«No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that..your extremist govt has killed 34,000 Palestinians & wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children»
🗣️ WHY ARE THERE NO SENIOR #DEMOCRATS SAYING THIS? WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE INDEPENDENT SENATOR OF VERMONT, #BernieSanders?!?!?
🧐 it's almost as if licking the boots of billionaires & the 1% for donations ties your tongue... or something like that 😒
🗣️ ALUMNI, JOIN YOUR UNIS & COLLEGES & STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!
if you cannot join them at your campuses, call the presidents or provosts offices of you alma maters and leave a message in solidarity with the student #protests
go here for a list of unis, a post on how to prep for the call and other suggestions:
Most of the student protesters on Columbia’s campus were peaceful. For the NYPD Chief of Patrol to generalize, lie, & mischaracterize their actions & speech in the protest, in response to a Member of Congress, is beyond the pale.
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/
⚡Update: 26 of the 55 ppl arrested, were not affiliated with UT.
Good:
"The Travis Co ATTY dropped 46 charges after 57 ppl were arrested at a pro-PA demonstration Wed.
A SPOX for the ATTY's office said LE lacked probable cause in the cases dismissed -no signs of violence before authorities armed with batons intervened, handcuffing students & pushing protesters back. >100 ST troopers, deployed by Gov Abbott, were at the scene +UT police dept officers.
Even "The Hill" acknowledges that Gov Abbott was out of line when he falsely disparaged UT students:
"After Texas state troopers arrested more than 50 people at a UT at Austin protest this week, Gov Abbott is facing accusations that the state went too far.
Police in riot gear broke up an unsanctioned but nonviolent demonstration at the state’s flagship university Wed."
Calling protesters "Pro-Hamas", because they protest the genocidal slaughtering of #Palestinians in #Gaza by #Israelis, is like calling Americans who fought in WWII, "pro-communist". Nazis at the time were saying they were fighting "Jewish Bolshevik sub-humans".
Oh, wait!… That's what Trump calls the Democrats now: "communist thugs".
Lyndon Johnson, one of the most accomplished POTUS, was forced to withdraw from the presidential race in '68 and never was reelected. Wonder why…
make sure y'all take a look at the thread i posted about #PuertoRico's #SummerOfProtest; the largest #GeneralStrike in the history of the island and the United States. lasted 12-15 days (depending on who is counting) and it ended with the then governor of Puerto Rico, the nepobaby Ricardo (Ricky) Rosselló giving in his resignation and fleeing the island.
AAUP, SGA and GSOC release statements condemning NYU’s response to encampment - Washington Square News
«NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the Student Government Assembly and the graduate student union released statements condemning #NYU for authorizing police to arrest protesters at the #Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Gould Plaza on Monday.»
Instead of addressing why the students are protesting, the government does what it always does. The beatings will stop when morale improves.
You can “live long enough to become the villain”. The people sending in the police are probably the same hippies that were protesting war in the 60s and 70s
there are D.C. scum calling #StudentSpring "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the #Biden admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with #Democrats.
so all liberals on here screaming #VoteBlue no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.
am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.
this is the garbage just published at The Hill (honestly, it's the only reason i keep an eye on these fuckers).
i cannot stress enough how the craven warmongering neoliberals in the Democratic party will latch on to fascist propaganda like this and start parroting everywhere.
BE READY TO PUSH BACK ON THIS NARRATIVE.
if you are Jewish, or an alumni of any of the #StudentSpring universities, it is imperative that we call Alumni Relations and the offices of the provosts to voice our support.
state your name clearly, year of graduation & department
tell them you stand in solidarity with the students.
say why: in my case? what i have said all along: the right to self-defense is not a right to commit #genocide. focus on one or two points. keep it simple.
write it down to make it easier on you. don't make it longer than a toot. they will be inundated with calls.
@ NYC
Columbia
Barnard
The New School
New York University
@ ELSEWHERE
Brown
Northwestern
Harvard
Indiana
MIT
Princeton
Purdue
Temple
Tufts
Vanderbilt
Yale
Cal State Polytechnic - Humboldt
Evergreen State College - Olympia WA
Florida international University - Miami
Ohio State University - Columbus
Texas A&M - College Station
U of AZ Tucson
U of CA Berkeley
U of MD College Park
U of MI Ann Arbor
U of MN Minneapolis
U of NC Chapel Hill
U of NC Charlotte
U of NM Albuquerque
U of NV Las Vegas
U of Pittsburgh
U of Puget Sound
U of Rochester
U of So California
U of TX - Austin
U of TX at Dallas
Pres Biden must defend the PEACEFUL student protesters & rebuke Netanyahu.
"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific," accusing "antisemitic mobs" of taking over leading universities.
"It's unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned & condemned unequivocally -response of several university presidents was shameful. Now, fortunately, state, local, fed officials, many of them have responded differently-."
Truthtellers need to be amplified, not media outlets that make false accusations.
"A Columbia faculty committee has condemned external media outlets for their “reckless conflation” of students’ protected free speech with the “abusive acts” of nonaffiliates."
-D Froomkin
It isn't a coincidence that more protestors are wearing high quality KN95 or N95 masks these days. For years COVID safe advocates and mask blocs, who are connected to diverse organizing groups, have worked hard to educate allies and provide communities with free respirator masks.
ALSO @luckytran good time to remind everybody that cops became one of the primary vectors of #COVID19 in 2020 and it's the reason why so many cops died in the past 4 years.