The brutal crackdown on the student divestment movement was a mask off moment for the modern university. It underscored a stark truth: these schools cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex.
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The Israeli army invaded Ramallah city last night, burned the main market and stole money from exchange offices. The Israeli occupation confiscated all authorities from the Palestinian authority.

Propaganda Reality

Today's disgrace in @NYTimes: Emily Bazelon and Charles Homans' Columbia encampment story claims current student views of Zionism are 'a change from the early 2000s when Edward Said... championed a two-state outcome.'

Yet in 1999 Said published 'The One-State Solution' in NYT Magazine!

These are the children who were living in the tents before Israeli airstrikes burned them to the ground in Rafah.

They don’t know which children are still alive from this video.

#NotOnOurDime In the state capitol building in Albany. No tax breaks for genocide. Funding illegal settlements isn’t charity.

The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by

Do not forget..

It is not only #Rafah , which is being burned, but Gaza, Deir al Balah, Al Nusairat, #Jabalia and every city, every neighbourhood, every refugee camp and everywhere are being burned!

Israel could be burning Palestinian children on the White House lawn and this administration and its many propagandists would find a way to be okay with it.

A warning to my colleagues @columbia: The witch hunt is coming for us, and there is no evidence that it is slowing down, even as the atrocities in Gaza pile up. My latest:

looking at images of people incinerated in tents and thinking of my university president who wrote that “an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others.”

Yesterday, IPA announced the shortlist for the 2024 #PrixVoltaire , honoring exceptional courage in upholding the freedom to publish. Included in the shortlist is PEN International case #OsmanKavala and Dušan Gojkov, Secretary General of Arman PEN. Special mention was

The ‘blurred lines’ of Columbia’s Task Force on Anti-Semitism

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Days after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes against displacement camps in Southern Gaza, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley wrote “Finish them!” on Israeli artillery shells.

Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

.Secretary Antony Blinken, here you go.

You have eyes. Stop pretending you care with these idiotic statements coming out of Department of State

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling 'FINISH THEM'on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

Rimas, 11, survived for two days under the rubble of her family's home after Israeli forces bombed it in Gaza. Now, she and her family are displaced, and Rimas wants to go back to school.

This is an historic show of labor solidarity with Palestine.

Today, 12,000 academic workers and members of UAW Local 4811 at UCLA & UC Davis are striking over unfair labor practices, joining 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.

Read about it here:
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🚨Israeli tanks are now invading the very centre of Rafah, while Biden continues to pretend this is a 'limited operation' that doesn't break any 'red lines'

IDF soldiers have been bombing, shelling & burning down homes on their way to make sure all of Gaza is fully uninhabitable

everyone has their fun little conspiracies abt why their favorite chain restaurant is closing locations but the actual answer is that they were all purchased by private equity and stripped for parts