Who Are You Calling a Nazi?

Israel’s smears of campus protests reveal their own plans

David Spero RN
Liberation Works

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UCLA protest Image: Episcopal News Service

Every accusation is a confession.” T C Gibians (among others)

Speaking in his perfect American-accented English, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said “Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.”

CNN host Dana Bash went further, comparing campus pro-Palestine protesters to “Nazi brown shirts.” Promoting her show, Bash tweeted “Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, harkening back to the 1930s in Europe.”

Anyone who has been to or seen the student encampments knows there is no violence or hate there. Neither Jewish students nor any others are being threatened. Sometimes Israel supporters or random weirdos show up and try to start trouble. They make up stories about being kept out of class or feeling scared, but video clearly shows that violence only happens when Israel-supporting thugs assault campers, or the police try to clear an encampment. You have only to watch a few short videos to see where the violence comes from, and it’s not from the pro-Palestinian side.

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