Following the UCLA administration’s not-so-stellar handling of pro-Palestinian encampments, any organization with a keyboard saw a golden opportunity to appear well-informed by issuing statements of solidarity. By the magic of copy-paste from Instagram’s finest, these groups transformed overnight into geopolitical experts. Organizations with no connection to the Middle East demonstrated their binary understanding of a millennia-long conflict, using cheap slogans and loaded language, with more confidence than journalists on the ground. Everyone knows that modern genocides are defined by throwing around random statistics about casualties, and the number of schools and hospitals being bombed (regardless if Hamas occupied them); definitely not by consulting the United Nations’ definitions of Dolus Specialis.
Continuing their foray into foreign affairs, one group of newly minted pundits decided to name their next dance showcase “Supernova”, just 7 months after the slaughter at the Israeli Supernova music festival that sparked the Israel-Hamas war. Twenty-one days before naming a dance showcase “Supernova”, this organization announced that they “fully support the fight for the freedom of Palestine”. Whether this stems from ignorance or bloodlust, one thing’s for sure: the drafters of these grand statements might just be a bit out of their league.
