Why protest against Israel in American universities; Look at the cruelty!

International Group Tasnim News- Reports of the arrest of more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters last week in Columbia University and at least 45 people are talking on Monday, April 22 at Yale University. According to Connecticut State Police, where Yale University is located, these people were arrested after university police issued an order to stop protests in support of Palestine.

Expansion of walkouts, protests and sit-ins

Connecticut police have announced that after 45 people were arrested at Yale University, more than 200 people have returned to the protest site. and blocked an intersection. Connecticut police have announced that they have no plans to stop the nonviolent protests, but Columbia University closed all in-person classes on Monday to maintain “peace” at the university. Emerson College in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in solidarity with the protesting students at Columbia University. Some of the most prestigious American universities have closed face-to-face classes to reduce tensions and held them virtually.

In another development in this field, the American Pen Association awards ceremony It was canceled because dozens of writers and nominees for this association’s awards withdrew from participating in protesting the Gaza war. This annual ceremony was supposed to be held on April 29. Among the 10 authors who were nominated for the Book Award of the American Pen Association, 9 of them withdrew from this event due to the association’s lack of support for Palestinian writers.

A number of anti-war writers such as Michelle Alexander and Last month, Naomi Klein wrote in a statement referring to Israel’s successive attacks on Gaza that the American Pen Association has “betrayed” its commitment to peace and equality for all, and freedom and security for writers.

The vulgarity of evil and the call of nature

After the so-called “Storm of Al-Aqsa” operation on October 7 and the beginning of the Gaza war, which The occurrence of various humanitarian disasters against the Palestinians has led to the rise of support for the Palestinian cause in many American universities. The occurrence of this incident in a country whose government has been the main supporter of Israel’s crimes in Gaza is a very significant issue that needs to be analyzed.

From one point of view, these demonstrations can be seen as a sign that resistance against the oppression of a It is natural, and even in societies that have been exposed to widespread propaganda for the “vulgarity of evil”, the natural calls are not completely extinguished, and even if it fades at some point, it will eventually come to the fore.

In social sciences and psychology, there is a category called “Internalization of Oppression”, which mentions submission to exploitation and coercion as a complication and unnatural event. The internalization of oppression is actually a complication in which a party (individual, society, group or country) who has been subjected to injustice, discrimination, bullying and in general oppression by another gradually distances himself from his humanity and the situation he is in. He considers it not the result of another’s aggression, but the natural result of his own inherent inferiority and the oppressor’s superior position.

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Don’t turn a blind eye to cruelty!

A person or society suffering from such a condition believes He loses the principle of social justice and the equal status of human beings, and instead of resisting the coercive behavior of the oppressor, he makes him a superior and sublime position in his mind, finally, he identifies with him and incorporates his values ​​into his own identity and personality to such an extent that It loses the innate and innate sensitivity to feeling unpleasant about being oppressed and the need to stand up against it.

“Thomas Hill”, a professor of political philosophy at the University of North Carolina, in an article to explain the concrete manifestations of this condition, gives an example of the behaviors of a hypothetical black person in American society: “Considering a black person who is very different from others Let me call him Uncle Tom. He always withdraws himself in favor of the whites; He doesn’t complain if a less qualified white man takes over his job; He welcomes with open arms the advantages that the all-white government assigns him, and the thought of protesting that it is not enough does not even occur to him. His behavior towards the whites is full of submissiveness and he looks down on the blacks… Also consider that these behaviors of his are not a game, that is, he is not a cunning and conservative calculator who knows how to make the best out of the worst lot and make fun of his masters behind their backs. He accepts without question that blacks are inferior to whites and that they are less useful to society than whites….He does not feel that he is entitled to anything better than this state of affairs.”

When sensitivity to Cruelty to oneself has disappeared, sensitivity to cruelty to others will inevitably disappear as well. This is a program that many American governments have been trying to institutionalize in the minds of the public regarding the Israel-Palestine issue with different policies, including in the form of different public diplomacy programs. exposed to everyone’s eyes, which has destroyed all those efforts to “vulgarize evil” and “internalize oppression”. are made up of women and children. Tens of thousands of people have been injured or missing in this war. In addition, in this war, Israel has used starvation and siege as a weapon against the people of Gaza and has targeted aid convoys. In addition, Israel has destroyed more than two-thirds of the infrastructure and residential units in Gaza during the Gaza war. During this time, hospitals and medical staff have been exposed to all kinds of Zionist crimes, the most recent of which was the destruction of mass graves in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. The incident that was revealed shortly after the revelation of the Zionist crimes in al-Shifa Hospital and the massacre of civilians.

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