On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

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“Corrective action.” Donor class calls explicitly for violent repression of peaceful students, after first falsely demonizing them as a threatening mob. It’s a very old story. Again, Uni admin, which side are you on?

This same kind of argument would make econ sanctions targeting Xinjiang rights abuses impossible. How to divest from part of China? Supply chains are so complicated! 沒辦法! I’m calling my broker today to say I want them to try. Uni’s would have more impact if they did the same

The violent antisemite mob held a Seder.

Does anyone really think these guys are concerned about students? “Break up these mobs”!? Uni admin everywhere must stop playing into their game by implying that peaceful protest is not peaceful. Right wing is not sincere or friendly to academe. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Since these rich guys don’t really know what’s going on, uni presidents shouldn’t amplify false claims of antisemitism on campus, but rather fight back against exaggeration. They loose the $$ either way.

It’s become conventional to say this, but when did anti-war activism become exclusively “far-left.”? Americans are evenly split over whether US should keep sending bombs to Israel, split over how Israel is conducting the war —30-some % for each side. The mainstream is divided

These students are nothing short of HEROES for protesting at AUC and calling for divestment under an unfathomably repressive Egyptian government

The student movement is global and we are only just getting started ❤️‍🔥

何晓清参加了在美国乔治敦大学举办的一场纪念天安门事件35周年的对话会，她谈到民众与强权的抗争时表示：“八九年不是结束，而只是开始”。她还提到，无论是八九一代，还是香港反送中时的学生们，都没有真正认清中共政权。因为对中共来说，维护他们的政权就是最重要的事情。当年，各国对天安门事件的不作

China gets a lot of flak for expelling/denying/harassing journalists. Less covered - how India does the same.

Dear friends, #GeorgeWashington #University will offer both Beginner and Intermediate #Uyghur courses starting Fall 2024. For registration details, please visit the following link. my.gwu.edu/mod/pws/course…

It feels worth pointing out that 3 of the 4 anti-war protestors who were killed by the National Guard in the 1970 Kent State massacre were Jewish students.

BREAKING: Eleven members of the Advisory Committee on Muslim Life at USC have resigned as of Friday, the USC Muslim Student Union announced Monday, 'in protest against the University administration's decision to revoke Asna Tabassum's valedictory address at commencement.'

“Wielding undemocratic power in the name of keeping Jews safe will not ensure that ANYONE who has engaged in antisemitic behaviors or speech will change. It will instead reinforce … the idea that Jews have disproportionate power — a core antisemitic belief.”

Read the remarkable paragraph about contingent faculty. Admin may regret their ceaseless work to erode tenure: a proletarianized faculty is less invested in staying quiet on behalf of endowment and donors.

⁦The Harvard Crimson⁩ story fails to mention manhandling (assault) on one of the protestors by a young man apparently not HU security. Much speculation that he’s CSSA or a student working for PRC embassy thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

Columbia-type move by Harvard, suspending pro-Palestine group over technicalities. Always the move is to try to delegitimize the messenger. Or maybe HU thinks they’ll just go away? thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

Three universities—Columbia, USC, and now Yale—find themselves in quagmires rooted in their unprincipled and shortsighted embrace of identity politics. The drama now centers around the rights of Jewish and pro-Palestinian students. Both groups feel let down, even discriminated

The Columbia College student body overwhelmingly passed a referendum asking the University to divest from Israel, cancel the opening of the Tel Aviv Global Center, and end the Tel Aviv University dual degree program.
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