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Thank you Phil. The movie explains how students are taught about allegiance to Israel. When they ask questions later on, they learn another version. Simone Zimmerman started "If Not Now" that works with "Jewish Voices for Peace" to get justice in GAZA & West Bank. The other young man got disillusioned as a IDF military man & joined "Breaking the Silence."

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Thank you for yours further on the film you'd earlier briefly cited.

Heather didn't have anything today on the U.S. campus unrest regarding the U.S. role in that ongoing mass murder, so I'm appending for you here something close to usable when she does. Of course, depending on how Heather covers it, I'll also edit, change the text. And also perhaps if you have any comments, on this, below:

When I entered the University of Michigan in 1965, Harlan Hatcher was its president.

As both a zoologist and novelist, he typified American higher education. All during its rise, from the Justin Morrill land grant legislation in 1862 to the Powell memo in 1971, university presidents were all writers, scholars.

The Powell memo changed all that. Money and the billionaire classes took over.

Today American university youth protest U.S. arming mass murder in Gaza and arming Israel so far-right settlers further occupy land West Bank land and murder Palestinians there.

As no American novels, histories, memoirs, or other humanities center any university anymore, ditto same neglect for humanities of Israelis and Palestinians. If U.S. students protest, U.S. university admin has no context except that of the billionaire classes it serves – can imagine nothing beyond having militarily-armed police beat students and arrest them.

Vulgarity’s cycles rule. Viciously. Pathetically. Stupidly.

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