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"Nah - it's still very much a small, elite phenomenon. Even among college students, you'll notice that only a handful of schools had material protests - and then, highly concentrated among elite selective schools. You didn't see folks skipping classes to live in tents at community colleges, for example. It was mainly a phenomenon at a very limited number of elite institutions: elite colleges, literary fora and magazines, and some of the most online of progressive/liberal communities."
You are of course correct on this, but I also want to prevent Dope from doing his usual dishonest slight of hand by conflating the college campus protests with antisemitism.
They were not necessarily the same. Sure there were some small subset of protestors who were antisemitic. No doubt, however most of the people there were protesting the actions of Israel in its war in Gaza against Hamas. That isn't antisemitic. Protesting the dropping of a 500 lb. bomb into the middle of a refugee camp (refugees Israel was at least partly responsible for help creating) in order to kill a couple of Hamas fighters is not antisemitic.
Dope has a long history of being dishonest and pretending that any criticism of Irael's actions is automatically antisemitic.
