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[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It has to do with the reason she's being fired, which is (predictably) not covered in the NYT article.

Within hours of the October 7th rebellion, 30 separate student groups issued a statement that was critical of Israel's apartheid system. Gay did not immediately have the leaders of these groups expelled, and instead issued a bunch of moderate statements that could be summed up as "violence bad", which outraged Zionists. She tried rewriting the statements several times but the Zionists could already taste blood, and they finally found an excuse good enough to print in the paper of record.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago
[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Yes, the internationally recognized human right to rebel.

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

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