HAPPENING NOW: HUNDREDS OF JEWISH NEW YORKERS TAKE EASTERN PARKWAY RISKING ARREST ON THE SECOND NIGHT OF PASSOVER DEMANDING THE US GOVERNMENT TO STOP ARMING ISRAEL AND TO STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE.

The new independent report on UNRWA further underscores the need for the U.S. to urgently restore all funding for the agency’s vital humanitarian work in Gaza. Key takeaways ⬇️
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Hundreds of protestors calling for the US to stop sending weapons to Israel just blocked traffic at Grand Army Plaza

Now: Thousands of Jews in NYC at a Seder in the Streets to stop arming Israel as it bombs Gaza relentlessly. Passover is a holiday of freedom — there is no better way to mark it than being in the streets to end Israel’s unconscionable, daily violence.

It is a dark day for democracy when the Senate will not even allow a vote on whether U.S. taxpayer dollars should fund Netanyahu’s war against the Palestinian people.

Was listening to a descendant of a Holocaust survivor retell their story of persecution and when their grandparents moved to Israel and were offered keys to a home - they found plates set on the table. Realizing it was someone's home they immediately saw (con't)

Columbia University denied approval for a student webinar called 'Resistance 101.' When students held it anyway, the university reported the event to the FBI.

Last week, we submitted a FOIA to find out what Columbia told the FBI, and how the FBI responded.

So the “stabbed in the eye” report, which sent genuine fear rippling through Jewish communities, for good reason, turns out to be bogus. Here’s the video, it’s a grazing at most by a tiny flag, and turns out the “victim” is a known right wing provocateur

It is really disheartening to see our media and government officials smear and distort Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Anyone who studies social movement theory knows that fringe incidents are consistently overblown in order to delegitimize efforts for change.

How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped?

Why do we not know more?

Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?

'Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes.' --A new UN statement news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Students feel very unsafe at this university. universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.ph…

🧵 Quite. A. Con.

The US government has attempted to set up a fake legal 'narrative' without ever stating what the narrative is.

That is, they pretend the Fourth Geneva Convention doesn't apply to Gaza but completely obscure that position from the public. ...

Strong emphasis on bringing calmness and sanity.

As we approach the 54th anniversary of the Kent State massacre, where our government killed 4 and wounded 9 anti-war protesters on campus, we must push back on the vilification of anti-war protesters on college campuses.

Adopting the very Israeli tactics your students are protesting against them on your campus is a helluva way to confirm their argument...

It turns out that building universities on the neoliberal model of dependence upon billionaire donors, who in turn use universities as tools for dismantling public systems and the regulatory and tax codes that support them, has some downsides.

The Gaza solidarity encampment movement has risen at the very moment the US political class was moving to permanently repress opposition to the genocide on US campuses. Truly historic, in so much as it has raised the costs of repression and generated a crisis of legitimacy.

Students from JVP and SJP formed a Gaza solidarity encampment on the University of Rochester's campus a bit before 7 a.m. today. It has grown steadily since then.

Thank you Marc Lamont Hill for stopping by the Columbia encampment to share your wisdom and teach the students about sumud

MoTaz and Najla Said, daughter of the late Edward Said, have arrived at Columbia’s solidarity encampment in support of the student movement