There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.

There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.

At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.

Marcelino works harvesting brussell sprouts in Oxnard CA. He spends his days hunched over cutting the vegetable and at the end of his day can barely walk from the pain in his waist. This is how he supports his family. #WeFeedYou

personal note on using your privilege: i have seen white people, countless times, place themselves in front of BIPOC when police draw weapons/approach protests. it often works.

do not be a person that just acknowledges their privilege, use it for good.

DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE:

they are not your friends. they are not there to protect you, regardless of your race. their presence there is to protect the interests of the state.

Yesterday, John McWhorter, a linguist who the NYT gives space to opine about racism, wrote an op-ed that declared the Columbia protests to be “abusive” to Jewish students, and placed the blame for that abuse on “anti-racist academic culture.”

I have thoughts.🧵

Reminder Nazis with tiki torches chanting 'Jews will not replace us' on campus in Charlottesville weren't touched and law enforcement presence was sparse.

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ve seen me write about this topic. A lot.

The dynamics are different today, but the fundamental premise remains: College campuses are being turned into battlegrounds for a wholly asymmetric conflict; a billionaire proxy war.

No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children.

You will not distract us from this immoral war.

Seeing way too much “college kids are out of control” and not enough “they’ve uncovered multiple civilian mass graves in Palestine”

This is NOT what vile antisemitism looks like. The media is not being fair and even handed about the Columbia campus protests.

Was listening to a descendant of a Holocaust survivor retell their story of persecution and when their grandparents moved to Israel and were offered keys to a home - they found plates set on the table. Realizing it was someone's home they immediately saw (con't)

The following is a statement by faculty at the department of sociology at Columbia University. (1/16)

Terrorism is reprehensible. Any efforts to intimidate Jews should be denied on college campuses and violators should be punished. But 'intimidation' does not include peacefully arguing any of the above points.
Indeed, as I have said before...

I'm a Jew-loving Jew. Anti-Semitism is never ok. Here's what is not anti-Semitism: Peaceful protest, criticism of the Israeli government, calling for an independent Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, using the term apartheid to describe Israel, questioning Zionism.

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An Indigenous female journalist made TIME MAGAZINE's most influential people of the year!! This is epic & I hope Indigenous person sees this and sees themselves! Connie is an incredible journalist who deserves all the accolades, award & recognition & is getting them/it all. 💥

The irony that a university named in honor of the most infamous genocider of the Americas—Columbus—is also ground zero for crushing anti-genocide protests in the twenty-first century should not escape notice.

This fall, I got an e-mail from a guy named JM Simpson who'd read things I'd written about homelessness. He mentioned he was a photojournalist in Olympia and that he'd been photographing the unhoused population there. He wanted to share some work with me . . . (1)

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This 'Statement on Christian Nationalism' is a framework for the imposition of the authoritarian Christian vision of governance detailed by the late R.J. Rushdoony - known as Christian Reconstructionism - & would open the door for 'biblical law', including execution by stoning.