What Jennifer Finney Boylan fails to understand is that there is a categorical difference between authors 'silencing' themselves and authors *refusing* to participate or engage with an organization
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Per NYPD at least 108 protestors arrested at Columbia today, and some of them were mean to the cops who were arresting them for sitting on a lawn :’(

As a Columbia University alum, I am horrified to see the university’s violent and repressive crackdown on courageous students exercising their essential rights and freedoms.

I note the deafening silence of Institute for the Study of Human Rights & HumanRightsInstitute with particular dismay.

here at @usc where a considerable crowd has come out to protest against the cancellation of valedictorian asna tabassum’s speech

The fact that Columbia and Barnard are suspending 'the main organizers' of the encampment raises the uncomfortable question of how, exactly, they know who those people are.

I have always loved that in Arabic a campus is called: حرم الجامعة [the sanctuary of the university]. It is sacral. That is what Shafik violated today.

They're pouring out all the coffee and stomping on all the food.

Vote on the State of Palestine admission to the UN
12 in favor of: Algeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Ecuador, Russia, China, France, Slovenia, Malta, Japan, Republic of Korea
1 against: USA
2 Abstentions: UK, Switzerland
Thank you to all those who rise to the…

I’d like to hear from those who know, but this feels bigger than 68

It’s the Streisand effect, day after day, all day long lol. College kids are smart. You can’t fool them any more than you can put a lid on freedom! The more you try to forbid them from learning about liberation, the more they WILL teach each other.

Google literally sent a blatant threat letter to every single one of its employees after firing 28 people for protesting its $1.2B israel contracts

“if you’re 1 of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again”

'18 year olds who voice political views I disagree with should be subjected to state violence. also, I am the victim here'

We see you, we hear you, and we send the cops to arrest you

I’m only a graduate student but the experience of seeing my students get arrested for a peaceful demonstration is really upsetting—I can’t imagine being an administrator and being like yeah send in the cops

Dissent will only grow from here. We should expect more protests around the country

As the NYPD’s sweep of the Columbia encampment begins, the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, who personally authorized this use of state force to suppress student protest, hits send on her five-paragraph essay reminding “us all” to “remember the values of empathy and respect.”

🚨UPDATE: Students have taken to the streets to prevent the corrections buses with the students from leaving. The student body is on the side of the Encampment and Palestine!!! COME TO 114 and AMSTERDAM to show solidarity and protect our own!!!

McCarthyite doesn’t capture the kind of backlash we’re experiencing. This is an attempt to crush legitimate protest against an unfolding genocide against Palestinians backed and funded by the United States. Solidarity with Dr. مُحَمَّد‎!

Suspending & arresting Columbia University/Barnard College student activists & disbanding student orgs — including Jewish students & orgs — doesn’t combat antisemitism or increase safety.

All it does is punish and intimidate those who believe in human rights for Palestinians. Shameful.

It’s a dark day for academic freedom.