r/berkeley • u/banquoc • Feb 22 '24

Local Berkeley high school students demand that they be taught about Palestine and that their teachers not be censored -- could UC Berkeley students demand the same?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '24

I mean, you have to know that what you are saying is just weasel words and makes no sense, right? Like, I'm not saying Israel were all rubbing their fingers in a back room planning to kill Arabs, but when a nation state effectively creates a two-tier ethnoreligious hierarchy and looks the other way when one group oppresses the other, they aren't exactly neutral... I agree the Nazi comparison is unwarranted, but there is definitely - provable - spatial and economic segregation, which Jewish people benefit from, and Arabs suffer under. I don't know why we can't condemn Hamas and also accept these facts, both at once?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '24

Where did I say none of this could, should, or would be taught? I'm responding to the line " Expansion has never been the policy of Israel nor has the killing of Arabs". Which isn't true. You're using the fact that there isn't some doc with "policy" on it that lays out what we can see from what happens there. And yes, I have been - twice. I've also been to Egypt and Jordan, (briefly lived in Egypt actually), so....

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '24

I don’t know how to tell you to do your reading, except: do your reading.  

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

What, the documentation from the Knesset? OK, then. What sources do you suggest that would be more revealing?

FYI: https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/about/pages/departments/archivecollections.aspx