For the first time in history, Palestinians are feeling less abandoned by a world that has long lectured them about human rights and solidarity with victims

You are making history
Your voice resonates in Gaza
Keep up the protests, keep up your voice✊ #CeaseFireNow

These are the beautiful children of Gaza.

They have limbs amputated on a daily basis due to the U.S. paid for bombs - used by Israel.

Students across the world are protesting to stop this.

students, please listen to folks who've done this all before: a task force, a committee, a negotiating table, a compromise — it's all co-optation. you are demanding total divestment, not a task force and 'series of conversations'

'What does it mean to bring children into a world where the lives of 15,780 innocent kids were taken in just 200 days?' electronicintifada.net/content/no-goo…

'It seems impossible until it’s possible.'

'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' co-founder Omar Barghouti protested against apartheid South Africa at Columbia. He has insights for students fighting for divestment from Israel at their schools.

So we reached the two Jewish-founded philanthropies and Gates are funding the allegedly mostly-about-antisemitism protests point in the cycle?

As anyone within a mile of a past campus protest knows, outside NGO funding isn’t needed for a few college kids to camp on the lawn.

Police are asking for Columbia ID blocks away from the campus gates. Instead of divesting from apartheid, Columbia used the NYPD set up its own checkpoints and barricades. The same “security” notion weaponized against Palestinians imported to corral NYC Ivy League students.

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

Please share and donate, this is for a Palestinian student at Columbia University. Their family members are some of the last Palestinian Christians left in Gaza.
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The encampment was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. I will never be able to recreate that sense of community, creation, sumud, & solidarity. But it lives on through our music and memories, and when Columbia divests, we will remember how they ripped this away

My Palestinian friend has been racially profiled and suspended by Columbia three separate times this year. Columbia suspended the encampment’s lead negotiator, another Palestinian student on a Visa, as an intimidation tactic and then rescinded it the next day. It’s all arbitrary.

Columbia offered an “alternative resolution” to lift the suspension and put us on probation if we promise not to protest again between now and June 2025, and they keep trying to pressure us to agree. They know we’re not a threat to anyone’s safety—they just don’t want dissent.

Columbia admin is so manipulative. I was arrested on the grounds of “trespassing” at my own school on 4/18, meaning I should’ve been suspended first in order to be arrested, but I was retroactively suspended for “Violation of law (being arrested/trespassing).” Circular logic.

THREAD: Songs I associate with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that Columbia University University cruelly destroyed, where I finally felt safe and surrounded by community on campus again for the first time in months🧵

Just a reminder NYPD is not allowed to release mugshots unless the person poses a present danger to the public (ie a wanted poster).

NYPD routinely ignores this law and gives mugshots of protestors, who don’t meet the criteria for releasing their mugs, to the New York Post.

ACTION ALERT: We are working w/ @columbiabds to get anonymous testimonies of police incidents, financial, & social difficulties created by Columbia University admin that have impacted you, on or off campus.
Please use a non Columbia email.
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It is truly a remarkable feat to make an apology video and somehow manage to not apologize at all