“Over the course of our hours on the front lines, I estimate that more than ninety percent of the verbal and physical instigation came from the agitated counter-demonstrators.” A UCLA professor on the outside vigilante mob attack on student protestors. forward.com/opinion/608479…

But MTG & Matt Gaetz are advancing a different argument here. The canard that 'the Jews killed Jesus' is the foundation of centuries of Christian antisemitism, responsible for untold Jewish suffering. Most of the Christian world worked hard to atone for this legacy post-Holocaust

First off, the Antisemitism Awareness Act is bad & should be opposed because the IHRA definition of antisemitism featured in it, would unconstitutionally restrict Israel-critical speech. Lara Friedman has a great thread on that here x.com/LaraFriedmanDC…

We're seeing the Overton Window for antisemitism on the establishment Right creak open in real time today. As Congress debates the Antisemitism Awareness Act, leading MAGA Republicans are voicing a new line of opposition: defending their right to say the Jews killed Jesus

do we think this guy even lives in NYC, just wondering

If you are outraged by the violent NYPD response to CU/BC & CCNY students who are rising up to protest genocide, if you want to organize and take action here locally while also mobilizing against occupation & apartheid, you should join Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. jfrej.org/become-a-member

Columbia University literally sells these bike locks and chains to students

this is the evidence the NYPD is using to claim that the Columbia protesters were not students

I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that 'occupying buildings on campus' is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

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.

NYPD forcibly removed hijabs from multiple muslim columbia students in jail, we kept chanting “let her wear her hijab” over and over from inside our cells. one of them was told to shut up by an officer when she demanded to get back her hijab. columbia unleashed these pigs on us.

But if we are being honest, we should be clear that if Biden loses to Trump because of his inability to stop backing this genocidal war and hold Israel accountable, that is 1000% on him.

3. Pair that with an announcement of a 180 shift in US policy toward Israel until it complies with its obligations under international law.

2. Acknowledge his policy was mistaken, led to mass unnecessary death and suffering and accept responsibility for it.

Here's what I think Biden can do at any moment, and the sooner the better, that could change things:

1. Speak honestly and directly to these voters. Stop hiding and leaking to signal to them.

There's this disingenuous idea that the option is either accepting Biden as is or accepting Trump but this is a false choice. There is also an alternative in Biden's hands. He can change course. That is, if he wants to earn these votes to win the election....

Way to let us know you were on the wrong side of history then and are choosing to stay there again now

A lot of us are Jewish, you apartheid loving Nazi.

The brutality we witnessed last night now is what happens when a mass movement rises up with a message that people in power want to silence and violently repress.

Our statement from Audrey Sasson, on behalf of Jews For Racial & Economic Justice:
jfrej.org/news/2024/05/j…

None of this is about student safety, quite the opposite.

I have covered tons of protests over the years and the cop response to Columbia University tonight was more than I’ve ever seen. It felt like they were using these student protestors as an excuse to play with their military toys.