Let's get these testimonies out there and let's remember that, in many places, the movement for peace and justice in Gaza and the West Bank goes hand in hand with the movement for a living wage, child care and decent working conditions.

Let's meet some of the “outside agitators” doing the Lord’s work in this famous photo of the 1963 Woolworth's sit-ins in Jackson, Mississippi🧵

Here's the single sheet. Gut Shabbos!

I can't get over these optics. Objectively, you have local students doing free speech activities on campus, enshrined in the US first amendment. Then you have groups bearing the flag of another country pleading for police to harm them

A national model for minding your business!

“Philadelphia Police Department declines to disband encampment after Penn requests immediate help” thedp.com/article/2024/0…

This article — like so much of what Jewish Currents has published over the last 6 months — is very good jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a-m…

Israel shouldn't get to promote laws that make it illegal to criticize their government or boycott them. This is a fundamental violation of American rights.

A major tenet of the Jewish religion is that Jews are invited to question everything. This law intended to curb antisemitism is actually specifically anti-Jewish.

My statement on voting against H.R. 6090:

Sen. Sanders: 'I suggest to CNN and maybe some of my colleagues here, maybe take your cameras, just for a moment, off of Columbia and UCLA . Maybe go to Gaza, and take your camera show us the emaciated children who are dying from malnutrition because of Netanyahu's policies.'

Resign

My belief that Palestinians deserve to have their basic human rights respected is not contingent on anything American college students do or do not do. That would be extremely silly.

One of the more alarming things at this moment, in addition to the many alarming things about this moment, is that many smart people seem to be coasting entirely off propaganda and very few factually-based insights.

This is extremely scary.

Absolutely insane footage of the NYPD entering Columbia University. It’s endless.

I think the moral content of a protest matters, I think it’s the single most important thing actually, and the elaborate media pseudo debates about tactics, electoral impact etc—where we discuss everything but the moral content—is because the righteousness of the cause is obvious

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance

I have covered tons of protests over the years and the cop response to Columbia University tonight was more than I’ve ever seen. It felt like they were using these student protestors as an excuse to play with their military toys.

This was my first thought while watching the horrifying footage from UCLA. Just like Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians gives settlers permission to be violent, American police attack students, giving pro-Israel protesters permission to be violent.

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.