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Philosopher and scholar Judith Butler on the pervasive claims promoted by US politicians and media personalities that the Gaza protest encampments make universities unsafe for Jewish students.

(Full transcript and audio of our new interview here:
theintercept.com/2024/05/01/jud…)

It will be even more interesting to verify that those students and non-students alike will never vote for Biden, or for any of the Dems and Repubs supporting this authoritarian crackdown

Take a look at this photo from Drake White-Bergey📸, who captured UW-Madison professor Samer Alatout being detained at this morning's pro-Palestine protest on Library Mall:

The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

NOW: Protesters are rallying outside Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in support of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ which was set up earlier this morning

Students inside encampment are rallying with the crowd outside through the windows

It's so incredibly clear that the police stood aside and let a pro Israeli lynch mob run wild at UCLA. They did nothing for two hours as violent Zionists assaulted students, launched fireworks into the encampment, and sprayed mace on students.

This May Day, I'm hoping that the phone camera and social media can help people finally understand how police and others use deliberate provocations and 'false flag' actions to justify repression against protests.

I saw everything with my two eyes tonight, recorded and photographed it, and if anyone tries to both-sides what happened at UCLA tonight they are a fucking hack.

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

Imagine the amount of gaslighting needed to convince people that the real problem in the world right now is university students protesting a genocide we are all witnessing.

Spoke now w campus security UCLA & inquire why Zionist vigilantes allowed to attack the Gaza encampment & was told that campus police were DIRECTED by administrators to standby & allow Zio thugs to attack the protesters. UCLA admin greenlit the attack #GazaSolidarityEncampment

Zionist groups dressed like Proud Boys violently attack UCLA students while police do nothing.

Happy May Day!

Today the world celebrates the Haymarket Square martyrs, victims of a police provocation & conspiracy against a peaceful workers' protest for the eight-hour working day. This happened in Chicago, but the US does not mark the holiday.

It's time to bring it home.

These college protesters clearly don’t care about democracy!

The US state will stop at nothing to continue the slaughter of Palestinians. They will label our own kids nazis, use overwhelming force to crush their dissent, Biden will tank his own reelection just to make sure kids in Gaza can be bombed and starved. Unimaginable depravity.

This whole thread is terrifying. Pro-Israel counter-protesters (you know, the very educated and polite ones, or so I am told) are launching literal fireworks and mace against the UCLA encampment, injuring students, while the police watches from a helicopter

For a country founded on revolution, there sure are a lot of bootlickers

Every union member in the country should take a long, hard look at how the state is treating a bunch of rich college kids hanging out in tents on a college quad because all that shit is coming to a picket line near you very, very soon.

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.