Students arrested in California and Texas; Netanyahu compares campus protests to Nazi Germany

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Campus protests live updates: Police arrest protesters at USC, UT Austin as pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread to more campuses
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The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.

Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.

Those shantytowns were obnoxious and they worked.

I was only a kid at the time, so I didn't understand the whole thing. I thought the shantytown on the campus in my town looked cool and I wanted to live there.

Should have just said it was a school shooting and the Texas cops wouldn’t go in at all.

Are you referencing the one that happened in Texas yesterday? I haven't read up on it. Did they really wait again?

This is the new tactic for the dictators, just call a nazi. The Ukrainians, the protestors, my dog, all nazi’s. Projection at its greatest.

Godwin's Law has spread to all politics.

It's a shame that it's just projection in Netanyahu's case.

I'm afraid this tactic is just not for the dictators but it has been quite widely adopted by the public aswell, especially on social media

and I thought that the Nazi thing was the genocide

See, we all thought that.

Turns out the problem wasn't that they committed genocide. It's that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.

And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you're against Israel, you're against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.

Flawless logic, clearly.

/s

I didn't think it would ever be possible but Israel managed to completely take the bite out of the word "antisemitism" and comparisons to "Nazi Germany".

Its like the word woke. At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it. Anyone related to the IDF? Then antisemetic just means anti genocide.

At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it.

That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.

When you don't agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don't hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You're no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It's one step away from violence.

Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least momentarily… This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.

Because we’re inadvertently building our newspeak, but to wield against the opposition. ‘Woke’ ‘chud’ ‘groomer’ ‘hippie’ lets you hang a label on today’s target of vitriol without understanding. Not understanding the theory, the origins, background, context, etc - we apply the label, the bad person gets chided, now move on to next outrage.

Netanyahu can suck it. He's a piece of shit. So are all zionists.

Comparing things to nazi Germany... Wtf

He's delusional.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Jews and non-Jews to oppose pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States, comparing them to the antisemitism seen in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculties," he said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday.

Netanyahu's entire party are fascists, and Einstein called them out for being fascists shortly after WW2 (before they rebranded to their current name).

Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

They also have money, which they're using to its maximum effect.

And there's always the Mossad...

Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

This has always been the case. It's only becoming apparent to everyone now.

What's becoming apparent is how we have quite a lot of extremely racist elites in the West that were posing as anti-racists whilst in their heart of hearths being quite the opposite.

Now that the self-proclaimed representatives of one of their favored etnicities started very overtly commiting Genocide along racial lines against an etnicity they regard as inferior, they provided them with "unwavering support" even after the racist nature of the mass murder was obvious, all the while justifying it with the etnicity of the ones commiting the Genocide.

The only thing more racist than supporting Genocide because of the etnicity of the genociders is to actually directly mass murder people because of their etnicity: if you're supporting people committing even more extreme acts of violence for racist reasons than the Ku-Klux-Klan, you're definitelly not against racism, quite the contrary.

It's amazing just how may leaders have very overtly come out of the closet when it comes to extreme Racism.

It really feels like an abused kid growing up to be an abuser in the exact same way their parents were…

All you have to do to get away with being a fucking nazi is call anyone opposing your genocide a nazi apparently.

I mean, generations of building diplomatic ties to the most influential countries in the world is pretty important, too.

Without delving into this event I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is the common trope of framing something that is Anti-Netanyahu or Anti-Israeli or Anti-Zionism (Read: Far-Right Nationalism) or Pro-Civilian — and associate it with antisemitism. Let me edit upon review to see if I can confirm this hypothesis.

Edit: I'd say I'm pretty much right.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599

https://www.vox.com/24138285/columbia-campus-israel-palestine-activism-sjp

Times of Israel of course has a convenient anonymous student referring to chants that are curiously not captured on video/audio. If someone has something, then do let me know. I suspect like most things this is a matter of colorizing the protest by the few bad apples who, according to an AP article, were not even students. So you may have actual antisemites trying to hijack the movement; or you might have pro-Israelis trying to tarnish the protest by painting it in a bad light.

Either way, the protests should be judged by the overwhelming narrative projected by the mass at large.

Everyone should know at this point that those in power in Israel are straight up evil people.

What's funny is that the last time a nation which claimed to represent a whole etnicity, which was specifically targetting and mass murdering people of another etnicity with such intensity, inhumanity and extreme racist prejudice, and their leader would when their actions were criticized say that it was an insult to the etnicity he claimed to represent, the time was the late 1930s, the etnicity was the Arian Race, the nation was Germany and the leader was called Adolph Hitler.

It kinda looks a lot like the ones who look like a "duck", walk like a "duck" and quack like a "duck" - hence why most people are saying they're "ducks" - are Netanyahu and his countrymen.

Netay…..netaya….ugh cant say that name. But he seem to have learned from ww2, how to do horrible things that is. Fucking cunt.

Look at all these hypocrites, all you bitches were just applauding democrats funding israels genocide.