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"The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression.
Across the world people have been shocked by social media footage of heavily armed law enforcement officers arresting peacefully protesting students and professors at university campuses around the United States."
The so-called “land of the free and home of the brave” looks neither free nor brave – except for the brave protesters who continue to stand up to state and university repression. …
Let there be no doubt that the current attacks on US universities are a major political victory for the far right. Not only do they mobilize and unify the conservative base, they also divide that of the liberal opposition."
From last week: “I think the presence of armed riot #police always increases the tension in these kinds of situations—and I think it’s the wrong move.”
For Thomas Zimmer, "The violent crackdown on campus protests reveals an alliance between the Right and mainstream elites who are driven by reactionary impulses and status anxieties."
If antisemitism rears its ugly head at the current student protests, Zimmer thinks that it should of course be challenged immediately and vigorously by those involved in the protests.
If you are supporting protestors' right to #protest, you are fighting for free speech.
If you support #FreeSpeech, you should be supporting the protesters' right to protest. It makes no difference whether you agree with what they have to say.
“When members of the public are engaged in a peaceful #protest in a public space—assuming they are not obstructing traffic, or disrupting campus activities—there is very little legal basis for law enforcement to demand they leave.”
“Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense [student] protests, following several rounds of arrests in New York in recent days.”
“Students at dozens of other colleges—including the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, Berkeley, and Yale—have established similar encampments in a widening showdown over campus speech and the war in Gaza.”
"One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza as well as the planned police training center known as Cop City."
Dave Karpf says that all university administrators had to do with students protesting in solidarity with Gaza was to ignore them. And university professors are good at ignoring students.
Instead, following Minouche Shafik's lead, they've chosen to crack down and call in police, and as a result, the protests are proliferating, as is the menacing pushback – snipers on the roofs of universities.
"Republican politicians gleefully egging it on, crowing about 'chaos on campus.' (Because the more this moment resembles 1968 on tv, the better.)"
Republicans are loving this, students protesting, university administrators calling in police. They think they can use it, as they pull the strings, to sweep to power in the 2024 elections.
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
New today: A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration yesterday. An interview from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-palestine-first-amendment/