"Three years ago, Erin Mullen arrived at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst exhausted by the pandemic and without any appetite for political demonstrations. Last month she sat in a holding cell in an Amherst jail with her hands cuffed behind her back, one of 57 students arrested while protesting the conflict in Gaza.

Mullen is white, her parents were raised Catholic and she grew up in an upper middle class Boston suburb. Her political awakening—along with those of tens of thousands of her generation now enrolled at college—is fueling a surge of campus unrest not seen since the Vietnam War.

A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has swept college campuses, leading to heightened tensions, counterprotests and, in some cases, violence. The conflict has also exposed a generational divide, with many older Americans surprised at the protests’ scope and intensity.

Mullen and other pro-Palestinian college demonstrators say their activism is rooted in a deeply held conviction that the world is divided between the oppressed and their oppressors.

That view frames the suffering of an array of populations, they say, including low-income families being evicted from their homes, Black and brown people who encounter brutal treatment by the police, migrants turned away from safe haven at the border and, in the current conflict, Palestinians struggling to wrest control of territory from the Israelis.

“Gaza is not a two-sided war,” said Mullen, who is 21. “What is happening is the resistance of the oppressed against their oppressor.”

The protesters’ sympathy for Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group, sometimes astonishes and rankles bystanders. Roughly half of Americans 18 to 24 years old think Hamas’s October attack was justified by grievances of the Palestinians, according to a Harvard Harris Poll. Just 9% of people aged 65 and older feel the same. "

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/israel-hamas-war-pro-palestinian-college-campus-35c19c7a?

ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Three years ago, Erin Mullen arrived at the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst exhausted by the pandemic and without any
> appetite for political demonstrations. Last month she sat in a holding
> cell in an Amherst jail with her hands cuffed behind her back, one of
> 57 students arrested while protesting the conflict in Gaza.
>
> Mullen is white, her parents were raised Catholic and she grew up in
> an upper middle class Boston suburb. Her political awakening—along
> with those of tens of thousands of her generation now enrolled at
> college—is fueling a surge of campus unrest not seen since the Vietnam
> War.
>
> A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has swept college campuses, leading
> to heightened tensions, counterprotests and, in some cases,
> violence. The conflict has also exposed a generational divide, with
> many older Americans surprised at the protests’ scope and intensity.
>
> Mullen and other pro-Palestinian college demonstrators say their
> activism is rooted in a deeply held conviction that the world is
> divided between the oppressed and their oppressors.
>
> That view frames the suffering of an array of populations, they say,
> including low-income families being evicted from their homes, Black
> and brown people who encounter brutal treatment by the police,
> migrants turned away from safe haven at the border and, in the current
> conflict, Palestinians struggling to wrest control of territory from
> the Israelis.
>
> “Gaza is not a two-sided war,” said Mullen, who is 21. “What is happening is the resistance of the oppressed against their oppressor.”
>
> The protesters’ sympathy for Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a
> terrorist group, sometimes astonishes and rankles bystanders. Roughly
> half of Americans 18 to 24 years old think Hamas’s October attack was
> justified by grievances of the Palestinians, according to a Harvard
> Harris Poll. Just 9% of people aged 65 and older feel the same. "
>
> https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/israel-hamas-war-pro-palestinian-college-campus-35c19c7a?

Who is oppressed/oppressor *in PRC* ? IMHO from PRC perspective it is
currently quite useful but (potentially) risky attitude.

--
A. Filip
| If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you have been
| doing, your doing was worthless. (Edwim Schrodinger)

On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5:08:42 PM UTC, A. Filip wrote:
> ltlee1 wrote:
> > "Three years ago, Erin Mullen arrived at the University of
> > Massachusetts, Amherst exhausted by the pandemic and without any
> > appetite for political demonstrations. Last month she sat in a holding
> > cell in an Amherst jail with her hands cuffed behind her back, one of
> > 57 students arrested while protesting the conflict in Gaza.
> >
> > Mullen is white, her parents were raised Catholic and she grew up in
> > an upper middle class Boston suburb. Her political awakening—along
> > with those of tens of thousands of her generation now enrolled at
> > college—is fueling a surge of campus unrest not seen since the Vietnam
> > War.
> >
> > A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has swept college campuses, leading
> > to heightened tensions, counterprotests and, in some cases,
> > violence. The conflict has also exposed a generational divide, with
> > many older Americans surprised at the protests’ scope and intensity.
> >
> > Mullen and other pro-Palestinian college demonstrators say their
> > activism is rooted in a deeply held conviction that the world is
> > divided between the oppressed and their oppressors.
> >
> > That view frames the suffering of an array of populations, they say,
> > including low-income families being evicted from their homes, Black
> > and brown people who encounter brutal treatment by the police,
> > migrants turned away from safe haven at the border and, in the current
> > conflict, Palestinians struggling to wrest control of territory from
> > the Israelis.
> >
> > “Gaza is not a two-sided war,” said Mullen, who is 21. “What is happening is the resistance of the oppressed against their oppressor.”
> >
> > The protesters’ sympathy for Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a
> > terrorist group, sometimes astonishes and rankles bystanders. Roughly
> > half of Americans 18 to 24 years old think Hamas’s October attack was
> > justified by grievances of the Palestinians, according to a Harvard
> > Harris Poll. Just 9% of people aged 65 and older feel the same. "
> >
> > https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/israel-hamas-war-pro-palestinian-college-campus-35c19c7a?
> Who is oppressed/oppressor *in PRC* ? IMHO from PRC perspective it is
> currently quite useful but (potentially) risky attitude.
>
> --
> A. Filip
> | If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you have been
> | doing, your doing was worthless. (Edwim Schrodinger)

Whatever you have on your mind, it is clear that young Americans like Erin Mullen were not protesting
or willingly going to jail for protesting against the CCP. Rather, they were protesting against Israeli
bombing and killing Palestinians enabled by long run US Middle East policy. They were protesting the
inhumanity of Israeli action. At the same time, they were also against US policy.

If one is to frame the issue like the New York Times, the same article could appear with titles like
"Young Americans are defying US democracy."