At Columbia University journos are threatened with arrest + USC is closed to outside media.

Two of the best journo schools in the country folks + ours is the only job protected in the constitution. If not for incredibly brave student journos, we would have no form of witnessing.

Isn't it awful to read this tweet and have no idea which college or university this person teaches at because it could be almost anywhere? This is all of us now.

Will be yelling forever that student journalists are journalists. Some of the most principled, thoughtful reporters I know are students.

Prof of Middle East history here at a university that is not, today at least, locked down by its administration. If the The White House is planning to redefine words by executive fiat, should we expect the publication of an officially sanctioned Arabic dictionary?

The level of casual, assumed Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Western discourse and societies is frankly appalling. Even people who consider themselves educated feel free to be completely racist about 'Arabs.'

This is disgusting bigotry and it needs to be reversed with

At least 20 may have been buried alive in Nasser Hospital mass grave.

As NYU Journalism faculty-I'm noting that:

Here is a student journalist who appears to have been pepper sprayed by the NYPD

and is NOT being cared for or protected by:

1. The NYPD
2. NYU administrators b/c they invited NYPD
3. Campus 'safety' b/c they worked w/NYPD

A photographer for FOX 7 in Austin was arrested during the protests at University of Texas Austin:

you can’t scare me i’m a firstborn daughter

It is no coincidence that the heart of protest and attempt to suppress that protest with force is New York City,

the city with the largest Jewish population in the world by a long-shot (over 3x Jerusalem)

as well as the largest Jewish population *deeply critical of Israel*

Last night the Union Theological Seminary hosted a Seder for Jewish students suspended by Columbia and Barnard for standing up for Palestinians rights. Deeply moving on so many levels.

faculty getting arrested protecting students is so metal and cool