New Mexicans reflect on one year of the Israel-Hamas conflict [Video]

BASICALLY UNCHECKED, HALF A WORLD AWAY, THE WAR AFFECTING SO MANY NEW MEXICANS. REPORTER ALYSSA MUNOZ SPOKE WITH ACTIVISTS ON BOTH SIDES WHO REFLECTED ON THIS PAST YEAR. WELL, SHELLEY, DOUG, THIS WAR HITS HOME FOR BOTH OF THEM. WE’VE SEEN MANY STUDENT PROTESTS AND ALSO STUDENTS WHO SAY A YEAR AGO TODAY, THEIR LIFE ON CAMPUS JUST HASN’T BEEN THE SAME. I CAN SAY AS A PALESTINIAN AMERICAN, WE’RE NOT OKAY. WE ARE NOT OKAY. WE’RE DEVASTATED. OUR VOICES, OUR CRIES FOR PEACE, FOR A CEASEFIRE. AND SO TO BE A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY AND YET TO FACE VITRIOL AND DISCRIMINATION HAS BEEN A REAL CHALLENGE FOR OUR STUDENTS BOTH, SAMIA SAID. AN ACTIVIST FOR PALESTINIANS AND SARAH KOPLIK, THE DIRECTOR FOR UNM HILLEL HOUSE, SAY THEY FACE DIFFICULTIES HERE IN NEW MEXICO. KOPLIK SAYS JEWISH STUDENTS AT UNM HAVE KEPT QUIET THROUGHOUT THE PAST YEAR. WE’VE HAD STUDENTS …