Well thank you for proving that the protest is nonviolent and also nondisruptive (and as you can see right behind her are several Jews who support the protest with their own signs).

How the NYT broke the UNRWA 'news' in January versus how they quietly reported that it's bullshit hasbara today.

“We recognize our role as visitors and, for many of us, colonizers. We camp on colonized Lenapehoking land…”

What I saw and heard at the Columbia pro-Palestine encampment.

My latest The New Statesman, in the upcoming print issue.

newstatesman.com/international-…

Editor in Chief of Jewish Currents

Massive faculty walkout at Columbia University opposing the university’s decision to call in NYPD on Palestine solidarity protests:

US politics recently is just a war for control of the DEI regime and identity politics olympics over who is more 'unsafe' and deserving of WH statements, sympathetic media treatment etc

Especially nauseating from those who made $$$ opposing it only to embrace when convenient

On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

Kierkegaard

rule no. 1 of history: listen to the clowns

Independent report on Israel and UNRWA:

'This is a pretty damning report. But damning not for UNRWA, but for Israel'

Well, its not only damning for Israel. It is also damning for all the Western countries that cut funding for UNRWA on mere (now debunked) accusations by Israel!

This is a great letter that offers a big tent and narrowly focuses on free speech and faculty governance. Regardless of your views, calling the NYPD on peacefully assembled students – in the absence of a clear and credible threat of violence – is several bridges too far.

New statement from Columbia student protestors:
'We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us…Our members have been misidentified by a politically motivated mob.'

'We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry…'

When Shai and his protesters try to enter the campus and pull their stunt to occupy the encampment, Shai realizes that his Columbia ID has been deactivated, specifically because he was going to endanger students instead of peacefully protesting on the campus

Whether it’s fringe agitators, pro-Israel plants on campus, or some dumb 19 year-olds, you’d almost forget that this happened this weekend.

Booze is bad…

slowboring.com/p/booze-tax

Off-the-news post-vocation post — often when people are interested in a policy problem they ask “why” questions.

Why is US life expectancy low? Why is absenteeism up?

But what we need are “how” questions — how can we improve things at acceptable cost?

slowboring.com/p/ask-how-to-s…

The media refuses to acknowledge that Jewish students are heavily represented in the pro-Palestine protests because it just wouldn’t fit with the safety narrative

Racist food🧵

What is ‘lived experience’? The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity Patrick J. Casey bit.ly/3vNAl6N

This is a key point from Eric. We have to be able to recognize growing & actual antisemitism, anti-Jewish hate, of the type described below, & condemn+tackle it, while also recognizing, separately, how bogus antisemitism charges are used to smear pro-Palestine activists & chants.

“Saying that student protesters are a threat to Jewish students is a dangerous smear,” says Jewish Columbia student Jonathan Ben-Menachem:
cnn.com/2024/04/21/us/…