BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting.

Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

FREE PALESTINE!

As her peaceful antiwar students were suspended to be arrested by armed NYPD, the Barnard prof president of a “free speech” organization writes that principled dissenters who have declined awards & invitations are silencing & erasing others.

Light years beyond satire.

I had somehow not clocked that Jennifer Boylan is faculty at Barnard — the fact that she was penning that sickeningly tone deaf response to PEN’s boycotting writers while her own students were demonstrating exceptional moral courage in the face of real harm is just too spot on.🤬

This editorial by the student newspaper at Columbia is fucking brilliant.

It deftly illustrates how the craven agendas of federal legislators and university administrators are ruining higher ed. and universal values.

It’s the students who save us. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

An SJP organizer, Maryam Alwan, smiling in the face of arrest. When you know you are on the right side of history, there is nothing to be afraid of. Columbia University University students refuse to back down! Via Columbia UniversitySJP

I don't want to hear a word of opposition to academic boycott ever again.

made the mistake of reading this 'response' by Jenny Boylan 🍯 and i'm feeling sick. the opening paragraph attempting to be cute, framing PEN America as the victim being bullied by unreasonable writers, then ending it by making this about herself?????

Minouche Shafik worked at World Bank & IMF, including during Arab Spring.

Arab Spring was propelled by debt crisis caused by IMF-imposed structural adjustment, austerity, privatization and repression of labour.

Her refrain was 'Arab world needs economic spring, not Arab spring'

Remember these days America, and remember why, what for, and who held the light

SHOP THE BOYCOTT: All books by the authors withdrawing from @PENAmerica awards available here!! Profits issued by Bookshop will be divided equally between UNRWA, which delivers life-saving aid to Gaza, and the Palestine-allied bookstore Word Is Change. bookshop.org/lists/2024-pen…

When it is entirely w/in the power of our govt to end a genocide--an ongoing massacre that has seen 85 children killed/day for 6 months--NO, it is not time for more dialogue. Honored to stand w/ these courageous writers & translators and say NO together lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

Academia has serious white supremacy problems ~ there are so many receipts

'This poet cannot look away, but he stops to salvage moments of bliss and beauty from the ruins of history.'
#Sinan_Antoon , Postcards from the Underworld (New Texts Out Now) #poetry #Iraq #trasnslation jadaliyya.com/Details/45921 via Jadaliyya

Bhakti Shringarpure The carcass has been rotting from within for a long time but all this will finally relegate most US academia to the dustbin...

'The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.”'

'Citing safety, USC bans pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking at graduation'

Poor little USC- they're so broke they literally cannot ensure campus safety if Asna Tabassum takes the stage. Meanwhile USC's public safety budget👇🏿

The NYT understands that language matters very much.

Clear language about genocide in Gaza, or the violent military occupation of Palestine would help Americans understand their culpability in the killing.

The New York Times wants to make sure its readers do not understand.

jfc

this leaked The New York Times memo re avoiding words like “genocide” & “ethnic cleansing” when it comes to what’s happening in palestine & gaza is worse than i’d imagined

our mainstream media keeps failing to meet these crucial moments. it’s wrong & a breach of journalistic ethics..

A shockingly spineless organization that now functions as a mouthpiece for #ButcherBiden and a war-hungry, Islamophobic and craven Democratic Party. It’s time for “CEO” Suzanne Nossel to resign and for this historically important organization to return to its actual mandate

What “open dialogue” are we supposed to have when Palestinians have been massacred by Israel, their homes destroyed and on the verge of destruction? We have been bearing witness to a Genocide that’s been life-streamed for over six months, and the language you use is “discord” and…