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Kinda defeats the purpose of protests eh? They're meant to be in your face so that you can't just walk by.
There's a fine line between protest and harassment. At some point you're just doing the equivalent of screaming at a McDonald's cashier about the quality of their food.
welcome to the mind of a liberal
You're not supposed to be able to 'just ignore it'. Where is your sense of humanity? Where is your sense of shame to even keep you from saying some self-centered, me-me-me Amerikan-assed shit like this? Settler ass.
I'm not siding with you, but I'd like to take your idea and make it..... Useful.
Anytime someone engages in civil disobedience (like a protest) it is crucial that the correct people are targeted.
For example: if you want to stop your school from investing in Israel you target the administration (President, VP, investment managers etc.) and specifically those who make the decisions. This could be protesting at fundraisers so that it deeply affects the image of the school and those in charge, and serves as a threat of reduced funding.
You wouldn't, for example, go into the classroom during a lecture and yell about Israel, making the lives of the students and professors worse. Why? Because the source of power and social change is the students, staff, and faculty, at the school. And annoying them creates more enemies rather than allies.
Always do a "power analysis" to know who to talk to and bring on your side, and who you need to disrupt in order to make the change. Otherwise we ignore class solidarity (yes, soak up the pun) and are doomed to fail