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memys-art-stuff · 3 days

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It is vital that we keep the efforts of so many students across the United States from going to waste. We need to keep the momentum going and ensure that news of the cruelty happening to the people of Palestine is not ignored or suppressed.

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

These students are calling to divest college funds from Israel. Do not let the media warp their efforts and paint them as an antisemitic mob. Do not let those opposing these demonstrations hide behind claims of antisemitism to justify their actions. This is about stopping human suffering, and to believe anything different is willful ignorance.

#college protests #usc #ut austin #brown university #columbia university #mit #csu Humboldt #free palestine #free gaza #Palestine #gaza #israel #activism #important

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its-zaina · 2 days

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“From Columbia to Brown,

we will not let Gaza down“🇵🇸.

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soon-palestine · 3 months

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Brown University is doing everything they can to make sure the press doesn’t cover the fact that 19 of their students are on hunger strike calling for Brown to divest from weapons manufacturers. Let’s make sure the story gets out:

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #brown university

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alanshemper · 5 months

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20 Jewish students were arrested at Brown University for peacefully protesting by doing a sit-in to call for a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday, November 8.

There is a GoFundMe to help with their legal fees, which is currently struggling ⬇️

Thank you for being here in solidarity with us, we feel you and appreciate your support. We encourage you match the donation you gave us to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), linked below. Because legal fees are still in flux, any excess funds will be donated to PCRF.

https://www.pcrf.net

#gaza #palestine #legal fees #gofundme #500 #1k #2k #brown #brown university #3k

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blackpearlblast · 2 months

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The hunger strike is over, but you can still support student protestors at Brown University!

Brown University has now had a total of 61 student protestors be arrested this semester for performing peaceful sit-ins outside of University Hall to call for divestment. you can click here to send a letter in support of these 61 students, calling for their charges to be dropped, exempt them from disciplinary action, stop calling on the carceral system in response to non-violent student protest, and divest from companies that profit from palestinian genocide. here is a link to the student-run brown daily herald talking about the letter writing campaign.

#brown university #brown university hunger strike #free palestine #free gaza #BDS

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sugas6thtooth · 5 months

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False narratives in mass media produces a perpetual cycle of violence fueled by irrational hate.

American media outlets are so disconnected from humanity that the lies they spread hurt their own people.

As much as we support and aid those in Palestine let's not forget the Palestinians here, in America, who are also bearing the brunt of hate from irrevocable beings.

I wish for Hisham and the others attacked in this hate crime justice and healing. 🇵🇸

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #israel #pray for palestine #ceasefire #america #usa #the united states of america #american media #mass media #hate crime #discrimination #brown university #vermont #hate #palestinian americans

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news4dzhozhar · 3 months

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bulllfinch · 6 months

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Lund University, Sweden, 2023

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athleticperfection1 · 9 months

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Brown Hockey

#Brown University #Brown Bears #hockey girls #college hockey #athlete #female athletes #college athlete #college girl #bikini #athletes in bikinis #Ivy League athletes #Girls of the Ivy League

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eretzyisrael · 5 months

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by Alec Schemmel

The Ivy League school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter throughout its Oct. 8 meeting defended Hamas's terror attack and subsequent kidnapping and killing of Israeli women and children. At one point, meeting minutes show, members discussed the importance of "recognizing that this was in fact a victory" and "a big moment for Palestine." Members also argued that their group should not be "condemning violence" or taking on a "tone of mourning" in response to the attack, which they said was "justified" by Israeli "oppression."

"In reality the root of the violence comes from the side of the oppressor," group members wrote in their meeting minutes. "Recognizing that this was in fact a victory, a statement that dismisse[s] violence kind of dismisses the resistance. … Tone of mourning maybe inappropriate?"

The group's private deliberations provide a window into the anti-Semitic demonstrations that have exploded on Ivy League campuses since Oct. 7. While the Brown Students for Justice in Palestine chapter eventually released an Oct. 11 statement that blamed the attack on Israel's "settler colonial regime of apartheid" and expressed "solidarity with Palestinian resistance," that statement omitted much of the extreme rhetoric expressed during the group's "emergency meeting."

At one point, for example, the group's members argued that Hamas did not slaughter innocent Israelis, citing the "difference between an 'innocent' civilian and a settler." Hamas's attack did not target West Bank settlements. Members went on to argue that their group "as a foundational principle" should never condemn "Palestinian resistance," even as they acknowledged that Hamas in its attack killed children.

"Go through historical context, context for 'Hamas bombing children' (i.e. what led them to do that?)" the minutes say. "Demeaning to Palestinians to imply that 'violence against human beings is bad.'"

For Brown sophomore Victoria Zang, the meeting minutes expose the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter's "true intentions."

"On Oct. 8, Israel had not responded to anything, Israel had not gone into Gaza, Israel had not reacted at all, and yet you already have SJP planning to spin the deaths of all these Israelis," Zang told the Free Beacon. "It just shows what their true intentions are—they don't care, they just want to blame Israel, even when Hamas, a terrorist group, storms inside."

