For the money that they throw around, their influence is clearly quite larger than any demographic that they could claim to represent. As for university funding, you only need to see how they've handled protests to know who has actual influence there though. I remember while I was attending college, the SJP group was never given funding and pretty much not allowed to do anything in general. Meanwhile, a faculty member was allowed to invite Pamela Geller to speak. I've witnessed the disparity first hand, and it's clear which way the power goes.
This is unfortunately a country-wide thing though, I wouldn't put it as a campus issue.
This is unfortunately a country-wide thing though, I wouldn't put it as a campus issue.
My favorite example is the New York Times, being somehow both clearly pro-Israel while also being pro-Palestinian.
It is surely not "everyone" that thinks this inconceivable, as there is definite evidence that such incidents are occurring. This is equivalent to me claiming there are no incidents of antisemitism actually happening just because I and anyone I know would never commit any. You can't say the government is beholden to a settler party, then also say no one could possibly wish to purposefully harm Palestinians. You, understandably of course, think very highly of your countrymen in terms of a desire for peaceful coexistence. There's without a doubt in my mind a countless number of Rabin assassinators out there right now.
It is surely not "everyone" that thinks this inconceivable, as there is definite evidence that such incidents are occurring. This is equivalent to me claiming there are no incidents of antisemitism actually happening just because I and anyone I know would never commit any. You can't say the government is beholden to a settler party, then also say no one could possibly wish to purposefully harm Palestinians. You, understandably of course, think very highly of your countrymen in terms of a desire for peaceful coexistence. There's without a doubt in my mind a countless number of Rabin assassinators out there right now.
Secondly, this is not how the IDF operates, the government has no say whatsoever on operational matters, The PM can only authorize or not certain operations. They can't influence the army code of conduct or engagement directives. It's not how it works. The government is beholden to the settler part to stay in power but the army isn't, on the contrary, the Israeli army is traditionally left wing, and receives a lot of public criticism from the settler party for being leftist, dovish and not aggressive enough. The army is also accused for not letting officers with attachment to the settlement movements rise past a certain rank.
Also worth mentioning the Bibi himself doesn't let the settler movement MK's in the war cabinet as the army refuses to co-operate with them. Of course I'm not trying to convince anyone the above is true, just an example of how something that will scream bias to us wont necessarily for an outsider. Hence bias is sunjective.
You're right, and there's no reason to believe that any of the owners of major platforms are anything other than pro-Israel based on their actions and how their algorithms seem to work.
I don't see it as infantilizing them to the extent that you're implying. Remember that Israel is the one with all the power here, by default that gives them more responsibility. How if they cannot even defend their own borders from settlers, for example? They don't even control their own water supply. Israelis/Jews have chosen poorly as well in the past, and arguably still do as we can see. Doesn't mean they don't deserve their own safe homeland too. Obviously it can't be a 1:1 comparison, but why would it be a false equivalency? If anything, Jews didn't have it nearly as bad under the British that the Palestinians do in the West Bank or Gaza.
It's a false equivalency to oct. 7 because the Jewish terror groups were by and far a small, borderline fringe groups that were strongly opposed by vast majority of Jews and the Jewish leadership in the mandate. Hamas had over 70% of votes in the Gaza election and are still widely supported in Gaza and the west bank. That's why there is no elections in the west bank for over a decade, they will win.

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