Faculty getting arrested to protect their students is far more important and valuable than anything their academic colleagues will ever accomplish professionally—publications, books, tenure etc.
while CNN and NYT are going out of their way interviewing students who feel "uncomfortable" at Columbia, 4,327 students and 231 teachers and administrators have been murdered in Palestine.
People trying to label student protesters antisemitic and violent are trying to distract you from the real violence being perpetrated right now: Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Mike Pence's NYT op-ed is a perfect example of why I publish Abortion, Every Day: His column uses pretty much every language trick I've warned about for the last two years.
He also repeats debunked lies about abortion that I sort of can't believe made it past a fact-checker https://t.co/Cqz1XWmGyu
for students who want to build encampments, please don’t make your encampments about solidarity with Columbia.
this is about solidarity with Gaza & Palestinian Liberation over anything else. Use us as an example to escalate but we should not be the focus, it’s about Palestine.
Are you going to address the chemical weapons attack on columbia university students? 15 students were hospitalized, including multiple jewish students.
i hope people are making the connection that the campus protests are not only displays of solidarity with Palestinians, they’re a demand of divestment from the genocide apparatus because so many schools have financial ties to that apparatus - that alone should be appalling
Academia is full of professors who made their names publishing radical history and theory only to prove themselves utterly unpolitical and cowardly in moments that demand principled action. They shouldn't be allowed to stay quiet
speaking of tortured poets, today seems like as good a day as any to read, really sit with, and (crucially) be inspired to action by the work of palestinian writers, who are being executed, imprisoned, starved, displaced, and *literally* tortured