Tomorrow is the anniversary of when #ColumbiaUniversity students took the dean hostage and seized the building in protest of #LandTheft and stealing of resources from nearby Harlem, and later also protesting the Vietnam War.
As the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment enters its sixth day, organizers have called on the entire student body to walk out of class to ramp up pressure on the administration to divest from Israel. Breakthrough News will be covering the action LIVE from inside the encampment April 22, 12pm ET
> The blanket suspension of student protesters casts “serious doubt on the University’s respect for the rule-of-law values that we teach,” 54 law professors wrote.
from #CommonDreams
US College Students Demonstrate in Solidarity With Palestinians, #Columbia Protesters
"#ColumbiaUniversity made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters," said one educator. "It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands."
#Columbia Students Arrested Over Campus Rally May Face Other Consequences -
Students who camped in tents to protest the war in #Gaza, including the daughter of Representative #IlhanOmar, may be barred from finishing the semester.
You can tune in to the student radio from #ColumbiaUniversity and listen to their live reporting on the student protests and occupation in solidarity with Palestine.
“Columbia University made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters.…It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands.” #PalestineSolidarity#ColumbiaUniversity#StudentProtests
Hundreds of peaceful protesters began occupying the campus on Wednesday to demand that the university divest from #Israel. The next day, the school sent in the NYPD to arrest them.
#Columbia Scolds Students for “Unsanctioned” #GazaRally Where They Were Attacked With Chemicals
Two people reportedly sprayed an odious chemical at protesters, leaving students with burning eyes, nausea, and chest pain.
by Prem Thakker
January 22 2024
"University responded to reports of students being injured by a chemical attack against an on-campus rally for Gaza by chiding students for holding protests without official authorization. Meanwhile, students told The Intercept that even as the school’s public safety department has said it is investigating the incident, school administrators themselves have yet to contact the victims — some of whom have had to seek medical care for their injuries.
"During a rally on Friday, according to attendees, two individuals sprayed a hazardous chemical that released an odious smell. Dozens of students have reported an array of symptoms, such as burning eyes, nausea, headaches, abdominal and chest pain, and vomiting.
"The campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine publicized the incident on Saturday morning, identifying the substance as 'skunk,' a chemical weapon used by the Israel Defense Forces against Palestinians and one that U.S. #police departments have reportedly acquired in the past. SJP also alleged that the assailants have ties to the Israel Defense Forces, a claim that The Intercept could not independently confirm.
"#RashidKhalidi, a renowned #PalestinianAmerican historian who teaches at Columbia, said that university administrators should respect the student protesters’ motivations. 'For a lot of young people, this is one of the most significant events, worst #HumanitarianCrises, certainly in their lifetimes,' said Khalidi. 'And many of them have a strong sense of justice and see injustice. I think university administrators — whatever alumni and whatever donors and whatever trustees are telling them, and whatever the politicians are saying, and whatever the media bias leans towards — I think they have to respect that that’s what’s driving a lot of these students: a strong sense of injustice.'"
How did the losers end up writing the #history of the #CivilWar and spreading the popular lie of a heroic #Confederacy in a war about states' rights instead of slavery?
"Oddly, the explanation reaches back to the pro-Confederate Dunning School of Reconstruction history at #ColumbiaUniversity... installed a white-supremacist curriculum at Columbia and dispatched doctoral students to set up pro-Confederate #USHistory departments at Southern universities." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3NBV7vA
40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP.
University Vice President Gerald Rosberg cited #CampusSafety in announcing that #Students for #Justice in #Palestine (SJP) and #Jewish Voice for #Peace (JVP) will be suspended through the end of the fall semester.
"In recent decades, several university medical systems have provided cover for abusive doctors whose victim counts run well into the hundreds. Columbia’s failures stand out even in this grim company."
I don’t say this to diminish the excellent, crucial reporting here - but: Don’t ever again trust a single word out of the mouth of people who needed to read this to realize who Hanania is and treated him as anything but an unabashed racist and rightwing extremist until yesterday.