Brilliant, but don’t forget, BDS is “divisive”. I think an Apartheid wall is pretty divisive, but maybe I’m just one of those self-hating Jews?
amigo
April 3, 2014 10:29 am
Look , I know Palestinian Children are arrested and beaten and kept overnight in open prison cages but why should I not look forward to going to school so I can grow up happy and educated and secure.
Why should I carry this burden.I am just trying to get on with my life.
It is not as if I carry out these actions and in any case those Palestinians are out to kill all Jews.Well at least that is what I was told in school and at home and by my rabbi.
JeffB
April 3, 2014 10:30 am
@Katie
Very funny. But in reality there are two different issues:
1) How should Israel treat the Palestinians?
2) Should the debate about (1) be conducted in a civil polite manner? Or rather in a manner designed to create / inflame ethnic tensions on campus?
I get that it is easy for BDS to conflate these two arguments. But ultimately they are separate questions. No can argue that Palestinians in Israel don’t have much much worse problems than American Jews at mainstream universities. The levels of violence being complained about are being shoved or hit with a shopping cart, not having their homes bombed. But it is an irrelevant point. Administrators at most Universities are not going to allow their campuses to become unfriendly places for Jewish students. A good cause does not justify rudeness. There is no reason (1) can’t be discussed in a way that is civil.
BrianEsker
April 3, 2014 2:32 pm
Very distorted cartoons, not that one expects anything different here. Drones in Gaza wouldn’t be an issue if Israel wasn’t being attacked day and night with rockets, mortars, and border shootings like happened within the last 24 hours. So that really doesn’t compare meaningfully with the fraudulent, sometimes violent campus shenanigans of BDS cultists.
Brilliant, but don’t forget, BDS is “divisive”. I think an Apartheid wall is pretty divisive, but maybe I’m just one of those self-hating Jews?
Look , I know Palestinian Children are arrested and beaten and kept overnight in open prison cages but why should I not look forward to going to school so I can grow up happy and educated and secure.
Why should I carry this burden.I am just trying to get on with my life.
It is not as if I carry out these actions and in any case those Palestinians are out to kill all Jews.Well at least that is what I was told in school and at home and by my rabbi.
@Katie
Very funny. But in reality there are two different issues:
1) How should Israel treat the Palestinians?
2) Should the debate about (1) be conducted in a civil polite manner? Or rather in a manner designed to create / inflame ethnic tensions on campus?
I get that it is easy for BDS to conflate these two arguments. But ultimately they are separate questions. No can argue that Palestinians in Israel don’t have much much worse problems than American Jews at mainstream universities. The levels of violence being complained about are being shoved or hit with a shopping cart, not having their homes bombed. But it is an irrelevant point. Administrators at most Universities are not going to allow their campuses to become unfriendly places for Jewish students. A good cause does not justify rudeness. There is no reason (1) can’t be discussed in a way that is civil.
Very distorted cartoons, not that one expects anything different here. Drones in Gaza wouldn’t be an issue if Israel wasn’t being attacked day and night with rockets, mortars, and border shootings like happened within the last 24 hours. So that really doesn’t compare meaningfully with the fraudulent, sometimes violent campus shenanigans of BDS cultists.
I should have added this to it:
https://twitter.com/ThisIsPalestine/status/451779315852910593