UPDATE:

At least five people shot in the head with rubber bullets.

Cops deployed flash bangs directly into crowd.

132 arrests confirmed by CHP

Hundreds of helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday in a move to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters reut.rs/3US1zTz

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

A new modeling study examining accelerated biological aging among Black people due to exposute to racism found that “relative to White individuals, Black individuals were biologically nearly 9 years older than Whites of the same chronological age.”

read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

I AM NOT A LAWYER, AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE

if you're going to a protest where you expect to get arrested it's extremely important to have arrest training. this thread will not be as useful as a proper training, but i can offer a few tips:

To those of us in the martial arts world who say nothing about who say nothing about all these cops using Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to take down Palestine solidarity protestors, many of whom are in simply no position to resist even if they know the necessary techniques: why? 🤔

For the record: according to the International Law, Israel as the occupying force, cannot claim the self-defense.

Just thinking about how university presidents grilled by Congress were forced to resign over hypothetical scenarios about student safety while we watch students get beaten up at the behest of other school presidents and their jobs seem perfectly in tact

what's enraging these pro israel leeches more than anything is that they're unable to film content of students being asked what they're doing and sounding clueless. they're seething bc these students stay on message and have actionable demands: our schools must divest from israel

Your scheduled reminder that Nelson Mandela was designated a terrorist by the U.S. until 2008. The ANC was designated a terrorist group by the U.S. until 2008.

“There are no universities left in Gaza. At Howard, we have $90M contract w/Dept. of Defense. As students across the DMV, we do not support campuses, which are supposed to be spaces of learning, to have relationships w/these genocidal entities”

Howard U. students at GWU Protest

I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭

Liberal Zionists like Bernie Sanders are scrambling to scapegoat Netanyahu for the genocide in Gaza.

In doing so, they can obscure from the reality- that it is a massive, globally complicit apparatus that has enabled the Israeli regime to continue so violently & unabated in…

Understandable, you’re just a NYTimes reporter. Columbia students made a handy map for you though.

Summe Lee , a pro-Palestine member of Congress, wins her primary contest in PA. She defeated Bhavini Patel, an Indian American, backed heavily by pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, and by Hindu nationalist right!!

thehill.com/homenews/campa…

Re: Patriots owners Bob Kraft stoking reaction by making a public show of pulling of his support from Columbia: a reminder that he tried to sell a Super Bowl audience that his AIPAC politics were aligned with the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. shorturl.at/bizMZ

MiLaysia Fulwiley and her girlfriend Jameesia Ford both won Freshman Of The Year at the Gamecock Gala 🥹🫶

Love this for them!

Actually, this video is good! It proves, from the Zionists' own documentation, that Palestine solidarity encampments on campuses *are* peaceful. This person wants confrontation, but that's not what the students want. They're there for divestment and a free Palestine.

On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have…