Silencing students is the ultimate in bad faith. Siding/identifying with the oppressor in a genocide, then denying the chance for debate by arresting the peaceful is truly despicable.
Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024
In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.
The police raid against Columbia students that followed the next day can be seen as an extension of the policy of appeasement and pre-emptive compliance with the anti-Palestinian, anti-student Republican right that Shafik adopted in her testimony. In its war on education and ostentatious displays of grievance against “woke” universities, the far right has made itself hostile to academic freedom, peaceful protest and vast swaths of progressive speech. In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protesters, Shafik proved herself their willing ally. It is worth stating plainly what happened at Columbia: the raid was nothing less than the product of collusion between a university administration and rightwing politicians to suppress politically disfavored speech.
Really this is Trump level shit all to support a rogue genocidal state (who is blatantly trying to draw america into a war with iran) and people will still go on here saying you can��t protest him or even critique his genocidal ass
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has issued a genocide alert for the West Bank
The Lemkin Institute is horrified by the dire situation transpiring in the West Bank. During what has already been a devastating six months of conflict in Gaza, the Israeli military and far-right settlers have used the cover of war to conduct continuous attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, often leading to death and forced displacement. These attacks have been underreported in the mainstream Western press, which has also failed to tie Israel Defense Force (IDF) and settler violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the genocide being committed in Gaza. These processes are all part of an overwhelming push on the part of Israeli authorities to oust Palestinians from their remaining ancestral lands. In other words, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians across Palestine.
half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring
anyways i think its completely possible to have a critique of sexual behavior and manifestations of sexuality that have a clear basis in power dynamics of social relations or are historically contingent and i think it is actually necessary but theres just no point in trying to distinguish between normal and abnormal sexuality or to find a type of kink thats untouched by problematic power dynamics. all sexuality is perverse in class society
honestly very funny that the 'push him left' liberals have turned against any actual attempt to even 'push him left'. like people interrupting one of his speeches and demanding a ceasefire is pretty much the golden image of the whole 'call your representatives' thing and even that gets met with nothing but bleats of 'trump is worse though!' - making it extremely clear that the point of their electoralism is not some hope of incremental change, but simply one of 'stop talking about it stop talking about it just go vote and then shut up'