Student Protest Leader at Columbia: 'Zionists Don't Deserve to Live'

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79. He stated that he wanted Zionists to die. There is no evidence that anyone in Israel has ever harmed him.

Is that OK???

Is it OK for someone in the US to request that an entire group of people die??


He literally says:

"Nazis, white supremacist, Zionists, these are all the same people, the existence of them and all the projects they have built, ie Israel, are all antithetical to peace, so I feel very comfortable calling for these people to die"

He wants people who support Israel to die...(BTW this would be Joe Biden)


Is that OK???

This is hate speech...

Anyone who states they want to wipe out a group of people is engaging in hate speech.

Just because Israel is bombing Gaza to bits and just because many justifiably think it's genocide. It does not justify a retaliation genocide of Israel.

And just because there are bad people in Israel, just wishing for their death is plain old nuts.

When Zionism Becomes a Dirty Word
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, many Jews in Israel and the Diaspora have been shocked by the virulent anti-Zionism - also known as anti-Israelism - that has exploded online. Extending far beyond the legitimate act of critiquing Israel’s wartime decisions, many recent blogs and social media posts have been full of hatred toward Zionism, Zionists and Israel. Because of this, some Israeli and Diaspora Jews feel that what were once friendly online social spaces for them have now become unpleasant, threatening, even unsafe. One woman blogged about how, in order to cope with this, she had “unfriended” many of her Facebook “friends.”

As a result of this online climate, some people have begun asking themselves questions they hadn’t considered before: When did “Zionism” become a dirty word? What do people mean when they say, “I’m not anti-Semitic; I’m just anti-Zionist”? And is this loathing for Israel really just because of the war and the occupation?

These questions are all related. “Zionism” officially became a dirty - or at least a more complicated - word on November 10, 1975, when the United Nations passed Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with racism. (This was a moment I’ll never forget. I was working in a kibbutz henhouse, I’d just finished collecting the eggs, and I was so shocked by what I heard on the radio that I dropped all the eggs on the floor.) Resolution 3379 immediately provided enormous credibility to those wishing to delegitimize Israel. Their group has burgeoned ever since and is now prominently represented in the online world.

As for anti-Zionists claiming to be “just anti-Zionist,” but “not anti-Semitic,” this is nonsensical to anyone who knows what anti-Zionism is. Anti-Zionists are not just critical of Israel’s policies or actions (like the war with Gaza or the occupation); they believe that the State of Israel does not have a right to exist. They oppose Israel’s very existence and survival, yet do not oppose the existence and survival of any other country, including those with human rights records infinitely worse than Israel’s. As Irwin Cotler points out, the fact that Israel - the only Jewish country in the world - is singled out for this condemnation is inherently anti-Semitic.
https://archive.ph/gUnAv#selection-1119.0-1141.430