No cops. No arrests. No violence inflicted on students. Just a university administration listening and doing the right thing. Imagine.
theguardian.com/world/article/…

James Baldwin: 'All the western nations are caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism: this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority.'

We are governed by absolute psychopaths.

No real principles. No moral consistency. Just constant shameless hypocrisy, every day, over and over again.

after a litany of tone-deaf opinions by a certain novelist, the whole op-ed NYT section, & the Atlantic that are more obsessed with culture wars than genocide, we finally have a piece that's smart and clear-eyed about the student movement. newyorker.com/news/essay/the…

This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: President Biden tells Erin Burnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the U.S. will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons

The Cambridge City Council passed a resolution urging Harvard, MIT, and the Cambridge Police Department to respect the right of pro-Palestine students to protest during a Monday meeting.

Ayumi Nagatomi reports.

thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

THREAD: Harvard Interim President Garber’s administration claims that they haven’t met with the 1000s of students demanding divestment because they “hadn’t heard” from us before the encampment was established. Faculty found this claim laughable. We do too. Here are the receipts.

Israeli MK and Likud Official Tali Gottlieb have a message to the US:

“The US is threatening not to give us precise missiles . Oh yeah? Well, I got news for the US. We have imprecise missiles. I’ll use it. I’ll just collapse ten [in Gaza]. Ten buildings. That’s what I’ll do”

Whatever you think about campus protests, if nothing else let this moment dispel us of the notion the Dutch state is a progressive or liberal one (in the leftist sense). The camp lasted less than 20 hours before they brought in bulldozers

UN: Operation in Rafah will be a tragedy beyond words

WHO: Incursion in Rafah will plunge crisis in Gaza to unprecedented levels

Doctors Without Borders: Nowhere in Gaza is safe

Human Rights Watch: Forcing displaced Palestinians out of Rafah is catastrophic

WSJ: Take Rafah

A Zionist attacked a CU Apartheid Divest picket line on an UES sidewalk with his car this morning. He's in police custody. Cop Neil Zuber also arrested two CUAD allies (victim and bystander). More detail TK

'Students had not been threatening or intimidating at the protest in question...In a leaked recording of a private meeting, one administrator can be heard gamely suggesting that Jewish students might feel threatened hearing Israel being accused of genocide'thenation.com/article/societ…

I join many Jewish colleagues Dartmouth 🌲 in rejecting our administration's apparent belief that it can speak for 'Jewish safety,' much less increase it by permitting a SWAT team and riot cops to menace all regardless of identity. 1

In 1986 Harvard University threatened us as well with suspension for protesting apartheid S. Africa. Our response was similar. Well done. Univ. Pres. Garber emailed alumni today soliciting support for his crackdown. I wrote him back with a counter proposal: that he accede to the students…

Torture, executions, and burying people alive. Devastating report. This is not about Hamas and the atrocities it committed, this is the state of Israel.

18-month-old baby girl killed with a single gunshot to the head just after celebrating a ceasefire.

I'm sorry but it's time everybody look at these images.