Marta García Eller: “The strange thing is not that there are student camps, but that there are no longer any protesters in the face of this humanitarian disaster”

Hundreds of students are camping on various university campuses in support of Palestine. If the camping trip is to stop bombings against innocent civilians, if it is to condemn humanitarian disaster in gazaIf it is to call on Israel to stop indiscriminately killing civilians and to protest that Netanyahu has ignored all international warnings to stop attacks and allow humanitarian aid to enter, if it is to condemn it. Is Using hunger as a weapon of war is against international law, So the students who are starting to camp out in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona and Pamplona, ​​what they are asking for, as before, in the United States and across Europe, is the same thing as EU High Representative Josep Borrell.

There would be reasons to question whether camping is organized in the university premises at the time of examinations. But It is most careless to accuse the youth protesting in favor of the Palestinian people of being in favor of Hamas. Just as one cannot condemn the horror of Hamas’ initial attack and condemn that the Israeli response has been so extreme, destroying entire cities, that sooner or later, as Borrell says, international justice This issue has to be ruled upon.

It is true that Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel is a democratic state. yes, but there is also Thousands of non-terrorist children are dying in these attacks. Is that a valid defense? Netanyahu is in his government Extremist ministers like Itamar Ben Gvir, convinced that it is God who forbids the ceasefire. it Convicted of racism and supporting a terrorist group. In 2015, shortly after the murder of a Palestinian family in the West Bank, he was filmed at a wedding stabbing a photo of a small child who died during the attack. And now he is the Minister of National Security in the Netanyahu government. Not all Palestinians are terrorists and not all Israelis are democrats.

Moral?

isn’t that funny student campBut there are no protesters now in the face of this humanitarian disaster.