Ussama Makdisi
@UssamaMakdisi
Professor of History and co-host of @MakdisiStreet podcast rp & rt≠endorsement
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17-11-2011 21:25:19
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Lawrence H. Summers Your efforts to portray student demonstrators challenging Israel's genocidal actions as 'anti-semitic' are cheap & disingenuous. These students should be commended for their courage & compassion, risking suspension & smears (like yours), to fight the most heinous crimes underway…
Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.
Whatever the flaws of the UC Berkeley administration for their messaging on Palestine and Palestinians, they have refrained thus far (thankfully) from the despotic and violent crack down on students—unlike Emory, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, UT Austin, NYU and many other leading…