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        1. When student protests against the Vietnam War got serious momentum, liberal concern shifted to chants like "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh." Instead of focusing on how to end our military involvement in mass killing, they questioned whether protesters "went too far" with their words.
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        For white liberals who find this difficult to process as something other than a moral crisis, look back at how you handled Ukraine: whether you valorized "I don't need a ride, I need ammunition", whether you mourned the Resistance in Mariupol (despite Azov's
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      politics), whether you support the provision of defensive weapons to a people living under occupation and invasion, whether you think forced conscription "goes too far", and whether you believe an occupied people has the right to choose if they give up any territory.
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    A significant amount of the hyperventilating about "extreme" positions among Palestine solidarity activists involves stances that are routine in Ukraine solidarity: glorifying dead soldiers, saying "F you" to invaders, and celebratingq attacks on military targets.
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      Now one can choose a totally separate moral path forward, proposing purely nonviolent resistance, or suggesting that the path to victory lies through isolation of the Israeli state (that's BDS), an arms embargo (including by the USA), or the enforcement of international law.
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        If you're a liberal troubled by the genocidal assault on Palestine and also violent chants, by all means advocate and struggle for one of these liberal solutions. Prove to radicalizing students that International Law isn't useless paper.
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          But understand that it is the US government's rejection of International Law, of the ICJ, of the Leahy Law, of the UN HRC's call for an arms embargo, of an American majority support for a ceasefire that is the real obstacle to peace.
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            To reiterate, the vast majority of campus activism (and chants) supports demands that liberals could support. A share consists of essentially liberal chants (“… Palestine will be free") unfairly demonized as antisemitic. An even smaller share treats violent resistance as okay.
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              Pro-Israel Americans are busily calling all three of the above "antisemitic" and threatening to Jews on campus. There's an even smaller bit of speech actually targeting Jews, which pro-Palestine activists are publicly rejecting.
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