Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it's anti-Semitic and genocidal.

He responds: 'Actually, I agree with that.' And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones.

This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

Hind Rajab's mom on Columbia students naming Hind's Hall:
'I started crying because I wanted all of these movements & support to come while Hind was still alive.'
Hopes protests don't stop till permanent ceasefire.
'Wake up now! Why are others like Hind still going through this?'

Congolese children and adults are enslaved in cobalt mines. Children are buried alive by collapsed walls because there are no safety regulations.
They're piosoned through skin contact with toxic minerals all because Apple needs to release a new pointless model every 5 months.

You have to understand, Gen Z is not going to back down.

They lost every teen milestone to the pandemic. They went to high school scared of being shot. They are inheriting a burning planet.

What are we gonna threaten them with, taking away their reproductive rights?

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

Sending in militarized police and snipers to stop students from exercising their First Amendment rights is truly disgusting.

Why are my colleagues and the mainstream media more outraged over these anti-war protests than they are about the over 35,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza?

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

I AM NOT A LAWYER, AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE

if you're going to a protest where you expect to get arrested it's extremely important to have arrest training. this thread will not be as useful as a proper training, but i can offer a few tips:

You have to watch this. She says she feels intimidated and starts crying. Because they *checks notes* say we aren’t giving media interviews, go ask the media liaison.

It’s a harrowing video. Don’t let your kids watch it. Difficult scenes include a protestor pointing towards the

I cannot stop thinking about the choice to point guns at students who spent their entire childhoods training to survive too frequent school shootings and who are out protesting because students half way across the world are being murdered

America hates its kids so fucking much

A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.

“Let them pray!”

This choked me up. Students of different faiths and backgrounds at Ohio State University form a human chain to protect Muslims who are praying while riot police prep to crack skulls for absolutely no reason.

They tried to erase Palestine, but the world has become Palestine.

Thank you Iceland. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

So proud of the students at my alma mater @wustl for standing up against genocide. Stay strong. Free Palestine.

NEW: There have been over 100 Gaza solidarity encampments at colleges this week in US and abroad 🧵:

Arizona
ASU
Auraria
Barnard
Berkelee Music
Berkeley
Brown
Cal Poly Humboldt
Columbia
Columbia Chicago
Cornell
CU Denver
CUNY
Delaware
Drexel
Duke
Emerson
Emory
Evergreen
FIT
FIU

Let’s say we found evidence of any gov executing men ,women and children with hands zip tied behind them - being discovered in mass graves .
Would it matter who they were ? What religion they said excused such atrocities - or what their ideological rationale was ?
Of course

As a Jew, I keep thinking that this horror is the evilest possible legacy of the Holocaust, that it could warp history in such a way that the descendants of those they tried to exterminate would themselves commit genocide. It’s so perverse it takes your breath away.