Pretty wild. April 30, 1968 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall protestors at Columbia University.

April 30, 2024 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
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.CNN talking about how no one was hurt, and the NYPD was careful. Meanwhile videos like this are all over social media. This one from the IG page of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.

Also reports of officers turning off body cams and then using excessive force against students.

Shameful scenes Columbia University after NYPD NEWS “invited” in by university administration to raid #Hamilton_Hall ‘occupied’ by pro #GazaCeasefire protesters for a few days ; tvs demos have spread to many other universities where the heavy handed law enforcement action in response has

Per WKCR, NYPD is threatening journalism school students, professors, and even the dean with arrest if they leave Pulitzer Hall

Anyone who thinks this militarized response to the demonstrators will end their anger over Israel’s genocide is nuts. Shame on Columbia, its donors, its pathetic President, & the NYPD. And btw, this will have consequences in November.

If this were in Russia or Iran -- a police force of this size deployed against students protesting the state's war policies -- it'd be universally denounced as evil tyranny.

The problem for the protesters is they chose the one issue that could provoke police force of this kind:

پتہ نہیں مریم نواز کو اپنی مثبت امیج بنانے کیلئے کتنی وردیاں پہننی پڑیں گی، علی مصطفیٰ
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Columbia is in NYC, the supposed bastion of diversity and progress, it's a Dem city, a northern city and this is what's happening here ...

Students have been holding a Palestine solidarity encampment at UBC since 5 a.m., calling on the university to not support companies that support Israel. A rally is expected at around noon today #Vancouver CTV News Vancouver

Based on the soundtrack one of these characters will kill the other at the end of this movie

Rich for a PM who stole public mandate to get in power through backchannels complain about power theft, elite culture and all the other ills that he and his political family so very well represents.

It says a lot about India’s ramshackle opposition parties that the most effective BJP critic today is a 29-year-old YouTuber who got his start 10 years ago with a video of a water park in Germany.

Salahuddin Ahmed’s bothsideism took creativity ; to compare a charlatan like Qazi Faez İsa (Che) to Babar Sattar (J) is not the hallelujah he thinks it is, with all due respect

As cops violently crackdown on anti-genocide protesters demonized by Biden as antisemitic, the White House Press Correspondents Association honors Barak Ravid, until recently an Israeli army reservist and veteran of its Unit 8200 intelligence division

“SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!”

Wild scene outside of White House Correspondents Dinner #WHCD as #FreePalestine protesters hold U.S. corporate media complicit in genocide

His ambassador was preaching human rights to Pakistani liberals. #ajconf

What makes General Asim Munir both formidable and lackluster at once is his singular obsession in the idea that it’s either him or Imran Khan ;

like Zia, Asim too realizes that the moment his opponent is released and mobilise , the jig is up (though Zia realized this after

Premature Palestinian baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

SCOOP: I reviewed an internal State Dept memo, parts of which was classified, that included the most extensive and serious to date warnings to Secretary Blinken over Israel’s possible non-compliance with international humanitarian law. Here’s what I learned 1/X

#TelAviv tonight: Tens of thousands of anti-govt protesters are once again on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and his inept, corrupt, and messianic clan. #GazaWar