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Arun Simha's avatar

Re Rashid Khalidi - one does not know which media outlet or which person to trust these days. Vishal Mishra, the founder of CricInfo and the Dean of Comp Eng at Columbia tweeted this about Khalidi's claim.

https://x.com/vishalmisra/status/1786527993046638957

And he followed up with a link to City Hall's numbers.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/public-safety/2024/05/02/city-hall-releases-data-on--outside-agitators--at-campus-protests

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Mohit Satyanand's avatar

Anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism.

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Arun Simha's avatar

I know, but some of these kids are not making a difference.

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Mohit Satyanand's avatar

A lot of what we do makes no difference at the margin, just as expressing condolences makes little difference to the bereaved; but expressing empathy and solidarity aerates the collective soul, improves the human condition.

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Rajan Sarin's avatar

Well said

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Tarun Bhargava's avatar

Thanks for collating various sources and writing this perspective .

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