One thing that's notable about the Gaza Solidarity Encampments is how they're *not* making a free speech argument. They are very specifically not saying 'you should support our right to do this even if you disagree with us' but rather 'you should support us because we're right.'

Israeli forces killed 14-year-old Qais Fathi Ibrahim Nasrullah, 15-year-old Jihad Nyaz Naser Zandiq, and 17-year-old Ali Mohammad Ali Abdullah during a 54-hour military incursion into Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Read more: dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces…

Let me break this down for you:

The Supreme Court is weighing criminalizing homelessness—that means if you’re sleeping outside, you will be arrested.

Approx. 40% of homeless people in the U.S. are Black.

This is not just about housing—this is the prison industrial complex too.

In 1987, the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid protested against MIT's ties to apartheid South Africa by erecting a shantytown.

Today, in the same location, students are protesting MIT's ties to genocide & apartheid in Palestine via the Scientists Against Genocide encampment. 🇵🇸

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza

Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

The supreme court appears set to allow the criminalization of homelessness, perhaps with an affirmative necessity defense. The split is along ideological lines. Elections have consequences. The amount of harm we'll see after June will be incalculable. Instead building houses,

Academics, writers & culture workers I ask you sign onto this boycott of Barnard & Columbia which stands in solidarity with students in their demand for divestment, recognizes scholasticide as a tool of genocide in Gaza & makes 3 urgent demands. 🧵
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🇵🇸❗️✊SUPPORT THE WALKOUT!

Tomorrow, student workers will walk out on the Columbia campus to demand amnesty for student & faculty protesters & divestment from Israeli apartheid. The people of NYC will join them, and rally at the gates of Columbia University to show the world

The memo went out. From the White House to Albany to Gracie Mansion to the “news” rooms of CNN & the NYT, war machine is coming for our students. And we must protect them at all costs.

Kids getting killed in Gaza gets less media attention than kids in America protesting the slaughter. How much propaganda does it take to convince people that students protesting a genocide are the villains instead of the adults committing one?

Hindi speaker here. Nothing said was antisemitic. Among the chanting: “Shout it, say it while dancing, sing it, say it with love: Freedom.”

We’re dangerously close to post-9/11 “brown person using scary words I don’t understand = terrorism” thinking. Let’s nip this in the bud.

If this were true Biden admin would have changed course long ago & not risked its continuity over Israel. 'If Israel didnt exist, we would have created it,' he said. US imperialism needs Israel. Best to trust the 'horse's mouth' on this one, not revisionists.

Not only has the killing not abated, the warfront is shifting to the refugee camps in the W. Bank. Noor Shams Camp was under siege for 3 days & suffered multiple massacres. Israelis left Noor Shams & just attacked south of Qalqilya.

There’s so much antisemitism on Columbia’s campus that… Jewish students openly celebrate Shabbat at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

I'm honored to be involved in editing this new journal, whose first issue just appeared. Check it out, and spread the word!
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Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to others participating in Friday prayer after pro-zionist accounts on social media published a video showing students praying on the lawn.

Credit: Katie Smith

When the NYPD throws the President under the bus, you know something is seriously wrong. Even the violent wing of the state is like, nah, we’re good.

I have given two talks Columbia University but am joining the call to boycott until the demands of the students and faculty are met and all those on campus are treated with respect and dignity.