*New York college students who support Palestine fear post-9/11-style retaliation.* Except that now they also scan through social media posts.

The difference between condemning HAMAS's actions and hating Palestinians generally is conceptually clear enough, but if you forget to pay attention to it you can easily drift across the line without noticing. Likewise with the difference between Israel's actions and hating Jews generally.

Even if you carefully keep these differences in mind, and carefully represent them in your words, your enemies can unconsciously misunderstand and accuse you of hatred. They can even dishonestly and intentionally make false accusations, blaming you for what your associates have done, or for things that didn't happen at all.

Due to the expensive and inferior US medical system, life expectancy for non-college-graduates has decreased every year since 2010. That's because their income has decreased. As often happens, lower life expectancy measures poverty. It is understandable that they are dissatisfied and want a change.

Those who think of addressing this by voting for the Republican Party, which wants to make the medical system even worse and block's Biden's efforts to improve it, are being self-destructively foolish.

How plutocrastist politicians have redesigned US bankruptcy law over decades so that mainly wealthy people can take advantage of bankruptcy.

It takes cash to pay a lawyer to successfully declare bankruptcy. Many Americans are too poor to hire the lawyer, so they can't do it.

* UN high commissioner for human rights says there is "rapid deterioration" of [respect for Palestinians' human] rights in West Bank.*

Israeli suppression forces have jailed thousands, venting hatred at them physically in the process. Most of them were not charged with any crime; Israel practices arbitrary imprisonment of Palestinians, much as South Africa under apartheid practiced arbitrary imprisonment of dissidents.

None of that is new. What is new is the great increase in number of victims.

The exploitative practice of imposing debt on new workers coming from abroad, often associated with Persian Gulf countries, is now being perpetrated openly in the US.