“As the people of Haiti work to regain their country, the global community needs to stand with them, too,” writes our incoming president Binaifer Nowrojee in @Devex, on our $20 million investment to support Haitian civil society: devex.com/news/opinion-h…

Students have been protesting for 36 hours now, with no signs of slowing down or surrendering to the demands of craven, elitist, genocide-supporting administrators. Truly an historic, beautiful action. The tide can't be held back.

Im begging Columbia profs not just to tweet in solidarity but to actively boycott— withhold their labor, stop grading and teaching classes, don’t administer tests… it’s the only way to protect the students

The ACLU calls the NYPD Strategic Response Group a “notoriously violent rapid response unit”

But that’s who Columbia University President Shafik called to come to campus—deployed to arrest students for the crime of peacefully protesting against genocide

Shameful & unacceptable

Just got out of jail after Columbia called NYPD to mass arrest 100+ students. I have been suspended and evicted from housing by Barnard. This has only strengthened my commitment to the movement for Palestinian liberation and I promise to continue fighting for divestment.

The press is being banned from the institution that administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

My friend watched an NYPD officer by Columbia University deny a student access to her own dorm which she needed to get into to get her epilepsy meds. She then collapsed and the officer failed to call an ambulance. They have his badge number Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams Jumaane Williams, can you help?

Important & informative read by Esra'a

'This is called metadata. It reveals a wealth of information about you and your connections, and in the hands of a centralized monopoly, this can and does get misused in incredibly dangerous ways.'

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Take a look around one of the #FreedomFlotilla ships sailing to Gaza with 5,000 tons of humanitarian aid & hundreds of participants. Governments must ensure safe passage & end Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinians. #breakthesiege
freedomflotilla.org #AllEyesOnDeck

Amb. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett 🇬🇾at today's Security Council Open Debate on #Palestine :

'As this Council prepares to consider the State of Palestine’s membership of the United Nations, Guyana sees a perverse paradox...'

If a Palestinian resists being murdered, they are a terrorist. If a Palestinian dies quietly in a genocide, they are guilty of forcing innocent Israelis to turn to violent self defense.

Now you tell me what you would do if you were born under the oppressive thumb of apartheid…

For Knight First Amendment Institute’s podcast, “War and Speech,” I talked with Palestine Legal’s radhika sainath about the free-speech climate on college campuses and beyond, and about the “Palestine Exception” to the First Amendment. Listen here:
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QTNA

Wondering when they'll deploy the National Guard. Because you know that's where this is headed. Kent State revisited.

Between Vedant Patel at The White House, Minouche Shafik at Columbia University and Sundar Pichai and sundry upper caste Hindu men at Google, all in the past 24 hours, I keep thinking of Prof Benjamin’s brilliant speech. Applies to all of us

Israeli air strikes now shaking Deir al-Balah central Gaza

Every single student in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment has been arrested at Minouche Shafik’s direct request. Shame on Columbia University. Solidarity to all our protesters and the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸

This, right here, is the imperial boomerang. The violence that the U.S. military inflicts across the world in the service of Empire is circling back to be deployed against dissent on U.S. soil.

Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide—we’re actively participating in it.

This week, my colleagues want to vote to send over $26B more of our tax dollars to Netanyahu as he carries out the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.