It appears younger Americans (in college or not) and much of the rest of the world (Muslim, or not) are no longer going to accept open-ended, unconditional and one-sided US support for Israeli policy, militarism, and narratives, even if it means being accused of violent hate. Some maybe are guilty of it, many are not, but who is sorting this out, as opposed to smearing the students wholesale? The sit-ins at Columbia University and other campuses are “mostly peaceful” (by previously established BLM standards), but amount to civil disobedience on private property, as a legal matter. Whatever, simply arresting kids while not engaging their concerns, will not end the standoff.
Who will stand for ending our intervention in the Mideast, and against escalation leading to the further slaughter of civilians, be they Israeli or Palestinian? Who is putting that first? Adopting that antiwar priority would provide libertarian meaning to the current chaotic situation. As a comment on the below video from the Jimmy Dore show notes, doubling down on war funding and war-hawk slogans will not work this time: “The ‘only Israel matters!’ and ‘only Oct 7 matters!’ neo-con shills like Speaker Mike Johnson decry any dissent as anti-Semitic, despite the inconvenient fact that many of the protestors are Jewish.”