More on the protests
1) The protesters are upset that they are getting arrested ... College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them
Students at private colleges should be aware that their schools are essentially private property businesses. There is no "right" for the students to have an encampment. I think the only thing that has been keeping Columia from ousting the protesters is fear of the school losing money.
And about the amnesty thing, surely the students realize that their actions have consequences? Oh wait, given where they are going to school, they probably don't. This is the loan-forgiveness generation, after all.
2) Tell me again what the students are protesting? They are on the side of Hamas, while that terror group is still holding American hostages? They are against violence but they are supporting baby killers? They are against the genocide in Gaza, which isn't genocide, and against the occupation of Gaza, which hasn't been a thing for almost 20 years?
But no, it's not about being against stuff, it's all about love, actually ... My Week Inside Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment ...
“If you look at Fox News, we’re all Hamas supporters,” Sherif Ibrahim, a student organizer who said he is studying film, told me. “But I will say, inside the camp—everything happening is beautiful. It’s a show of love and community and solidarity and a seeking of justice.” Ibrahim described events from across the university that have been moved into the camp and food flowing from people across the city. “It’s been so meaningful and so moving,” he said.
That's nice. If Israel could only "feel the love" maybe they could forget their citizens who were raped and tortured and burned alive and taken prisoner, and come together with the Gazans in peace. But first let's take a look at what it is the protesters expect the Israelis to "get over".
Oh well, I tried to post a video here of Gazan civilians screaming and howling as a half naked dead Israeli woman is paraded through the streets in the back of a truck, or post the video of the Israeli woman with bloody sweat pants being dragged from the trunk of a jeep by Hamas, but apparently, all those videos, not to mention the GoPro videos the terrorist made of themselves killing Israeli civilians, are too disturbing to be embeddable. Look them ip yourselves if you can bear to. Somehow I doubt the protesters have.
3) I don't think the protesters actually care to know the facts of the Israel/Hamas war, nor of the history that enabled it. They are having some fun ... consequence-free fun, they hope ... while feeling important and relevant. They are dilettantes.