I must offer a retort to the cartoon published on May 3, and Froma Harrop’s dishonest column the same day smearing those who are protesting the genocide in Gaza, supported by the United States.
In her column (“Protests, privilege and hypocrisy,” The Columbian), Harrop not only ignores the fact that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, but also that students who have spoken out indeed have been harassed, denied jobs and worse, and nobody deserves that treatment for speaking out against genocide. No one.
Harrop also falsely claims that Israel is being “singled out,” when in fact many, if not most, people who oppose the Gaza genocide also oppose the treatment of Ukrainians, of Uighurs in China, of Rohingyas in Myanmar, etc. She does this because the “red herring fallacy” is all she has to distract from the truth. And of course Harrop ignores the original crimes against humanity that created Israel, namely the ethnic cleansing of large areas of Palestine and the slaughter of Palestinians.
As for the cartoon, it is offensive indeed to ridicule those who are protesting peacefully the Gaza genocide; many of the protesters are themselves Jewish.
