“Speaking at the university's graduation ceremony, [Shruthi] Kumar … criticized the university administration's stance on Gaza.
“Kumar, who is of South Asian origin, noted that their messages of freedom of expression and solidarity with Gaza were penalized shortly before graduation, saying: ‘I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and the right to civil disobedience on campus.
“‘The students had spoken. The faculty had spoken.’
"’Harvard, do you hear us?’ she further said, receiving a standing ovation.”
Polizeigewalt bei Räumung der HU: Journalist der Berliner Zeitung misshandelt, verletzt (Berliner Zeitung, 2024-05-24)
As the police forces cleared the occupation inside Humboldt University (#Berlin), "Ignacio Rosaslanda, a video journalist for the Berliner Zeitung who was covering the operation was beaten by an officer despite identifying himself, and said he was denied access to medical treatment for several hours."
Once a journalist get hurt by authorities, at least in #Germany, it can be very noisy. Look forward to the consequences... 😉
Polizeigewalt gegen Journalisten: Chefredaktion der Berliner Zeitung protestiert (Berliner Zeitung, 2024-05-24)
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“Unser Kollege Ignacio Rosaslanda wurde von einem Berliner Polizisten geschlagen und an der Arbeit gehindert. Wir fordern Aufklärung.”
The editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung writes himself to describe the incident anew and demands explicit research and explanation from the police and the city senate.
Polizeigewalt gegen Journalisten: Chefredaktion der Berliner Zeitung protestiert (Berliner Zeitung, 2024-05-24)
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“Unser Kollege Ignacio Rosaslanda wurde von einem Berliner Polizisten geschlagen und an der Arbeit gehindert. Wir fordern Aufklärung.”
The editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung writes to describe the incident ⬆️ anew and demands explicit research and explanation from the police and the city senate.
Heftige Diskussionen um Pro-Palästina-Camp in Frankfurt (Tagesschau, 2024-05-23)
Pro-Palestine encampment in Goethe-University (#Frankfurt) continues, for the time-being, as the Administrative Court ruled it not to be banned.
The report tells that all the residents in the student-dormitories (one Catholic and one Evangelical/Protestant) received a postal instruction from the landlord forbidding any visitors out of the encampment in their dorm. And that on Sunday, namely a day before the protest camp was to start.
A small comfort is, at least one student resident was upset by such an attempt to violate personal rights.
“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”
“Several hundred students set up a non-violent anti-war protest camp at #FU#Berlin today. The police cleared the camp within hours — like this. The FU administration at the scene did not negotiate with the protesters. They refused to comment.”
If you can access X, pls watch the short video (a scene attatched as screenshot⬇️ )
Students wrap George Washington monument with keffiyeh (a fitting response to the videos of graduating students in Georgia dragged out by police for wearing keffiyehs) @palestine
From the river to the sea, Israel is waging the same war: The Gaza assault cannot be understood separately from Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy against Palestinians in Jenin, Jerusalem, and Nazareth. (Orly Noy
| +972 Magazine, 2024-04-26)
"The categorization of Palestinians into separate classes — citizens inside Israel, permanent residents of East Jerusalem, occupied subjects in the West Bank, prisoners in the Gaza ghetto, and refugees in exile — is at the heart of Israel’s policy of divide and conquer. It effectively negates the existence of the Palestinians as a single and organic people, while keeping them all under the rule of Jewish supremacy."
"it is crucial not to fall into the trap set by Israel’s policy of divide and conquer. We must see this war in its entirety, and in every territory between the river and the sea, for all of them are defined by apartheid..."
"Since October 7, Israel has been waging an all-out war not only against the residents of Gaza, but against the entire Palestinian people..."
Namely beside Gaza,
West Bank - accelerated ethnic cleansing through the systematic violence of its uniformed soldiers and the settlers; Recent pogroms in villages...
East Jerusalem - plans to build some 7,000 housing units in existing or future settlements in the city; accelerated demolitions of Palestinian homes; tightened checkpoints; hundreds of arrests & administrative detentions...
Palestinian citizens inside Israel - mass arrests of anyone expressing any solidarity with their people in Gaza; the detention of political leaders for organizing a protest against the war; persecution of students and faculty at universities; harassment of doctors, nurses, and other workers in the healthcare system; and even administrative detention.