Some Jewish students don't feel safe on campus

That’s understandable. Many university campuses are witnessing major protests against the live-streamed genocide ongoing in Gaza. This is the biggest wave of protests to hit elite universities since the Vietnam war era. You can’t very well speak out against this genocide without criticizing Israel. After all, it’s the IDF, at the behest of the government of Israel, carrying out the genocide. That government proclaims Israel as an exclusively Jewish state. It claims to act on behalf of all Jews everywhere. Some people object to the term “genocide.” Would you prefer “crimes against humanity?” How about “premeditated mass murder?” Doesn’t really make you feel any better, does it? While there are some Jewish students who don’t feel safe on campus, there are many others who are shocked, ashamed, and outraged at what the Netanyahu government is doing in their name. That’s why Jewish students are heavily over-represented among the leadership of the very protest camps that make some other Jewish students feel unsafe. The Jewish students who don’t feel safe were given the spotlight on Parliament Hill today. Looks to me like the Jewish students who don’t feel safe are being organized and coached by Chabad House and Hillel. These messianic NGOs, for lack of a better label, are all in with the settler ideology of Jewish supremacy that has brought Israel to the abyss. Their ideological brethren in the Holy Land are the people blocking aid trucks from getting into Gaza today, where children are starving as a result of the genocide that Netanyahu and Gallant announced in advance last October. So, who are you going to support? The Jewish students who don’t feel safe on campus? Or the Jewish students appalled and disgusted by what the government of Netanyahu and his extremist religious fanatic coalition partners are doing in Gaza?