USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum joined me on NewsNight tonight after her school cancelled her graduation speech citing “threats.” What she planned to say and what she thinks really happened:

At around 4am today, hundreds of Columbia University students descended on the main lawn and launched the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

Nearly 60 tents were erected in minutes, with plans to remain until the school divests from Israel’s genocide of Palestine.

good news: prosecutors are dropping their criminal 'theft of advertising' case against two black students who made an alterante front page of The Daily Northwestern to protest genocide in gaza. by Connor Echols in The Intercept. thx to everyone for yelling abt this! theintercept.com/2024/02/07/pal…

Brown University is doing everything they can to make sure the press doesn’t cover the fact that 19 of their students are on hunger strike calling for Brown to divest from weapons manufacturers. Let’s make sure the story gets out: providencejournal.com/story/news/loc…

Zionist orgs (ADL, SWU, & others) have been testing out the talking point that “talking about Israeli colonialism is Soviet propaganda” — linking arms with white nationalists who call teaching about race “socialism.” Success: it has reached the Democratic mainstream.

See this Instagram post by @sjp.columbia instagram.com/p/C2bQvdGtE8j/…

Congrats to VictoriaLaw

This makes me sick to my stomach. A beautiful prayer I've known since childhood used by an brutal army as a symbol of dispossession, violence, and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.

This is the Israeli Army in the WEST BANK. If this is not your Judaism you must raise your voice NOW -- we have a future to win and a moral center of Judaism to safegaurd. The risks are worth it.

German media: “saying free Palestine is the new Heil hitler!”

Meanwhile in Poland:

Israel’s relentless bombing campaign has left nowhere safe for Palestinians in Gaza. 🧵

Israel has not stopped targeting homes, schools, hospitals, universities, cultural institutions, refugee camps, water desalination plants and other essential civilian infrastructure.

To paraphrase James Baldwin, to be a writer is to witness. I wrote this on why Palestinian liberation is #DisabilityJustice

Please read and share

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/why…

#FreeGaza #FreePalestine #CripTheVote #AltTextPalestine #DisabilityRights #IDPwD

WATCH: our incredible Arabic team lead Ayah explains how language is being weaponized in coverage of the crisis in Gaza, and why mistranslations and errors can perpetuate violence against Palestinians.

We need your help to sustain this critical work: givebutter.com/RCTgive

Our unions Executive Council is proud to join the many Labor Unions across the country in signing the The US Labor Movement Call for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. Click to sign as an individual as well.
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Gaza through the eyes of Kegham Djeghalian, an Armenian-Palestinian photographer

He opened Gaza's first photo studio in the 1940s and lived there until the 70s

His photos document life in this Palestinian city by the sea before Israel's occupation

vice.com/en/article/qjp…

UPDATE: Mosab Abu Toha has been freed. Grassroots pressure freed him, but Israel continues to unjustly detain thousands of Palestinians, including 200 men mass arrested with Mosab. Join us at 12pm ET/9am PT TODAY to take action: bit.ly/FreeMosabPhone…

#CeasefireNOW
#FreeThemAll

BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin just called for a cessation of hostilities and #ceasefireNOW in Gaza. This is big. Thank you, Congressman, for your leadership on ending this horrific humanitarian crisis that’s already claimed the lives of over 12,000 civilians. raskin.house.gov/2023/11/statem…

Thank you Rep. Becca Balint & Rep. Jamie Raskin for being the first two Jewish representatives to call for a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities to save lives. Your voices are critically important.

Every life is precious. Every life is an entire world.

We desperately need a #Ceasefirenow