"In recent weeks, student protests over the war in Gaza have generated an increasingly outraged debate, pitting people who are so outraged by the protestors’ rhetoric that they refuse to be outraged by the war against people who are so outraged by the war they refuse to be outraged by the protestors’ rhetoric. Much as voicing any criticism of Israel apparently makes you a Hamas supporter, suggesting that protests might be more effective with fewer actual Hamas supporters now makes you complicit in genocide. Walking by a pro-Palestine rally in Dupont Circle several months ago, the very first thing I heard was the chant 'We don’t want no two-state / We want ’48.' As a historian, I’m always glad to hear people shouting about history. But as someone who still thinks that two states represent the
least impossible of the
good solutions to the
current catastrophe, I was outraged to hear it rejected so emphatically for a more impossible, more problematic alternative. ..."
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