Columbia University faculty have linked arms at the entrance of the encampment as the 2p deadline passes for students to vacate or face suspension.

An update: the National Security Act 2023 means ALL arms industry supply companies in Britain are automatically part of the 'prohibited places regime' and can advertise this, although they are advised to 'weigh the possible benefits against the potential need for anonymity'

In the words of my esteemed colleague Oumar Bâ: “solidarity with Dr. Bikrum Gill. hey ISA, your members are getting arrested at their place of work, fyi” #letthemfree #freePalestine 🇵🇸

IR, international studies and poli sci scholars: our colleague Bikrum Gill has been arrested for standing with his students to protect them in their efforts to #endthegenocide . If you are in the USA and can support, you can venmo vt4palestine

Dr Bikrum Gill Bikrum Gill is an ISA member & valued scholar within the Global Development Studies (GDS) community.
Independent Schools needs to take a stand against the arbitrary arrest & intimidation of its members as they exercise their right to protest against genocide.
#EndTheGenocide

Solidarity with Bikrum Gill

Shame on Virginia Tech

ACAB

It’s sad that there is a perfect form of protest that addresses everything the right way and solves the problems being protested and is serious without being threatening and peaceful without being frivolous, but no one is allowed to know what it is :(

No, I am not tenured. How will I account for yesterday and today and tomorrow? Will our board forgive me when I go up and let me stick around? Doesn’t matter. This is the job: to speak about important matters. And protecting our students is the only thing that matters right now.

do you know how bad you have to fuck up to compel a philsophy department chair to get arrested? incredible woman.

the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a 'nut zone' for the safety of kids with allergies.

if you have anything to do with ISA, please consider signing this letter calling for the association to – at the very least – cease mischaracterising efforts to get it to address the genocide in Gaza seriously, and do much more than it has so far

I am so sick of the moral panic about everything but killing people.

The young people (and the world) know this is America's genocide.

And everyone can see that is why empire is showing its teeth.

Keep going keep going. Liberation in our lifetimes.

The same people who are pointing guns at students, having them arrested, evicted and suspended are the very same who have DARED give us all lectures about free speech on campus & how 'safe spaces' are for snowflakes. We should spit on this travesty.

Forming a faculty defense line with faculty to try to stop arrests. Might be my last tweet for a while. Free Palestine and bless our courageous students!

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

The National Security Act 2023 introduced to counter 'malign activity undertaken by foreign actors' created a new offence of entering a 'prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK'. It was always open to abuse - and now a gate of an Elbit arms facility has this warning

they uncovered a mass grave in Gaza and a protester waved a Palestinian flag too close to someone's face in New Haven and the media has chosen to cover one of these incidents in exhaustive detail

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades