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Universities embroiled in pro-Palestine anti-Israel protests know time is on their side. Even the most ardent, strident participants will abandon public, collective action in favor of private, individual self-interest with the end of the academic year. Time will march on, passions notwithstanding.
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The arrested, suspended, expelled or dropped-out will be out of the equation. Others will decide that investments in their own education, jobs and careers are worth more than the present, uphill battle to force institutions of higher learning to alter their long-term investment plans and practices.
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BIPOC, in particular, will face a future circumscribed by pandemic fallout, racism, antidemocratic politics and a flawed judicial system. In the world beyond the academy await penalties for their free speech that they can't escape under covers of white skin, class privilege or family influence.
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Students who compare their demonstrations to the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War protests of the 1960s betray a limited, even romantic understanding of the complexities of that history and its impact on U.S. policymakers. What do they really know about liberation in their gilded American cages?
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Student protesters, past and present, do share an understanding of how to exploit visual imagery to message their aims, mobilize and organize their supporters and gain media coverage. For today's students, social media is the indispensable tool for the same. Daesh and Hamas have proven expert at it.
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What bothers me about the anti-US, anti-Israel and antisemitic cosplay of protesters, seen in the viral spread of campus protests complete with pro-Palestinian flags, banners, signs, chants, slogans and the affectation of Americans wearing the symbolic Yassir Arafat keffiyeh, is its inauthenticity.
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Students concerned about human rights in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict now threaten to make this about them instead. The group who broke into and barricaded themselves inside Columbia's Hamilton Hall have more in common with Trump's MAGA insurrectionists at the Capitol than their 60s role models.
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At UNC-Chapel Hill today some white students violently resisted police commands to move back after the police had lowered the Palestinian flag which had replaced the American one. If the crowds, epithets and assaults with water bottles had happened to cops at an HBCU heads would have been cracked.
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Students protesting as the school year ends needn't look abroad for a cause to rally 'round, or a problem to solve. Here's one for you. Donald Trump a notoriously corrupt, amoral, criminal sociopath - financed by conservative oligarchs and buoyed by cult followers - has a plan to end your democracy.
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