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“They’re not supporters of Hamas,” he says. “They’re supporters of their own stupid ideas. They believe that Hamas is the oppressed, that the oppressed have the right to resist, and that those who are safe – for the most part white kids like themselves – have no right to tell the oppressed what to do.”

“Trust me,” he says, “I lived this, and friends of mine died because of this stupidity.”

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 “[T]hey’re playing into the hands of the right wing in this country. And what terrifies me is that this could end up bringing [Donald] Trump back into power.”

Mark Rudd speaks.

Margaret Soltan, May 10, 2024 4:12PM
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2 Responses to ““They’re not supporters of Hamas,” he says. “They’re supporters of their own stupid ideas. They believe that Hamas is the oppressed, that the oppressed have the right to resist, and that those who are safe – for the most part white kids like themselves – have no right to tell the oppressed what to do.””

  1. Dmitry Says:
    May 11th, 2024 at 1:44PM

    Any sympathy for Iraqi or Afghan civilians under disproportionate US savagery was equated to supporting ISIS. Now any sympathy for Gazan civilians is supporting Hamas and of course, anti-semitic.

    Donald Trump will return to power because the American courts and electorate have collapsed not because some university students are repulsed by what they’re seeing.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    May 13th, 2024 at 6:38AM

    Dmitry: I don’t think Trump will win; nor do I think Americans lump all suffering people in various regions of the world with terrorists. Rudd’s point is different: To the extent that violence and hate DO emerge from the protests, and to the extent that the savagery of Hamas is excused, the cause undermines itself.

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