A group of pro-Palestinian protesters has occupied an abandoned building on the UC Berkeley campus in hopes of bringing attention to what they describe as a genocide in Gaza, according to organizers.
Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy shuttered UC Berkeley building to highlight Gaza crisis
NewsCorrection students did in fact protest the Tigray War on campus too. However if I’m not mistaken, the reason they are protesting is asking for the university to divest from directly investing in the contribution of the conflict/genocide etc. I’m not arguing with you I’m simply stating WHY they have been protesting extra for this particular situation as opposed to the other horrible situations.
Do they really care if the university is serving Sabra humus on campus? Are they aware how many Arabs will lose their jobs when they hurt these companies? Do they think only Jews work at these companies? It’s all just virtue signaling.
Woah, that’s a whole lotta odd statements. Who said anything about Arabs or Jews. I said it’s to divest from companies like arms dealers etc. like major players in war type beat that are contributing to current Israeli policy. What are you even saying man.
Have you seen the full BDS list they are passing around campuses? Divestments are not just about arms deals. I didn’t make up that line about Sabra Hummus not being welcome on campuses.
And if it was well then gere is an idea: Maybe colleges should divest from ALL arms related ventures instead of picking sides in wars that they most likely don’t understand and will inevitably offend students from either side.
I wasn’t talking about the hummus or bds list I was referring to your reference to Arabs and Jews.
What about them? Israeli companies employ ethnic Jews and Arabs alike.
They’re protesting because their government is directly involved in it.
Where were these large protests during the Yemen Civil War, Syrian Civil War, or Libyan Civil War? The US provided arms/were directly involved in all three, and all three had similar or greater deaths counts.
Y'all are literally just mad that the infidel Joos are killing pure, ontologically superior Palestinians.
These protestors in particular were in middle school. Regardless, the vast majority of them are strongly opposed to US foreign policy on these issues.
I bet if you asked the protesters they wouldn’t agree with most US foreign policy. But you have to be idiotic to not see the massive amount of aid the US gives to Israel, it’s almost like a conjoined twin. But you don’t have any good arguments for the invasion, so you just cry antisemitism
The us gov give massive amounts of aid to afghanistan every year, too. I don't see people protesting the taliban. The government of afghanistan.
… when did the US government give aid to the Taliban? The US spent years blowing up the Taliban. What are you even talking about?
They are the governmrnt of afghanistan who we give aid to every year. Yeah we give money to the taliban now.
https://apnews.com/article/hrw-foreign-aid-afghan-health-taliban-e7202c08f2ad4f6eeed3df20f55d343a
You have zero idea what you’re talking about. Less than zero. The US doesn’t even recognize the Taliban, much less give it money.
They steal our foreign aid. read before making assumptions.
"We give them money" to "They steal our money" lmao goalposts moment
I bet if I asked the protesters they would just refuse to talk to me and try to kick me out of public property because they know they points are indefensible and are frankly too stupid to argue them well anyways.
And yeah, I don't disagree that the US gives a decent amount of aid to Israel, but my point was we support a lot of other countries that do horrific shit too that don't get anywhere near the same amount of protest (Look at the Saudis during the Yemen civil war for example: https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts#:~:text=How%20Israel%E2%80%99s%20Imports,of%20arms%20imports*, or https://caat.org.uk/data/countries/united-states/us-arms-exports/#:~:text=According%20to%20the,Americas%20(see%20chart)) ). And it's not like we're all altruistic either, cuz we're able to prevent Israel from developing competitors to our weapons because of our aid.
Wait hang on, do you think Israel has no right to invade? Hamas and random Palestinian civilians going sicko mode raping and murdering the citizens of a country is a pretty good justification for invading lol.
And considering how Israel has dropped two Hiroshimas worth of bombs on Gaza and only killed 35k (only 25k actually verified btw) out of a population of 2 million people in the most densely populated area on earth when Hamas purposefully tries to maximize civilian casualties (like seriously, they wear civilian clothing during military operations, co-locate civilian and military infrastructure, steal aid trucks, have never built any civilian shelters because they're too busy building their own tunnels, etc), I'd say they're doing a better job keeping civilian casualties down than 90% of countries in the world would be capable of doing in the same circumstances.
This is the classic Zionist argument: other countries do bad things, so why is it that people get upset when we do bad things? It’s just not fair! We should be allowed to murder and starve whoever we want! Boo boo! These students are protesting because Israel has regularly received billions and billions of dollars of FREE US taxpayer money for DECADES to fund this ethnic cleansing, mass starvation, and mass child murder. Much of US middle eastern policy is based on supporting Israel and letting it do whatever it wants, no matter what horrendous crimes they commit. And finally there is a cultural “closeness” because of how Israel is supposed to be a shining democracy in the Middle East (it’s not, they won’t give Palestinians in the Occupied Territories a vote because Arab populations are the same as the Jewish Israelis).
No Jews, No News. Sad.
That's a horrible standard for caring about death in a conflict. The entire world effects all of us. You can't just focus parochially on what your own country does. Cutting entire involvement is just lVing both sides to kill each other. That diesnt make pro palestine activists morally superior. It makes them selfish.
What about this qualifies as virtue signaling?
I have been at the encampments, protests all the SF events and talks. All have been well done. I think it’s due to the fact that this incident involves students taking over an abandoned condemned building. Demanding what exactly? I am a supporter, but this particular incident is confusing to me.
Fair enough, this is just dumb and doesn’t accomplish much. I don’t think it’s performative virtue signaling though, just… misguided.
Yes, you are right. I agree. Good thing I left back home already. I probably would have been there and my intent wouldn’t be performative by any means.
Yep, none of us care when we see pictures of scores of children with their heads exploded and their eyeballs out of their sockets. We don’t care that over a million people are starving while their hospitals are bombed. We don’t care that the US comes out every day and says they support this, and then sends billions more for weapons to continue the killing. What we really care about is the ethnicity of the people doing it!
So you care because it’s viral on social media and showing up on your feed?
What? I care because it’s happening.
That literally describes every conflict after aircraft were able to drop bombs.
The fact that you think this particular conflict (when it’s the (((Zionist’s))) doing the fighting), is where things become bad enough to care is telling.
Wait, what’s going on in Gaza? Has something happened?
My problems that I still lack awareness. I need more awareness. Moooore!
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Comedian huh
Simple solution here: arrest them, if they are US citizens then list their names on city website. If they are illegal or on Visa then send all of them back to their countries. I will gladly help my government to cover cost of air plane tickets.
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Surely one more virtue signal will save the Palestinians!!!
But seriously though, it's not like more attention is gonna solve anything. This conflict has already had the highest attention:death ratio of all other conflicts. The entirety of the Arab-Israeli conflict has killed like 160k max over 80-160 years. This is objectively not a high death count compared to other conflicts. Heck, 160k-300k Ethiopians died in the Tigray War between 2020-2022 and nobody gave a shit. But now when the infidel Joo kills the pure, ontologically superior Palestinian, they lose their shit.
Basically what this means is that pro-Palestinians don’t give a shit that Palestinians are dying, they care that the (((Zionists))) are killing people. That’s it.