Statement from 25+ Human Rights Clinics and Centers:
'We are deeply concerned that many of our universities are undermining human rights by enlisting police forces to disperse and arrest nonviolent student protesters calling for Palestinian human rights.' drive.google.com/file/d/1HgYrmA…

In response, Columbia University has fully locked down campus. We can’t get in to offices, students can’t get in to take exams. It’s clear that Columbia’s own measures are doing the most to disrupt student life right now.

I was on The ReidOut a couple days ago talking about the protests on the Columbia University campus, and she asked me about how I got thrown under the bus by my president at the Congressional hearing a few weeks ago - check out my response here:

UN human rights chief calls out US universities' clampdown on pro-Palestine protests: 'legitimate exercises of the freedom of expression cannot be conflated with incitement to violence and hatred.' ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Columbia waking up to find that Gaza solidarity protestors have occupied Hamilton hall—as students did when protesting the war in Vietnam and Apartheid South Africa: columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/3…

UN’s top independent expert on human rights defenders finds Columbia University’s imminent crackdown on Gaza solidarity encampment to be a violation of their right to assembly:

NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns

Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM

Across the country, university faculty have been calling for what should be obvious: that our students should be able to speak out on Palestinian human rights without being arrested or brutalized by police: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

.Columbia University announces that it will once again crack down on nonviolent Gaza solidarity encampment despite calls from the UN to @HRW to @Amnesty to the ACLU to protect the right to freedom of assembly and expression:

Read journalists who are actually taking the time to see the Gaza solidarity encampments firsthand:

We spent weeks documenting airstrikes in southern Gaza and found that civilians were killed in areas the Israeli government had explicitly designated as safe zones. Our exclusive report👇

Human Rights Watch slams university crackdowns on Gaza solidarity protests, including at Columbia University: hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

If you're more mad about the college campus protests against mass graves than against the mass graves themselves you should probably take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.

Really going to incredible lengths to avoid having alums and donors hear the law school valedictorian say 'Free Palestine' or whatever

American institutions would rather cancel graduations, violently arrest students & teachers, and deploy snipers on the roofs of college campuses than let you criticize a government that’s killed 34,000 people.

Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.

The UN's top expert on freedom of expression slams campus crackdowns on Gaza protests: 'Criticising Israel is perfectly legitimate under international law.' news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Top United Nations expert on right to expression condemns #ColumbiaUniversity and other US universities’ repression of student protests twitter.com/UN_News_Centre…

.@AmnestyUSA slams college crackdowns on Gaza protests: “Instead of facilitating and protecting their students’ right to protest, universities’ administrations have gone to great lengths to quash it, even involving local authorities and demanding arrests” amnestyusa.org/press-releases…

One of the demands of this occupation was to remove “Public Safety” from USC for their targeting of Black and brown students.

The first second of this clip depicts a Public Safety cop putting a student in a chokehold.