Protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues to spread after Columbia University arrests (NYU, U Michigan, Yale, The New School, etc)

[Outlaw]

seems reasonable

Why isn’t this bytch nikka in Gaza?

 

[88m3]

seems reasonable

it's a beautiful sentiment and anyone who disagrees is genocidal colonizer


I wish more people would share interviews from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hezbollah, and Iranian perspective. It's important to help gain a clear eyed view on this conflict to really grasp what is happening and what the different parties goals are. Thank you.

 

[the cac mamba]

Why isn’t this bytch nikka in Gaza?

because the leaders of Hamas take the relief money, and go live like kings in foreign countries

 

[John Mexico]

It's like he's actively trying to lose the election.

I do actually feel shame just for being a part of this 'team' by proxy. I'll go into this election season with no fervor and no expectation. We have a president who let himself off his handlers' leash and cannot find his way back home, and a seditious moron who may end up unresponsive in a fukking court proceeding.

Very grateful that my children aren't of age as to where the sociopolitical is affecting them yet.

 

[mastermind]

When you look at all this and then let it sink in that American authority figures are so quick to brutalize American youth for daring to be critical of some tiny foreign country, it's really wild.

You would think, but our elected officials work for the capital class. These military industry protects their interests. Thats where the power is.

Kids on college campuses have no Power and are easy to dispose.

 

[nyknick]

 

[ORDER_66]

Ask these old b*stards what the vietnam war was about they go... IDK....

 

[DeuceZ]

Thing about growing old you see these knee jerk protests Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and realize more people want to look like they care than actually caring. After the semester will they go home and continue the struggle or pat themselves on the back for a job well done...

 

[mastermind]

You would think, but our elected officials work for the capital class. These military industry protects their interests. Thats where the power is.

Kids on college campuses have no Power and are easy to dispose.

Adding to this, the students connected those dots which is why they’ve specifically asked for divestment.

But what they, and what we all should realize, is universities are basically hedge funds.

 

[mastermind]

Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden

Branko Marcetic's new book exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’ longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward...

jacobin.com

 

[wire28]

I don’t know what else anyone needs to see to realize Trump needs to win in November to make this all right. Biden is just no good, man

 

[nyknick]

Adding to this, the students connected those dots which is why they’ve specifically asked for divestment.

But what they, and what we all should realize, is universities are basically hedge funds.

Columbia's president was previously at IMF and Bank of England. Skimming through the board of trustees it's about 80 percent capital investment/wall street people and 20 percent educators/scientists. Tax free income and also tax free real estate, education is pretty much just a front at this point.

These students deserve a lot of credit for what they're doing and how they're doing it. I love how they're somehow simultaneously privileged, ultra-woke, transgender snowflakes and also violent Iran/Hamas trained operatives. Also love how MSNBC pundits are now using 'woke' as an insult. I give liberals about 20 years before they start condemning Rosa Parks for disturbing the bus service.

Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden

Branko Marcetic's new book exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’ longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward...

jacobin.com

I'll have to read that. I feel like every article I read on Jacobin is either from him or Alex Press.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

The Biden Administration's Hypocrisy on College Protests Must End | Common Dreams

While the White House is quick to condemn any allegation of antisemitism at protests, whether verified or manufactured, it has repeatedly failed to condemn verified incidents of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia on college campuses.

www.commondreams.org

Do you remember President Biden's swift and strong response when pro-Israel extremists reportedly blasted the chemical weapon "skunk spray" on students peacefully protesting at Columbia University earlier this year? Do you remember how the White House condemned the attack, demanded accountability, and called on the school to protect students from such hate?

No? You don't remember? Of course you don't. Because none of it happened. President Biden didn't respond swiftly or strongly to the skunk spray attack. He didn't respond at all.

How about President Biden's response when a Texas man hurled racist slurs at a group of Palestinian Americans after a ceasefire protest at the University of Texas in Austin, ripped a Palestinian flagpole off their car, dragged one of them out of the backseat, and stabbed him?

Then again, the White House said nothing—even after our civil rights and advocacy organization directly alerted the White House about the incident.

The Biden administration's silence is nothing new.

On Stanford University’s campus, a driver yelling"F—k you and your people" reportedly used his car to ram an Arab Muslim student attending a ceasefire protest, sending him to the hospital. No response from the White House.

At the University of Texas, pro-Israel extremists disrupted a Palestine Solidarity Committee meeting and hurled profanities at the attendees. No response.

In Arizona, Texas, Georgia, New York and other states, law enforcement agencies have brutalized students and even professors who attended peaceful protests against the genocide in Gaza. Again, no response.

Now contrast the White House's lack of response to violent actions motivated by anti-Palestinian hate with the White House's vocal response to inflammatory words that a small number of individuals have allegedly said at or near pro-ceasefire protests on college campuses.

“I condemn the antisemitic protests, that’s why I set up a program to deal with that,” the president said, broadly mischaracterizing the sit-ins led mostly by Jewish and Palestinian students.

In a statementmarking Passover, Biden said, “Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses or anywhere in our country.”

Just this week, the White House condemned protesters at Columbia for taking over Hamilton Hall—something students protesting the Vietnam War did, which the school now celebrates on its website—and curiously declared the use of a banner with the Arabic word "intifada" hate speech.

At the same time, the White House conveniently ignored the fact that most prominent banner displayed was "Hind's Hall," named after the 6-year-old girl murdered by Israeli forces while waiting for medics—also murdered—to save her.

Hypocrisy does not begin to describe the White House's inconsistency, which extends well beyond college campuses.

 

[88m3]

I really enjoy when we pretend these protests are about something that they're not

 

[88m3]

One thing the thread has done is really highlighted that we should've got more accomplished on police reform, judicial reform, and ending qualified immunity