#students for justice in palestine #brown university #hamas #gaza

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soon-palestine · 3 months

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The largest and longest hunger strike for Palestine since the start of Israel's assault on Gaza. For the past 8 days over 650 Brown U students, faculty, staff and community members have engaged in teach ins, film screenings, and protest leading up to the Brown Corporation meeting

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #brown university

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palestinegenocide · 2 months

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Our hunger strike is over but we won’t stop pressuring Brown University to end its complicity with genocide

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the defining political moment of our generation. We recently ended a week-long hunger strike against Brown University's complicity, but we are not letting up the pressure.

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#israel #free gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #genocide #jerusalem #israel is a terrorist state #free palestine #gaza #palestine #activism #news #palestine news #war news #news update #palestinian resistance #brown university #hunger strike

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 5 months

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by David Litman

Consider how the Middle East Studies center responded to the last Israel-Hamas war in 2021: with a ‘teach-in’ entitled ‘A Third Intifada? Palestinians and the Struggle for Jerusalem.’ As Hamas rockets were still raining down on Israeli civilians, Brown professor Adi Ophir glorified the terrorist organisation, proclaiming that ‘Hamas is fighting for the residents of Jerusalem and those who pray in al-Aqsa [mosque]…’ The quote might as well have come from Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.

Rana Barakat, a Palestinian professor invited to lecture Brown students, glorified the May 2021 violence by comparing it to a series of massacres, which she called ‘uprisings,’ carried out in 1929 by Arab mobs that left over 130 Jews dead (19 years before the State of Israel even existed).

At the same event, Professor Doumani approvingly spoke of the ‘amazingly wide range of forms of resistance’ over ‘the past two weeks.’ Another invited Palestinian speaker, Birzeit University professor Weeam Hammoudeh, rhetorically asked: ‘Is the bad form of resistance the unacceptable form, this violent form of resistance?’ Not a word of condemnation was issued for Hamas’s targeting of Israeli civilians. It should go without saying that if you’re not sure whether the intentional targeting of innocent civilians is bad or not, you don’t belong anywhere near civilised society, let alone in a position of influence over impressionable young minds.

Yet these are academics influencing young minds, and that is what they were telling students the last time Hamas tried to murder Jews en masse.

And it didn’t stop after 10/7.

At an October 20, 2023 ‘teach-in,’ co-organised by the Brown Center for Middle East Studies, nearly a dozen speakers addressed the ongoing events. Only one of them had anything negative to say about the 10/7 massacre, which she still managed to blame on Israel. One speaker, Noura Erakat, even proclaimed that it is a ‘dehumanising, crude, very racist talking point’ to say ‘that this is about Hamas.’ It’s another common theme one finds in Brown events and syllabi: there is no Palestinian responsibility for the lack of peace or their lack of statehood. Another speaker, University of Chicago professor Lisa Wedeen, similarly claimed, ‘Israel is a machine for the conversion of grief into power; it transmutes grief into violence,’ and ‘we see that grief machine hard at work in the coverage of major newspapers…’

Jews aren’t even allowed to grieve, let alone defend themselves.

Of course, no such event could pass without glorifying the brutal massacre. Barakat – a regular guest at Brown University events – proclaimed that ‘2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism.’

The hideous irony of claiming that burning innocent Jews alive was an act of standing against fascism apparently never dawned on any of the other speakers.

#middle east studies #brown university #campus antisemitism

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dewhander · 3 months

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brown university hunger strikes continue this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday!

sorry for these crusty ass photos but in case anyone has not been following the hunger strike for divestment happening at brown university right now, it would be a great time to read up!

they’ve been refusing food for almost a week now leading up to a brown corporation meeting febuary 8/9 (that’s this Thursday and Friday!) it would be appreciated if people joined the livestreams of the event hosted by @browndivestcoalition and @jewsforceasefirenow on instagram & shared news articles such as the ones written by the brown daily herald on the subject, as outside reporting is sparse. you can also read more about their demands at @browndivestcoalition’s links.

if you’re in the providence area and want more information on activity for the next two/three days, i highly recommend dming the above accounts, and i can provide preliminary information if needed!

#brown university #palestine #hunger strike #ceasefire now #…not quite sure how to tag stuff like this!

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killervelveteenrabbit · 14 hours

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Oren Root, a longtime New York City lawyer and Columbia University graduate who was at the school when anti-Vietnam War protests rocked it in 1968, said Shafik's summoning of police was "an extraordinary miscalculation."

"President Shafik and her advisers clearly didn't learn from history," said Root, who was a top editor at The Spectator, the Columbia student newspaper, in 1968 and 1969. “Calling in the cops was clearly a mistake. Things have not gotten any calmer.”

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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Chart: Courtesy of The New York Times

Children from ultra-wealthy families are more than twice as likely to gain admission to Ivy League schools compared to others with comparable test scores, finds a widely shared new working paper from a group of Harvard economists who study inequality.

Why It Matters: Even as the U.S. Supreme Court just eliminated racial preference in college admissions, the data show another kind of bias — that is, toward the very wealthiest applicants (who are disproportionately white).

• "In effect, the study shows, these policies amounted to affirmative action for the children of the 1%, whose parents earn more than $611,000 a year," per the New York Times report on the paper.

Between The Lines: The schools examined — the eight Ivies plus Stanford, Duke, M.I.T. and the University of Chicago — graduate a disproportionate share of the country's business and political leaders.

• 12% of Fortune 500 CEOs went to an Ivy, as did a quarter of U.S. Senators and 13% of the top 0.1% of earners, notes the NYT.

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