It's World Press Freedom Day. And nobody deserves our respect, solidarity and admiration today more than the brave and determined journalists of Gaza. We would be blind without them and they are the best of us.

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

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

A Jewish student taking part in the encampment at Columbia Univesity says he feels '100% safe” and that US officials are trying to evade Israel’s war crimes by focusing on 'Anti-Semitism' on college campuses

🇵🇸 While people across the world have been taking bold action in support of Palestine, the global north ruling class has used all tools at its disposal to support Israel’s genocide and criminalize solidarity.
An article by Vijay Prashad. peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/23/eli…

#ICYMI : A federal court ruling ordered #CBP to stop holding undocumented minors in squalid open-air detention sites in SoCal & to transfer all children held in such locations to 'safe and sanitary' spaces. commondreams.org/news/migrant-c… #USMXborder

On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have…

HUGE crowd gathering right now at USC to protest the cancellation of valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s graduation speech.

Solidarity with the students!

LET ASNA SPEAK! #LetAsnaSpeak

Meanwhile, Congress is about to hold its second hearing on campus antisemitism this week.
It has not yet chosen to hold a hearing on anti-Palestinian or Islamophobic violence & repression.

Texas students want an American Indian/Native Studies course. And one is ready! Great piece from @WFAA youtube.com/watch?app=desk… Tell the State Board Chair to move the process forward by adding AI/NS to their meeting agenda! Link to petition below:

A Berkeley Law professor assaulted a student as she was speaking up about UC Berkeley’s ties to Israel’s genocide in Gaza at a dinner on the final night of Ramadan. The institution has over $2 million invested in weapons companies that supply Israel.

Tens of thousands of murdered Palestinian children didn't move the Democratic Party needle. It was the World Central Kitchen massacre that rattled Dems.

Past 24 hours, Israeli forces:
–found to have destroyed Al-Shifa hospital & brutally killed hundreds of people
–methodically killed aid workers of Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen from US, Australia, UK, Canada, Palestine, and Poland
–bombed Iran embassy in Syria

US meanwhile:

We need a word beyond genocide for the level of Israeli violence against the Palestinians.

WATCH: FBI visit the home of an American Muslim Woman’s home to question her about her pro-Palestine social media posts after they were flagged by @meta’s Facebook!

What she did right:
1. Refuse to speak to them without a lawyer.
2. Refuse to let them in her house.
3. Record…

The Latino Racial Justice Circle is raising money to support the families of the 6 victims of the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, immigrants who were supporting partners and children in the Southeast Baltimore and Dundalk communities. gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

Six immigrant workers are presumed dead after Tuesday's bridge collapse in Baltimore. Journalist Maximillian Alvarez says the disaster shows the crucial role of immigrants in many dangerous jobs. 'We are not coming to this country to ruin it,' he says. 'We're workers just like you.'

Excellent coverage on the disgusting suspension of Jairo I Fúnez-Flores for speaking out abt Gaza. He reminds us all that silence is complicity but also highlights academic hypocrisy. Pls watch, share, & continue to raise your voice for Palestine.

Rachel Corrie has become a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Now, Rachel’s parents tell her story “as a portal” to help Americans understand the “horror that’s going on now” in Gaza.