USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

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USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow - Lemmy.World

Anti war… Who do they suggest lay down their arms first?

What a boomer question…

They want the US to stop supplying weapons to a genocidal state and actually put pressure on Israel to stop with the wanton destruction. The US is propping up it’s ally with millions of $ in bombs, missiles, and other such weapons in what are ultimately being used to murder men, women, and children that have nothing to do with this war besides live in Gaza. The IDF is murdering, raping, executing, humiliating, mauling, torturing, and harming men, women, and children. Fuck them. The US should not be supporting this sort of treatment of civilians. Did that answer your pedantic, little “gotcha” question gramps?

So let Hamas, a terrorist organization, run rampant on Israel right?

Brilliant idea, gen-Z!

Damn, if only there were more than just the two options. I mean, we stop funding genocide and then Hamas immediately wins, that’s the only possible way it could go, right?

Iran and Qatar, who funds Hamas, would, without US Support of Israel, almost certainly carry out their “jihad” (a genocide of its own).

We have to get Israel to stop killing Palestinians, and also get the Arab world to stop killing Jews.

A sad fact is that the money given to Israel saves more lives than it steals.

Are you just dense? The idea isn’t “no funding for Israel” the idea is “no funding for Israel until they start following international law and stop indiscriminately killing.”

Hamas is awful and should be destroyed but two wrongs don’t make a right and Israel is going much too far. Israel isn’t attacking Hamas at this point. They are doing to the Gazans what Hamas did to Israel, but a hundred fold worse. They are acting like either a terrorist organization or a genocidal regime.

I’m all for Israel defending itself. I am mostly okay with funding Israel to defend itself and stand up for itself. I am absolutely not for funding genocide and wars of retribution. At this point Israel needs to be brought to heel and, when safe, needs to be held accountable for its crimes and it’s long term policies of apartheid.

Where did I say I was against Israel following international law and stopping the indiscriminate killing?

Hint: I didn’t.

Do you want to retry having a good faith discussion with me?

Where did I accuse you of being in favor of indiscriminate killing?

Hint: I didn’t.

Do you want to try engaging with my argument that we shouldn’t continue funding for Israel until they stop the genocide and follow international law?

I am sorry but you don’t get to misrepresent me and then demand I respond to your comments based off those misrepresentations.

I am blocking this account of yours for bad faith, but I fully welcome you to try again with one of your alts.

I’m pre-emptively blocking you since you have been arguing for genocide all over this thread, and then strawmanning anyone that calls you on it.

You’re in bad need of some actual life experience.

You can’t point to one single pro genocide comment I have made, and you know it.

You are censoring anti-Hamas people. Let’s not lie and sugarcoat.