Similar demonstrations have been going on at Emerson, Harvard MIT and Tufts, as well as other universities across the country.
  • ganksy@lemmy.world
    202·
    2 months ago

    The article says

    Videos from the demonstration appeared to show counter-protesters holding an Israeli flag chanting “Kill the Jews.”

    I’ve seen a lot of articles like this but I’ve yet to see any evidence. I find it very hard to believe any student protesters would allow anything like that parallel to their protests since it would undermine their goals.

    • underwire212@lemm.ee
      12·
      2 months ago

      Yeah something smells fishy. I’m thinking agitators, or like 1 or 2 people said it and they use it to make it sound like the whole group was saying it.

      • alternative_factor@kbin.social
        4·
        2 months ago

        The rumor is a counter-protestor (pro-Isreal) started pretending to be an antisemitic pro-Palestine person and everyone there shouted him down. Again it’s just a rumor that I read. I feel like these days its getting harder and harder to really know anything, but I have a hard time imagining ACTUAL antisemites would take over a college campus protest.
        On the other hand I do acknowledge that ACTUAL antisemitism have been huge problem as they appropriate the pro-palestine movement to further antisemitism, as I have seen in wayy too many places online these days (Just to make sure I’m clear- criticizing Israel isn’t antisemitism, but saying Jews secretly control the world and every Jew is secretly pro-Israel certainly is).