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newsfrom-theworld · 1 day

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28/04/2024

Today's breaking news:

Hundreds of Isr@eli settlers break into Al Aqsa mosque under the protection of occupation forces.

Three Palestinians were injured by an explosion of Isr@eli weapons remnants in Khan Younis

German police suppression of participants at a sit-in in front of Parliament to demand an end to the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

The Isr@eli occupation soldiers are using “explosive food cans” to kill Palestinians when they try to open it in light of the ongoing starvation and siege policy. These cans were left by the soldiers inside the bombed homes or the previously occupied in the Gaza Strip.

The University of Vermont joins the global campus movement for Gaza.

#free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #pro palestine #boycott israel #gaza #news from the world #boycott disney #boycott starbucks #boycott mcdonalds

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chaos-in-one · 1 day

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A little reminder

Supporting Palestine isn't an excuse for antisemitism. Being awful towards Jewish people won't help Palestinians. Jewish people ≠ Zionists. Jewish people are still a marginalized group with a history of being oppressed and, just like Palestinians are dealing with now by Israel, having entire groups of people wanting to eradicate their existence. Contributing to that hatred and stigma will not do anything helpful. It is totally possible to criticize and hate on the government of Israel without dragging innocent Jewish people into your hatred. Many Jewish people have nothing to do with what Israel is doing and do not agree with it either. And even with the ones who do- them being Jewish should not be the target. Because them being Jewish is not the problem, being Jewish did not make them support the genocide of Palestinians even when they try to say that's why they support Israel. They chose that, and their choice to support and/or help Israel is the problem. And there are plenty of non-Jewish people who are also helping and supporting Israel.

Point is, fellow pro-Palestine folks: be fucking normal about Jewish people. The actions of one group never justify bigotry towards an entire minority. Supporting Palestine is not a shield freeing you from the ability to be antisemetic.

#also #ngl #the people using israels actions to justify their hatred of Jewish people #sound EXACTLY like zionists who use Hamas to justify what is happening to Palestine #it's the exact same stupid bigoted logic of 'oh well this one group of Them did Bad Things so all of them are bad'#pro palestine #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #anti zionisim #antisemitism #anti israel

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jloisse · 2 days

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🔴Campus protests across the U.S. since April 17

Brown University

California State Polytechnic University

City University of New York

Columbia University

Emerson College

Emory University

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Florida State University

George Washington University

Harvard University

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New York University

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Ohio State University

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Michigan State University

New School - New York, NY

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University of Maryland

University of Miami

University of Minnesota

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

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University of Texas, Austin

University of Texas at Dallas

Vanderbilt University

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martian-hermit · 21 hours

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At this point I feel like being arrested for protesting something in the US is just confirmation that you’re on the right side.

From the river to the sea.

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nothingelsetobe · 19 hours

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‘Keep going because you’re our only hope’: Palestinian journalist’s mess...

Please watch this speech by Bisan. Keep protesting. Keep making actions. Keep spreading the word and educating. It's working and making an actual difference in the world. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, your efforts matter and we need to keep standing up against this genocide and oppression. I wish the best for the pro-palestinian students and everyone actively protesting. Free Palestine!

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 12 hours

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By: Michael Powell

Published: Apr 22, 2024

Yesterday just before midnight, word goes out, tent to tent, student protester to student protester—a viral warning: Intruders have entered the “liberated zone,” that swath of manicured grass where hundreds of students and their supporters at what they fancy as the People’s University for Palestine sit around tents and conduct workshops about demilitarizing education and fighting settler colonialism and genocide. In this liberated zone, normally known as South Lawn West on the Columbia University quad, unsympathetic outsiders are treated as a danger.

“Attention, everyone! We have Zionists who have entered the camp!” a protest leader calls out. His head is wrapped in a white-and-black keffiyeh. “We are going to create a human chain where I’m standing so that they do not pass this point and infringe on our privacy.”

Privacy struck me as a peculiar goal for an outdoor protest at a prominent university. But it’s been a strange seven-month journey from Hamas’s horrific slaughter of Israelis—the original breach of a cease-fire—to the liberated zone on the Columbia campus and similar standing protests at other elite universities. What I witnessed seemed less likely to persuade than to give collective voice to righteous anger. A genuine sympathy for the suffering of Gazans mixed with a fervor and a politics that could border on the oppressive.

Dozens stand and echo the leader’s commands in unison, word for word. “So that we can push them out of the camp, one step forward! Another step forward!” The protesters lock arms and step toward the interlopers, who as it happens are three fellow Columbia students, who are Jewish and pro-Israel.

Jessica Schwalb, a Columbia junior, is one of those labeled an intruder. In truth, she does not much fear violence—“They’re Columbia students, too nerdy and too worried about their futures to hurt us,” she tells me—as she is taken aback by the sight of fellow students chanting like automatons. She raises her phone to start recording video. One of the intruders speaks up to ask why they are being pushed out.

