Tonight in the United States of America, we are witnessing a militarized police force, funded by NYC taxpayers, arresting American students in the name of a foreign country that’s carrying out a genocide.
I will never work with Columbia affiliate on any academic project, collaboration, or research again. This is unconscionable. There should be a full academic boycott of Columbia until the board and president Minouche Shafik resign. This is a disgrace.
BREAKING: anti-genocide protesters have taken over Jackson Square in New Orleans. Tents have been put up. This is the first non-university Gaza solidarity encampment, to our knowledge.
FIVE MONTHS AGO the ‘Blood Tribe,’ a white supremacist, neo nazi group demonstrated on the University of Wisconsin campus, brandishing rifles, carrying swastika flags, and chanting “Israel is not our friend” and “there will be blood,blood,blood.”
The protests across U.S. universities are important, the crackdown against them is important, but don’t forget to talk about WHY they are protesting. Israel is still killing and starving Palestinians, the U.S. is still arming and funding it.
🚨 🚨 🚨 SUPPORT NEEDED AT UCONN STORRS ENCAMPMENT! Contacts on site report that police immediately tore down tents and DRAGGED protestors. PLEASE GO AND BEAR WITNESS, even if you can’t join!
This Sunday, join the rally at the New Haven Green in solidarity with Palestine & alongside student protesters who have been arrested for demanding their schools divest from Israel's apartheid. 🇵🇸🌹
Members, check your emails Friday morning for DSA rally contingent instructions!
Students and teachers are being arrested for protesting US support for atrocities in Gaza. Now reporters are getting assaulted and arrested for covering the protests. But remember, democracy is on the ballot.