should we be concerned that the professors who are taking on the greatest risk of being beaten and arrested seem to be mostly historians

Anyone who cares about free speech & expression should be feeling cold blood in their veins as USG rushes to silence, censor, & brutalize those critical of Israel's extremist gov.

Bills like this are political weapons. Once forged, they will be wielded for much, much more.

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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The NYPD Union is now suing to allow cops to keep using steroids. Read that again.

Why metadata matters, and can be a goldmine of dangerous information

simplex.chat/blog/20240416-…

This seems like the right time to re-up this safe protest guide Sarah A | ساره and I put together with our friends from Hong Kong, Chile, NYC, & Beirut at the beginning of the BLM protests: github.com/frombeirutwith…

BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting.

Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

FREE PALESTINE!

This poem is the “inappropriate content” B’nai Brith insisted—and apparently convinced Toronto Public Library—must be removed from the library.

Refaat was a beloved poet, scholar, teacher who was assassinated by Israel in Gaza alongside his family.

May his memory be a blessing.

Horrifying: Israel bombs Gaza's overcrowded Tuffah neighbourhood with insane airstrikes while its full of people without any prior warning.

This carnage happens at the exact same time Western media is claiming the war on Gaza has entered a phase of 'low intensity'!

Have u ever had to cancel graduation for a whole year bc u were afraid someone would say something about an ongoing genocide

Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.

Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.

Extremely important research.

It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state. 👇

Expect a whole lot more solidarity protests with Columbia. Auntie Shafik didn't want an Arab Spring, but she's gonna get Solidarity Summer.

I want to be as brave as Ruha Benjamin when I grow up

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

📢NEW FROM ME!

On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…

What a sad and shameful statistic for humankind

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history”

newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

This is both terrifying and deeply, deeply stupid.