In the main quad at Università degli Studi di Milano University Milan the students of the #GazaSolidarityEncampment have planted a small olive 🫒 tree. A symbol of peace, but also a plant that has special meaning for Palestinians. A little gesture, but touching.

I guess it’s too soon, but are there any surveys about the impact of the Gaza protests at universities on Dutch public opinion?

The mainstream media coverage seems abysmal, fwiw.

Difficult read.

“U.S. medical volunteers in Rafah hospital say they've never seen a worse health crisis”

npr.org/sections/goats…

Happening now

Sorry, the authoritarian crackdown by university administrators on peaceful protest has nothing to do with Trump. This is about academic capitalism and the corporate-liberal ideology that has been used to justify it.

Since 2016, Hillary Clinton and Donald Tr*mp have grown more and more like one another. Neither is associated with any political cause but themselves, both are willing to do almost anything for money and when they appear in public they lie and complain they've been cheated.

Alexandre Kojève on France in 1945: 'It's hard for a country that created the ideological framework of Nationalism from scratch, and exported it all over the world, to recognize that it's just a piece of history to be filed away in the archives, and to embrace a new ideology.'

3, 2, 1… to the reactionary chorus of “UN says terror works”. But no. The UN just says genocide won’t work.

damn, the inequality of the student uprisings have indeed become the site for the truth of class to speak.

Please consider signing this petition against mandatory IDs on university campuses:

If I was a cynical person I would think my university's new 'student protest policy' is designed to make student protest impossible by drowning it in bureaucracy

Read this by saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي.
“The insistence, then, that “Jewish students” feel “unsafe” is a grotesque misrepresentation of Jewish student and faculty life on campuses across the country. Jewish students, like Jewish faculty—like any other group of people on any campus across the…

Uthrecht University staff statement: call for national walk-out on May 13 in support of Palestine protests and against Police violence. Please spread the word.

Punching left is the whole liberal m.o., my man. They've spent seven or eight years kissing up to Lynn Cheney and Bill Kristol and smearing Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

De CSR zegt het vertrouwen in het CvB op. folia.nl/actueel/161899…

Die honderdduizenden euro's aan vernielde 'kunst' van Halsema zijn dus die (Made in China) glimmende 'borstbeelden' die de Academische Club (UvA prestige campus hospitality services) de allure van een Oxford-sociëteit hadden moeten geven en daar al jaren stonden te verstoffen.

The University of Amsterdam’s official elected Student Council demands the resignation of the University’s Executive Board, for severely endangering the physical safety of students and staff parool.nl/amsterdam/cent…

Hillary should review the Rural White Rage book.

Now that I'm back on here, let me share my latest paper in Journal of Politics @[email protected]. In it, I defend democratizing Big Tech's algorithmic powers through Citizen Boards of Governance, which aims to promote and maintain the autonomy of the digital public sphere. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

1/2 For years, consequentialists have argued that any moral theory worth arguing for can be consequentialized (Pettit says this). Campbell Brown disagreed. Has anyone connected that debate to attempts to moralize realist pol theory?