I’m sure some of the protestors at Columbia are anti-Semitic and done have yelled things that are certainly anti-Semitic, but to paint this broad movement which includes many Jewish students as anti-Semitic is disingenuous. It is all about distracting us from genocide.

Proud to be a member of American Association of University Professors !

“History has made clear who stood on the wrong side then, and it’s clear that this is the side you are aligning yourself with now. This will be your legacy.”

—Columbia student newspaper on their university president. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

One student “feeling annoyed and “emotionally detached” by the ongoing protests” is not justification for calling in the NYPD to do mass arrests. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyr…

'We were shocked that President Shafik capitulated to its mendacious premises and failed to stand up for fundamental academic principles of honest intellectual inquiry and free expression.'
-- Jewish faculty at Columbia

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is what fighting to keep your job looks like as you throw free speech and academic freedom under the bus. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

Excellent analysis of corking and community by Dr. Lois Leveen.

Corking, joy, and community at PICA’s ‘Policing Justice’ exhibition

bikeportland.org/2024/04/16/cor… via @bikeportland

Look what arrived in the mail!

Let her speak.

The safety concern excuse is utter nonsense. USC, your bias is showing.

nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/…

Congratulations to Kevin Kenny for receiving the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, which recognizes the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States, for The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic (@OxUniPress)!

MiSC encourages you to read the entire Country Conditions Bulletin on #Guatemala , curated by MiSC scholars Ana Minian & Elliott Young at the Stanford Migration and Asylum Lab project.

Part 4 will be out soon, keep an eye out!

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

“Immigrant detention does not make us safer. Rather than caging migrants and refugees, the government should allow them to reside with friends, family or community members in the United States while it examines their cases.”

Great essay by Ana Minian.

nytimes.com/2024/04/14/opi…

Jason Herbert, Ph.D. Drew McKevitt (on a hiatus, mostly) Philip Shackelford Modern Scholar Podcast More good work for TIMEHistory’s madebyhistory this week, including Elliott Young on lessons from a groundbreaking 19C Mexican journalist:
time.com/6952920/mexica…

Review of my book in the San Francisco Chronicle : Stanford professor’s book makes case against immigrant detention datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-s…

Until these DOJ agreements mandate outcomes, they will be an expensive performance art on how to spend millions to fill out forms and check boxes, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.