#MayDay4Palestine - Knavesmire Primary School, York

The most bizarre thing about what Columbia is doing is that the encampment was so small, especially when compared to 1968. If Baroness Shafik had just let them sit on the lawn and basically ignored them, she would've won. But the neoliberal university can accept ...

This is as good a proof as you're going to get that regime type is a meaningless framework to categorize countries.

This 👇 is factually more 'authoritarian' than what we've seen in plenty of 'authoritarian' countries. Even CNN (not exactly an anti-imperialist outlet) says so!

I stand with Diane.

Israeli scholar of the Holocaust Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous.

“There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression.'

Today, after being kicked out and arrested for disrupting his hearing, we confronted Lloyd Austin AGAIN to plead with him to end the genocide in Gaza. No peace for Austin until there’s peace in Gaza!

How transparently lawless are members of the U.S. Congress to threaten sanctions against the International Criminal Court for possibly charging Netanyahu. Why should Netanyahu's war crimes rise above the rule of law? axios.com/2024/04/29/icc…

War crime charges against senior Israeli officials would restrict their travel around the world. It would also make it more difficult for the US and the UK to pretend that their ongoing arming of the Israeli military is not contributing to war crimes.

dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…

All this because students had the audacity to criticise Israel and demand a ceasefire.

The White House claims on Gaza, 'the ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation and we do not support its investigation.'
Has the White House not read the Rome Statute giving territorial jurisdiction? Does it not remember its endorsement of that in Ukraine? axios.com/2024/04/29/net…

Is this Columbia University President Shafik’s definition of how to keep students safe???

BREAKING: Medea Benjamin arrested for disrupting 'Defense' Sec. Lloyd Austin this morning.

'The whole world is watching what we are doing in Gaza right now.'

'Secretary General, You are supporting a genocide!'

Can you believe Julian Assange has been in maximum security prison in London for 5 whole years…for exposing horrific war crimes in alliance with the New York Times and the Guardian?

Future generations won’t believe we let it happen.

University administrators empowering police repression.

BREAKING: Video I shot tonight outside Columbia University of police driving arrested students to jail after they were forcibly evicted from Hamilton Hall for protesting Israel's mass killings in Gaza.

People on street were cheering: 'Students you make us proud.'⤵️

This is appalling from BBC News (UK) 👇

'Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl found dead in Gaza'

No, BBC editors. Here is the truth you won't report:

'Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by the Israeli military in Gaza'

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

At this moment, the principled & courageous students at #Columbia and other universities are the front line in the defense of the human rights of all of us. They stand between the dictates of an oppressive foreign regime and our rights to free expression, assembly & association.

I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza.
 
Independent investigators must be allowed immediate access.
 
The families of the dead have a right to know what happened.

The world has a right to accountability for any violations of int’l law that may have taken place.

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik from UCLA (& former Columbia U) Professor Robin Kelly

“In forty years, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty.” bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

Secretary Antony Blinken Please stop the theater. Humanitarian fig leaves will not obscure the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide that you have facilitated in Palestine. History will remember your crimes.