This is hugely important 👇 EU | #Tunisia | #migration

#Tunisia : “Subsaharan friends speak of no choices left—brutal interceptions at sea, forced expulsions to deserts, constant threat of kidnapping. They're trapped in a cycle of fear and violence, with no safe place to go.”

Hoping that, if it sails, no one on the Freedom Flotilla gets killed à la the 9 Turkish citizens who were killed on the Mavi Marmara in 2010.

It will doubtless not end well. The question is how much repression Israel would respond with. Turkish gov hasn’t clearly backed it yet.

Egypt's proposal to Israel: 1) Suspend Rafah invasion prep; 2) Full hostage release; release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners; 3) Absolute 1-year ceasefire; 4) During ceasefire, steps toward creating Palestinian state. US, Egypt, Jordan, PA would support, per report.

Everything in these video clips—riot police beating and arresting student protesters and journalists—would quickly elicit condemnations from American officials if it happened in a country like Iran or Syria.

Quixotic is the word for it.

Ori Goldberg on the death of our friend Khalil Sayegh’s sister, Lara Sayegh, in Gaza yesterday.

“It was Israel, Israel as a manifestation of power, that killed this young woman. What power? The power to strip away, to expose, to make vulnerable.”

We must end this madness.

Yes. Shafik’s decision to call in the NYPD turned what college administrators might have seen as a 10-day nuisance before summer break into a nationwide movement.

Students & campus communities are put most at risk by securitisation & repressive tactics, not protests themselves.

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Here are 15 contemporary examples of Islamic architecture from around the world, that highlight innovative uses of forms & materials through context and locality

A thread…

Equally appalled by those who deny rising antisemitism or dismiss it as some kind of red herring, and by those who have have used legitimate concerns about antisemitism as a pretext to call for trampling rights and inviting cops on college campuses.

Probably because of the narrow-mindedness of encroaching middle age, I didn't think the current generation of college students had this capacity for mobilization and collective action on the scale we're seeing across campuses in this country. I also never imagined that

Hamas released a video of hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin alive, pleading for his life.

The psychological torture is unbearable, multiplied by 133. We must save everyone we can. At all costs.

This war is now but an abyss. End the war. End the torture for the hostages’ families.

In his 1975 essay The Strategy of Terrorism, David Fromkin observed: 'This ability to use the strength of repression against itself, in many different ways, has enabled terrorist strategies to succeed.” He christened this strategy “political ju-jitsu.” We have learned nothing.

Yes. Shafik’s decision to call in the NYPD turned what college administrators might have seen as a 10-day nuisance before summer break into a nationwide movement.

Students & campus communities are put most at risk by securitisation & repressive tactics, not protests themselves.

Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these

The shocking scenes out of Texas tonight of law enforcement physically assaulting journalists are un-American and unconstitutional.

The First Amendment protects our free press.

Journalists play an invaluable and constitutionally protected role in documenting events, giving

Weaponizing campus protests, Kahanist security minister איתמר בן גביר says he ordered Israeli police chief to establish 'Readiness teams worldwide' to 'Protect Jewish Communities.'

Performative yet dangerous bc these teams will end up cracking down on leftists in Israel.

1000%.

What is happening in the US universities shouldn't worry you the most, if anything it should make you proud that young people are engaging in politics and speaking up! If some are chanting stupid things encourage them to differ! What should keep you up in the night is the

Well said.