CARTOON: ON-CAMPUS SAFETY? Here's How Israel Handles The Issue
Israel has a clear, consistent and definitive program to address issues of on-campus university security.
By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (4/30/24)
Under claims of campus security and sheltering of sensitive ears and fragile egos from any upsetting words, college presidents across the nation have launched thuggish police violence against young US/Israeli genocide protesters. The administrative crackdown across U.S. campuses was ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As always, the White House, congress, Justice Department and state and local law(less) agencies snapped to and complied with the Israeli orders.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has carried on an effective, simple long-standing program of campus debate and safety management…
The methodical, controlled demolition destruction of Gaza University by the Israeli ‘Defense’ Force.
Netanyahu’s approach is simple: If there are no universities, there are no students to ask questions, hold inconvenient protest signs or chant slogans of equality that might disturb sensitive ears or ruffle skittery narcissistic egos.
Israel’s intentional crime of ‘scholasticide’
Since October 7, the Israeli ‘Defense’ Force has methodically and systematically targeted and destroyed all twelve Gaza universities through bombing, tank shelling or, as in the case above, controlled demolition. In addition, Israel has “…destroyed or damaged 378 school buildings (76 percent of the total school buildings in Gaza)”.
With these actions, Israel is committing “… a very particular form of violence that has disproportionate and long-term effects on children and youth: ‘scholasticide,’ or the systematic destruction of the entire education system.”
As with the methodical destruction of Gazan churches, mosques, hospitals, community centers, businesses and even plowed up graveyards and orchards, the Israeli policy is one of ethnic obliteration through total destruction and desecration of cultural sites and resources. Nothing has been left untouched and all of it has been done with American bombs, weapons, money and diplomatic cover.
Today’s Einsatzgruppen
In one of the cruelest ironies of history, Israel has adopted the same policy and inhuman techniques of Nazi Germany. Today’s Israel military is the modern day manifestation of the murderous Nazi Einsatzgruppen forces, responsible for the deaths of millions across Europe.
And the obscene truth we need to deal with is we — the United States — are as guilty of the brutal genocidal war crimes as Israel, because we made — and continue to make — it all possible. We — the United States — are the world’s dominant terrorist state.
Time for Israel and the United States to face themselves in the mirror…
Cartoons by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
Gaza University Destroyed: Israel Accused Of Targeting Education Centers
Al Jazeera English (1/20/24)
As Israel continued its strikes across the Gaza strip, students are saying Israeli forces are deliberately targeting education facilities. Several university campuses have been destroyed since the war began and the United Nations says, the damage could lead to a lost generation.
2:25-minute video
LONGSTANDING ISRAELI TRADITION: Bombing Of Islamic University of Gaza on August 2, 2014
The Islamic University of Gaza on August 2, 2014 after it was bombed by the Israeli ‘Defense’ Force. “Israel Attacks My University — With Bombs & Lies.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I’m here, both because I am Palestinian, but also because I’m an American. So many of my taxpayer dollars go to fund weapons for Israel and my tuition dollars as well. The labor I put into this university goes to fund companies that, again, support this ongoing genocide and occupation.”
– Dahlia Saba, a member of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Students for Justice in Palestine and a first-year graduate student at UW-Madison
HO-HUM: As Peace Protesters Are Attacked, Cops Stand By As White Supremacist Group Marches Through Downtown Charleston W.VA. Saturday
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting (4/27/24)
On the same day the YWCA Charleston had a Race to End Racism in the capitol city, a group of men from the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through the streets of downtown.
Witnesses reported the seeing the men unload two U-Haul trucks at Daniel Boone Park and marching to the Capitol in front of the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, on Kanawha Boulevard and California Street. They then marched down the boulevard and turned onto Capitol Street.
The group marched carrying a banner that read “America is not for sale.” They chanted slogans and handed out the organization’s propaganda.
According to the Anti Defamation League, the “Patriot Front is a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it to them alone. They define themselves as American fascists or American nationalists who are focused on preserving America’s identity as a European-American nation.”
They often use flash demonstrations like toady’s event around the country.
The men were all wearing matching khaki pants, hats and dark colored polo shirts. They were also wearing masks over their faces from the moment they jumped out of the back of the trucks.
Mayor Amy Goodwin put out a statement that said, in part, “It is important for our community to celebrate coming together and stand up against hate. When our city team learned of a national hate group demonstrating earlier today, we acted quickly and appropriately to make sure all in our community remained safe.”
The Charleston City Police stayed close by to avoid any trouble and the march appeared to be peaceful. It is unclear if the group had a permit for the march.
Are the IDF inspired by American police, or American police inspired by the IDF? It terrible watching brutality, but it's wonderfully blooming protest.