#HigherEducation colleagues - excellent statement and opportunity to sign on as a signatory to the American Association of University Professors letter. #highered

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winner and one of the most important Jewish intellectuals in the world, adds his voice to debunk the narrative that pro-Palestinian protests on campuses is antisemitic. He calls it 'normal human empathy':

'What a large number of young people are…

Dear administrators who have few personal dealings w/ police,

Police will not keep campus safe. They bring violence, injury & escalation (and later lawsuits). You still can listen & dialogue with students.

Sincerely,
Someone who has studied criminal law & policing for 22 years.

‼️‼️BREAKING: SciencesPo Paris, the top university in France which hosts a dual degree program with Columbia, has just launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This officially marks the spread of the protests to Europe. So incredibly proud of my peers🔥🇵🇸💪

Today, April 24, 2024, the United States government is declaring war on it's own youth.

This is the mobilization of troops plain and simple.

The dumbest observation in the history of NY Times columns has been achieved, and that’s saying something.

University administrators in the United States have lost their minds.

🇵🇸BREAKING: NYU faculty have formed a chain around Gaza Solidarity Encampment as student organizers prepare to pray

The crisis at Columbia is a direct result of university leadership’s caving to pressure from bad actors- whose goal is to deepen the repression of pro Palestinian activism and speech and to undermine academic freedom and dismantle universities. Period.

If you’re conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, you are making Jewish people less safe. You are making Palestinians less safe. You are making Arabs and Muslims less safe. You are making Black, brown and white folks standing up for Palestine less safe. That is on you

People who think liberal professors radicalize their students haven’t talked to a college student recently. My students radicalize ME.

I wrote a short, practical piece about the problem of scale in relationship-rich education -- how can I be relational with so many students? Check it out: centerforengagedlearning.org/relationship-r…

📢📢📢NEWS: Diaspora Alliance is taking the British Government to court over their terrible antisemitism training contract which centres the IHRA definition on antisemitism. Bad for Jews, bad for Palestine advocacy, bad for civil liberties. Here’s why 🧵crowdjustice.com/case/fightanti…

Amid all the panic over the evidence for trans people's health care I need you to understand the Supreme Court just allowed a ban on medical care to take effect in response to an ADF brief that cited an op-ed by Pamela Paul as an authority on the matter motherjones.com/media/2024/02/…

In case people still want proof that the IHRA definition is used purely to censor academic work on Palestine.

If you claim to support academic freedom, you cannot also support the IHRA definition. It's either/or.

Solidarity with Jairo.

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a 'site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production.' Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Nearly every climate denial argument I’ve ever heard falls into one of these five categories.

1 - it’s not real
2 - it’s not us
3 - it’s not bad
4 - it’s too hard/costly to fix
5 - it’s too late

And you know which is growing the fastest these days? The last one 😳

Our next research seminar will take place online on 13th June with Dr Darren Webb, University of Sheffield: 'How and for what can one hope? Orientations toward the university in ruins' Details and sign up: buff.ly/3xGIEl9 #digitaleducation Sian Bayne Moray House School of Education and Sport

No one in their right mind thinks 7 October was anything but abhorrent.

But the IDF’s response over the past six months has been the most inappropriate and strategically flawed use of military force since we invaded Iraq in 2003.

And that is some bar to reach.