1) Is there any other country that you feel doesn’t have a right to exist? Literally, any other country in the world that you would describe as “illegal”?
2) You constantly accuse Israel of committing genocide. Is there any other country on the planet against which you make a similar claim? Are you aware of what Russia is doing in Ukraine, and do you know anything about what it did in Bucha? Are you aware of any how many Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular died in the Syrian civil war? Did you protest at all over what has been going on for years in Sudan and Yemen, or do you only get agitated when you can blame Jews?
3) You constantly repeat Hamas talking points, including/especially its claims regarding civilian casualties. Why do you accept its numbers but completely dismiss any numbers from Israel?
4) You screamed repeatedly that you wanted a “ceasefire now” (at least you did before you decided that getting rid of Israel immediately was the better choice). Are you aware that there was a ceasefire in effect until the morning of October 7th, and Hamas has broken every ceasefire agreement that was in place? Does that matter at all to you? Are you honest enough to admit that it’s really only Israel which you want to “cease firing”, and that you’re perfectly fine if Hamas continues to lob rocket after rocket at Israel, and that what happened on October 7th didn’t bother you at all (to the extent that you will admit that it even happened)?
5) What should happen to the remaining hostages that Hamas is holding, and has been holding for over six months now? Should Israel just forget about them?
6) What SHOULD Israel have done after October 7th? I would submit that no country on the planet would accept what happened that day without responding. Look at what the United States did after 9/11.
7) You keep referring to Israel as a “settler/colonial” project. Colony of which country/ies? Where do you think the Jewish people came from?
8 ) I’m giving you a magic wand: You can erase Israel from the map. Where are the approximately 8,000,000 Jews who live there going to go? Judging by your protests here in the west, I think that we can safely assume that you don’t want them where you live. So, where should they go?
9) You claim that the Jewish people are not actually from Israel and therefore, have no right to be there. You’re parading around streets/campuses in North America screaming just that. Are you Native American? If not, how did you get here? Are you prepared to immediately go back to the country/ies where your ancestors originated?
10) You claim to not hate Jews, and that’s it’s only “Zionists” and/or Israelis who you dislike, but your protests are full of signs comparing Jews to Nazis and singing the praises of Hamas, an organization which has called for Jews worldwide to be wiped out. How do you reconcile those positions?
11) Not long ago, many of you were out on the streets, protesting that we should believe women when they claimed that they were raped and assaulted, a position with which I agree entirely, BTW. Yet, when Israeli women make that claim, you shout it down and/or deny that it even happened. Admittedly, some of you will concede that it happened, but then you follow it up with a claim that it was “justified”. Why is it “justified” only when Israeli women are the victims?
All good questions
Thank you for giving voice to every single thing I have been thinking for the last 6 months.
The thought that these protesters want to give a "1968 flavor" to the DNC this summer is frightening. I believe these protesters are being groomed by outside influencers, as a way to further divide democrats and Americans in general.