#columbia university

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #students for justice in palestine #gaza solidarity encampment #japan #gaza genocide #columbia university #genocide #intifada

[ellevandersneed]

a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

#palestine #protests #free palestine #end occupation #imperialism #end israeli occupation #genocide #police brutality #student protests #gaza #west bank #rafah #ucla #columbia university #chapel hill #unc #brown university #portland #university of pennsylvania #virginia tech #tulane university #university of florida #and every student movement currently gaining traction across the world

[mysharona1987]

This is actually a great response to people like Bernie Sanders who keep insisting Bibi Netanyahu is the real problem and, if he were removed from power, things would get better.

Bibi’s a monster, no doubt. But they probably wouldn’t.

His opponents dislike him because he’s incredibly corrupt and can’t/won’t get the hostages back.

But very few of them really object to his view on the Palestinians. At most, they wish he was a bit more subtle about his genocidal tendencies.

#bibi netanyahu #refaat alareer #gaza #free palestine #columbia university #literature #democrats #republicans #politics #Israel #bernie sanders

[camewiththeframe]

#columbia university

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #columbia university #students for justice in palestine #gaza solidarity encampment

[fuckingwhateverdude]

as we watch the rabid violence and hatred toward students protesting on college campuses for palestine, a friendly reminder that during the anti-war student movement during the vietnam era:

7 in 10 Americans thought the country "would be better off if there were less protest and dissatisfaction coming from college campuses."

A Gallup poll following the Kent State shootings found 58% of Americans blamed the students for their own deaths

just as a glaring reminder that the reactions we're seeing to these protests are typically american (and essentially from the mouth of richard nixon), and have not changed or progressed at all in the last ~50 years

sources x

#history repeats itself once again like #the war machine programs us to accept violence against anti-war protesters and it's v insidious and intentional and widespread #free palestine #college protests #columbia university #kent state #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #history

[littlebreadrolls]

Just walked by the Free Palestine student encampment on Columbia's campus while leaving the library today. Still going strong.

#columbia university #palestine #free gaza #free palestine

[mysharona1987]

#free gaza #columbia university #democrats #republicans #politics #blmolice #Usc #us congress

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #hind rajab #columbia university #students for justice in palestine #gaza solidarity encampment

[girlinafairytale]

#columbia university #campus protests #gaza #palestine #solidarity #solidarity with palestine #anti zionisim #twitter #tweet #palestinian youth movement

[sadanandaom]

#palestine #gaza #peace #student protest #columbia university

[mysharona1987]

#free palestine #democrats #republicans #politics #ww2 #news #xwittee #Israel #ww2 history #columbia university #ut austin

[decolonize-the-left]

All from the last few hours.

Join and support the encampments near you!!!

🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#palestine encampments #free palestine #free rafah #usa protests #human rights #news #current events #usa #call to action #us campus protests #VCU #university of Chicago #ubc #hopkins #uc irvine #sfsu

[sayruq]

The UN's expert on human rights defenders condemns Columbia University for threatening to suspended students

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #columbia university #gaza solidarity encampment #students for justice in palestine #united nations

[gudaho]

I wonder how many of the Universities that are disenrolling students for protesting (cutting their benefits, destroying their belongings, making them homeless, etc) made statements in october about how saddened they are by the terrorist attack and how they value education and youth

I would bet that none of them have once talked about israel bombing universities and schools in gaza- including the students inside

#free palestine #columbia university #yale university #emory university #university of texas #cal poly humboldt

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Mathias at HuffPost:

A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations. “We commend the students who are exercising their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelming atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retaliation, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza — with U.S. weapons and funding,” the letter states. “These students have come forth with clear demands that their universities divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupation, and demanding safe environments for Palestinians across their campuses. ” Groups that signed the letter include Gen-Z for Change, Working Families Party, IfNotNow Movement, Young Democrats of America Black Caucus, Movement for Black Lives, Sunrise Movement, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Some 900 students have been arrested during anti-war encampments and demonstrations at American universities in the last 10 days, per a tally from Al Jazeera — a tumultuous period that mirrors volatile demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when police arrested at least 700 students. The open letter Monday represents one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests, and makes clear the divide between establishment Democratic figures and social justice groups when it comes to U.S. support for Israel. President Joe Biden has refused so far to condition the sale of weapons to Israel. “Our communities have been horrified to see the militarized and violent response to students protesting an ongoing genocide funded and supported by our government, and our coalition of organizations join millions of our members across the country in standing in solidarity with the students’ efforts in support of the people of Gaza,” Yasmine Taeb, one of the main organizers of the letter, told HuffPost. Taeb is a human rights lawyer and political director at MPower Change, a Muslim social justice group.

“Instead of attacking young people mobilizing for Palestinian human rights, President Biden needs to listen to the majority of Americans who have been calling on him to stop funding and supporting the atrocities committed against the people of Gaza,” Taeb said.

[...] Israel has killed over 33,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, when the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched an attack in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed. In January, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s siege of Gaza — which has displaced 85% of the population and put the occupied territory on the cusp of famine — left Palestinians at risk of experiencing a genocide. Last week, health officials in Gaza said medics had discovered mass graves at hospitals raided by Israeli troops. “We join [the students] in calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” Monday’s letter states. “As we stand in solidarity with the students protesting in encampments across the country, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn the university administration officials’ violent response to their activism, and demand that universities remove the presence of police and other militarized forces from their campuses,” it continues.

[...] Meanwhile, Republican Party officials and right-wing media figures have accused the demonstrations of antisemitism, falsely equating criticism of Israel with bigotry towards Jews. Although there have been scattered reports of actual antisemitic incidents at or near the encampments, many were not perpetrated by students but by interlopers. Many of the student protesters across the country are Jewish. Far-right agitators, including Christian nationalist activists, have also targeted the encampments, with MAGA pastor Sean Feucht leading hundreds of Christian and Jewish Zionists on a march around the Columbia campus on Thursday. The rally ended with pro-Israel demonstrators yelling through the gate at pro-Palestinian Columbia students. “Go back to Gaza!” they screamed.

More than 185 groups, including IfNotNow, Jewish Voice For Peace, MPower Change, and Working Families Party, signed a letter in support of the campus protests against Israel Apartheid State's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

#Gaza Genocide #Israel Apartheid #Israel/Hamas War #Ceasefire NOW Protests #Protests #Columbia University #Israel Apartheid State #Palestine #Gaza #IfNotNow #Jewish Voice For Peace #MPower Change #Working Families Party #Sunrise Movement #Gen Z For Change