Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm
Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly applauded the growing number of anti-Gaza war protests and encampments that have sprung up on college campuses from California to Massachusetts and have become a flashpoint in the U.S.
Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of the militant group's Political Bureau, said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden's administration is violating the rights of students and faculty members and arresting them, "because of their rejection of the genocide that our Palestinian people are the subjected in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the neo-Nazi Zionists."
The statement claimed: "Today's students are the leaders of the future."
The U.S. designated Hamas a terrorist organization in the late 1990s. Several other countries have labeled it a terrorist group.
Khamenei also put out a statement on X, formerly Twitter, where he celebrated the flying of a Hezbollah's flag in the streets of the U.S. "The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression," the post read.
Plaudits from Iran and Hamas ? the group that carried out the Oct. 7 attack prompting the deadliest single assault on Jews since the Holocaust, slaughtering 1,200 and dragging hundreds back to Gaza as hostages ? come at a boiling point. Protests have embroiled college presidents, students, political leaders from both parties and even President Biden himself as thousands of Jewish students denounce growing antisemitism on U.S. college campuses.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/hamas-iran-support-college-protests/73447123007/
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"neo-Nazi Zionists"
I'm glad I'm not in a movement praised by such people.
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the Anti Semitism that's going on all over the place.
That's the problem with painting a continent. The brush gets a bit broad and unwieldy.
The protesters in particular are seen as allies.
If neo-Nazis support a candidate says ambiguous things--we think he's fascist, he says he's just "traditional"--we beat him senseless with the crate that the benefit of the doubt we bestow on our peers arrived in.
We hear "dog whistles" all over the place (not because we're dogs, but have superpowers and augmented hearing, I guess).
So do they. Hamas and Iran like the allies. They like the turmoil. Qatar and the Saudis like seeing the programs and institutions they helped fund produce like-minded chatbots.
I had to interact with the MSA on the campus that housed my humanities program. A more self-righteous, judgmental, vindictive, hateful, wanna be authoritarians I hadn't seen for at least 5 years, since I left the church that a coteries of their Xian Doppelgangers that ultimately subverted--to their joy--the church I'd been in. I recognize the underlying them and eschew it utterly--and have come to wish the Rover (a kind of macrophage, I assume) on them--but not to keep them in the Village, but to stop them from keeping others in the Village. I guess they don't think of me as a man, but as a number? ("Hi. I'm e."
The problem that they thought this Irish-American Xian was a Jew, and treated me "appropriately." ("But I"m not Jewish." "Yeah, that means you're a Jew--they all lie." It's a Kafka trap.)
