Special The Dig coverage of selected talks from the inaugural World Academic Forum for Palestine which was hosted recently in Houston TX! Featuring Ussama Makdisi Noura Erakat ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, and Ghada Ageel Hamdan!

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Taking a week off from Thawra, our rolling series on Arab history, to bring you extremely powerful speeches from sawporg's World Academic Forum for Palestine.

Listen to Noura Erakat, Avi Shlaim, Ussama Makdisi, Ilan Pappé, Ghada Ageel Hamdan, Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي thedigradio.com/podcast/schola…

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Whether or not is symbolic, I hope my colleagues at Columbia are organizing a no confidence vote in their president. What a travesty.

'Shafik commitment to qualified form of freedom of speech is insincere. Nonviolent protest employing rhetoric that “historically meant different things to different people” is not making anyone unsafe—feeling uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe.' Bravo Columbia Daily Spectator

I liked that when Shawn Fain came to my studio, he pointed to the bottom of my tapestry (bottom-up is the correct order to read it) and said of the man holding the drill, “that was my job!”

'When the NYPD Strategic Response Group—which the New York Civil Liberties Union has repeatedly characterized as “notoriously violent”—is welcomed onto campus with open arms, it is Shafik who “disrupts campus life” and infringes on her supposedly paramount principle of safety.'

*Jewish* students were among the suspended and arrested, *Zionist* students applauded it.

Minouche Shafik worked at World Bank & IMF, including during Arab Spring.

Arab Spring was propelled by debt crisis caused by IMF-imposed structural adjustment, austerity, privatization and repression of labour.

Her refrain was 'Arab world needs economic spring, not Arab spring'

The student occupation at Columbia continues going strong more than 42hrs later despite violent repression from the school and police 🇵🇸🫡

have Columbia Journalism and dean jelani cobb come forward to publicly express concern or dismay over the mass arrests of hundreds of peaceful protesters at Columbia University today??

for a university dept comprised of our leading journalists, if there’s any time to speak out, it would be now…

if you are a Vice President Campus Life and you think its appropriate to make a student homeless overnight over a protest, you should resign and be barred from ever working with students again

The first sentence? An explicit call for (state) violence.

The second sentence? “You have to be a fool to think violence does anything but hurt your cause…”

On the same day the United States does Israel’s bidding by vetoing a resolution to allow Palestine to join the United Nations, Israel pays back the favor by escalating and striking Iran

What is going on here Barnard College Columbia University?

How does a student with no disciplinary record suddenly get to a suspension less than 24 hours after a nonviolent protest?

What merits asymmetric crackdowns on Palestinian human rights protests?