We're here to discuss the little Gazas that have risen up on campuses across America and the liberal college administrators and politicians who refuse to restore law and order and to protect other students. These little Gazas are disgusting cesspools of anti-Semitic hate full of pro-Hamas sympathize...
Tom Cotton is the psycho who penned an op-ed urging that the country deploy martial law against BLM protesters. Shit like that is why a specific demographic (Nazis) take him seriously.
It ludicrous that people allow antisemitism to enter this debate and we would do well to remember the cynicism of those who are prepared to weaponise and deploy the slur.
All you have to do is take any single protestor and look at what they were doing this time last year or the year before .
They were busy boycotting nestle, or marching for BLM, or facing down the alt right, entirely unconcerned with Israel or Jewish people.
They have been activated by Israel’s behaviour toward Gaza which is widely condemned by the United Nations and across the world
I will keep repeating this because it needs to be repeated: I am Jewish. Being against Israel is not antisemitism. It's Israel who wants you to think that.
And in 36 hours we'll see the centrists have recalibrated their scales and move rightward yet again. Surely they just need to take one more step to the right before they've triangulated Tom Cotton into electoral doom. Republicans would never just take the validation of their messaging as a win and sign to move further right.
To be clear, this is framed as speculation about the future, but it's a description of the past. Tom Cotton thinks calling college students pro-Hamas is good politics because centrists accommodated and shadowed their previous messaging. The Josh Gottheimers of the world will continually sabotage the party to play centrist and if he's not made a pariah by the rest of the party calling it abhorrent, he gets to define what "the Democrats" are in the media.
Here's why he's saying that: the vast majority of US policymakers take money from AIPAC (Biden himself took $11.2M), and these protests scare them because it means that something may change soon and the gravy train may stop. They're just lashing out because their survival is at stake here. I really hope that a possible outcome from all this is AIPAC AND anyone taking their money is forced to register as foreign agents because that's EXACTLY what they are: agents working to further the interests of a foreign nation whose national security interests apparently come before ours, hence why we give them money that we don't have, since we are running a deficit, and our national debt is in the tens of trillions.