People have packed #Austin City Council chambers today for the council meeting, speaking in favor of the #Palestine Ceasefire Resolution and on a variety of community development and rezoning topics.
The second speaker is a queer Jewish nonbinary person who was arrested at #UTAustin, who says their faith requires them to stand for freedom and liberation wherever it is needed.
"I refuse to stand by as a genocide is committed in my name." #Palestine#Austin#Texas
“What I saw was students linking arms, hugging each other while being brutalized by the police. I think the only violence we saw that day was from the police.”
I interviewed two anti-Zionist Jews about their perspective on the protests for #Palestine, one a current grad student at #UTAustin, and the other an alumni. Both were present at the big protest at April 29, and one was arrested—but only one would have been classified as an "outsider," even though they both have deep ties to the school.
I've got their story coming out later this week at Decelerate.news.