Well, the university banned faculty from campus, and have stationed NYPD at taxpayer expense in their place. How are professors supposed to do their jobs?

NEW: 88 lawmakers tell President Biden Biden “there is sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act”

It’s the largest number of lawmakers to date indicating that Israel has violated US law.

another of my favourite Lu Xun quotes for Palestine
无尽的远方 无数的人们 都与我有关
(pic via citizens daily)

dear youth, happy may fourth
青年朋友们，五四青年节快乐

It has been the case in the past that twitter tanky leftists deny Xinjiang atrocities, while decrying any atrocities US is involved in. But the Gaza solidarity movement on campus explicitly draws the Palestine-XJ connections--they are thinking clearly about settler colonialism.

With almost no exceptions, the only violence involved in these protests has been the violence perpetrated upon the protesters – either by police in riot gear, or by counter-protesters, or in some cases, like at UCLA, both. presswatchers.org/2024/05/journa…

一位研究中東的中國學生參與營地革命的心得：

Minouche Shafik isn’t the only one to blame for bringing NYPD on campus. Look at Columbia’s trustees who have personal interests in silencing student protesters. Abigail Elbaum is on the NYPD police foundation. graphic by Mona Chalabi.

Here's my contribution to the library:

Shocking: UNHCR doesn't want to help Uyghurs stuck in Thai immigration detention for > 10 years--even as Thailand now seems willing to let them go-- because they fear upsetting China which pays the agency $7.7 million in operating costs thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations…

Statement from UCLA Hillel makes clear violence was initiated by pro-Israel outsiders. 'We can not have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Do not fund any actions on campus. Do not protest on campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students.'

HOOP PRESS RELEASE, FRIDAY, MAY 3 2024

Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) has expanded its “Liberated Zone” in light of the impending Israeli invasion of Rafah and the escalation of institutionally-sanctioned police violence against university students, teachers, and…

Columbia is teaching its students the wrong lessons washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.

Read the bill text and…

It was a @wustl employee, Brent Feig, who ordered the police attack on my husband.

I don't know who she is but she's iconic. A true queen.

momentmag.com/criticism-anti…

Absolutely. Not doing so in 2020 is one of the biggest failures in Biden’s China policy.