'Police being here doesn't mean we lost...it means we won in the most glorious way possible. This university offered us an empty deal. We did not concede. We did not fall for their bribes'

Columbia University encampment protester speaks on NYPD's invasion on students.

Biden incited his security forces with racist smears against the students now being arrested by regime police

Columbia faculty: We “have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored.”
Says administration + Trustees “will bear responsibility” for any injury that may occur in looming police action.

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance

It cannot be overstated how dangerous it is to send trigger happy American police officers into university campuses armed to the teeth against students.

I hope no one is hurt engaging in their first amendment right to protest a genocide.

This is a very scary situation and

In the U.S. under Joe Biden they send stormtroopers to schools to arrest and beat up students who oppose his genocide.

This is supposed to be the lesser evil?

BREAKING: Riot police deployed multiple rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets on student protesters at the University of South Florida.

BT’s Rania Khalek will be joined by CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin for a special live episode of Dispatches to discuss the corporate media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

WATCH Wed May 1 at 9am ET: youtube.com/live/xk6SxTVFj…

BT's Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is a threat to humanity.

Watch the full speech: youtu.be/1jvAVHdvSzU

BREAKING: Today, I disrupted Secretary of “Defense” Lloyd Austin during a House meeting. I couldn’t just listen to him talk about U.S. leadership while the whole world is watching U.S. complicity in the genocide occurring in Gaza

Gaza is a lens into what the imperialists have planned for the future

BT's Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is a threat to humanity.

Watch the full speech: youtu.be/1jvAVHdvSzU

Voter: How do you feel about sending billions to Israel?
Sen Sheldon Whitehouse: “Proud of my vote.”
V: “As an anti-Zionist Jew—I’m your constituent, I grew up here—we care about the safety of Palestinians…can we count on you to call for a permanent ceasefire?”
W: “No. Nope.”

Why western support for Israel is not exceptional, by Joseph Massad middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-we…

Senator, word of advice: Take your message to the candidates, not the communities whose families are being slaughtered. Arab Americans aren’t on the ballot in November - Biden and Trump are.

Not going to be lectured by someone who believes Palestinian lives are disposable.

In 1986 we occupied the Dean’s office & built a shantytown in Harvard University Yard to force the university to divest from companies profiting from apartheid S. Africa. They threatened us with expulsion. We said, “F*uck you, we won’t do what you tell us.” Students! Thanks for keeping

Thousands of Greek students demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Athens in solidarity with Gaza and the student uprising in the US.

Columbia Gaza Encampment Holds Rally As University Threatens Arrests twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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