Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism | Robert Reich | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The latest episode of The #RaceAndRights podcast features Rashid Khalidi discussing 'The 100 Years War on Palestine.' Listen: csrr.rutgers.edu/resources/race…

Our Connecticut chapter condemned the arrest of more than 47 students at Beinecke Plaza yesterday who were engaged in a peaceful protest against Yale’s involvement with companies producing weapons and supplies to support Israel's genocide in Gaza.

How progressive ceasefire advocate Summer Lee defanged the opposition ahead of her primary in Pennsylvania | CNN Politics cnn.com/2024/04/21/pol…

Israel's blaming of Palestinian civilian casualties on Hamas's use of 'human shields' doesn't explain Israel's repeated use of massive 2,000 pound bombs or its rules of engagement that show little regard for civilian life as shown by World Central Kitchen. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/22/opi…

Arresting students, arresting faculty. All for Protesting their academic institution's and government's support for genocide in #Gaza .
This is a much more dangerous moment for American democracy than most seem to think.

Speaking in front of a large crowd in Rajasthan, Modi said if voted into power, the Indian National Congress, would distribute the country’s wealth among “infiltrators” and “those who have more children,” in apparent reference to the Muslim community.

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Israel has bombed all of Gaza's universities. Kenneth Roth on Gaza from an international law perspective: bit.ly/3vUDn9n

no American university president has deplored the Israeli destruction of all the universities in Gaza

.Imraan Siddiqi, ED for CAIR Washington, pointed out the double standards in both Biden’s statement and US coverage of the hysteria surrounding the protests, saying that 'no media' talks about 'Muslim or Palestinian safety.” #Yale #Columbia Brooke Anderson
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Antisemitism, like Islamophobia, is a real danger and needs to be unequivocally denounced by all political leaders. But to equate it with anti-Zionism is in bad faith and works to further white nationalist agendas. csrr.rutgers.edu/issues/presump…

'There has been no due process on the Columbia campus,' says professor Mahmood Mamdani (Mahmood Mamdani) about to suspensions and evictions of undergraduate pro-Palestine student-protesters by the Columbia and Barnard administrations.

glad JURIST highlighted the Letter from 500+ Concerned Law Professors condemning Rep. Virginia Foxx & her House Cmte's Assault on free speech & academic freedom.

[FYI: letter still accepting signatures for those who want to add their name.]
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If Jewish professors were subjected to the same witch hunts that Muslim and Arab professors are experiencing in America and Europe, we would rightly be condemning it as antisemitism. Yet, Congress and universities are mum when Islamophobia runs rampant against Muslim profs!?

While the world was distracted by the fighting between Iran and Israel, the death toll in Gaza just surmounted a grim 34,000. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Kenneth Roth concisely states the facts showing Israel’s intent to maximize civilian death in Gaza: dropping tens of 2000 and 1000 ton bombs on civilian targets. #warcrimes tiktok.com/t/ZTLa8Js9u/. Center for Security, Race and Rights Sarah Leah Whitson DAWN MENA Sylvia Chan-Malik Maya Mikdashi Jadaliyya

'Settlers come to displace existing polities and establish their own exclusive sovereignty.' -Mahmood Mamdani

Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students | Moira Donegan | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Police arrested Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian in Jerusalem Thursday for her public criticism of Israel.

The shocking arrest shows that “no palestinian is safe,” says Palestinian-Chicano professor Sarah Ihmoud and mentee of Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

A really grim, dispiriting few days at Columbia. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…