The gist of Chait’s piece is that most people have been arguing about the political expediency of anti-Zionist protests, both the ones that started last year on college campuses and the ones happening now in Chicago. Sure, some Democrats will say, we support Palestinians but now is not the time to split the party. There is too much at stake.
But Chait sidesteps all of that and goes to the core of the real argument. Are the protesters on the right side of history as they claim or are they just riding a wave of publicly acceptable hate (acceptable on the left). Chait believes it’s the latter.
The demonstrators do have a publicly articulated worldview….
SAFE, like other branches of SJP, takes an eliminationist posture toward Israel. It has employed violent rhetoric preceding Israel’s operation in Gaza. A SAFE rally in January 2023 featured calls of “intifada revolution,”…
