This headline - from a year ago - stands the test of time.

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My statement on voting against H.R. 6090:

“Dissent must never lead to disorder” - President Biden.

From Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” written in 1963:

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the…

BREAKING: This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.

Columbia still on…

Extraordinary story that just happened in France ahead of Xi Jinping's visit, straight out of a spy novel, and that very much looks like an attempt to disrupt the visit.

Yesterday, one of the flagship programs of French TV, Envoyé Spécial, published a report where they show an…

Israel says it will hold the Palestinian Authority responsible if the ICC issues arrest warrants. Sanctions could include withholding taxes paid by people in the occupied territories.

Israel seems intent on digging itself deeper into a lawless swamp. axios.com/2024/05/01/us-…

College Democrats of America – a Biden-backing group – supports campus protesters, praising them for standing up for Palestinian rights. It warned that Democrats' failure to stand for permanent ceasefire and Palestinian state risks youth disillusionment.
cnn.com/2024/04/30/pol…

'Supporting Palestine is about ending an illegal occupation + holding Israel accountable for violating international law. It is not about supporting the killing of Israeli civilians or the destruction of Israeli cities. Upholding international law means upholding it for…

BREAKING: Colombia to cut diplomatic relations with Israel over its action in Gaza.

President Gustavo Petro: 'We will break diplomatic relations with Israel for having a government, for having a president who is genocidal.'

Students at Brown University have reached a deal with the administration: If the governing body agreed to vote on a proposal to divest the school’s $6.6 billion endowment from companies affiliated with Israel, the protesters would leave the encampment. thenation.com/article/activi…

Just before midnight, a large group of counter-demonstrators at UCLA tried to tear down the barricades surrounding the pro-Palestine encampment on campus. Campers, some holding lumber and wearing goggles and helmets, rallied to defend the encampment. latimes.com/california/sto…

This LA Times reporter witnessed the violent attack on the peace camp at UCLA by supporters of Israel.

In a separate report, the LA Times said police arrived on the scene but didn't intervene for over an hour. It said several people were bleeding and needed medical attention.

It's revealing to look at Keir's new, secondary lie in this clip—that he clarified his comments about cutting off power & water 'pretty quickly afterwards.'

It was 9 days after LBC that he claimed he hadn't said what he said. It's not like no one had noticed in those 9 days.🧵>>

Ok, given that The Economist's Shashank Joshi has very courageously decided to block me as soon as he saw it, I'm redoing my post with a screenshot of his tweet instead...

What I was saying is that this story from the FT that Shashank Joshi was promoting (with success: more than 1 million…

This is lovely and very heartening from an associate professor at Columbia. Worth reading and sharing.

My cousin, Millicent McIntosh, was president of Barnard College. I'm guessing, but I think she would be proud of the students who've behaved as described here.

.Media Lens have been doing important work to help create a better world for over 20 years. Would recommend people support them, if they can medialens.org/2024/the-media… Joanna Papageorgiou

It's hard to keep up with Starmer's U turns.

Many of us predicted this one - and were given stick for it - after Mandelson said union reforms 'can't betray business' a few weeks ago.

So now Labour will betray workers instead.

'The figure for the amount of rubble in #Gaza is 37 million tons.

To put that in context, that's more rubble than in Ukraine, and in Ukraine the front is 600 miles. Gaza is 25 miles long.'

- Charles (Mungo) Birch , head of UNMAS in the State of Palestine

A detailed thread from a Columbia scholar and local resident on the grim events on and around the campus over-night.

The moment when Donald Trump and Obama strategist David Axelrod used the exact same conspiracy theory to attack the Columbia students protests.