It’s an awkward fact for Israel’s government that many Jews do not support the war in Gaza against the Palestinians. From J.S. King, Soph Askanase, and Lea Salim at thehill:
When we accepted our admissions letters to Columbia University, we never expected to be marched out of our school in zip ties by the NYPD. But that is what happened last week, after hundreds of pro-Palestinian Columbia students came together on the campus lawn to form what organizers named the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We joined the encampment because Columbia funnels money that should be spent on our education into companies that build machines to kill, maim and displace our Palestinian siblings. The encampment will continue until students, faculty and alumni force the university leadership, who do not represent our community, to sever these financial ties.
As Jews, we are also obligated to practice the values we learned at synagogue and in the Torah, which counsel the value of all life and the preciousness of freedom. At a young age, we were taught the importance of tikkun olam, repairing the world. Each night when we say the Shema, for those of us who practice, we are reminded of our solemn vow to uphold God’s will on this earth. We exhort ourselves to remain steadfast in our mission to root out the cycles of violence and hatred that have plagued our people, and the world, for millennia. Pesach, which began on Monday, reminds us that liberation demands sacrifice but is always worth the cost.
We chose to be arrested in the movement for Palestinian liberation because we are inspired by our Jewish ancestors who fought for freedom 4,000 years ago. When the police entered our encampment, we locked arms and sang civil rights era songs that many of our more recent ancestors recited in the 1960s. We belong to the legacy of progressive Jewish activism that has worked across race, class and religious lines to transform our communities.
The beautiful encampment that has formed at Columbia could not be more different from its portrayal in the media. When American Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was asked if he had prayed during the civil rights protests, he replied, “I prayed with my feet.” We, too, pray with our feet, each time we enter the encampment. Our days are filled with interfaith prayer, song, dance and learning.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
War makes money and money makes war was in the Das Boot redux earlier and it won’t be changing anytime soon.
I’m sure there are some “observers” amongst the Columbia comrades where the Long March to burn it all down started.
Saw one where the young skulls full of mush (h/t-EL Rushbo) said we are only doing what you taught us to do.
It sounded almost Babylon Bee.
“We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Green Hats are NGO Lawyer’s Guild or intelligence agency plants.
Seattle junior college cancelled protest due to too many White Saviors.
Tik-Tok is the news service of the 18-34 demographic and there is a whole lot of noticing and even a mini economy that can’t be controlled or corralled.
Gestapo tactics at Marxist EDU are the Boomers last hurrah as they relive the steaming Tavistock/Langley Long March turd known as the 1960s?
(h/t-VJRE)
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