It turns out that if you don't call in anti-terror cops to beat, detain, and arrest your students, you can actually avoid escalating violence and chaos, and becoming headline news across the globe, and actually have a productive discussion with demonstrators on your campus.

'stay inside Pulitzer Hall or risk arrest' is really something

Thinking about how many times as an undergrad I was told that ROTC couldn't recruit on campus because Columbia was against anything militarized

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:

Columbia J School will announce on Monday the Pulitzer Prizes from the same campus where administrators blocked reporters access and launched riot cops against students who demanded accountability for a government regime that’s killed 100 journalists.

Our team of 18 student volunteers is immensely proud to be providing this coverage to the Columbia community, NYC, and the world at large. We are incredibly appreciative of your support and understanding.

In 40 years, Columbia will probably preserve transcripts of these WKCR broadcasts as a testament to the school's 'rich tradition of activism'

Can you imagine admitting you feel nothing in the face of tens of thousands of dead children. Can you imagine calling caring about that like “picking some particular fashion label”

The single most jarring thing I’ve learned from social media time and time again is that so many people *sincerely* cannot imagine that anyone would simply care about other humans

Her name is Marione Ingram. She moved to the US at 17.

She opened a Freedom School in Mississippi, and volunteered at the March on Washington and with SNCC as part of the Freedom Summer project.

What a remarkable life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marione_I…

“I don’t know if the war will stop while we’re still alive, but what matters is that there are many people resisting with what is more important than weapons.”

Real “land of the free” vibes here

Now these are the antisemites, not the protesters for Palestine

'Grandpa, what did you do during the genocide?'
'I banned TikTok.'

People have been writing in concerned about my safety at Columbia. I thank you for your concern, but I am really very, very safe, almost ridiculously so.

To my students: Class is back in session, so come on down!

Barnard alums and visiting professors Edwidge Danticat and Jhumpa Lahiri in the paper I was once EIC of, describe the Barnard I remember that did not punish protest and condemn the student arrests of this week
thebarnardbulletin.com/2024/04/21/op-…

We’re not free if everyone’s not free. Chag Pesach Sameach

Just a reminder that:
•A 6-year old Palestinian boy was killed in Chicago
•His mother brutally stabbed
•3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont, leaving 1 paralyzed from the waist down
•A Muslim was stabbed in Austin

-Yet no media talks about “Muslim” or “Palestinian safety.

History doesn’t look kindly on what Columbia did to their students in the 60s and it won’t look kindly on what they’re doing to them now.

Solidarity with these students at my alma mater. There were so many protests while I was at Barnard and never once did I see the administration take action against them like it has now