Will the Gaza campus protests work? | Ian Bremmer explains | GZERO World
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- College campuses nationwide have become protest hubs, echoing past movements demanding change. The core demand: divestment from Israel. Whether it's cutting ties with Israeli donors or businesses, students are risking penalties to be heard. Have the student protests worked?
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Have the student protests worked? College campuses nationwide have become protest hubs, echoing past movements demanding change. From Columbia to UCLA, students are pitching tents, occupying buildings, and clashing with police over Israel's actions in Gaza. The core demand: divestment from Israel. Whether it's cutting ties with Israeli donors or businesses, students are risking penalties to be heard, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.
This activism mirrors the 1968 protests at Columbia, which targeted US involvement in Vietnam. Then, as now, divestment was a central demand, albeit from different sources. Some progress has been made; Brown and Northwestern students have reached agreements with administrators. Worldwide, youth are voicing discontent over Gaza.
However, not all support these protests. Some lament another disrupted commencement, while Jewish students feel marginalized and threatened. Can these efforts change US policy? President Biden's recent remarks suggest otherwise, as does Congress' recent passing of $15 billion in military aid for Israel. But Biden needs Gen Z's support for reelection. They have leverage, and they know it.
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The kids are alright, (z)Ian.
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Hmmm - If the college protests against Israel's plausible GENOCIDE in Gaza were not effective Netenyahu would not be so upset about them and the MSM would not be almost universally condemning them as antisemitic and violent - which they are not.
To be fair the IDF is similar in motivation to the KKK
The '68 protests were about the draft. Today's protests are about... something else.
Wrong. I was a student protester in the 1960s-70s -- yet had a student deferment. The issue was US genocide in Vietnam, Cambodia etc. I have read the student demands re: the Gaza genocide and they are very clear about what they are trying to achieve: divestment of the university endowments for companies that support Israeli Apartheid.
@@mhgaffney The US was not causing a genocide in Vietnam or Cambodia. They stirred sh*t up for sure, but didn't commit genocide, just like israel isn't committing a genocide right now. 30k casualties out of 2M does not constitute a genocide.
I am from Cambodia by the way to I know a thing or two about genocides.
D*mbass
Yeah, bc why else the draft dodgers back then?
Sorry you didn’t bring up the Kent State killings by the National Guardsmen May ‘70.
The kids are showing us what they're made of.
Unlike the politicians and grifters like you, Ian.
Can we have a video on whether Georgian protests happening right now are peaceful, and hear from Georgians that are quite happy with the Pro Russian foreign agents law and feel the protests are undermining Georgian democracy?
I mean the Jewish Americans that feel threatened by protests which includes Jewish Americans are obviously using "threatened" quite liberally. Palestinian Americans have experienced actual violence and death here in the US. So if it's the kind of "feeling" threatened, and not actually being threatened, then we should hear from other sides of protests, like in Georgia.
Please consider interviewing Masha Gessen.
BDS #BDS
How much leverage do they have when the alternative is Trump in November?
They don’t have much leverage. They seem to think that trump won’t be worse for their cause when trump very much will be. But no matter what Biden does they won’t vote for him.
@@Vitobandito434nobody except a few fringe Trumpsters think Trump would be better for ending the slaughter in Gaza. The idealistic college students who form the majority of protestors certainly don’t think so.
Lots of leverage if Biden wants to win re election. It's Biden's responsibility to win re election, not us voters. If he wants to see Trump take his job in November, that's on him.
If Biden loses to the least popular person to run since Hilary Clinton, made the Democratic party will join the right side of history
Sometimes you need a good, strong fever ie Trump to flush out the infection. When/If Trump destroys what's left of the international order and US diplomatic power, the rest of the world will readjust and will never look to the US again for moral leadership. That's a good thing, as they've shown they're not worthy.
The kids will be vindicated and will be hailed as heroes, like you people always do.
Think of MLK or Susan B Anthony and the malignant system they had to stand up to.
Protests work. They just take a long time...
No, it won't work. The word you used is the right one...kids. They have very little impact long term. "The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
They're voting. And they'll remember. This is their "9.11".
And it'll change their entire outlook on the US for generations.
Same as 1989 Beijing riot, it is not a simple Gaza issue, rather a complicated economical Issue in the USA.
No.
No they don't.