing if these kids had some familiarity with the narratives of Israeli soldiers, but most of them probably do not.
It’s couched in terms of human rights because it’s all about human rights.
Let us know whenever the Janjaweed come to campus to plead the righteousness of their cause, and I’m sure a protest will turn out against them, too. But it’s a funny thing – the only oppressors we see come from the IDF.
“These things happen on the campus mostly because there are a few Jewish kids and many more Muslim and secular kids who outnumber them.”
So the “secular” kids are not on the side of Hasbara. non-trivial. I like that.
As for “Zionist kids are just as capable of doing exactly the same thing”, I think “bring it on” would be the best reply.
BTW, when we (Israeli activists) encourage people abroad to get involved, we tell them something which should be obvious, and is obvious, to many of us: Palestine is the place where the American world order can be/will be rolled back. Very important.
Feel free to digress to a monologue about a Chinese world order, or human rights in Saudi Arabia. Much good it will do to your cause.
“This video presents a fundamental truth that is part of the reason for Israel’s existence: There are few people who care about its survival.”
So Israel exists because there are not many people who care whether it does.
Hmmmn.
Nope, can’t make sense of that. If not many people care, why bother with it?
“These things happen on the campus mostly because there are a few Jewish kids and many more Muslim and secular kids who outnumber them.”
And yet the faculty seem to be controlled by Zionists in high positions as well as by Campus Watch.
But how many of the protesters are Jewish kids?
These protests need to happen whenever and wherever these Israeli PR events occur. And they are powerful. But I have some questions about method, chief among them: do they provide enough context for the audience, which is, presumably not only the youtube watcher but the onlookers on campus? From this video, it seems to me that there is not much context. For example the signs on the t-shirts: if I am your average undergraduate, I don’t know what this means — who are these children? And the tape over the mouths — who is being silenced? How? By whom?
And how about a flyer on occupation 101, history of the conflict, facts on Gaza, Israeli Apartheid, etc. A link to a website or two! Give people somewhere to go with this!
The video could do a better job also. Photos of bombing of cities and mutilated and dead kids, shown without context, can backfire. Without context there is no credibility. Who is being bombed? Who are these children? Who are these civilians being brutalized by soldiers, and where is this taking place?