🚨BIG news:

Summer Lee, the first pro-ceasefire member of Congress facing a serious challenge this cycle, just WON her primary in a blowout victory tonight.

Billionaires and dark money just took their first L of the season.

Next up: Mobilize and defend Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D..

Spent the first night of Passover at the student seder in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia.

The Jewish flank of the Palestine solidarity movement is growing and it is so beautiful to behold.

Judge for yourself how unsafe these Jewish students look.

Shafik, Columbia’s prez was prepped by fancy crisis fixers & politicos to avoid the fate of Harvard & Penn. It backfired and didn’t appease right wing interests. “the very Republican lawmakers she had set out to appeal to called for her resignation.” 💥 nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyr…

While peacefully protesting today at Ohio State, campus police arrested two student organizers in a violent cop riot on the crowd after threatening the crowd with arrest for chanting.

Just learned NYPD arrested NYU faculty acting as a buffer between protesting students and the police. I was at the encampment earlier; it was an entirely peaceful protest, faculty were just quietly showing their solidarity. What world are we living in that this ends in arrest?

One of our many brilliant students who is the editor of the media outlet doing the best coverage of what is happening Columbia University

My students have expressed concern about the large police presence around the campus--not the camp of protestors on the lawn.

What is really going on at Columbia University? Not what you’ve been told. slate.com/human-interest… via @slate

Re: Patriots owners Bob Kraft stoking reaction by making a public show of pulling of his support from Columbia: a reminder that he tried to sell a Super Bowl audience that his AIPAC politics were aligned with the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. shorturl.at/bizMZ

The following is a statement by faculty at the department of sociology at Columbia University. (1/16)

The media is advancing a false narrative of ‘rising antisemitism’ on campus by ignoring Jewish protesters

mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-me…

⁦New York University⁩ did not have to do what it did last night. Statement from ⁦AAUP - NYU Chapter⁩.

Statement from faculty via the American Association of University Professors in response to NYU’s statement on the use of violent police response to disperse the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, detailing how an outsized NYPD response caused safety problems — not the students.

With an independent report having cleared UNRWA of complicity with Hamas, UN Secretary-General Guterres presses donors to 'actively support' it as a 'lifeline' to the starving Palestinian civilians of Gaza. No more accepting Israel's partisan agenda.
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

To put the Columbia protests story in context, in 2018 and 2019 far-right shooters massacred 12 Jews in 2 separate synagogues in America. I don’t remember this level of hysteria from our political or media elites, or ex-Meta execs saying they were fleeing to Israel to be safe.

I'm a Jew-loving Jew. Anti-Semitism is never ok. Here's what is not anti-Semitism: Peaceful protest, criticism of the Israeli government, calling for an independent Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, using the term apartheid to describe Israel, questioning Zionism.

Shai Davidai is a liar.

Despite what he & Bari Weiss want you to believe, Jewish Americans are deeply divided on Zionism.

“95% support it”? Hell no.

jewishcurrents.org/recent-polls-o…

#Columbia 's president, fresh from her failed crackdown on nonviolent student protesters, tries to distract attention by canceling in-person classes. She worsens the crisis atmosphere -- in the hope that her failure(s) will be forgotten. Mondoweiss Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine BC/CU Jewish Voice for Peace

If you support how these folks voted, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to let them know.

They will be under relentless pressure and attack. It is important to show support - on the inside, it can often feel like there isn’t.

Call, write, post. It makes a difference.

My usual TV beat is food, but I'm also a current Columbia University student, and I'm so sad & so frustrated with the way student protests on our campus are being reported. This will be imperfect, but I can't watch things that are so contrary to what I've actually seen and stay silent. 🧵

Thank you 4 your principled stance on this issue Katherine Franke Shafik's performance was an appalling deference to the new McCarthyites in DC. You deserve an apology, and so do the Columbia students that were suspended, evicted, and arrested. As an alum I am outraged Columbia University