ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:

"Three years ago, Erin Mullen arrived at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst exhausted by the pandemic and without any
appetite for political demonstrations. Last month she sat in a holding
cell in an Amherst jail with her hands cuffed behind her back, one of
57 students arrested while protesting the conflict in Gaza.

Mullen is white, her parents were raised Catholic and she grew up in
an upper middle class Boston suburb. Her political awakening—along
with those of tens of thousands of her generation now enrolled at college—is fueling a surge of campus unrest not seen since the Vietnam
War.

A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has swept college campuses, leading
to heightened tensions, counterprotests and, in some cases,
violence. The conflict has also exposed a generational divide, with
many older Americans surprised at the protests’ scope and intensity.

Mullen and other pro-Palestinian college demonstrators say their
activism is rooted in a deeply held conviction that the world is
divided between the oppressed and their oppressors.

That view frames the suffering of an array of populations, they say, including low-income families being evicted from their homes, Black
and brown people who encounter brutal treatment by the police,
migrants turned away from safe haven at the border and, in the current conflict, Palestinians struggling to wrest control of territory from
the Israelis.

“Gaza is not a two-sided war,” said Mullen, who is 21. “What is happening is the resistance of the oppressed against their oppressor.”

The protesters’ sympathy for Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a
terrorist group, sometimes astonishes and rankles bystanders. Roughly
half of Americans 18 to 24 years old think Hamas’s October attack was justified by grievances of the Palestinians, according to a Harvard
Harris Poll. Just 9% of people aged 65 and older feel the same. "

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/israel-hamas-war-pro-palestinian-college-campus-35c19c7a?

Who is oppressed/oppressor *in PRC* ? IMHO from PRC perspective it is currently quite useful but (potentially) risky attitude.

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| doing, your doing was worthless. (Edwim Schrodinger)

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