My Southern brother called me in NYC to express his concern that I might be in danger living near the Columbia campus. "I had no idea there was so much anti-Semitism," he said. He watches a lot of Foxx, and I try to be patient, but I did feel the need to tell him that the situation is complex, and many of the protestors were Jewish, and that I was far more concerned about the police presence and the constant noise of helicopters and the drones tethered to unmarked vehicles on the public street beside my apartment. I am extremely grateful that President Biden has rejected calling in the National Guard. Maybe if Columbia's president had not called in the NYC police so quickly, things could have been resolved soon, but Congress is determined to blow this (not the war but demonstrations against it) up into a political cudgel. Can anyone remember another occasion where the Speaker of the House of Representatives visited the campus of a private university to assert himself?
To say protesters calling out Israel’s brutality is antisemitism is not only lazy, it is woodenheaded and deliberately misleading.
Palestinians are Semitic. No one in these protests is antisemitic, they are anti-genocide, and anti-Israel.
For the Christian nationalists like Johnson to categorize these protests as antisemitic assumes the USA’s electorate is mighty stupid.
My Southern brother called me in NYC to express his concern that I might be in danger living near the Columbia campus. "I had no idea there was so much anti-Semitism," he said. He watches a lot of Foxx, and I try to be patient, but I did feel the need to tell him that the situation is complex, and many of the protestors were Jewish, and that I was far more concerned about the police presence and the constant noise of helicopters and the drones tethered to unmarked vehicles on the public street beside my apartment. I am extremely grateful that President Biden has rejected calling in the National Guard. Maybe if Columbia's president had not called in the NYC police so quickly, things could have been resolved soon, but Congress is determined to blow this (not the war but demonstrations against it) up into a political cudgel. Can anyone remember another occasion where the Speaker of the House of Representatives visited the campus of a private university to assert himself?
Can we please top line this:
"Can anyone remember another occasion where the Speaker of the House of Representatives visited the campus of a private university to assert himself?"
Political cudgel is accurate and the current gop method.