Sources say Columbia University has threatened to authorize the NYPD and National Guard to sweep the protest encampment as soon as tonight

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All the media figures and politicians doing a moral panic about protesters on US campuses have been oddly silent on the actual thing protesters are protesting against. Which is this:

I will be thinking about the 4,000 embryos lost in the IVF center in Gaza for the rest of my life.
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This is an American “free speech absolutist”

John Oliver on Gaza protests: “Protest is meant to be disruptive…34,000 people have been killed, most of them women & children…the US continues to supply Israel funding & arms for all of this, even as Gaza sinks into famine. If that’s not worth protesting, I’m not sure what is”

Powerful and important piece from Nada Bashir

If another country arrested that many students and professors in one day, the US would be deeply concerned

A very fine NYU professor who tried to protect our students with his body and is keeping his eye on the prize

Sounds like someone who is very afraid

Laila Al-Arian She has spent every opportunity to punch down and spread propaganda. Utterly heinous.

Laila Al-Arian She opposes this war but can rarely post about her opposition and instead has to devote 99.9% of her online real estate to pro-war propaganda. But she opposes the war!

Nothing should distract from this:

'There were signs of field executions. We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed.”

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A pogrom? On the same day when a mass grave was discovered at a hospital containing over 300 people—mothers, fathers, children, doctors, and patients, all murdered in cold blood and buried in a pit, some with their hands zip-cuffed. This is the true pogrom, the real massacre.

This is such a typical Arab hospitality story. But I’d like to make one clarification concerning something shared at the end.

They weren’t fighting to share the “burden” of feeding you. That was jealousy being expressed. Because to be outdone by another’s hospitality is