This side by side is crazy

New comic, 'Campus in Crisis,' in Jewish Currents. Full comic here: jewishcurrents.org/campus-in-cris…

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

I thought this, by David N Myers, was (unfortunately) excellent
forward.com/opinion/608479…

Full circle:

Just spoke to the Stanford Student encampment via zoom.

I was calling in from South Africa, where I am working with figures from the anti-apartheid movement to strategize and act to end the slaughter in Gaza and to achieve freedom.

As a student at Stanford,…

This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

I spoke to the crowd of faculty, postdocs, students and staff outside our locked gates today about how we got here, what we’ve learned, and who we are. fsjp-cbt

If anti-genocide protesters had orchestrated this sort of brutal assault against Zionist counter-protesters it would be a front page story for weeks. Because it was a Zionist/fascist attack on supporters of Palestinian liberation there’s a mainstream media blackout.

The Biden Pitch

Wrote for The Nation about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. thenation.com/article/activi…

Israel destroyed all the universities in Gaza.

When I was 11, I was a victim of police brutality just for being Black in America. Now I see that brutality being inflicted on peaceful students at Columbia and across the country.

We must stand with our students to demand liberation for Palestinians and everyone in this world.

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm

At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia…

This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

Israeli scholar of the Holocaust Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous.

“There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression.'

I appreciated the chance to talk to AJ+ about the situation here and the climate we are facing. Much gratitude to every journalist who actually comes here and shows the world what it’s like.

Imagine what the uproar would be if this were someone wearing a Palestinian flag coming to tear down an Israeli flag off a building

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

the.ink/p/joseph-stigl…

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