The AAUP & our chapters defend the right to free speech & peaceful protest on university campuses, condemn the militarized response by institutional leaders to these activities, & vehemently oppose the politically motivated assault on higher education.

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“Just as our movement is led by students, at the seder, it is the youngest who ask the hard questions and demand answers.”

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While media is demonizing Muslims & the left as 'antisemitic,' I looked up the ADL data on antisemitic hate crimes. ADL data goes back to 2002.

If you had to guess what % of antisemitic hate crimes were from Muslims vs Leftists vs Right, what would you guess?

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A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can:

'Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts.' cleveland.com/news/2024/03/o…

Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:

Law enforcement or private militias?Secret funding from corporations & the wealthy leaves the police “beholden to the companies and powerful donors bankrolling them, rather than the communities that officers are sworn to serve.”

The NYT did an amazing job of describing JMA's beautiful soul:

Jean Maria Arrigo, Who Exposed Psychologists’ Ties to Torture, Dies at 79 nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/…

During the last Presidential election, I spoke about how capitalism and trauma mesmerize us to inaction in the face of impending climate catastrophe. And here we are again, only worse.
Radical psychoanalysis has a solution: “Mourn and Mobilize.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad…

POLITICO No need to fall into the trap of believing Abu Zubaydah’s was a top al Qaeda operative. CIA has admitted he was not. He was the Excuse to Inflict #Torture (EIT). Adrian M Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark #ForeverPrisoner for deeper dive. Never legally “accused”.

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I was on CBS Mornings today with Margaret Brennan talking about visit to 🇺🇸 this week of Ukrainian children rescued from Russia. Check it out and share this important story 👇

The rough solution has been clear for decades. It is only corruption on all sides that has prevented real negotiations. The world must support the people on both sides who would welcome freedom from corrupt governments thriving on hatred.

Do I actually have a vision for how to proceed in a way that achieves justice & peace for Palestinians and, ultimately, Israelis? People way smarter than I have been articulating visions for decades - it's actually not super hard. But sure - here are the 3 main components:

Gaza

What is increasingly apparent is that Israel is improperly interpreting the Geneva Conventions to permit almost unlimited harm to civilians in military operations --- and that's despite their fundamental purpose to protect civilians as much as possible from the horrors of war.

On the other hand…

Unprincipled shame. What do we think of people who take money from right wing authoritarians to ruin for officer?

Here’s another:

One of the few thoughtful threads, based on the evidence thus far.

Member of UN Human Rights Marcia V. J. KRAN says no US officials have been held accountable for creating, authorizing or implementing CIA torture program. Asks US its plans to investigate HR violations from the program & ensure perpetrators are held accountable & punished.

#f24debate Shouldn’t the world prepare for a UN administered transitional administration in Gaza, with peacekeeping & a temporary civil administration to achieve a democratic, independent state of Gaza on the model of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor?

Who will impose the rules, and who will bring charges for the war crimes? It’s time for a public ICC tribunal now, so the leaders know they will be held accountable.

The Jewish fighters of the ghettos, facing total extermination, did not target civilian families in surrounding towns, even though they had that opportunity. Ghetto fighters were not terrorists. Terrorism, whether state terrorism or terrorism in response, must be condemned.