Unileitung hatte offenbar weder Strafantrag wegen Hausfriedensbruchs noch wg Sachbeschädigung gestellt; und versucht zu einer Einigung mit Studierenden zu gelangen – dennoch hat Berliner Senat die Räumung befohlen, am Tag des Jahrestags des Grundgesetzes.

published today! my thoughts on Jürgen Habermas, clampdowns on public assembly, intellectual cowardice, and the collaboration of many prominent German institutions with Israeli genocide PEN Sydney Sydney Writers' Festival

There will be no equity in education and educational leadership if folks cannot name and address racism

Teeside University can afford to pay its Vice Chancellor £300,000 but not to pay the fees of Nigerian students whose savings have been wiped out by the collapse of the naira. Happy to hang onto what they paid until then, though

In the end, everything goes down to one thing: racism, a deep racism.

It’s thoroughly disappointing and disgusting to see Justin Trudeau deploy the racist trope of barbarity, contrasting Hamas heads as “bloodthirsty terrorists” with Israel’s “democratically elected leaders”, to whitewash — or “Westwash” — Netanyahu’s crimes. globalnews.ca/news/10514595/…

This is huge. The students managed to achieve what faculty organising failed to do for years. They are giving us a solid win to build on & have built a powerful movement to continue the struggle for full divestment and boycott. Gratitude to these amazing students. An inspiration.

„Nor, as the German government seems to have forgotten, is an appropriate response to the Holocaust defending the Israeli government regardless of what it does rather than affirming human rights standards regardless of who violates them.“

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Like in what world is 'I'll starve people' an acceptable answer to anything