The Lemkin Institute, named after Polish Jewish intellectual Raphael Lemkin, who defined “genocide” after witnessing the atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust, issued this statement against our countries’ complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Every single one of us should be ashamed.
Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.