A week or so ago, I decided to try and figure out how many colleges and universities changed their protest policies over the summer.
The answer: 50+ campuses across the country.
Incredibly bleak to look at the “THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL” banner from Kent State and realize the current university is actually totally prepared and glad to do just that
A minimum of 186,000 slaughtered Palestinians doesn’t mean 15,000 slaughtered children anymore. It means that number is significantly higher. This irrevocably breaks something in me to realize.
First, German police arrest Iris Hefetz, our Israeli-Jewish comrade, for opposing genocide in Berlin. Now, Ilan Pappe (@pappe54), the renowned Israeli-Jewish historian, is detained in Detroit by the FBI for questioning over his campaigning against Israel's genocide. Dark times!
and i say this with utmost disrespect, if you’re living in the US of A, leave your messages of despair and defeat to your own group chats. stop pretending that there is nothing to do when you haven’t even tried.
Hamas was founded in 1987. So when the president says “ancient desires” to eliminate the Jews, he’s making a point about Arabs/Muslims as inherently and viscerally genocidal.
Biden says this while the Israelis, sponsored by him, have been non-stop slaughtering kids for months.
There is a huge surge in anti-Palestinian racism in the US. It has led to actual murder. It has led to people being run over by cars. It has led to people being sprayed in chemical attacks. It has led to people being fired. That is NOT happening to Zionists. It just simply isn't
Biden said that Hamas has an “ancient desire” to kill Jews. This is an Orientalist and Islamophobic trope that not only provides cover for the brutality of Zionism, but deflects from one of the West’s greatest crimes that it has never fully reckoned with: its deep antisemitism.
this is my mama, she lived nearly 30 yrs under Israeli occupation. She’s kept me stuck to my Palestinian roots for as long as I’ve been on this earth. Last night, she fed the entire GWU encampment, a labor of love for all those supporting us. may Allah reward her always.
Today I saw a Palestinian man pick up pieces of flesh to put in a body bag, a child’s lifeless body pulled from the rubble, and a little girl being carried with a blood-soaked face,
Then I saw American students get arrested by riot police with batons…for protesting this horror.
Since violence perpetrated by pro-Israel counter protesters was used to justify the sweep of UCLA’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, its not hard to see how this incentivizes Zionist agitators to attack more encampments across the country to get universities/police to shut them down.
Can we talk about how violent law enforcement uses the term “mutual aid” to describe multiple death squads coming together? #defundthepolice#abolitionnow
Watching how fast congress is moving on passing laws that violate our constitutional rights, while they do absolutely nothing to make sure you have guaranteed housing, food, bridges that don’t collapse, and libraries should radicalize you if you weren’t there already.