Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust
To one side, Columbia students stood silently, wrapped in the blue and white of Israel as they gripped pictures of the murdered and abducted. Across the grass and brick divide, a slightly larger cohort of students chanted “Free, free Palestine.”
The faultline between the two ran along the claim by each that the other was pursuing a kind of bloodlust – a charge that has divided university campuses across America in the wake of the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli communities and Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza.
Reactions within US universities to the killing of at least 1,300 Israelis and the abduction of about 100 more have swung from celebration of the Hamas assault as a legitimate act of resistance to occupation to condemnation along with a demand that it not be used to ignore the deaths of Palestinians killed in Israel’s retaliation on Gaza.
College campuses are filled with more than just 17-18 yos.
The average undergrad is 22.
And call it what you will, but these folks are the future of the nation.
As a 35 year old, I’d feel a lot better about 25 year olds running the country than I do about the current geriatric shit show we’ve got.
As a 50-something year old I feel the same.
Still not a great option, 25 year olds are pretty dumb
Better than 85 year olds, yes, but still not great