This movement may have started as organic, but outside influences have moved in and I suspect financing.
Yeah. Now I'm pissed.
Wanting @Render to confirm.
The woman identified at Columbia is Nahla Al-Arian, wife of Sami Al-Arian.
Federal charging document of Sami Al-Arian, arrested for funding Palestinian Jihad, one of the terrorist org that captured and killed Israelis on Oct 7.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/April/06_crm_221.html
News 18 article - https://www.news18.com/world/wife-of-us-convicted-terrorist-was-seen-at-columbia-encampment-before-nypd-police-raid-8874147.html
@Render These college students have every right to protest and exercise their 1A.
But these influencers... they are not there to promote compromise or peace. And they are influencing our youth.
@Maude @Render
I believe that any movement is never 'pure' in intent.
I believe that the better metric is: Is it sufficiently pure in its intent to achieve a moral outcome....
AND
Are the means of achieving it ethical.
Protests movements are usually lead by people influenced more by their internal, emotional issues than by their cause.
@jurban
As any protest should be.
A 'pure intent" is what gave us this republic.
I have been reading news reports from local NY news and it appears, what began as 'pure' and organic, swiftly changed when the university allowed media on campus... ie, allowing non-students to join the emcampment.
I totally support any movement that promotes peace and protection of children, here or abroad.
@Render