Since the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza has captivated the attention of the American public. As a result, interest in the conflict has quickly manifested into yet another theater in America’s greater culture war.
American views on the war in Gaza have become increasingly centered around issues of diversity here in our own country. A large contingent of protesters and Palestinian sympathizers see and even openly acknowledge that they are in fact fighting to dismantle Jewish “privilege” in America and the system that supports it.
When a campus protester at an American college dons a veil and holds up a “Free Hamas” sign, their intention is clear. It is to criticize not only the actions of the Israeli government but the larger system of “settler colonialism” and the Jewish community’s role in its supposed perpetuation.
Meanwhile, when a Jewish student rightly calls out a protester for being antisemitic, he becomes, in the eyes of the protester, a representative of a system that is unfairly and structurally pro-Jewish — and, in turn, pro-white — at its core.
Black left-wingers use the images of Jews as “white” and Palestinians as “dark” to compare America’s exploitation of blacks to Israel’s treatment of Gaza, which they regard as genocidal. Rapper SEB! exploited this comparison in his song FREE PALESTINE! — released in 2023 and played repeatedly on Yale University student commons.
F-ck Israel, Israel a b-tch / B-tch we out here mobbin’ on some Palestine sh-t / Free Palestine b-tch, Israel gon’ die
