'Prohibiting aid for an organization that could provide life-saving food, medicine and shelter for more than 2 million people is horrific, and it’s part of a pattern of policymaking that’s often rooted in racism and Islamophobia.' - Sunil Varghese IRAP re: UNRWA

In a surprising turn of events, Arabs are now sharing their support for the America Spring.

Abdilrahman, the grandchild of #Refaat Alareer, 2-month old, killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike, along with his mom and dad.

This is why students are willing to risk their professional careers. In the future, everyone will claim they supported them.

Refaat Alareer wrote a poem called “If I Die,” asking people to fly a kite in his name if he’s killed to give hope to orphaned children.

He wrote it for his daughter, Shaima.

Israel killed him. Months later Shaima had a baby.

Israel killed Shaima.

And her husband and baby.

Really going to incredible lengths to avoid having alums and donors hear the law school valedictorian say 'Free Palestine' or whatever

More on this point via The Intercept theintercept.com/2022/08/25/stu…

'Berkeley, then nearly free to attend for California residents, had become a national center of organizing against the Vietnam War. Deep anxiety about this reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.'

Journalism question: What are the editorial requirements for calling something what it is?

Because several major genocide researchers and institutes called Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide months ago, but most news outlets, are still calling it a war/anything but that.

Also in US news: 'Hanna-Attisha has seen children taken away from their parents bc the family had no money for heat or food. In one case, a mother couldn’t bring in her tiny, four-day-old premature baby for a checkup because she had to return to work.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Palestinian civil defence workers are still recovering bodies from a mass grave at Nasser Hospital.

More than 300 have been found so far.

Many of whom had their hands tied behind their backs.

The bodies include those of children & hospital staff still in their scrubs.…

They're really banning Tik Tok and sending riot cops after peaceful college students rather than just saying to Israel 'stop killing people.' Insane

Been thinking about this a lot... how quickly elected officials/law enforcement have come together to crack down on young people's constitutional right to protest, while doing nothing after years of mass shootings to protect them from gun violence in their own schools.

Feel like we’re not talking enough about how goddamned weird it was for Columbia to let the Republican speaker of the house give a full speech with a lectern on campus grounds about how much Columbia and its president suck?

Don't get distracted (looking at you, fellow journalists). This is the story.

Surreal.

this is a famous israeli whistleblower who leaked secret docs that showed the illegal killings of 3 palestinians by the idf. she was sentenced to 4.5 yrs in prison for it. now hit the translate tweet button to find out what she thinks abt ilhan omar's family in 2024:

Welcome to Arab American Heritage month at USC: students protest the Gaza genocide, and USC immediately sends LAPD in on them

Policy changes are a common, discriminatory tactic university administrators use to target + silence advocacy for Palestine. Folks can read more about it in this report Palestine Legal The CCR put out ~10 years ago (see page 24 'bureaucratic barriers'): tinyurl.com/3pw854ea