Sherlock Holmes wrote:Who has been arrested and convicted for describing Israel as a "racist" endeavor? where is this "enforcement" you speak of?
Nobody. This isn't a criminal law.
And enforcement is not necessarily about jailing people.
Pants-of-dog wrote:I think @wat0n is confused.
He keeps mentioning the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023.
The actual bill being debated in this thread is the COLUMBIA act proposed by Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) joined Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15).
The AAA simply makes it illegal for campuses to criticize Israel in almost any way. So, while it would be legal to point out that Canada is a settler colonialist state that has a racist policy against Indigenous people, it would be illegal to make the exact same statement about Israel, no matter how true the statements are.
The COLUMBIA act, on the other hand, has an additional provision that would cut off federal funding if a monitor finds out 5hat someone criticizes Israel on campus.
I am not confused. Those are two different laws, as I mentioned earlier - if anything you're the one who was conflating both.
I agree with you on the COLUMBIA Act, but it has little prospect of passing. Furthermore, I would think you'd believe having an anti-discrimination monitor is a
good thing.
The AAA doesn't make it impossible to criticize Israel, if anything, it just codifies present practice that does in fact allow for student groups to do just that. They've done so since 2018 without much pushback from the DOE.
You know what's actually not allowed? Harassing students and vandalism.
Sherlock Holmes wrote:Speaking of protester violence:
This is precisely the entitled bigoted mindset of "settlers" in the West Bank.
This is a report all about these dingbats, lots of footage too for you @wat0n
I'm fine with arresting anyone breaking the law.
But why do you only want to arrest pro-Israel lawbreakers and not pro-Palestine ones? That entitled bigoted mindset is in fact common in the campus left. I am pretty sure a MAGA encampment in any school would have been dealt with by force in day one, be it by the police or by the campus left (and the latter would have faced no punishment at all).
This arrest also debunks the narrative by @Deutschmania, @Pants-of-dog, @KurtFF8 and your own, since pro-Israel lawbreakers are in fact being arrested too.
Deutschmania wrote:The history of surveilling and suppressing Palestinians in the U.S. goes way back decades . This is only the most recent example of such conduct .
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/us-congress-university-hearing-palestinian-rights
Nonsense.
Pro-Palestine protests have been a feature of American campuses ever since the Second Intifada. The Israel Apartheid Week didn't get any serious pushback. If there's pushback now it's because it turns out leftists can't break the law with impunity.
If course, after decades of such impunity they're obviously not just going to give it up. Hence why you see the histrionics of protesting at commencements (and how they've been booed, like at Duke).
If there's something leftists are really good at is playing the victim. Too bad this is starting to end, even if they're from rich families and try to use their actual power to avoid being held accountable.