Student protestor tells me police presence from the start made it a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” Says UT Austin protestors had no intention of violence and wanted to exercise their 1A rights peacefully, but believes law enforcement in riot gear escalated situation to where it’s

pretty appalling to like a tweet telling a colleague to “fuck off lady.”

This is a *critical* data point for understanding how the national reporting on the Gaza solidarity encampments has been a farce. Here's why.

Sherman is an influential national reporter with a huge following. He is falsely claiming that the bigoted protester below belongs to

Everything to evade accountability for the horrors Netanyahu has committed in Gaza.

My audio conversation with sarah wildman for New York Times Opinion about how Gaza became Biden's war, and about the empathy gap and miscalculations in a man I've admired that have led to mass civilian death and to starvation: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

Sen. Sanders’ family was killed in the Holocaust. He dedicates his every moment to realizing tikkun olam.

His commitment to protecting innocents in Gaza stems FROM his Jewish values.

He and many other Jewish leaders deserve better than to be treated this way. This is shameful.

Jewish students Columbia University: “If we didn’t do everything in our power to end the genocidal violence Israel is unleashing upon Gaza, we would not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover Seder.”

Watch/share this CNN report on Passover at the Gaza solidarity encampment.

Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations on the force.

NYPD had promised the city they wouldn’t deploy SRG to protests.

So why are these counterterror units here?

two things

1. this is obviously not 'the columbia protest,' this is the intersection of broadway and 116th street

2. new york has a small but very, uhh, energetic population of esoteric antisemitic weirdos who are moths to the flame of people's attention

ut austin, where texas state troopers are barring students from accessing the other side of the campus. please look at this, i have never seen anything like this

This is NOT what vile antisemitism looks like. The media is not being fair and even handed about the Columbia campus protests.

Jake Sherman This is guy is a fairly well-known kook who's not part of the campus protest. There are some people who see cameras and rush toward them with their crazy bullshit. twitter.com/anjewla90/stat…

Jake Sherman Just a heads up: this is not the Columbia campus, evidenced by the street in the background.

There are horrific people wandering outside, their virulent antisemitism is disgusting and must be rejected at all costs - but this is not the Columbia protest. Important to distinguish.

Nelson Mandela's grandson joins the Freedom Flotilla set to sail to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

In Gaza’s Hospitals | Omar al-Najjar in Gaza: “It became routine to receive patients who had been disfigured beyond identification...or to leave a dying patient for the sake of treating someone whose life could still be saved.” go.nybooks.com/3JtQMYX

As the Columbia University president's deadline approaches tonight, Isabella Ramírez , editor in chief or the Columbia Daily Spectator, describes the campus as being 'on edge' over what consequences could come with missing the deadline.

This week's headline: 'Amid 13,000 Children Killed in US-Funded Gaza War, Congress Turns to Punish 19-Year Olds'

Politicians dodge Gaza's grim toll of 13,000 dead Palestinian children by spotlighting a few lunatics hanging mostly outside Columbia's campus.

A clearer picture is taking shape…