• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They aren’t.

    They are afraid of being labeled anti-semitic. That is what is driving this. Allowing the protests to exist gets the uni/president labeled anti-semitic, and that is unacceptable for the universities. The universities are then asking the police to break them up by force, because violent against students is more acceptable than being labeled anti-Semitic.

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      6 months ago

      This is why freedom of speech is important and why it’s important to argue specifics instead of generalities.

      It’s easy to say something is “antisemitic” and get an emotional response from useful idiots. It’s a lot harder to explain why something is antisemitic and get the same response if it’s not actually antisemitic.