Young people across America are staging protests on their campuses against US support for Israel’s unjust war against Palestinians
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The debate about Palestine has divided Americans for a long time given that it is the taxpayer who bears the burden of this conflict when the government sends billions of dollars in military aid to Israel. Just a few days ago Congress passed a bill to send $26 billion to Israel amid its war in Gaza.
But there is a difference between the struggles of yesteryear and today. The US had military conscription and young people were drafted into the armed forces to serve in Vietnam. Many young people did not want to go to war, nor had any desire to serve in the military. They were sent off to fight, be injured and traumatised or die in an unnecessary war. When Muhammad Ali and others stood up against the draft, the young people of America stood with them.
As Chile’s Salvador Allende once said, “To be young and not a revolutionary is a biological contradiction.” It is a duty for these young people to stand up against what they believe to be unjust, and they should never be punished for doing that.
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