.The University of Chicago is blocking the graduation of at least 5 seniors without justification. Just a week before their June 1 graduation, admin emailed 4 of them that their degrees are being withheld. Admin claims these students may have been involved in the UChi Gaza solidarity encampment.

'We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.' — Important statement from Gaza academics and university administrators to the world:
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

All this material for ethical historians to mull over for decades when they write this story. People will shake in disbelief and horror. Joe Biden’s 21st century racism and brutality will be thought of the same way people today react in revulsion at the 19th century racism and

looking at images of people incinerated in tents and thinking of my university president who wrote that “an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others.”

Today the @NYTimes asked to interview me about the ICJ’s ceasefire order for #Rafah . This was my reply 👇🏽. Can’t wait for their response!

Palestine will be free.

May 27, 2024 | Pilsen, Chicago, IL

The sooner people in the West realise that they’re living in a bubble, the better for humanity & themselves. Your “democracy” is killing us. Your “politicians” are our war criminals. Your “journalists” are our genocide propagandists. Your “taxes” are burning our children alive.

If it were your people getting burned alive, I would never dream of telling you to vote for the person responsible. I know this much.

Really does make you feel insane that “beheaded babies” was *the* fiction breathlessly circulated in the media to render unthinkable any attitude toward Hamas other than condemnation, and now, finally, footage exists of headless infant corpses but they’re all Palestinian

As you see the charred bodies in Rafah, remember that Israel’s destruction Gaza’s hospitals and medical services means there isn’t a single burn ward left.

This is the alliance that can break American Zionism.

Nearly 8 months into this war and the Palestinian resistance is capturing new POWs in the north of Gaza and firing rockets on Tel Aviv from the south. Israel is nowhere near anything they can call victory and quickly running out of rope

'In a reactionary present whose days are clearly numbered, each encampment was a practice run for a revolutionary future.'

Beautiful essay by Eman Abdelhadi

I would urge The University of Chicago alumni, students, faculty and staff to consider signing this petition. Withholding degrees from peaceful protestors is outrageous.