Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Columbia Has Divested Before: Here's What Happened | WSJ" video.
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It's not only about divestment, it's about sending a message.
Which by the way, both protesters in Israel and victims in Gaza got loud and clear, which anyone watching the news should've noticed by now. It's a message of hope for students in Gaza, and a message of protest for Israeli people that are also against Netanyahu's government.
The Zionist propaganda in mainstream news labeling these protests as anti-Semitism really didn't stick, and people there have recognized the effort of students to send a clear message against this war.
So yeah, it's likely that, considering the completely broken late stage capitalism investment sector in the US, the divestment portion of the protest will likely not have a whole lot of effect. But it seems students are mostly looking for a sign of recognition of the massacre happening in Gaza and the West Bank, and that the Universities will at the very least drop the Zionist act and start thinking in how they can use whatever power they have to stop this war.
This still hasn't happened so far, and so the movement needs to keep pushing. Like any other protest, people aren't looking a perfect attendance of demands, they are looking for recognition and compromise.
Given how obscure the investment sector has become, it is likely that Universities won't be able to do much - I agree with that. But the state, politicians and news already made it plenty clear on whose side they are. So the protests must go on. Because we're not even at the point of recognition that what is happening in Gaza is plain genocide, orchestrated by a far right government. We're still seeing in all side of power, people with the nerve to deny what is happening there.
Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization that attacked innocent Israeli citizens in a terrorist attack. But defense from that, or some misguided vengeance campaign, does not justify the genocide in Gaza. It cannot be labeled a Hamas hunt, or some bullsh*t like "Israel's right to self defense", when you are starving civilians, killing women and children, destroying every single essencial infrastructure in the region in a scorched earth campaign, bombing everything, and destroying any possibility for these people to recover.
There is no bigger proof of that than the families of victims themselves protesting for the end of the war, and negotiations to end it. The Zionist radicals behind this misinformation campaign better know that everyone is watching what is happening there. We have access to images of family of victims invading parliament meetings to demand the government to negotiate the end of this operation. We know about how many journalists, how many UN workers, how many people working in aid and peacekeeping missions, and even hostages that the Israeli army already killed in this so called operation. We know about the indiscriminate killings, shellings, and destruction.
Families of victims know it far better than anyone else the pain of loss and of having family members held hostage by a terrorist group, and they are still protesting against Netanyahu's genocidal dictatorship. Israeli people have been protesting against this government before this war, before Hamas' attack happened. It's because they know that Netanyahu is using Hamas' attack solely to advance his own egotistical genocidal actions, which his administration announced loud and clear before he was even elected. This government cannot be allowed to use a terrorist attack to justify a genocide of his own. It is as simple as that.
So, I'll keep my support to students. They are as right today, as the multiple student led protests were in the past. If people in other nations cannot be bothered with fully understanding what is happening there, they should just stay out of this discussion. Leave it for people who actually care.
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