Article is very interesting and talks about the mix of goals in regards to the protests, and how speech negatively and positively helps accomplish those goals.

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    6 months ago

    I’d also really like media to start demanding evidence of the claims of bald antisemitism

    This is the worst part about reading/hearing about these stories in the news. Really early in this cycle, I heard a story on NPR where they interviewed a student at Columbia who talked about the pain and death happening in Gaza, and then they said, “but some people say the protests are anti-semitic,” and they proceeded to interview a woman who was not a student and had not been to campus who said “I feel attacked.”

    There was absolutely no follow up on what was anti-semitic about what was happening, it was just taken at face-value that that woman saying it was anti-semitic made it so. I actually cancelled my $5/mo NPR contribution after that story