— this protest ‘is centered on one thing: moral outrage at the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people – most of them women and children.
To interpret these protests as anything else – as antisemitic or anti-Zionist or anti-American or pro-Palestinian – is to miss the essence of what’s going on and why.
Most of the students and faculty I’ve spoken with found Hamas’s attack on October 7 odious. They also find Israel’s current government morally bankrupt …’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/police-crackdowns-war-protesters