RIP, Chris. Just 2 weeks ago, he spoke with me about @UofCalifornia protests.
“What’s so bad about students pitching tents on a green? That doesn’t threaten the core teaching & research mission. It’s incumbent on us to be as tolerant as possible w/o compromising fundamentals.”
The #NY16 debate was pretty clear:
Latimer is bought and paid for by AIPAC's MAGA donors👎
@JamaalBowmanNY is working for peace and justice. He's funding our communities - not bombs for the Israeli government's atrocities against Palestinians. It's #JewsForJamaal ❤️
We salute the student encampments around the world urging universities to end all ties with Israel's #GazaGenocide & apartheid.
As Israel threatens "extreme force" against 1.4 million displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, we thank students for working to end campus complicity.
At @pitzercollege commencement, senior class gift committee announced "no donations to Pitzer until BDS," and urged all graduates to take this pledge:
https://t.co/z42RdeP1PD
After weeks of turmoil, @UCLA chancellor faces growing faculty criticism, no-confidence vote. Police chief, administrative vice chancellor also under scrutiny for security lapses leading to mob attack on pro-Palestinian encampment. w/@ashleyahn88 https://t.co/WCy4lOQdjZ
We are deeply inspired by the unprecedented wave of protest camps on campuses across the US against Israel’s #GazaGenocide and university complicity.
https://t.co/frjKrBjS14
Is there academic freedom about harms of fossil fuels at @CMCnews, where monumental buildings honor K & R and the "environmental institute" is named after Roberts? Asking for future generations. @RealBankReform@aaup@TheFIREorg
https://t.co/wF62eAzBM2
It’s worth reminding those critical of the student protests raging across the US: Gaza no longer has universities. Every single university in Gaza has been bombed into oblivion. Hundreds of academics, scholars, professors, & students have been killed since Oct. 7. #scholasticide
1/2 So grateful to the courageous Pitzer students, alums, and faculty who worked for this great BDS win at @pitzercollege. By contrast Pitzer's failed president (Strom Thacker) has chosen fealty to compulsory Zionism at a moment the Israeli state commits genocide.
Our LA chapter's Executive Director Hussam Ayloush: "The message USC is sending is 'we don't stand by our students, especially if they're Muslim or if they dare to speak for Palestinian human rights."