NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns

Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM

.Peter Salovey: Nearly 300 Yale University faculty condemn the criminalization of Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. Yale University must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/13G…

He wrote If I Must Die to Al-Shymaa. He was addressing her. She's the one that was told to tell his story, to sell his things, and to not lose hope.

BREAKING| Israel's army kills the eldest daughter of professor Refat Al Areer, Shaima'a, along with her husband and newborn baby, in a strike on an apartment in Al Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza.

Why protest? Because on day 202, Israel (with American support) committed five massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens. On day 202, the number of bodies discovered in three separate mass graves reached 392. In Ramallah, 16 year old Khaled Raed Arouq was shot and killed.

“It does concern me, but my daughter made the right decision. If she rather be arrested fighting for Palestine I will be the happiest daddy. If the police arrest me now I am willing to go with the students, because what I am doing is right: fighting against a genocide.”

Faculty at UT Austin are going on strike tomorrow to protest police and state troopers mass arresting and beating students.

Her best

Huge solidarity. THIS is how faculty show concern for students' safety. I hope those of us faculty elsewhere can collectively commit to do the same should we need to for our students.
What i really hope, though, is that universities stop sicking the cops on their students. ffs.

The Institute for Palestine Studies (Institute for Palestine Studies) has been translating and publishing messages from the people of Gaza as they undergo a genocide.

We're republishing them to share the realities for Gazans on the ground. This is the eighth installment.

proteanmag.com/2024/04/22/let…

NYPD is arresting peaceful protesters at NYU campus (among them faculty member professor Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون)

Handcuffed and in scrubs. Doctors who remained steadfast, refusing to leave their patients. Handcuffed, executed, and mass buried in their scrubs.

Israel is among history’s most depraved dealers of death

BREAKING: Police have flooded the encampment and given the warning, banging tents as they entered.

Students have locked arms around the flagpole, signaling their willingness to be arrested.

The crowd, several of whom are in tears, have begun singing “We shall not be moved.”

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity! docs.google.com/forms/d/1a1553…

I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Miguel Monteiro about my book for New Books Network 📚. Miguel took time for this while participating in a hunger strike for Gaza at Yale. We talked about the prose poem but of course also, as always, Palestine.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-arabic-pro…

Just learned that Columbia University has locked down every building on campus (deactivated swipe access) and that faculty wishing to visit their offices today require a campus police escort to gain access.

To ensure the delivery of life-saving aid to Gaza and to secure our safety, write to your congressional representative to demand the US pressure Israel into allowing us through the illegal blockade:
bit.ly/FreedomFlotill…

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Thank you for withdrawing. A call to every invited speaker:
Boycott Columbia and Barnard.