The courage of the students should prompt us all to raise awareness of the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people
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For so long, the outside world has heard about the importance of the First Amendment in US society. Yet we have heard more about debates around the First Amendment over the past week than the actual message that the amendment was designed to protect. Those who are not angered are asleep to those human principles that are the cornerstones of our very existence. The strong sedatives of power, prejudice and belief that “a people” have a divine right to existence on this planet have proved so strong that we are in a chasm of deep spiritual poverty. We are asleep while the humanity around us has crumbled. The students are angry.
Biden, in his White House address in response to the student protests, said: “Dissent is essential for democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder.” This irrationality that is rationalised and accepted is achieved through the persistence of media-driven narratives based on threatening rhetoric and intimidation. Hollywood’s narrative of the obvious villain has changed from Nazis and Russians to the “praying, devoted Muslim terrorist”. This goes with the West’s insistence that Muslims are necessarily anti-female.
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