“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.

The young people of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were often referred to as “outside agitators.”

I have trespassed in peaceful protest.
I have shutdown govt offices in civil disobedience.
I have made the powerful uncomfortable in their routines as I’ve dissented in peaceful but committed disorder.
Those are the American traditions of Thomas Paine, David Thoreau, Rosa Parks

This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

In review—students’ tuition dollars help fund a genocide. Their tax dollars pay the salaries of politicians who send billions *more* of their tax dollars to fund it.
If they protest any of this, their tuition & tax dollars are then used to beat and arrest them and their teachers.

Something tells me the reaction from our media and political class would have been slightly different if the violent mob literally firing explosives into a crowd of peaceful protesters had been pro-Palestinian.

Y’all gotta let go of the “peaceful protest” desires. It doesn’t matter what people do. It’s never going to be peaceful if it goes against the core interests of the US empire.

Can you believe it? President Biden JUST signed a bill to send billions of dollars to assist the Israeli military in buying even more U.S. weapons.

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

#Israeli Military Escalates Bombing of Civilian Homes in #Rafah Amid Threats of Ground Invasion. This appears to be part of a campaign aimed at intimidating the civilian population through indiscriminate killing & destruction.
#AllEyesOnRafah #GazaGenocide alhaq.org/advocacy/22940…

Humbled.
Young people involved overwhelmingly in peaceful protest deserve to be engaged and should not have their intent distorted by hateful actors or media who lift up vile voices for views.
We need to assure safe spaces. But we also need protest in the face of injustice

Let it be clear: States that continue to supply arms to all parties to the conflict in Gaza are at risk of being complicit in war crimes and other atrocity crimes. Amnesty International members around the world and many other organisations are campaigning to put an end to it. STOP ARMING WAR…

A coalition of NGOs has come together today for a Global Day of Action to demand that states #StopSendingArms that are fuelling violations of international law in the occupied Gaza Strip.

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Dehumanization of the Other comes in many forms and shades. For Palestinians it is not only Israeli soldiers bombing them out of existence, but it is also individual citizens destroying flour packs before they could reach starving Palestinians in #Gaza .
#StopGenocideInGaza

I kept seeing people say that the US Holocaust Museum uses the word intifada in its header for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising page in Arabic. I actually didn’t believe it but finally had a chance to look it up myself. It’s true. The highlighted word is intifada. Again, it’s just Arabic.

To me, it is clear that Israel is violating international law and violating American law. And I don't know why anybody would give them billions of dollars more to continue that war.

LIVE: A reminder to my colleagues about a document called the U.S. Constitution and, specifically, the First Amendment. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…