10-11-2023, 09:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-11-2023, 10:02 PM by HaughtyFrank.)
The amount of college groups and academics who have voiced tacit and not so tacit support for Hamas is pretty crazy. I wonder if there's a moment where the people running these universities wonder what they invited
Breaking down barriers is great. Breaking down barriers with the intent to massacre 1000 civilians isn't. It shouldn't be so hard.
Quote:On X, formerly known as Twitter, this was Sarah Shahid, freelancer for Now Toronto and Spring magazine: “What a glorious Saturday. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” At Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, assistant professor of social work Dr. Jessica Hutchison had this advice for conscientious Canadians: “I hope your upcoming acknowledgements will include support for Palestinians who are taking their land back from settler colonizers.”
Quote:To mark the occasion of the bloodiest day Israelis have endured in a half a century as the rocket barrage rained down on Israeli civilians, Nick Reimer, president of the faculty union at the University of Sydney in Australia, cautioned against anger and revulsion at the atrocities: “No progressive should feel the need to publicly condemn any choices by the Palestinian resistance.”
Quote:The union representing teaching assistants and part-time instructors at McMaster University, CUPE local 3906, expressed similar delight, “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance,” and cited the “solid commitment to a conviction or cause” lauded by Ghassan Kanafani, a key leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at the time of the PFLP’s May 1972 Lod Airport massacre.https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-progressives-celebrate-israel-war
Breaking down barriers is great. Breaking down barriers with the intent to massacre 1000 civilians isn't. It shouldn't be so hard.