Sick shameful stuff here from a major British national newspaper. This is how Palestinians are smeared, demonized, and dehumanized in our press. Meanwhile, we are expected to believe that college kids calling for divestment are the real bigots.

The NYPD locked a medic into a building with me. In the first video as they are kettling us backwards, an officer claims that they have their own EMTs. In the second video, these EMTs are nowhere to be found. Columbia’s EMT service was prevented from taking calls that night too.

After the Hind Hall raid, Eric Adams called it “precision policing” and said there were “no injuries.” Minouche Shafik thanked the NYPD for their “incredible professionalism.” I guess we must have just imagined these hospitalizations.
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50 years of crimes without punishment: A deeply reported account of how Israeli settlers have terrorized Palestinians in the West Bank with total impunity and state complicity This is what apartheid looks like. nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

MUST WATCH: Really important report on CNN about the brutal violence by pro-Israel mobs against anti-war activists, as well as the police's unwillingness to intervene or do anything about the crimes they committed in front of them and on tape:

Deeply horrifying that police and campus security stood by for hours and allowed this attack on student protestors. Where is the concern for student safety when it really matters?

Ok, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard!

Renowned Israeli historian & professor Ilan Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport, had his phone taken from him and copied, & was interrogated about his views on Palestine & Israel.

What are we becoming?!

A judge has ruled against Brown University's aims to charge 41 of its own students with trespassing for holding a December sit-in protest calling for divestment.
“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like,” he said.

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

Israeli settlers broke into a Palestine private house in south mount Hebron, they sat with the family without the family permission, they acted as if it is their house, they smoked cigarettes, they are intimidating the families to force them to leave .

'I reject the premise that one people's salvation must come at another's destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen—and this cannot be done from within the Biden Administration.'

Today is Nakba day, which commemorates the displacement and expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948. Today, 1.7 million people are displaced in Gaza.

The atrocities & displacement of Gaza’s Palestinians makes this Nakba Day extra hard. Palestinians have right to return under int'l law—to their homes in Gaza & homes they fled/were expelled from in what's now Israel. Blocking return of Palestinians is part of Israel's apartheid.

Columbia is already archiving banners, artwork, and other materials from Hind Hall, even as the students who occupied the hall are still suspended and facing possible expulsion.

Right after the State Department admits Israel has “likely” used US-supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law, right after Israeli forces attack a United Nations car in *Rafah*, killing an Indian worker...Biden moves to send $1 billion more of weapons to Israel:

The targeting of US orgs that support Palestinian rights/lives is escalating. See prior thread re: bill empowering TreasSec to strip orgs' tax-exempt status w/o due process, & House Oversight letter targeting tax-exempt status of orgs for objectives counter to 'public policy'
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Human Rights Watch found Israeli forces carried out at least 8 strikes on known aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023—killing and injuring 31 aid workers. 250 have been killed in Gaza so far. hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

Don't be silly! He's just the Israeli national security minister. He doesn't have any power.

Now, back to those nefarious U.S. college students...

500+ City University of New York faculty condemn admin calling NYPD on students & faculty, call for charges to be dropped.
Notes many arrested face felony charges (more serious than charges at Columbia) & that police injured a number of people, including reports of broken bones.

Aryeh Neier, co-founder of Human Rights Watch: 'I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.' nybooks.com/articles/2024/…