In my response, my point was not whether Palestinians have legitimate grievances. That is unrelated to my response.
It was about why they believe it is their right to violate the rights of others when expressing those grievances in America. That suggests they hold a core value, that does not allow people who disagree with them to conduct their daily lives in America without having their rights violated.
When you come to America, no matter who you are, you need to decide whether you can accept the core values defined in our Constitution or not. If not, you shouldn't come, whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Black, White, Asian, etc.
When you violate the rights of others, you are inherently saying you have a right to impose your views on society rather than the obligation to respect the rights of those you disagree with.
I fully support the right of Palestinians to protest and make their views known. I am rejecting their presumed right to violate the rights of Jewish students and to disrupt college activities. Those rights do not exist in our country.
I am a Christian, but feel Christians have no right to tell gay couples they cannot marry. Gay couples have the right to pursue happiness like everyone else even if my beliefs view homosexuality as a sin. Our government is not supposed to be judging people for what one religion considers "a sin". It exists to protect the rights of people to behave according to their beliefs as long as they don't hurt others. So, Christians trying to dictate sexual behavior are wrong.
If Jews banded together to block the rights of Palestinians to attend class, my position would be the same.
If we as nation abandon our core values that everyone has the right to believe what they believe but not the right to impose them on others, then we cannot be a nation of immigrants, because with so many different people from so many different parts of the world, without tolerating people we don't agree with, our society could not function.
So, again it is not a matter of who stands with who on the Middle East situation, it is about the difference between legitimate protest and the belief you can impose your views on others.
