I'm a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, so I have a Harvard ID card that allows me to enter Harvard Yard and support the brave students, staff, and faculty at the Gaza solidarity camp, even though the cowardly administration has closed the Yard to the public. Short 🧵:

Eurovision is a lot like World Cup or the Olympics in that an ostensibly non-political gathering takes on political valences. She has been selected by Israel's broadcasting union to be the country's official representative and she is there serving in a propaganda capacity.

This interview with a former college administrator offers amazing insights into why the wealthiest US universities have been so quick to brutalise their own students: 'When you ask universities to divest it's like telling McDonalds to stop making burgers' podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cha…

Israel has been systematically torturing Palestinians for 40+ years. Easily one of the two or three most well documented, persistent patterns of human rights abuse in the last half century. And still, horrifyingly, it continues to get worse. And no accountability, after decades.

The Dutch police are using very aggressive and violent tactics against students. Here they use 'musta'ribeen' undercover agents in Utrecht University

a bright spot from yesterday’s ugly display of NYPD violence at the New School: while the police were arresting an innocent man, the students googled their badges and found, for one, 40 disciplinary citations, which they then read aloud to the crowd. I love my students so much

This is as authoritarian as anything said by Republicans about policing the teaching of the past.

One of my theories as to why Germany decided to commit cultural suicide in the past 7 months is that, with the huge new military budget they passed in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the state no longer feels the need to exercise soft power.

Israel is not, of course, 'a country of 10M Jews.' 2M of its 9M citizens are Arabs, & another half million are non-Jews, all second-class citizens. That excludes 5M completely rightsless Palestinians under occupation. Aravosis erases Palestinians completely from his imagination.

If you actually loved the land, you’d never do this. This is cold-hearted vengeance, pure & simple.

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not a good sign when a political party is afraid of its own base & voters

I gave this statement today — to the President and Interim Pres. of the college where I teach — at an open forum on Palestine: on the college’s response to the genocide, student protests, anti-Muslim/Arab/Palestinian hate speech, and to reiterate the demand for divestment.

How is this acceptable ?

The existential aloneness of this baby is unfathomable. Bless her, keep her safe

How the fuck is this unilateral?

'Soldiers had been attacked by wild dogs in the early stages of the invasion, leading to a mass cull of dogs in the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of disease and prevent the dogs from crossing into Israel and exposing Israeli dogs to rabies or other diseases.'

Northern lights from Lancaster Palestine Solidarity Encampment at Lancaster University ✊🇵🇸

God these people are disgusting.