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What began as a reaction on the campuses of elite universities in the United States and Europe to the atrocities in Palestine continues to spread throughout the world, deepening the fractures within the academic and political leadership, and calling into question the silence, the half-truths and the lies about what is happening in the so-called Middle East and which has repercussions in many places.
The magnitude of the university reaction has taken by surprise the large networks that control news traffic and public opinion has been shaken by the brutality of the police repression against students, teachers and workers imprisoned and attacked for the mere fact of demonstrating. against the delivery of money and weapons to a State that is deaf to the planetary repudiation, and that refuses to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to exist and have their own State, as has been mandated by the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization.
As in the sixties and seventies, when the mobilization against the genocide of the Vietnamese people touched the hearts of many young people, now thousands of university students are mobilizing to stop the extermination in the Gaza Strip, demanding a cessation of hostilities and resuming the path of peaceful coexistence that dates back to ancient times, as Silvana Rabinovich, an academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, says, allowed Arab, Jewish and Christian peoples, and many other cultures and religions, to flourish together in a vast region of the world. that goes from the Mediterranean to the ends of India and Eurasia. Zionism is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitism is a European fabrication that distorted that reality, says Professor Rabinovich.
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