In addition to tonight, Shafik is asking NYPD to occupy campus 'through at least May 17'

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:

Tomorrow Congress is holding more hearings on whether Jewish students feel safe enough, while tonight, Zionist protestors at UCLA are launching fireworks directly into the Palestine encampment, tearing down camp infrastructure & attacking students

Jewish Voice for Peace condemns NYPD assaults on students at Columbia and CCNY 🧵

SWAT AND SRG HAVE INVADED COLUMBIA’S CAMPUS AND ARE ENTERING HIND’S HALL. THEY HAVE FORCED OUT ALL PRESS TO PREVENT RECORDINGS OF THEIR BRUTALITY.

Instead of divesting from genocide, the Columbia president and the NYPD are doing this:
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Absolutely insane footage of the NYPD entering Columbia University. It’s endless.

Per WKCR, NYPD is threatening journalism school students, professors, and even the dean with arrest if they leave Pulitzer Hall

And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

Our neighborhood near Columbia is a closed military zone tonight. The Baroness has called in the NYPD to arrest the students. All so the genocide in Gaza can continue.

Mayor Adams is trying to bring the horrors of Kent State to NYC.

This is dangerous and reckless. The focus must be on de-escalation and protecting these students’ lives.

We’re proud to announce that M Lynx Qualey , founder of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly , will receive the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature in recognition of advocacy for Arabic-language literature in English.
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No one asks how Palestinian students are supposed to 'feel safe' at institutions who invest in and profit off of the murder of their relatives.

Israeli scholar of the Holocaust Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous.

“There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression.'

If McGill University's acknowledgment of being on unceded Kanien'kehá:ka territory is sincere, then it should honor the permission granted to the students by my community and nation.

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent “military age” men from fleeing Rafah, a senior Western official says

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My office was right by the encampment, and I cannot understand how it interferes with exams. It’s that little red circle.

Not a single notable the protest in the history of modern protest would meet the requirements of “acceptable” protest from many past free speech advocates.

“The songs played there evoked emotions of survival, and urged us to never give up and to preserve our language and religion.”