The leader talks over them, dismissing such inquiries as tiresome. “Repeat after me,” he says, and 100 protesters dutifully repeat: “I’m bored! We would like you to leave!”

As the crowd draws closer, Schwalb and her friends pivot and leave. Even the next morning, she’s baffled at how they were targeted. Save for a friend who wore a Star of David necklace, none wore identifying clothing. “Maybe,” she says, “they smelled the Zionists on us.”

As the war has raged on and the death toll has grown, protest rallies on American campuses have morphed into a campaign of ever grander and more elaborate ambitions: From “Cease-fire now” to the categorical claim that Israel is guilty of genocide and war crimes to demands that Columbia divest from Israeli companies and any American company selling arms to the Jewish state.

Many protesters argue that, from the river to the sea, the settler-colonialist state must simply disappear. To inquire, as I did at Columbia, what would happen to Israelis living under a theocratic fascist movement such as Hamas is to ask the wrong question. A young female protester, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, responded: “Maybe Israelis need to check their privilege.”

Of late, at least one rabbi has suggested that Jewish students depart the campus for their own safety. Columbia President Minouche Shafik acknowledged in a statement earlier today that at her university there “have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior.” To avoid trouble, she advised classes to go virtual today, and said, “Our preference is that students who do not live on campus will not come to campus.”

Tensions have in fact kept ratcheting up. Last week, Shafik called in the New York City police force to clear an earlier iteration of the tent city and to arrest students for trespassing. The university suspended more than 100 of these protesters, accusing them, according to the Columbia Spectator, of “disruptive behavior, violation of law, violation of University policy, failure to comply, vandalism or damage to property, and unauthorized access or egress.” Even some Jewish students and faculty unsympathetic to the protesters say the president’s move was an accelerant to the crisis, producing misdemeanor martyrs to the pro-Palestinian cause. A large group of faculty members walked out this afternoon to express their opposition to the arrests and suspensions.

As for the encampment itself, it has an intifada-meets-Woodstock quality at times. Dance clubs offer interpretive performances; there are drummers and other musicians, and obscure poets reading obscure poems. Some tents break out by identity groups: “Lesbians Against Genocide,” “Hindus for Intifada.” Banners demand the release of all Palestinian prisoners. Small Palestinian flags, embroidered with the names of Palestinian leaders killed in Gaza, are planted in the grass.

During my nine-hour visit, talking with student protesters proved tricky. Upon entering the zone, I was instructed to listen as a gatekeeper read community guidelines that included not talking with people not authorized to be inside—a category that seemed to include anyone of differing opinions. I then stood in a press zone and waited for Layla Saliba, a social-work graduate student who served as a spokesperson for the protest. A Palestinian American, she said she has lost family in the fighting in Gaza. She talked at length and with nuance. Hers, however, was a near-singular voice. As I toured the liberated zone, I found most protesters distinctly nonliberated when it came to talking with a reporter.

Leaders take pains to insist that, for all the chants of “From the river to sea” and promises to revisit the 1948 founding of Israel, they are only anti-Zionist and not anti-Jewish. To that end, they’ve held a Shabbat dinner and, during my visit, were planning a Passover seder. (The students vow to remain, police notwithstanding, until graduation in May).

“We are not anti-Jewish, not at all,” Saliba said.

But to talk with many Jewish students who have encountered the protests is to hear of the cumulative toll taken by words and chants and actions that call to mind something ancient and ugly.

Earlier in the day, I interviewed a Jewish student on a set of steps overlooking the tent city. Rachel, who asked that I not include a surname for fear of harassment, recalled that in the days after October 7 an email went out from a lesbian organization, LionLez, stating that Zionists were not allowed at a group event. A subsequent email from the club’s president noted: “White Jewish people are today and always have been the oppressors of all brown people,” and “when I say the Holocaust wasn’t special, I mean that.” The only outward manifestation of Rachel’s sympathies was a pocket-size Israeli flag in a dorm room. Another student, Sophie Arnstein, told me that after she said in class that “Jewish lives matter,” others complained that her Zionist beliefs were hostile. She ended up dropping the course.

This said, the students I interviewed told me that physical violence has been rare on campus. There have been reports of shoves, but not much more. The atmosphere on the streets around the campus, on Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, is more forbidding. There the protesters are not students but sectarians of various sorts, and the cacophonous chants are calls for revolution and promises to burn Tel Aviv to the ground. Late Sunday night, I saw two cars circling on Amsterdam as the men inside rolled down their windows and shouted “Yahud, Yahud”—Arabic for “Jew, Jew”—“fuck you!”

A few minutes earlier, I had been sitting on a stone bench on campus and speaking with a tall, brawny man named Danny Shaw, who holds a master’s in international affairs from Columbia and now teaches seminars on Israel in the liberated zone. When he describes the encampment, it sounds like Shangri-la. “It’s 100 percent love for human beings and very beautiful; I came here for my mental health,” he said.

He claims no hatred for Israel, although he suggested that the “genocidal goliath” will of course have to disappear or merge into an Arab-majority state. He said he does not endorse violence, even as he likened the October 7 attacks to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II.

