{"id":47517,"date":"2024-05-08T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=47517"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:45:29","slug":"unfurling-love-from-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/08\/unfurling-love-from-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfurling Love from the Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it \u201cHind\u2019s Hall,\u201d dropping a large banner out the windows above the building\u2019s entrance. This was a hall famously occupied<\/a> by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States. The students are risking suspension and expulsion, and a very real blacklist has already been generated against them, with Congress joining in to define<\/a> criticism of genocide as a form of antisemitism that state universities and state-linked employers will not be allowed to tolerate.<\/p>\n

I believe their love for Hind Rajab<\/a> guides the movement so desperately needed to resist militarism. Hind was six years old when Israel used U.S.-supplied weapons to kill her.<\/p>\n

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If our civilization survives a looming ecological collapse that is helping to drive catastrophic nuclear brinkmanship, I hope future generations of students will study the \u201cHind\u2019s Hall\u201d occupation in the way that students of the civil rights movement have studied the Edmund Pettus Bridge<\/a> and the story of Emmett Till<\/a>. Hind\u2019s story is tragically emblematic. Her cruel murder has befallen many thousands of children throughout the decades of Israel\u2019s fight to maintain apartheid. Just in our young century, from September 2000 to September 2023, Israel\u2019s B\u2019tselem organization reports<\/a> that 2,309 Palestinian minors were killed by Israelis and some 145 Israeli minors were killed by Palestinians, with these numbers excluding Palestinian children dead from deliberate immiseration via blockade or traumatized as hostages in prisons. We hear reports that thirty-eight Israeli children and some 14,000 Palestinian children have been murdered since October 7, deaths which can all be laid on the doorstep of the ethnostate project so lethally determined to keep one ethnicity in undemocratic governance.<\/p>\n