> On the one hand, you complain about Jewish students protesting against Israel, but on the other hand, you call the protests antisemitic.

I didn't. Re-read what I said instead of what you think I said before you discarded it as an obviously wrong opinion since it doesn't fit your pre-framed opinion. I specifically called them anti-Israel.

Jews can be mislead and effectively help boast rhetoric that leads to antisemitism just like everyone. It's often subtle. E.g. in a different thread here there was a discussion on how far more Unicorns come out of Israel than any other country per capita. A person responded that this is due to funding that's available to Jews ignoring the fact that this is a common antisemetic trope (Jews controlling money). Also ignoring the fact that 2.6M of Israels citizens aren't Jews. He didn't think he's antisemitic. But I'm sure he wouldn't have a similar "I'm not a racist" vibe if any other minority was involved.

> many Jews agree with the protests.

Many Jews (myself included) agree that there should be a Palestinian state. The protests keep us away from that end goal and strengthen antisemitic rhetoric. That's my point.

> > Israel offered a full Palestinian state before

> Not really. Israel has always demanded a high degree of control over any possible Palestinian state...

Not true. The deal for a Palestinian state was part of Oslo and would have allowed pretty much everything the moderates wanted including a part of Jerusalem. Israel already has water sharing treaties with Jordan, it's already providing water to the Palestinian authority as well as electricity. Water in Israel is complex. The claim that water can be "given" is ridiculous if you look at the map. The only way this would be possible is through control of the entire state.

The demand of full demilitarization didn't exist back when the offer is made. It exists now because of the current situation. Rabin was talking to the crowd, he backed down on many things (including his promise not to give back the Golan Heights to Syria). However, this offer wasn't made by him. It was made by Barak. You should read about that a bit more.

Furthermore, Israel did leave Gaza. It did it badly for sure. But it gave Palestinians an option. Yes, there was a blockade but Hamas got billions with the blessing of Israel. Instead of working to build up the city and show they can live peacefully next to Israel Hamas chose to dig 500 miles of tunnels and constantly bombard Israel with rockets. Imagine living next to a country that constantly fires missiles on you?

I don't want to present Israel as the innocent party here. The right wing governments here did a lot of bad stuff. What I want from you is a reframe of the narrative. It isn't Israelis vs. Palestinians like the protestors seem to mistakenly think. It's zero-sum entities fighting reasonable people.

Hamas is a zero-sum player. River to the sea (which Americans chant a lot) means the entire country. No compromise. Just death. Israel also has such zero sum players and for the first time in its history: they're in government (mostly because of the corruption by the PM rather than a rise in racism). The best way to promote zero-sum players is by unity of message towards "one side". E.g. pro-Palestinian protests help create a message that the Hamas sees as support to it. That means most Palestinians will fall back into the loop of bad leadership that keeps landing them to a worse positions than they were before.

Won't that strengthen the Israeli right-wing?

No. The Israeli right wing feeds off these protests. They use the "everyone hates us" trope. Everyone ignores the 130 civilians still held as hostages by Hamas.

How do you stop both?

This is what Biden is trying to do delicately while people on the extreme left are disturbing him. He understands that the Hamas needs to be dismantled as much as possible. By helping Israel he bought a tremendous amount of good will, but also dependence. He shows the value of the relationship with the USA and makes the case for it. Netanyahu is one of the most hated figures in Israel right now, his time will come and when things settle there will be another chance for a deal.

This time though, Israel won't compromise on demilitarization. If you're blaming Israel for demanding that, then you haven't been paying attention.