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I don't 'care more about the use of this statement than the ongoing genocide' but everybody is already protesting the genocide and it is not a controversial issue here so there's nothing to say. But as a Jewish person obviously seeing that somebody wants October 7 to happen 1000 times is an obviously chilling statement that hits close to home, and to see it brushed off as nothing does make me look at the college protests differently. Ironically the responses are sometimes even worse, because when it's one person you say "well they don't represent the movement", then you come here and instead of people agreeing and condemning those people they just brush it off? Even make a point of saying the same phrases that you talked about why Jewish people have concerns with. For the record, the pro-Israeli counter protestors getting violent do not represent me and the people that want to stop Israel have a right to protest. I think there are very valid reasons to protest Israel, and I don't think protesting Israel makes you anti-semitic (and I have argued such to my family many times, defending the protests). But I do think that people are too comfortable with anti-semitic sentiment and stoking the fires in ways that make me upset. People would feel the same way about anti-Muslim sentiment but when it's concerns of anti-semitism somehow people don't care. And then they defend it because of the actions of Israel's government? Just as there are innocent Palestinians there are innocent Israelis, and of course Jews world-wide that have nothing to do with any of this.

The fact people continually brush it off is scary. Like because of Israel's actions, anything is ok.