It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Criminal brutality
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Thank you MESA for your leadership on this.

#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba #Student #Encampments

MESA and CAF view with alarm the recent attempts to intimidate, repress, and criminalize campus protests.

Universities and colleges must recommit to freedom of inquiry, expression, and protest—now more than ever.

Full statement:
mesana.org/advocacy/lette…

Austin police have now arrested a member of the press, a photographer. Let’s be very clear-eyed & honest about what’s happening here.

I promised you I’d bring you to safety; I promised you I would get you a place to call home instead of the one they destroyed. I said I would get you to enroll in a new university instead of the one they bombed.

But I failed, habibti, I failed miserably; I wish I were instead…

Ya’ll thought I was being paranoid when I said Homeland Security was monitoring students and facultys’ personal communications. Biden literally put out a memo telling Homeland Security to do this & it was mentioned in his directive on anti-semitism. Anyone on a university campus…

Hi all. Nerdy policy wonk who follows Congress closely weighing in with a thread on legislation (getting no media coverage) moving rapidly through Congress that targets US non-profit orgs, with the immediate & explicit target being orgs involved in Palestine protesting.

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Grateful to contribute to this report, for the leadership of Noura Erakat and Josh Paul, and for colleagues including Charles Blaha, Wes Bryant, and Luigi Daniele.

Thanks also to our team of research assistants for their many hours of work.

Report here:
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Jeff. Those 'antisemitic thugs' include my Jewish daughter.

You pernicious fuckwad.

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

Columbia update:
– Admin has agreed to 48-hour extension of negotiations
– School will not call NYPD or National Guard to sweep
– Students will take down a number of tents & ensure protest is FDNY-safe (terms they offered) + safe from harassment (already part of their guidelines)

I joined CNN News Central this morning to discuss the ongoing protests on Columbia University’s campus from my vantage point as Editor in Chief of Columbia Daily Spectator (🧵):

If you want to know what's going on at Columbia, read the Columbia Daily Spectator. These young journalists are giving a masterclass on reporting and putting the majority of American media outlets to shame. columbiaspectator.com

Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism | Robert Reich | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Hundreds of men, women, children, tortured, mutilated, murdered, and buried in mass graves at Shifa & Nasser hospitals in just the latest atrocities in Israel’s #genocide in #Palestine . But if we protest this, we are “antisemites.” No. We will not be silenced or intimidated.

They weren’t kidding when they said the techniques used on Palestinians get outsourced to the rest of the world.

PRESS RELEASE:
Columbia University Concedes to Student Demands Issuing Written Assurances of Safety from State Violence. We fear that Columbia is risking a second Jackson State or Kent State massacre.
for press inquiries, email: [email protected]
#cu4palestine

Opposing genocide is good politics and good policy. #CeasefireNOW twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…