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When did wiping out an entire population ever amount to a “war” between two nations? When did demolishing another community’s sacred sites, erecting your own structures in their place, and performing rituals to advance your religious-political goals become “war”? When did depriving millions of civilians of food, water, medicine, and basic necessities, deliberately starving them to death, become “war”?
When an unarmed civilian population is bombed in their homes, denied refuge, and stripped of every means of survival, it is not “war.” When children are buried under rubble, when hospitals are destroyed, when entire families are erased, it is not “war.” When settlers are brought in to replace the displaced, when colonies are developed on stolen land, when cultural and religious identity is systematically erased, this is not war.
This is genocide. It is the calculated destruction of a people, their lives, their heritage, their future. To label it merely as “war” is to sanitize the reality, to mask crimes of the highest order under the false neutrality of military terminology.
2. Anti-Semitism: Implicitly doing the one form of equating regarding Israel's conduct that IHRA definition makes clear is out of order.
3. Use of ableist language: Repeated reference to "blind" and blindness. Language matters. Using language that equates the disability of blindness with stupidity and/or ignorance. You will argue very loudly about how society's foundations are inherently unjust. Unjust for browns and blacks in the countries of majority white populations, for Palestinians in their power difference with Israel, LGBTQ persons in many parts of the world (including India). So why is there an exception for disabled people and disabilities which allows us to say bad and demeaning things about and/or regarding them? What's the difference between the language of your comment and the brother of the protagonist in Ratigan's 'The Winslow Boy' promising his father he would 'work like a black' if he (the father) sent the brother back to Oxford for his second year of studies?
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
I don’t think Israel are faultless in this whole thing in any way. However, imo if Hamas is not seen for its role as the main villain in this story, we will never see even a remotely humane ending for the people suffering in Gaza and in Palestine generally.
PS - This is not me saying I'm siding with Israel just referring to the legal impossibility of declaring war.
Think I'm sounding rude? Just think what you sound like to every single Jew on the planet. Israel is doing the right thing. If members of a hostile force kidnap or kill one civilian of any country, it is that country's responsibility to ensure that it never happens again is to avenge that a hundred-fold.
If selfish people like you stopped being a disgrace to the name of humanity and a blot on the landscape, and actually gave a fuck actually about Palestinians, you would be blasting Hamas left, right and centre every day, bombarding and flooding social media to call on the return of the Israeli hostages. Even if you hate Israel blindly (as you clearly do), the logic can be that return the hostages and that will be the moral high-ground to start accusing the Israeli government afterwards.
And as for your last argument, that's anyway what they want to do (read the Hamas charter - actually read it). According to you, Israel has been not so much bad and horrible as foolish, legitimising the actions of them when that is what they want to do anyway. See? Israel keeps looking bad. Even those like me who are totally unwilling to go along with this woke nonsense can't help but scratch your 'I-hate-Israel' itch, because the world (and that includes you) is psychologically conditioned to hate them.
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Stand with NLSIU.
Stand with Sudhir.
Stand with Israel.
P.S. Many far-left NLU grads have migrated to Western neoliberal countries. Some of them teach at Ivy Leagues, Oxford, LSE, King’s etc. They won’t say a word about how these colleges take money from Chinese and Middle Eastern donors with shameful backgrounds.
P.S. 2 As for JNU, Kanhaiya Kumar is now a Congress leader who says Lalu Yadav is not corrupt (despite his multiple convictions) and Shehla Rashid has moved to the right and supports Modi.
We don’t need lectures form you people!!
I'd rather support Israel than Hamas
Also what do you expect will happen if NLS turns down the precious little funding they get? And they turn the only jewish state in the world into an untouchable because you feel like virtue signalling? do you think that stops the war? do you think netanyahu knows what nls is let alone give a flying **** ? do you think anyone in any position of authority to stop things is affected at all?