This is your opinion and no matter how wrong I think your opinion is, I will fight to protect your right to say it
Same thing with the students it’s their opinion. This should be a free and open society where people can share their opinions no matter how wrong we think it is.
Inciting people to violence, murder and hatred is not an opinion. There is a fine line and some protestors cross it. Hitler and Goebbels used the same technique to incite Germans to turn on the Jews and to gain support for his war.
We have anti Israel protests in Australia. If they are peaceful, fine. They are not. And if pro Israel demonstrations take place, the pro Palestinians get violent. Jews have been forced to move on from simply enjoying a coffee in a restaurant because the cops fear Palestinians. Victim blaming is all too common. The courts ruled against the police, thank God.
Muslims trade on the ignorance of the average Westerner about the founding of the state of Israel. There are no Palestinians. It was never a state, simply a province of the Ottoman empire. The Arabs living in Palestine could have had a separate state from the beginning of Israel. They chose to seek the destruction of Israel instead. Well, they lost. Israel flourishes while their neighbours suffer.
It seems to escape the notice of protestors that 20% of Israel's population is Arab, mostly Muslim. They are those who did not leave Israel at the start of the 5 nation invasion the moment Israel declared independence. Israel would not allow those who left to return. Hardly surprising.
Sharing an opinion is only fair and reasonable if both points of view can be aired, and without the heat and rancor that is common these days. When universities refuse to allow both sides of an argument to be presented, free speech is no longer possible.
It is forbidden to extol the virtues of National Socialism or to praise Hitler. The evils of Hamas and other Muslim terror groups are as bad, if not worse. Why should Hamas supporters get a free pass to incite violence?