Some history: 'Up Against the Ivy Wall' - documentation of the 1968 #Columbia crisis, then in the context of the Vietnam War, straining relations with the Harlem community in the age of Black Power, and SDS led by Mark Rudd (of Weather Underground fame). ia800208.us.archive.org/12/items/upaga…

Just devastated

The best way to counter antisemitism? Hold Israel to account for this genocide, the illegal occupation, for its apartheid governance. Exceptionalism has no place in our world. We reject all forms of racism because no one is below the right to life, but no one is above it either.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

Better programme at the BBC Proms this year! Still sad we used to have a world-class classical music festival with the greatest orchestras in the world all coming every year. Now it is reduced to UK only orchestras + two nights from Berlin Phil + two nights from Czech Phil.

The protests on US campuses have absolutely nothing to do with Jews being Jews and absolutely everything to do with Palestinians being subject to genocide. Anyone who tells you different is trying to distract you.

Spotted Aaron Bastani at a fancy East London ice cream place attached to the Bishopsgate Institute

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

Today’s archive find

Not many good archive finds today but this witness statement from a witless cop about what a British Black Panther had in his pocket when he was arrested at a reggae party that turned into a confrontation with the state in 1970 is priceless!

The new smoking ban is ludicrous. Imagine in 2050 we will have 41 year olds asking 42 year olds to go into a shop for them to buy a pack of fags.

The Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark is literally burning to the ground this very moment