This is what supporting The Only Democracy in the Middle East™ will increasingly look like.

The images of hundreds of police officers responding to anti-genocide student protesters will be enduring, especially when the US condemns repression of protests in other countries.

Protesting war is not anti-semitism, it’s a display of our free speech rights.

Student protests at UW–Madison are reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the 60s that helped end the Vietnam War.

We must protect all students from anti-semitism & Islamophobia. Always.

while we obsess over every tiny moment at student protests here, israel is planning to invade rafah, which is expected to be magnitudes more brutal than even what we've seen thus far thecradle.co/articles-id/24…

Netanyahu vowed to invade Rafah “with or without” a temporary ceasefire deal, where over 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced.

The Biden admin called this deal “extraordinarily generous.”

A 40 day ceasefire is just a pause in this genocide. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

Does anyone in this administration even know what intifada means? Anyone with Arabic language skills? Or, lest I’m asking for too much, access to Google translate?

Top Israeli official: 'We must destroy Rafah, Nusseirat, & Dir al-Balah. Wipe out the memory of Amalek! No half-measures -- absolute destruction!”

Biden admin: 'Sounds normal, we'll give you 26 billion dollars.'

College student: 'Long live the intifada [uprising]!'

Biden

NEW: More than 250 staffers in the Obama administration and campaign workers for the Obama-Biden ticket sent a letter to their former bosses to do more to end the war in Gaza.

The U.S. is a lone pariah standing on the wrong side of history” they wrote.

huffpost.com/entry/former-s…

So the campus protesters have the support of the national College Democrats and also the Fairfax County Democratic Party.

These are the foot soldiers of the party’s mainstream power structure. The party leadership is utterly isolated.

What’s happening at Columbia will go down as a pivotal moment in U.S. student protest history.

Yet Columbia, home to the Pulitzers and the Knight First Amendment, isn’t letting journalists, faculty, researchers in.

Columbia issues a Shelter in Place order, usually used for mass shooters, but now being used because the NYPD is on campus

A sitting Senator, labels Americans protesting against a foreign country accused of carrying out a genocide funded with our tax dollars as terrorists and puts a target on their back to be attacked. This is insanely dangerous and somehow no one will condemn it.

Here’s a useful Arabic proverb for this kind of hypocrisy: “He kills the victim, and marches in his funeral”

No one asks how Palestinian students are supposed to 'feel safe' at institutions who invest in and profit off of the murder of their relatives.

The story of 6-yr old Hind—trapped in her family car after Israeli forces killed them—is one of the most haunting.

Some of her last words spoken were with a dispatcher:

“The tank is next to me…please come take me, please. Please stay with me…It’s almost night, I am scared…”

Not in the least trivial.

The carrots being thrown at Israel to get Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire:
1.Waiving threat of stopping aid to IDF units under Leahy
2.Removing threat of ICC arrest warrants
3.Saudi normalization
Imagine if such efforts went to end Israeli occupation and a negotiated solution

'Attempting to prosecute crimes might encourage the perpetrator to commit further crimes' is certainly a novel legal defense bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

1. The The Guardian points out today that 'Israel has also destroyed every university in Gaza, in addition to killing at least 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors, according to the UN, which has condemned Israel’s actions as “scholasticide”.'
2. And yet there

It's incredible to see Columbia faculty and students protecting those inside the encampment.

Their unwavering solidarity is inspiring and we must continue to fight for an end to the indiscriminate killing of thousands of Palestinians and the return of the hostages.