NYU student Logan Rozos used his speech to accuse the US of supporting a "genocide" in Gaza.
  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Calling it a war is a nice touch, didn’t know wars had only one side fighting and killing the other side.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    NYU student Logan Rozos used his speech to accuse the US of supporting a “genocide” in Gaza.

    That’s just a statement of incontrovertible fact. These universities are doing despicable things in trying to silence their own students and hide from the truth.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I can’t wait until “not supporting the forced deportation of all Jewish individuals” will be counted as “antisemitism”.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    22 hours ago

    It’s almost like all of these elite universities are beholden to their wealthy alumni.

    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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      3 hours ago

      Agree but didn’t realize NYU was considered “elite” as a state school. In fact was a bit surprised seeing this headline in the first place, as SUNY and CUNY tend to fly below the radar (i.e., wouldn’t usually need to take a stance on a divisive issue) but you’re right that it’s likely pressure from wealthy alumni.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      major donors are jewish, and with ties to Israel or other rich celebreties, hint seindfeld and his wife.

      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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        3 hours ago

        Wasn’t Seinfeld a Queens College CUNY alumnus? I guess there’s no reason they wouldn’t donate to NYU as well, just didn’t know there was a connection there.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          59 minutes ago

          he recently talked at darthmouth, i believed he had a fan in the admin who let him speak there, also his kids go there. he called people woke for not laughing at his “jokes”

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This shit is out of hand. The morons in the middle east need to stop killing … anyone, and if someone has a non-violent opinion about it here in the US, who fucking cares?

    Illegal persecution of free speech needs to fucking end!

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      The morons in the middle east need to stop killing … anyone, and if someone has a non-violent opinion about it here in the US, who fucking cares?

      Yeah… that’s not what’s going on here. The anti-Zionist movement in the West calls for Western countries to take diplomatic and economic action against Israel. That includes cutting ties, not selling weapons, sanctions, embargoes, etc. This is a lot more than “group X should stop killing group Y;” it’s “we should stop group X from killing group Y, at least not with our weapons”. This ruffles a lot of feathers in the political and corporate establishment for a few reasons, some rational (in a psychopathically self-interested sort of way) and some not.

      • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        I don’t think asking my government to stop arming a foreign government committing genocide should be called “anti-zionist” it’s anti-genocide.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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          22 hours ago

          They’re the same picture. The Gaza genocide is simply the ugly manifestation of the essence and inevitable conclusion of Zionism. What we’re looking at today is nothing more than how the Nakba would’ve looked like if Palestinians had nowhere to escape.

  • ytorf@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    It was for the Gallatin school within NYU, too, which has always prided itself on producing activists