Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

a small group of pro-Palestine students occupied the South Mall at the University of Texas, and the university admin is helpfully sending regular dispersal orders via the emergency messaging system every hour or so to let any students who just got to campus know there's something exciting happening and they should all head over immediately and check it out

The cops maced a bunch of students at UT Austin today, didn’t they

according to the photo here right now, yes: https://www.statesman.com/

better link: https://www.statesman.com/picture-gallery/news/2024/04/29/ut-austin-protest-arrest-pro-palestinian-encampment-protests-photos/73454096007/

lawful protesting isn't even possible in authoritarian societies like the one Trump wants to transform America into. Just saying.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 28, 2024

makes u think

Here's why Biden's actually the good guy

Okay sure sure, he's funding a genocide and crushing a peace protest with force but at least

Sorry, couldn't figure out a way to end that sentence

it's such an inane non sequitur. if anyone knows Rupar please tell him I'm going to vote for trump now because I saw that tweet

oh I thought he was being ironic! I was going to say "when u lost Rupar...

no, he was serious: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3krbuopjfq22j

Biden will give protesters comfier prison cells than Trump will

Rupar is a joke

one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president pic.twitter.com/NnuHRVZkut

— Helen Galvin Ross (@helengalvinross) April 29, 2024

Galaxy Brane

The kids are all right.

wtf: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/video-shows-tulane-protesters-clashing-with-police-on-horses-209961029804

I don't think this video really shows any clashing, more a handful of cops being incredibly fucking stupid and cruel to their own animals

They're cops, "fucking stupid and cruel" is part of the job description.

the link makes it sound like the protesters could've been the ones on horses, which would be awesome. But f course it's the bourgeois press imputing violence to the protestors. I feel like I haven't seen in my lifetime (born when we were hightailing it from Vietnam) the full power of the state and the media and the "adults" in this country to crush dissent.

Like not even in the run-up to the Iraq war even. No one set the hoses on the massive anti-invasion protest in DC before the invasion. They were just ignored.

I know cops-on-horses have long been used to intimidate and break up protests, but I 100 percent agree with the guy yelling "this is insane" in that video, putting horses in that kind of situation has to as scary for the horses as it is for the people on the ground.

has to be as scary ...

otm

<3 Women & Children First: https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/25/women-children-first-bookstore-will-replace-vandalized-palestinian-flag-window-with-mural/

it's always good to put skittish animals into a volatile situation, then when they inevitably get riled up and fling the officers from their seats, you can arrest the protesters for assaulting an officer by way of startling the animal.

Robin D.G. Kelley goes hard on Minouche Shafik:

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik/

That’s a good letter.

Also I think it’s hilarious and underreported that Shafik is both a baroness and a member of the House of Lords

Also I did not know that she took on the job from Lee Bollinger, who was the doofus President at Michigan when I was a student there

She was the head of LSE before this and allowed a Charlottesville white supremacist to take a place there. Another controversy involved Mark Wallinger’s sculpture of a globe that included Taiwan but not Palestine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Turned_Upside_Down_(sculpture)

Brown has agreed to divest

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-30-24/h_3bb2b501b25fc2ee950c56e48debdf99

has agreed to vote on whether to divest so let's see....

ah right, well, we'll see

love that Kelley letter (love him in general!), thanks tabes

has agreed to vote on whether to divest so let's see....

I feel like I haven't seen in my lifetime (born when we were hightailing it from Vietnam) the full power of the state and the media and the "adults" in this country to crush dissent.

Summer of 2020, they actually imposed a curfew for a few days

i was in a coma

I’m sorry

I guess I am kinda resentful in a way that this is about injustice elsewhere and there’s plenty of it here in the US, but maybe this movement will lead to local activism idk so I don’t want to be an asshole

Columbia student radio station live coverage of events

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

I’m sorry

That is, I was suppressing 2020 out of my mind when I made my original claim about this being a phenomenon I haven’t seen.

Two differences w/ 2020 - cracking the skulls of college kids on campuses instead of more diverse crowds in urban centers + more Democrats had to at least give lip service to supporting BLM protests since Trump was President

yep— now they can say “but vote blue no matter who” and shaming those of us who won’t vote for one genocidaire over another

Ugh (following what’s happening at Columbia)

Here’s a link to the Columbia college radio reporters trying to cover things live https://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

As someone who lives less than 3 blocks from the encampment at Columbia U and regularly attends a seminar on campus, this is so frustrating and infuriating.

i shouldn't say much but considering how small and tame the demonstrations have actually been the media frenzy and immoderate police response feels overwhelmingly Islamophobic

i shouldn't say much but considering how small and tame the demonstrations have actually been the media frenzy and immoderate police response feels overwhelmingly Islamophobic

this is insane (Columbia)

this is insane (Columbia)