Shaw’s worldview is consistent with that of others in the rotating cast of speakers at late-night seminars in the liberated zone. The prevailing tone tends toward late-stage Frantz Fanon: much talk of revolution and purging oneself of bourgeois affectation. Shaw had taught for 18 years at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, but he told me the liberated zone is now his only gig. The John Jay administration pushed him out—doxxed him, he said—in October for speaking against Israel and for Palestine. He was labeled an anti-Semite and remains deeply pained by that. He advised me to look up what he said and judge for myself. So I did, right on the spot.

Shortly after October 7, he posted this on X: “Zionists are straight Babylon swine. Zionism is beyond a mental illness; it’s a genocidal disease.”

A bit harsh, maybe? I asked him. He shook his head. “The rhetoric they use against us makes us look harsh and negative,” Shaw said. “That’s not the flavor of what we are doing.”

We parted shortly afterward. I walked under a near-full moon toward a far gate, protesters’ chants of revolution echoing across what was otherwise an almost-deserted campus. I could not shake the sense that too many at this elite university, even as they hoped to ease the plight of imperiled civilians, had allowed the intoxicating language of liberation to blind them to an ugliness encoded within that struggle.

[ Via: https://archive.today/ziQes ]

At the core of what they call "anti-Zionism" is the belief that "Jews control the world." Left-wing conspiracy nuts and right-wing conspiracy nuts are now collaborating, it seems.

Zionism | ˈzīəˌnizəm | noun a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

Somehow this justifies slaughtering over a thousand, raping dozens, and kidnapping hundreds. And for brain cell-starved students to defend and support terrorists who would happily slit their throats.

It's hard to take the "we're anti-Zionism, not anti-Jew" thing when they intimidate and attack Jews without bothering to ask them what they think. In reality, it's just cover for their antisemitism. When they don't make the distinction, we should stop pretending it's a distinction at all.

#Michael Powell #Columbia University #useful idiots #hamas #hamas terrorism #hamas supporters #pro hamas #student protesters #student protestors #antisemitism #israel #palestine #pro palestine #islamic terrorism #islam #religion is a mental illness

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nemiyons · 2 days

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“When I was watching Disney's Aladdin with the Genie / They were raking my brothers in Palestine with bullets / But thank you God for the UN / Because I never had to concern myself.

May NATO and the US be well / [...] But above all else, [...] you wouldn't have the upper hand, if you weren't capitalist scum.”

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ahmednabubaker · 2 days

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Yusuf is more than just a patient; he is a child brimming with life and hope. He loves playing with his sisters and dreams of a bright future. But the harsh reality of the Gaza war threatens to shatter all his dreams.

Yusuf and his family need your help

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itsthatonegreekgeek · 3 days

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Since my real name isn't on here, I'd like to say something. I was at the Ohio State University protest for Palestine last night, and the way police treated us was atrocious.

They stayed at a distance until the Isha prayer. This prayer must be said at 9:45 every day. Police chose this moment to start arresting and hurting people. This is when everyone was most vulnerable.

Every protester was completely peaceful. We were shouting "Let Them Pray" to the officers, and they replied with ignorance. I was lucky I didn't get arrested, but I know people who did. I am bruised, and the wind was knocked out of me.

This is all because we don't support a genocide and want to make a change. OSU made up a curfew (that has never existed) and said we were trespassing. Many of us live there.

Bottom line: keep going. Make the world see that you care.

"From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free"

"من النهر إلى البحر، ستكون فلسطين حرة"

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newsfrom-theworld · 7 hours

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29/04/2024

Today's breaking news:

A number of Palestinians were killed by Isr@eli air strikes in Rafah.

The Palestinian journalist Ahmed Hijazi lost his brother by an Isr@eli air strike in Gaza

Isr@eli artillery shelling targets Palestinians east of Gaza city.

The home of the Khawaja family was bombed by Isr@eli warplanes in Al Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah.

Isr@eli settlers brutally attacked the shepherds Naeem Hamamda in the villlage of Sarura in Masafer Yatta south Hebron Hills

Injuries arrive to Al Aqsa hospital following an Israeli air strike in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza

Isr@eli occupation forces have stormed the village of Beita in southern Nablus, in the Occupied West Bank.

Isr@eli occupation drones opened fire on Palestinian civilians inside their homes, killing one and injuring two in the al-Mashahreh area in al-Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza City.

A heavy Isr@eli air strike near the tents of displaced Palestinians in Rafah.

Farouk Al-Khatib, a Palestinian released from Isr@eli detention in December, is now suffering from worsening health due to deliberate medical neglect by Isr@eli authorities during his imprisonment. He is currently in a life-threatening battle

Casualties reported following Isr@eli occupation airstrikes targeting residential homes in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.

Casualties reported in an Isr@eli strike on Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

#free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #pro palestine #boycott israel #news from the world #boycott starbucks #gaza #boycott disney #boycott mcdonalds

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