Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Free Speech! Free Palestine! Free Cookies, too!
LOL Israel!
Summary argument: We're going to sort of do something symbolic, which is supposed to show how bad things are in Palestine, but since it's only symbolic, it doesn't actually show how bad things are, but people should take our word for it, it's really, really bad there.
Chris Cantor was the spokesman the DC spoke to.
The students stood on the outside of the corridor and yelled, “Bypass roads are a crime, Israel out of Palestine.”
That totally doesn't rhyme. Rhyme rhymes with crime, though. Anyway, technically speaking, since Israel is the only governmental authority in that region, what it does can't be a crime, because it makes the laws.
Compared to other rallies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the past, yesterday’s was relatively calm, without disturbances from other students.
What is this, an SJP press release? Yeah, the IACers can get into heated arguments, but if I recall correctly most of the big distrubances from Israel-Palestine protests don't come from 'other students' but from the pro-Palestine protesters themselves.
“We hold these rallies on campus because we as Americans do not know what occupation feels like,” [Noura Erakat] said. “We feel it is important to show people what it is like.”
Well, if that was your goal, you kind of failed miserably.
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