from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"
"Universities have even gone so far as to suspend leading student groups, like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), organizing against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza. Yet, students across the US and the world have remained defiant and steadfast in their demands against their universities' complicity with Israel’s genocide."
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
"What started as a student encampment at #Columbia University in New York City three weeks ago has now turned into a global #StudentMovement, expanding to Europe, Australia, Canada and beyond. We’ll get the latest from the campus grounds and ask what is next for the global #StudentMovementForGaza."
from #NewYorkTimes [gift article below]
The One-State Solution
By Edward Said
Jan. 10, 1999
This is an article by the late #EdwardSaid. He was a #Palestinian - American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. and a professor of literature at #Columbia University.
It spells out his position that only a binational state based on equality will work in #Palestine - #Israel.
from #YouTube #RashidKhalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at #Columbia gave this blistering speech about the university’s crackdown on pro-#Palestine protesters on May 1, 2024.
"The campus crackdown, at both #Columbia and schools across the nation, is indefensible. But when you are defending the indefensible, you need a spokesman like Adams, as prolific an inventor of fables as Scheherazade."
We need to bring more attention to the university-specific #bds demands that the students of the #studentspring are making: companies invested, dollar amounts, research relationships, etc. So far, the divestment aspect seems to be lost, when it's actually the most important part.
«Et si, au fond, les jeunesses occidentales parvenaient à mettre en crise, par les mobilisations sur les campus, la muraille de fer militaire et diplomatique forgée par les États-Unis de Joe #Biden et le Premier ministre israélien?»
On our latest podcast, we spoke with student organizers at #Columbia + #Humboldt about why they're taking part in an anti-war movement in solidarity with #Palestine that is sweeping the US + grassroots journalist @VPS_Reports about police violence in Los Angeles against demonstrators.
"#JewishCurrents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel spoke to three Jewish student organizers arrested at the original encampments—Izzy Lapidus, Sarah Borus, and Lea Salim—about their experiences over the past week and what #PalestineSolidarity organizing has looked like on their campuses since October 7th."
Students at #Columbia university state that the administration has threatened them with both another violent police raid - and even calling in the National Guard to remove them.
University has given them until 8 AM to take down the encampment.
"Tensions have been mounting at #ColumbiaUniversity for months, even before the school called police to clear a #GazaSolidarityEncampment. Pro-Palestine students say the administration hasn’t prioritized their safety. In the first of a two-part series, The Take goes behind the protests at #Columbia."
"#UniversityEncampments have spread across the US since New York police first came onto #ColumbiaUniversity’s campus last week. In the second of a two-part series, The Take takes a look inside the #Columbia encampment and the impact it’s having on campus."
Students at #MIT, #Emerson, #Tufts set up pro-Palestine encampments after #Columbia arrests (Boston.com, 2024-04-22)
"Pro-Palestinian students at several prominent Boston-area schools spent Sunday night in tents after more than 100 Columbia University students were arrested for participating in a similar demonstration last week.
"As of Monday night, dozens of protesters at MIT, Tufts University, and Emerson College are occupying outdoor spaces on or near campuses to demand the schools cut ties with Israeli companies and military and call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war."
"MIT Jews for Ceasefire were represented at the tents, the group said on X. MIT reportedly moved the location of Seder for MIT students celebrating Passover from nearby Hillel to an undisclosed location, but Jews for Ceasefire is hosting a Seder at the encampment."
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are 'surviving' in the world's largest open air concentration camp.
Who assaults Palestinians on daily basis violating #HumanRights everyday? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force.
Who deliberately targets non combatants men, women, children, toddlers, humanitarian aid workers, UN staff, journalists, food convoys then calls all those killed terrorists? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force ordered by neo Nazi copycat war criminal pedophile netanyahu.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are surviving in the world's largest open air concentration camp.