There are a lot more headlines in the American press about student protestors than there are about what’s actually going on in Gaza. That’s not an accident. From Branko Marcetic at jacobin.com:
Backers of Israel’s war have lost the battle for hearts and minds, so they’ve ginned up a controversy over student protests — they want us talking about anything other than the genocide in Gaza.
To understand the current headline-dominating furor over the protests taking place on college campuses against the war in Gaza, think about the death toll of each. As of the time of writing, more than thirty-four thousand Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, almost certainly a massive undercount. On US campuses, that figure is zero.
It’s this cosmically vast discrepancy in terms of “harm” and “safety” that more than anything explains the absurd and ongoing freakout over college students protesting the war on Gaza — one that would be laughable if it weren’t so menacing.
Columbia University administrators have been hauled before Congress and pressured to crack down on faculty and students over their speech. The Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt has called for the National Guard to be sicced on protesters at Columbia — one of several figures to do so, including several US senators — knowing full well that the last time that happened, at Kent State in 1970, four students were killed. Supporters of Israel’s war, including the Israeli government itself, have hysterically labeled the protests — overwhelmingly comprised of students sitting in place and talking, sometimes dancing, often featuring large numbers of Jewish students — “terrorism,” “pogroms,” “riots,” and “mobs” seeking to destroy the country and that have led Jews to flee its borders.
One particularly histrionic war supporter has claimed in the Times of Israel that what’s happening on campuses “is 1938,” meaning Kristallnacht, when Nazis rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods lynching people and destroying homes, places of worship, and businesses. The result has been a wave of repression on campuses, with universities calling local police to arrest and detain their own students and faculty, many of them Jewish, for the crime of physically being on their own schools’ campuses, ending in-person classes, and barring them from physically returning, to the point of even erecting plywood barricades.
Meanwhile, what has been happening over in Gaza during this same week, as student protesters were being vilified and arrested for trying to make Israel’s military campaign in the territory end?
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
The Night of Broken Glass was caused by Polish teenager Herschel Grynszpan of Jewish ancestry killing NSDAP diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris.
And even that could be Reichstag Fire, codename Canned Goods concentration camp inmates dressed in Polish uniforms at a radio station raid on the border deception used to justify the invasion of Poland in 1939.
Hopefully no one gets KIA over what the enemedia is calling “Pro Hamas” protesters, saw that while walking past at 1800hrs and how would they know, did they interview anybody?
Some pages are saying maybe this will stop some of the mass killing others say what’s up with the same colored tents and signs, calling them actors.
Always check local CL ads when these things are going on for the interlopers of sorrows.
For What It’s Worth is one of the best Buffalo Springfield songs about Kent State, rappers Public Enemy sampled it deftly.
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“a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will, in fact, have their liberties taken away…but…will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing…enhanced by pharmacological methods.”
The Final Revolution, a dictatorship without tears.
(Aldous Huxley, 1961)
(h/t-EN)
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