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Islamic University of Gaza's Library to remain closed possibly forever due to damage from Israeli bombs. 🖕
I hate this oft repeated retort. No one here is minimizing the suffering of the people of Gaza. But trashing a library on the other side of the planet is not going to stop the IDF from raining down bombs.
The protests on American university campuses are bringing Gazans hope. They are tired of likes and shares on their videos of the atrocities they are experiencing; sternly worded letters to their elected leaders, most whom are complicit, does absolutely nothing. The fact that young people half a world away are making headlines by being willing to take a stand and force people in power to decide whether or not to denounce Israeli occupation gives Gazans something to hold on to in a land where hope...like food, water, and medicine...is in short supply.
If trashing a library is what it takes to give them that hope, then so be it. It's only property. If people are more upset about property damage than they are the continued genocide of indigenous people by occupiers funded by their own tax dollars, then they are morally bankrupt.
Except he didn't say anything of the sort. He said protests gave him hope. At no point did protests need to damage the library. There have been ongoing protests that have been garnering attention. Hell, they could have had a building sit in, sure, why not. Classic protest tactic. They didn't need to damage the fire alarm system or spray paint every surface within reach to do it.
So if protesters randomly burnt down your housing, would you say the same thing? The same logic should hold, no? It's just property.
Why are you still talking to me, man? This is wasted energy. If you are so indignant about the opinion of one person on the internet that you'd waste the valuable time you could be spending speaking up on behalf of genocide victims, then your priorities are seriously fucking out of whack. I don't care about your opinion.
If you are more upset about property damage than you are the continued genocide of indigenous people by occupiers funded by your own tax dollars, then you, specifically, are morally bankrupt.