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During this time that pro Palestinian and pro Hamas students have taken over University campuses around the United States, spewing genocidal chants and signage, that in essence call for the eradication of Israel and Jews, while promoting violence against Jewish students,  a Columbia student was asked: – “Why has your pro-Palestinian student movement never given a damn enough to even offer merely one sign protesting what is going on right now in Sudan, where  hundreds of thousands have been killed, women raped, pregnant women shot, children slaughtered, and millions facing starvation amidst a famine brought upon by their forced displacement?  They are traumatized starving refugees with nowhere to go. You are silent. Why?  Why is only the Palestinian  cause the one you feel deserves your protest? After all if you are concerned about loss of life and brutality as well as humanitarian issues, your Gaza-Israel numbers, as tragic as those are, are comparatively mild?”

The student answered: “Because the United States is not funding the bad guys in Sudan.”

Oh REALLY?

My first retort is:  “Ahhh so in your world fighting for humanity and human rights depends entirely on who is doing the funding?”

The UN heard comment on the latest Sudan report, and it was noted there that countries must stop supplying Sudan’s rival generals with weapons for their civil war, saying they are fueling “death, destruction and depravity.”

See – where is your campus?  Oh….. your BLM supporting Campus has forgotten to really care about black people or because they are Africans? Or is it because they are not THE JEWS? Well those are the optics to a human rights defender immersed in the tragedies befalling Sudan and Gaza. The shame – beside the loss of life is that our American students are mono – mono – mono. They seem to think that their voice only matters when the U.S.A. is visibly involved. Our Ivy league students are unable to self import issues. Clearly they are only open to being coopted by the powerful Jihadist lobby, helmed by Jewish Voices for Peace, and JSP.

“A conflict that, as this report details, is being fueled by arms transferred from a handful of regional powers — arms transfers that must stop,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters on Wednesday.

She was speaking of the final report of the five-member panel of experts on Sudan, who are mandated by the Security Council to report on the implementation of council sanctions. That report was published this week.

Thomas-Greenfield described the report’s findings as “stomach-churning” and said it detailed “atrocity after atrocity after atrocity.”

Fighting erupted in April last year between Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The two generals were once allies in Sudan’s transitional government after a 2021 coup but became rivals for power.”

Taking my cynicism a little too far, dare I say – “Oh oops they are all Muslims. Our pro-Palestinian students are forced to condone and to be complicit in silence, for good reason – right?”

While the SAF started the war in good economic shape, the panel found the group has lost control of some important economic sectors and companies and now relies

The experts said the SAF has used aerial bombing and heavy shelling in urban areas in Darfur, causing a large-scale humanitarian crisis.

The U.N. human rights office says at least 14,600 people have been killed and 26,000 others injured, although the real toll is likely to be higher. In their report, the experts say at least 10,000 to 15,000 people have been killed in El Geneina alone.

The experts detailed horrific conflict-related sexual violence, particularly in Darfur by the RSF, which was often ethnically targeted against women and girls ages 9 to 75, often from the Masalit community. The panel said RSF snipers also indiscriminately targeted civilians, including pregnant women and young people, and their bodies were often left decomposing on roads for fear of being targeted while retrieving them.

On Wednesday, the World Food Program warned that the war could trigger the world’s largest hunger crisis, with 25 million people across Sudan, South Sudan and Chad “trapped in a spiral of deteriorating food security.”

Humanitarians cannot get enough food to civilians because of the insecurity and interference from the warring parties. WFP says 90% of people facing emergency levels of hunger in Sudan are largely in hard-to-reach areas.The U.N. secretary-general will brief the Security Council when it meets on Sudan on Thursday. Read the U.N. panel’s full report here: n2400564.     Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/us-official-arms-to-sudan-s-warring-parties-must-stop-/7517228.html

Sudan is one example of many current global tragedies where the United States can do things differently with awareness brought about by useful protest. But our students at USC, Columbia, Yale, Harvard,  Emerson, Emory, days before graduation, have failed and remain in typical American Myopia. Instead of seeing the world they have chosen antisemitism as their doorway to their idea of humanity.

BY: Melanie Nathan, April 27, 2024.
Executive Director of African Human Rights Coalition is a qualified country of origin expert witness in the United States and global immigration courts, providing expert written country conditions reports and testimony for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, non-binary, LGBTQI + asylum seekers from African Countries, to include activists, allies and human rights defenders. Melanie also consults multinational corporations regarding briefings and policy for operations and issue impacted by anti-homosexuality laws and country conditions. SEE HERE