I want to repeat. The gatherings outside Columbia I’ve been at all afternoon have been peaceful. There is no reason to send in this much force

This will go down as one of the most dangerous times to be a college student in our lifetime. The traumatic ramifications of what we’re witnessing universities do to their own will be difficult to quantify.

We spent weeks documenting airstrikes in southern Gaza and found that civilians were killed in areas the Israeli government had explicitly designated as safe zones. Our exclusive report👇

In a sane world this would be bigger news than students protesting but...

Our new article on Bellingcat looks at terrible open source investigation - OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

Ezra Levant and Gavin McInnes together at Columbia because nothing ever changes unless it's getting worse

Again, Nazis with torches didn't get this law enforcement response in Charlottesville but Texas is going to show these kids! Yup. This will crush the movement and teach them. (It's like these people have never talked to college kids before or read US history.)

Absolutely nothing about this is inevitable.

'When I was there, I was doing it. Now, it's just being done in my name... Essentially what it feels like is our government and their government, Hamas, they are actually on the same team: they essentially want to see this piece of land soaked with blood.' - Israeli soldier👇

If another country arrested that many students and professors in one day, the US would be deeply concerned

One of the greatest acts of hypocrisy of our lifetime

“[Mehdi] was a star in the making on October 6, because he had taken down Ramaswamy,” says one of his former colleagues. “On October 8, he was a villain.”

Lengthy piece on Mehdi's new venture Zeteo and why MSNBC canceled their best interviewer 1/

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Israeli soldier asked if he witnessed war crimes in Gaza: 'Probably... You start asking yourself: are all of those airstrikes necessary or are we just having a light hand on the trigger here? And then it starts, and once it starts, it never stops.'

channel4.com/news/israeli-s… #IDF

'As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like. I still can't quite believe how the events on campus over the past few days have been so cynically and hysterically misrepresented'

Happily surprised to see 'How Did 9/11 Affect Terrorism Research?' is among most-read of all time in journal TPV. doi.org/10.1080/095465…

Could be useful for terrorism or related classes.
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