US Justice Department sues UCLA alleging antisemitic educational environment

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-alleging-antisemitic-educational-environment-2026-05-26/

[u/awaythrowawaying]

The question of how to differentiate pro-Palestinian sentiment with pro-Hamas sentiment is a central one in the ongoing debate within progressives. Many left wing advocacy groups and demonstrations openly stand with Hamas as the legitimate elected government of Palestine and therefore qualified to speak for them. However, other progressives and most moderates warn against this with the argument that Hamas is widely considered a sponsor of terrorism and an illegitimate political organization by the leading world authorities. Supporting Hamas is wrong on a moral as well as political level as doing so would probably lead to backlash from voters. The trouble arises because Hamas is the most visible and far reaching representation of the Palestinian people as a group - far more so than other competitors (ie. PLO). The Hamas flag is also considered to be essentially interchangeable with the Palestinian flag. How would a future Democratic Party president engage with Palestine politically without also engaging with Hamas, which has total domestic and foreign policy control over Palestine? Or should they readdress whether to legitimize Hamas on the world stage?

[u/persian_mamba → u/awaythrowawaying]

Hamas is the Palestinians elected government. And that government is requesting for the entirety of Israel to be wiped off of earth. I'd say the equivalent of this is to have a Pro- Russia encampment, arguing that the Ukrainian government is massacring the Russian citizens with their bombs, Ukrainians are living on Russian homelands, and Russians should not have to face the consequences of their leader terrorist leader Putin. How would we address the encampments then?

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The last election was in 2006. Hamas narrowly won a plurality. A majority of Palestinians today weren't born yet or were too young to vote.

Most recent polls show that support for Hamas is around 20-33%.

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Hamas narrowly won a plurality.

This is incorrect; Hamas won 74 seats out of 132 in Palestinian Legislative Council, a majority. What is true is that they received only slightly more votes than their main competitor, so their landslide victory was mostly due to much better use of complicated electoral system.

[u/Interesting_Total_98 → u/knign]

They received 44% of the vote, which means I'm correct. The seat majority is largely the result of half the seats were elected through majoritarian district races.

The seat count tells us how much power they had, but I was talking about how many votes they got.