This is what the violence we're seeing on campuses is designed to defend.

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik from UCLA (& former Columbia U) Professor Robin Kelly

“In forty years, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty.” bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

Evan Hill The characterization of protesters renaming this building Hinds Hall in memory of a little girl who was killed by the IDF while she called ambulances for help, is just truly depressing.

Israel's Finance Minister and de facto governor of the occupied West Bank called for the 'total annihilation of Gaza' yesterday haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

People are still being killed in Gaza. Don’t lose focus.

“Why are there so many arrests?” Ben-Gvir allegedly asked. “Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”

Those arrest warrants can’t come fast enough

Utterly sinister to see US university admin using brutalising force and denying the basic civil liberties of their students and staff. And for this to be happening in step with the assault on Rafah? This violence is innate to these institutions, their complicity is undeniable

A ground operation in Rafah will be nothing short of a tragedy beyond words.

“I saw my severed hand lying next to me”

Said Samiya Abu Ghleibah,10-year-old girl.Three of her cousins were killed, and she was injured by an Israeli airstrike on her family’s home,resulting in the immediate amputation of her hand & multiple shrapnel wounds all over her body‼️

We, Jewish researchers, demand Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) put an end to all research contracts sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of Israel. We want our research to benefit humanity not destroy it. Read the full press release here: mitsage.org

A full scale invasion on Rafah would be a humanitarian catastrophe.

We appeal to Israel not to proceed. We urge all parties to work for a ceasefire and lasting peace.

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

This is the kind of report that will be entered into evidence for the ICJ case. Incredibly important and well-done.

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza - bellingcat bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

What's unusual is:

* state troopers kneeling on protester's heads
* snipers on rooftops overlooking student commons
* campus police tackling professors seeking to deescalate violent arrests
* cameramen being arrested for livestreaming the crackdowns

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

Hind will stay with me til I die. I will never, ever get over what happened to her. #ceasefireNOW

Hind Rajab died one of the most horrifying deaths you could imagine for a kid — or anyone — surrounded by her dead family in a car, terrified as IDF forces moved in. the kind of story that sits in your stomach for years after you hear it. honoring her in this way is so beautiful.

rightwing efforts to defund higher ed began in the 1960s because . . . wait for it . . . that's when the Civil Rights Movement & Student Protest opened higher ed to people of color and all women.
inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

The Srebrenica tactic in real time.