Somewhat new reader of yours here. Is there a concise way that the university students can convey that message? It's been a tactic of minders and other such thought police to throw out such accusations in order to derail discussion of the topic at hand. i.e. as we see on social media anti-establishment views are met with accusations of being secretly Russian affiliated, being sexist, being racist, being a [insert political affiliation here], and so on. Posters that respond to these claims usually wind up on the back foot, discussing that instead of the topic that lead to their accusations, so I was under the impression that the protestors had it right to focus on the message of stopping the genocide.
In this case, the best defense is a good offense. The offense that the anti-Zionism movement needs to take is what I have been urging it to do: expose the fact that the purpose of Zionist violence against Palestinians is NOT to make Israeli Jews safe but, on the contrary, to make them remain severely economically oppressed by the Israeli billionaire ruling class. This means exposing the fact that it is actually antisemitic (hostile to ordinary Jews) to support Israel's government/Zionism. Doing this would gain the support of the vast majority of the American public, not merely the part of the public that (as currently) will oppose the genocidal violence against Palestinians even while (wrongly) believing that it is conducted by a government that is doing it to make Israeli Jews safe.
By only talking about how the Israeli violence against Palestinians is cruel and immoral (as is the current practice), the anti-Zionism movement fails to refute the Zionist argument that persuades many good people to support Israel and its violence despite how cruel and immoral it may be or appear. The current anti-Zionism practice is losing (as shown by the fact that the U.S. government is still able to solidly support Israel because it still has sufficient public support for that policy.) It's better to win than to lose, right?
Somewhat new reader of yours here. Is there a concise way that the university students can convey that message? It's been a tactic of minders and other such thought police to throw out such accusations in order to derail discussion of the topic at hand. i.e. as we see on social media anti-establishment views are met with accusations of being secretly Russian affiliated, being sexist, being racist, being a [insert political affiliation here], and so on. Posters that respond to these claims usually wind up on the back foot, discussing that instead of the topic that lead to their accusations, so I was under the impression that the protestors had it right to focus on the message of stopping the genocide.
In this case, the best defense is a good offense. The offense that the anti-Zionism movement needs to take is what I have been urging it to do: expose the fact that the purpose of Zionist violence against Palestinians is NOT to make Israeli Jews safe but, on the contrary, to make them remain severely economically oppressed by the Israeli billionaire ruling class. This means exposing the fact that it is actually antisemitic (hostile to ordinary Jews) to support Israel's government/Zionism. Doing this would gain the support of the vast majority of the American public, not merely the part of the public that (as currently) will oppose the genocidal violence against Palestinians even while (wrongly) believing that it is conducted by a government that is doing it to make Israeli Jews safe.
By only talking about how the Israeli violence against Palestinians is cruel and immoral (as is the current practice), the anti-Zionism movement fails to refute the Zionist argument that persuades many good people to support Israel and its violence despite how cruel and immoral it may be or appear. The current anti-Zionism practice is losing (as shown by the fact that the U.S. government is still able to solidly support Israel because it still has sufficient public support for that policy.) It's better to win than to lose, right?