"Interesting that you'd find Harvard exonerating their own president persuasive. A bit like Hamas exonerating their 7/10 invaders of rape - oh wait, you fell for that as well."

Accuse others of what you're doing.

I saw the IDF gave permission for its troops to rape the Palestinian women though, that's fine.
Jewish men have urges you know.

Why don't you support some more made up stories.
Maybe next time say 100 beheaded babies.

I wish this whole conversation about Jews and anti-Semitism in American universities, would not occur on a discussion like here that is dedicated to Israel and Hamas.

Whether you support or oppose Israel, whether you love or hate the Jews, this linking between Israel and Jews in the world's psyche hurts both Israel and the Jews, unnecessarily causing Israel to suffer from classic Jew-hatred and Jews worldwide to suffer from Muslim Israel-hatred.

Why can't Israel be thought of like any other country?
Why is the world making such unrealistically high expectations of Israel which it does not expect from anyone else?
Why can't Israelis be thought of just as normal humans, rather than as "Jews"?

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Dear Critic,

«I saw the IDF gave permission for its troops to rape the Palestinian women»

Oh, so you have just been in Israel or Gaza?
Perhaps you are still there?
You never told us!

How can one possibly see the IDF all the way from Australia?
... except in a dream!

How easy some here are dismissive of innocent human lives, a few thousand dead women and children in Gaze does not seem to faze them. True we do not know the actual number, but what we do know is, it runs into the thousands, and that's undeniable. For propaganda purposes both sides lie, and create falsehoods. 90% of the world has demanded a ceasefire in Gaza for humanitarian reasons. Even the United States, a staunch ally of Israel has grave concerns with the tactics being employed in this war.

"I saw the IDF gave permission for its troops to rape the Palestinian women"

Rubbish.

The ongoing explosion in public activism both in the
United States and the world for a ceasefire in Gaza
and for equal rights for both Israelis and Palestinians
shows the eroding of traditional pro-Israel
propaganda.

People across the globe are recognizing the Palestinian
suffering and their battle for national rights. The rising
of public support for Palestinian rights reflects Israel's
harsh, often criminal policies which are now visible for
the whole world to see every day. - including the brutality
in Gaza.

Calls for justice are becoming stronger. Diversionary
propaganda is of course mounting but it is failing
because the pain, cruelty, and criminality of the
settler-colonial apartheid grab - are coming up against
the activism of decent human beings everywhere who
want a better world.

People will continue to march in the streets, as they have
always done for social justice, and liberty
-to fix the world's weaknesses and right its wrongs.

"How easy some here are dismissive of innocent human lives, a few thousand dead women and children in Gaze does not seem to faze them. "

Soapbox,

You utterly misunderstand the thinking here. Its not that the lives of the Gazan civilians don't matter, its that there are other issues that counter-weight those deaths. In the same way as the lives of the Jews matter less to you than the victory of the Palestinians, the pro-Israel thinking is that the ultimate defeat and destruction of Hamas matters more than the lives lost.

Both sides have goals that they see as paramount and that the lives of so-called innocents are superseded by those goals. Those calling for an immediate ceasefire on terms favourable to Hamas do so on the basis that the victory of Hamas is paramount. Ensuring that more Jewish lives aren't lost to the terrorist regime matters less to them than Hamas's victory.

If those calling for a ceasefire were sincere in their aims of saving lives, they'd be calling for Hamas to accede to the Egyptian proposal ie Hamas to step down from power and dissolve its terrorist regime. That they don't back that idea shows that their call for a ceasefire is less about saving lives and more about saving Hamas.

People like yourself call for a ceasefire that leaves Hamas in place to perpetrate further 7/10 attacks, which they've promised to do, because saving Hamas is more important to you than saving lives. But you just won't acknowledge that.