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We won’t know for months or years, or perhap will never know, if “outside agitators” have had any participation in the protests at Columbia University, WHICH I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE AT LEAST STARTED OUT AS A DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN to get the University to sell the Israeli Government Bonds in it's portfolio (and presumably holdings in the Israeli War Industry and Surveillance sector), similar to the divestment campaigns against the South African government during the apartheid era.
Whether there were “Hamas Agents” or “Mossad Agents” or agents from the fucking Trilateral Commission and Illuminati flown in on U.N. black helicopters covered in tinfoil, the net effect has been to set folks at each others’ throats. I am reminded of the “anarchist agitator” who set fire to a Post Office during the police/protester standoff in Minneapolis after the George Floyd murder. That “anarchist” turned out to be a “Boogaloo Boy” who traded his dimestore aloha shirt for a black outfit, which “everyone knows” means you’re an anarchist (whatever that means, but it must be bad).
We are in the “fog of war” period both in the Palestinian/Israeli and in the Ukrainian/Russian conflicts. Much of the infomation coming out cannot be trusted because it’s really easy to play on people’s biases if you’re propaganda is of any “quality” (and I use that word hesitantly).
I’m more interested in looking at the effects both of the protests on the war or U.S. policy (negligable) and the effects on U.S. politics that has resulted (huge). MAGAGOP Congresscritters in the House are taking advantage to bash “elite” universities. That’s a win for the anti-intellectual far right. AIPAC has committed a vast sum to get rid of “progressive” politicians, apparently whether they have said “bad things about Israel” or not. That’s a win for the right and far-right. Youthful protesters who oppose war are being bashed, and some of them will be discouraged from participation in politics forever (including voting). That’s a win for the right and far-right. I sense a pattern here.
So I urge folks to step back and think about what we think we know, as opposed to what we’ve heard or read about what’s going on. Unless of course you’re acting as an agent for one of the combatants. In that case I'm sure you would label yourself as such (uh-huh).
NOTE: Just to be clear, I don't take sides in blood feuds, especially not those that have been ongoing for 2000-3000 years. There are no political actors in this war that I'd wish to be associated with - on either side. The leadership elite of both political entities see hostility toward the other as a major key to their keeping power. They sound like MAGA GOPs magnified exponentially. I see no resolution, none of the people with power interested in peace, and only more bloodshed now and in the future. Therefore there's no one to support. People suffer when their leaders make them war. I DO, however, support the extension of aid for food deliveries and reconstruction wherever needed.
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