This moment has laid bare the many limitations of Western solidarities.

Read this excellent piece for Al-Shabaka الشبكة on liberal Zionism by my friend and colleague Muhannad Ayyash;

'As part of their careful attention to Israel’s image problem, liberal Zionists avoid language that…

Amazing work by the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association!!

More should join.

And CAUT itself should absolutely adopt a BDS resolution. Otherwise, CAUT will have failed its mission.

CAUT

'That’s why what Palestinians need from the international community at this moment is not the symbolic recognition of a non-existing state, but tangible action...against the Israeli regime...'

- Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري's latest Op-Ed for Al Jazeera English ow.ly/q9SQ50Rtb4I

So I was supposed to deliver the keynote at a @columbia symposium on climate and language this Friday, but I have informed the organizers that, with true sorrow, I am pulling out because I will not be associated with this university at this political moment.

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This is Palestinian American professor Samer Alatout. He had just asked the police to leave the students alone. He later said he saw & heard the cops point at him and say “we want him”.

'In fact, the threshold for genocide by Israel against the Palestinians was met years ago. Although the recent campaign in Gaza leaves little doubt, Zionism has always been a genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people.'

By Haidar Eid

⚠️ BREAKING: Newcastle University Students Establish an Encampment for Gaza and Call on Students Everywhere to 'Rise Up!'

A recorded, barely veiled, verbal threat of violence against groups of people at a Toronto Police Service Board meeting.

Protestors are not getting armed. Who is the actual dangerous threat here?

Here’s the clip for anyone who doesn’t have time to find it:

🚨Israeli army assaulted a young child, forcing him to undress and dragging him, then broke his hearing aid and compelled him to leave his area, depriving him of ability to communicate with his family. His mother taped the device back, describing this moment as life-saving.
#Gaza

Israel killed my sister and all her children while sheltering in my home in October. Today they have bombed her husbund’s home. This home sheltered over 70 people. 7 flats.

Hind never got to go to college. She didn’t even get to finish elementary school.

Yet now an Ivey League building in New York has been named after her. History books will forever reference her.

The soldiers who murdered her thought she’d be forgotten like thousands of others.…

'Everyone I know is getting armed and that should scare everyone...'

Pro-Israel film producer Jonathan Pottins states at a Toronto Police Service Board meeting that he is involved in an armed anti-Palestinian grouping in Canada.

Letter of solidarity from #BZU and the Palestinian universities to the #NSJP the Palestine solidarity movement at the #US universities.

NEW from Nur Dogan: Jewish Anti-Zionists Fight Slander Against Their Pro-Palestinian Advocacy
readthemaple.com/jewish-anti-zi…

If you're on the side of the students demanding their universities divest from Israel, you are supporting the first two images. If you're against the students, you are supporting the last image.

It IS that simple.

BDS is the only path forward.

Professor Steve Tamari is a historian of the early modern Middle East. He is a Palestinian Quaker from Jaffa and Little Rock. I look forward to a statement from the American Historical Association.

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A Columbia student broke a window to stage a sit-in in a building, and an army of cops were set in against them.

At UCLA, a pro-Israel lynch mob shoots fireworks at peaceful protesters, pepper sprays them and then beats them to a pulp, and the cops are standing around watching.

Howard Zinn’s quote is on point

Palestine supporters are often wrongly portrayed as violent, but violence from Zionists receives far less media condemnation. We’re seeing that in UCLA right now. It’s also true in 🇨🇦.

Here is a timeline of anti-Palestinian violence and threats in 🇨🇦.
readthemaple.com/a-timeline-of-…