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It's quite insane that protesting against the actions of a foreign government has more consequences than protesting against the American government.

The current administration is throwing everything it (theoretically) stands for (1st Amendment, America-first, etc) for another country.

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This is impossible to discuss accurately without politics and religion - the GOP relies heavily on fundamentalist Christian votes, there is a roughly 200 year old interpretation of Revelations in the Old Testament that posits that the state of Israel must exist so Satan can destroy it in the battle of Armageddon before Jesus comes back a second time to save Christians. This is why the GOP is so gung ho for Israel at any cost.

The evangelical angle certainly applies to a subset of the republicans, but not all of them.

The difficult and uncomfortable truth is that ardent supporters of Israel wield immense power and influence, and they are able to significantly damage the careers of politicians that do not align with their interests.

The fact that many repugnant racists, antisemites, and holocaust deniers make a comically exaggerated conspiracy theory out of this core truth makes it impossible to discuss it rationally.

I'm bit 'no true Scotsman' with this but I think it would be more precise to talk specifically about American Evangelicals instead of just Christians. Because this is not normal Christian thing and, comparing to Catholics, American Evangelicals are niche.

No, but attacking students, physically preventing them from attending classes and screaming death threats based on their religion has tremendous implications. First stop all the funding (not only NIH, but prevent Qatar from funding universities) and then kick out those who are on student visas (or better send to jails in El-Salvador) and send to jail the citizens.

Insane comment. Send somebody to foreign slave prison because they said mean things? Meanwhile you don’t mention Columbia professors who set up secret chat groups to dox and threaten pro-Palestine students .

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