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Dental Dams for Palestine

3-5-2024 < Attack the System 43 353 words
 
Or the very strange pro-North Korea takes at Princeton. Or take the odd nativist signs spotted at George Washington’s campus, which read “students will leave when Israelis leave” (somehow I doubt it!) and “students will go back home when Israelis go back to Europe, US, etc. (their real homes).”

Or the seemingly right-wing effort to fund a massive kegger ($500,000 raised) for the flag-defending frat bros at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the wave of frat-bros-defending-the-flag coverage from across the country.


But it’s not all dental dams and Zyn pouches (bless the Gen Zs). Student journalists have played an important role in the coverage, restoring some faith that the kids do in fact know what they’re doing: “A student-run radio station broadcast live as police cleared a building taken by protesters on the Columbia University campus, while other student journalists were confined to dorms and threatened with arrests,” reports The Associated Press. On Dartmouth’s campus, several student journalists were arrested during the course of their coverage.


And on other campuses, some police departments have shown not a hungriness to enter, but rather restraint: “Penn asked the Philadelphia Police Department [PPD] to immediately help disband the College Green encampment—and the PPD declined to do so until Penn proves that the situation is more dangerous,” reports Daily Penn‘s news editor, Ben Binday.


Meanwhile in actual Gaza: A ceasefire agreement is still elusive, as neither Gaza nor Israel have had sufficient demands satisfied. But news broke that another hostage held by Hamas was found dead, 49-year-old Dror Or, making him the 38th hostage killed.


Turkey has stopped trading with Israel in an attempt to exert pressure on Israel to stop its military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Colombia is now severing diplomatic relations, too. A United Nations report was just released saying it would take 80 years to rebuild the homes destroyed over the course of Israel’s offensive. With some 370,000 homes damaged and 79,000 destroyed, and a building pace of around 1,000 per year (based on previous rates of building in the area), the amount of time needed to get the area back to a reasonable condition is quite stunning.


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