Norm Finkelstein addresses Columbia students. Doesn't give a barn-burning speech. Instead, soberly lectures on the need for messages to resonate, now is the time to persuade 80% of Americans, and criticizes activists for extremist ambiguous slogans.
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Much is being said about former ICJ President Joan Donoghue's interview in BBC HARDtalk, particularly her view that the ICJ 'did not find a plausible case of genocide'. A few thoughts 🧵

Regarding the argument that a peaceful demonstration restricts campus access: a couple of weeks ago, an anti-gay, anti-feminist, antiabortion and ultraconservative group picketed Northwestern's campus. They had a very bad bagpipe player and a bunch of banners. (1)

the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a 'nut zone' for the safety of kids with allergies.

Unarmed, middle-aged, female philosophy professors? What is happening in America right now? Imagine if you saw these scenes in Iran or Venezuela, imagine then the U.S. media response.

Insanity

The whole point of trying to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, as backers of Israel's apartheid regime do, is to turn opposition to Zionism into opposition to Jews and as such frame it as discrimination to circumvent free speech protections. The entire aim is repressive.

Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya says the group would accept a Palestinian state on 1967 borders and dissolve its armed wing.
This is significant and consistent with what the group has signalled for decades. But the West has not successfully engaged.
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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’ zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewis…

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?

My stomach is in knots over the EMTALA case in the Supreme Court today.

Here’s what’s at stake:

Let’s make a list of public/state schools with Gaza protests: 1/x

The outrageous clampdown protests against Israel's slaughter in Gaza are not isolated incidents. They reveal a larger, ominous reality:

To sustain blind support for Israel, Western countries are forced to erode their own democracies.

We are seeing clear signs of this. In the…

Al-Shifa is no longer the name of a hospital but of a massacre

« The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City…

English-language readers are probably aware of the recent arrest and persecution of Palestinian-Israeli Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on suspicion of incitement. This has been framed as an act of 'Ben-Gvir's police force', the extreme right Minister of National Security

Four stories that should be getting more coverage than what’s happening at Columbia University by mainstream media:

1. Mass graves with the bodies of children, hospital patients and others found near Gaza hospital.

2. Tomorrow a freedom flotilla with hundreds of people from…

Gallant: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

Israel lies pathologically!
A🧵of dozens of conclusively debunked Israeli gov lies since Oct 7, off the top of my head

1- The IDF blatantly claimed this underground WATER TANK was a 'Hamas tunnel' their ground troops discovered at the Qatari hospital in Gaza on Nov 5 2023…