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🚨BREAKING: NYPD showed up with buses in front of the NYU encampment at W4st and Greene st. STUDENTS HOLD YOUR GROUND! NYPD BACK DOWN! 🇵🇸

“Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!”

Vibe check at NYU’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier this afternoon (sent in). Hundreds have gathered in support of the student encampment.

Massive faculty walkout at Columbia University opposing the university’s decision to call in NYPD on Palestine solidarity protests:

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For everyone who is interested in Columbia but has not actually been to campus, it’s worth reading the student journalists who are reporting on this daily. columbiaspectator.com

For journalists and their audiences, the obligation is to take the time to present the complexity of these issues and to always base reporting on facts and not simply repeating the press statements of those in power or to whom they have easy access.

BREAKING‼️ Students and alumni at the University of Michigan have started day 1 of their Gaza Solidarity Encampment✊🏾🇵🇸

Student journalists at WKCR reporting that Columbia faculty are showing up this AM to protect protestors fm. provocation, naming prof. Davidai as a threat. Students are urging discipline in avoiding conflict as well.

BREAKING: NYU students with NYU PSC have launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

Per media release, the encampment is *also* calling on their school to divest from Israel & to end its Tel Aviv satellite campus.

Security scrambled to stop the students, but failed.

Another arrested student just arrived back after being released by police.

“I’m going to keep showing up!” he said to cheers.

A lone female counterprotester has entered the circle, but marshals are blocking her from students and no one has engaged her.

Just a reminder that:
•A 6-year old Palestinian boy was killed in Chicago
•His mother brutally stabbed
•3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont, leaving 1 paralyzed from the waist down
•A Muslim was stabbed in Austin

-Yet no media talks about “Muslim” or “Palestinian safety.

Yale students are being loaded into Yale buses to be carted off to jail. 36 degrees in New Haven this morning but several hundred peers and professors have gathered to cheer on those willing to be arrested.

INBOX: All classes will be virtual Monday, April 22, Shafik just announced in a universitywide email.

'The decibel of our disagreements has only increased in recent days,' she wrote. 'These tensions have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with

Jake Tapper Will you also share the statement by the student protesters denouncing all forms of bigotry and making it clear that the “inflammatory individuals do not represent us”?

Breaking: The students and workers of #MIT establish the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment on MIT’s Kresge Lawn

“MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015…. We will NOT REST until MIT cuts research ties with the

BREAKING: Organizers of the Yale divestment encampment have been informed that those at the encampment can expect arrest, likely sometime between now and early morning.

Repeat: ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED AT YALE.

The crowd of hundred of students is sitting in a circle and singing.

There is a conscious framing that operates in discussions about college campuses where 'Jewish students' is conflated with 'Jewish students who are Zionists,' while all Jews who are not Zionists are framed as people who happen to be Jewish, who act in solidarity with non-Jews.

Key point.

Columbia isn’t allowing proper access to reporters — some limited workarounds — and all sorts of nonsense, including confusing inside and outside of the university, is circulating.

A student protest is going national on the basis of very distorted impressions.