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The US student protests against Israel’s genocide herald major change
I have never seen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look so anguished as in the video he posted on ‘X’ on Thursday, in which he condemned the student protests in US universities, branded them anti-Semitic, likened them to 1930s Germany, and demanded forcible measures to suppress them.
Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.
The world cannot stand idly by. pic.twitter.com/oHlwig1vCl
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 24, 2024
Netanyahu knows the US well. He knows the explosion of student protests may not stop until his racist regime meets its end — like the Vietnam War, the apartheid state in South Africa, and racial segregation in the US itself. Student revolts there have a history of persisting until they have achieved their aims.
Netanyahu considers his greatest achievement to have been his ability to US public opinion via his extensive mega-million dollar ‘hasbara’ network, by employing lies and deception and raising the sword of ‘Anti-Semitism’ against all critics of Israel’s massacres in occupied Palestine.
He now sees his extraordinary success in stifling free speech crumbling before his eyes. The protests on US college campuses are wrecking his most important accomplishment, thanks to the steadfastness and sacrifices of the people of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu and the Zionist movement in general are greatly alarmed by this growing student revolt — and the prospect of its spreading within the US and beyond to Europe and elsewhere — for a number of good reasons.
— It began in elite US colleges such as Columbia and Harvard, which means that the next generation of American influencers will not be as susceptible to Zionist propaganda as their parents and grandparents. The students arrested and beaten up for protesting against Israel’s behaviour are not working-class kids. They are the sons and daughters of congress members, businesspeople, and the ruling political class — America’s future leaders.
— These protestors will never forgive or forget being likened to Nazis for objecting to Nazi-like practices in the Gaza Strip by a state that constantly presents itself as the victim and nemesis of Nazism.
— The protestors include large numbers of young Jewish Americans, raising Palestinian flags and wearing kufiyehs. This is a powerful slap to the face of Netanyahu and his ilk, and self-evident refutation of the charges of Ani-Semitism.
— The weakening of Zionist control over traditional Western mainstream media and their ability to shape the global narrative in Israel’s favour. That is largely due to spread of social media. It is true that major social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Google, and others remain subject to that control. But more choices have become available. And even within those platforms, there have been protests by employees against their pro-Israeli bias and suppression of the Palestinian narrative.
— The growing realisation among the US public at large, Jews included, that their governments’ support for Israel’s massacres jeopardises the US’s own interests: dragging the country into unwanted wars and draining its taxpayers’ dollars.
— Israel’s demands for the peaceful student protests to be suppressed are a blatant attempt to quash freedom of expression. Not just anywhere, but in key bastions of the values and freedoms on which Western political systems are supposed to be based.
The insolence of it all reached new heights when Israeli security minister Itamar Bin-Gvir called for the formation of armed militias in the US and other Western countries to protect Jewish communities and institutions. A shameless affront to the constitutional and security institutions of the states that did most to establish and sustain his state. He wants to create Zionist mini-states within them to reward them for supporting the Zionist state for 75 years.
I feel confident that the student protests in the US portend major change, both within the country and beyond.
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