It’s 2 pm — the deadline Columbia’s president set for students to leave the encampment.

But the tents are still there, and now the lawn is surrounded by hundreds of protesters advocating for divestment

“The only reason we didn’t descend into violence that day was that the students remained calm. They were the only adults in the room.” —Nadia Abu El-Haj on the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia go.nybooks.com/4ddotM7

At Emory University in Atlanta, economics professor Caroline Fohlin was attempting to protect students by asking Atlanta police officers “what are you doing?” when they violently arrest her and throw her to the ground.

As word got out that pro-Palestinian protesters were planning to occupy a lawn on the University of Texas campus, Gov. Greg Abbott made a dramatic move: calling in more than 100 state troopers with orders to clear them out. wapo.st/4beXL3J

Noelle McAfee, the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest on campus.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
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Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

Over the moon here! Go, Henry nieman.harvard.edu/news/2024/04/h…

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It's been a tough few weeks for Iranians. Crackdowns on women & dissent, tit-for-tat attacks with Israel, plunging currency and threat of war put Iranians on edge

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