Strong read. Again, putting thoughtful, progressive Jewish students like this more front and center is smart politics for the protest movement on multiple levels.

cnn.com/2024/04/27/opi…

Noelle McAfee says she was arrested after telling a cop to stop “pummeling” a young person who was already on the ground. She stood 4 feet away from police. They told her to move; she said “no,” and they took her. She tears up remembering the kid, wondering if they are OK.

Messages of support and strength from Rafah to the student movement ❤️ this is who we fight for

In which we learn that Princeton was fine graduating a student who took part in the January 6 assault on Congress but will expel a finishing PhD student for sitting on the grass.

As many have said, the crackdowns threaten academic freedom and freedom of speech. But that doesn't fully capture what is happening and what's at stake.

The crackdowns are likely *discriminating* due to viewpoint—and perhaps on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion. 1/

Universities are like, “we foster close relationships between our faculty and our students by, for example, locking them up in the same jail cell.”

after all this university administrators will pretend like nothing happened and ask us to serve on DEI committees in the fall

“As the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world, we unequivocally reject the conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and reaffirm in the strongest terms that there is no place for antisemitism in our movements.”

Our full statement:

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/04/25/sla…

philosophy chair getting arrested, an econ prof getting her head smashed against concrete, a street medic being held down and tased, snipers setting up vantage points to shoot at ohio state students -all because of nationwide protests against a genocide- you SHOULD be radicalized

We might as well cite her...

“I am a Holocaust survivor. I experienced as a child every single thing a Gazan child is experiencing on a daily basis. There’s no excuse 4 the slaughter of 15K children. I am proud to be here with you.”

Amazing Jewish solidarity at encampment at GWU #FreePalestine #Occupy4Gaza

I’m Black member of the faculty at Columbia University who is absolutely appalled and terrified by the police power on campus in recognition of my and my community’s disproportionate vulnerability to their ways of warfare. #copsoffcampus #abolition #freepalestine

Faculty have formed a human barrier between their CUNY students and campus police.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

'I do feel that the students are highly critical of Israeli politics, and I do not believe that is inherently antisemitic at all. And I do not feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way by whats happening on campus'

Professor Susan Bernofsky from Columbia university

Peaceful, orderly Spring day of protest at ⁦Brown University⁩. Respecting stidents' right to assemble and protest makes the whole difference.

He went with HIS father😭

Incredible father.

Students at Northwestern have begun an encampment in solidarity with besieged Palestinians in #Gaza . More than 170 faculty have called on the university to uphold its own commitments & protect students' right to protest. Link below to sign on!
dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/24/unc…

I've seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I've reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.