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Why do all those US universities have dealings with Israel? (self.outoftheloop)

submitted 7 months ago by marcos to c/outoftheloop

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All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it?

Is there some educational or research resource they get?

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[–] marcos 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Well, if the students are protesting that, the media is doing a really bad work on covering it.

I can understand protesting against ties with the defense industry, as well as I can understand wanting to maintain those. And I imagine this one is not unanimous between the students. And you are right, that this explains the police reaction much better than what is being reported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Oh that is by design my friend. The media will often obfuscate the protesters’ true aims, instead focusing on a very, very small number of “agitators” (either real or imagined) to try and delegitimize them to the public. They want people to think “Oh those crazy, privileged, liberal college students don’t know what they’re doing”.

It is all one giant, well oiled machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

the media is doing a really bad work on covering it.

Yep, that's pretty much by design. Most large media companies rely on these same companies (or parents/subsidiaries) for the bulk of their advertising revenue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well, if the students are protesting that, the media is doing a really bad work on covering it.

Now keep that at the top of your mind every time you see a major story and I do mean every time. The media, ALL of it, absolutely positively 100% does this day in and day out on a very wide variety of issues.