Incredible evidence of US recognition of social media’s power to disrupt once dominant narratives as the logic for banning tik tok. Blinken says context and history get lost, but no doubt it’s about whose preferred context and history circulates and whose doesn’t

This thread. And to know at least some of this mob was a *hired* hit squad whose violence was actively ignored by UCLA admin, private security, and the LAPD and has seemingly gone unpunished and uninvestigated. But it’s the student protestors whose imagined violence is a threat?

“The violence at UCLA is instructive. The pro-Israel counterprotesters were organized by a group funded by billionaire Bill Ackman and friends, including Jessica Seinfeld (wife of the comedian Jerry Seinfeld). Many of the hired protestors…” thenation.com/article/activi…

A The New York Times analysis of over a hundred videos shows that counter-protesters instigated the violence at UCLA's pro-Palestine encampment this Tuesday, using sticks, chemical sprays, and fireworks, with minimal to no police intervention. Paywall free link: nyti.ms/4b2V1af

This is the head of Jewish Studies. Madness.

LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia is here monitoring the LAPD raid of the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment. The only city leader that has spoken out about this tonight.

See, especially, the quotes by my UCLA colleagues Profs. Ananya Roy and David Myers. My only note is that students in the encampment were not defenseless. They were full of defense.

latimes.com/california/sto…

I don't agree with every slogan of the protests on campus + elsewhere. Some I really dislike. But when people look back they will see this as the moment when a real debate began about university + govt complicity in the oppression of Palestinians. And the protests made it happen.

incredible that, within mere hours, we witnessed brutal assault by the NYPD on students because of 'outside agitators' while the LAPD stood by as they witnessed brutal assault on students by outside agitators

This great letter from Robin D. G. Kelley somehow understates the horror of a situation that now includes the police having been invited to *throw students down the stairs* bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

Wesleyan is not the only university that has made this choice. Just because universities have rules doesn’t mean they always must enforce them so insistently (imagine if they enforced underage drinking rules as zealously as the [sometimes newly created] “no camping” ones).

Dozens of our colleagues and students and members of the STL community were arrested for peacefully assembling at WashU this afternoon. This is shameful.

These arrests are antithetical to the mission of higher ed. Our institutions exist to foster robust exchanges of ideas & open dialogue in service of knowledge & understanding. Sometimes that includes open dissent. Peaceful campus protests should never be met w/ violence.

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

the.ink/p/joseph-stigl…

Students watching reports like this for months are asking how their institutions are implicated. Their voices should be heard. They are not “terrorists.” Violent police crackdowns are unacceptable. Why are we holding students to higher standards than university and world leaders?

Caroline Fohlin, the Emory professor of economics seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester on campus, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with... Battery Against Police Officer

Tonight is the 1st night of #Passover . We dip parsley (Karpas) in salt water to recognize the spring time. Salt water symbolizes the tears and sweat of enslavement. As we hold Seders, remember the farm workers who are out in the fields harvesting the food we’re eating. #WeFeedYou

Just-in-time higher ed thenation.com/article/cultur…