VT Foreign Policy
The Biden administration is continuing to use law enforcement agencies in dragging-out pro-ceasefire demonstrators from the US campuses, although manhandled protestors possibly are not getting shocked or offended at such rudeness despite the fact, authorities are showing cruel authoritarian “yellow-eyed” tactics under numerous doubtful pretexts. This is not the first time when Americans and Europeans are denied rights to freedom of expression. We have seen how workers were brutally beaten in France when they began demonstrating against Emmanuel Macron’s rowdy decisions. We also have seen banning protests in campuses during the COVID fiasco. And now we are seeing Western political elite’s crackdown on protesters – from North America to Europe, demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It seems, Western populace now do not have any rights. No freedom of press. No freedom of expression. No rule of law. Why? Because, America has already turned into a Banana Republic while its European disciples are following the same footsteps.
Commenting on such a situation, columnist and analyst Rachel Marsden wrote, “To that end, the US Congress has just passed a new bill broadening the definition of anti-Semitism on university campuses to include “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity”. How about another law banning criticism of Iran because it’s a collective of Muslims? Or of Russia because it’s a collective of Orthodox Christians? Or of China because it’s a collective of Buddhists? Can’t have that, because it would enable the state in question to act with carte blanche impunity by scaring critics into silence.
“Not only is the establishment using force to crack down on protesters, but it’s now formally legislating against dissent, even though 55% of Americans are against Israel’s actions in Gaza, according to a Gallup poll from March. Not even the Israeli establishment is going that far to quash dissent when, just a few days ago, thousands of Israelis rallied around the country in opposition to the government’s handling of the crisis and in favor of a ceasefire. So are they just a bunch of anti-Semites, too?
“The Western establishment’s constant reductio ad absurdum, conflating pro-ceasefire and anti-genocide activism with anti-Semitism, is exactly the kind of thing that the establishment has been doing for years to ram through its agenda. Don’t like blowing cash on Ukraine? Then you’re doing the Kremlin’s bidding. Opposed to carbon taxes? You’re a science denier. Didn’t buy the ever-changing COVID narrative? You’re a threat to society”.
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