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Three things here.

1. Painting "the media" collectively as bad and dishonest is textbook Both Sides-ism, and lays the ground work for normalizing attacks on freedom of the press.
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There's more to this. The media narrative is any support of Palestinian people is antisemitic. Israel is always forgiven for everything it does. And third, the anti-college, anti-higher ed rhetoric is ever more amplified.

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Anton Brakhage
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2. Claiming "Israel is always forgiven" when hate of Israel and all Jews is the highest I've ever seen, and Jews have long been the group most targeted by hate crimes, is a lie. It paints a marginalized community as having overwhelming power to justify further oppression.
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3. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about some of the protests that have occurred, and they are not just some sinister attack on higher education. I just came here straight from watching a video of a "protestor" at Columbia, wearing a mask, screaming "We are Hamas" and "Long Live Hamas".
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Frankly, this whole idea of "the media" all being controlled by a pro-Israeli narrative comes off as HEAVY dog whistling to "the Jews control the media" conspiracy theories.
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And before anyone starts, no, none of this justifies bombing or starving civilians in Gaza, or settlements in the West Bank, or any other crime. But neither do any of those things justify anti-Semitism, conspiracy theorism, or the conduct of some (not all) "pro-Palestine" protesters.
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