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Although they only had to come from across town, they started arriving on Sunday. By mid-Monday, a couple of dozen people — many of them wearing the distinctly patterned black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh, others the masks that have become symbolic of the Gaza protests sweeping North American university campuses — had gathered in the Dalhousie University quad to call for the liberation of Palestine.
A student flicks a basketball as the head for the steps of the Henry Hicks administration building near an encampment in support of Palestinians at Dalhousie University. - Tim Krochak On Monday, a spokesperson for a group of Jewish professors at Nova Scotia universities issued a news release saying that “disagreement and debate over contentious political issues is a mainstay of campus life” and hoping that no one would call for the protesters to be cleared out.
The youngsters of today manning and womaning the ramparts — telling the world that Black and LGBTQ2+ lives matter, that economic and social inequality is a sin, climate change threatens us all, and that it is our duty as human beings to care about events even when far away — make me feel craven and lazy.
She told me that so many of the young people she knows allied to the Palestinian cause “are demonstrating an old school dedication to a cause that is grounded in counterculture.” Then there is the threat of climate change and all the economic conditions — soaring prices, rising homelessness — which “make it really hard to lead your day-to-day life,” along with the isolation of the pandemic, which dramatically reduced human contact for young people.
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