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

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)

so glad the cops are going to occupy a college campus until after graduation so that the school can continue to invest in Israeli bombardment of Palestinians.

we live in a police state

otm, and part of that means the police protect their ideological allies:

https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/pro-israel-counter-protesters-attempt-to-storm-encampment-sparking-violence

Fireworks, tear gas and fights broke out just after 10:50 p.m. Tuesday night and continued early Wednesday morning as around 100 pro-Israel counter-protesters attempted to seize the barricade around and storm the ongoing Palestine solidarity encampment in Dickson Plaza.

The chaos comes as Chancellor Gene Block faces criticism for improper handling of the encampment and the same day the university deemed the encampment to be unlawful, threatening students inside with suspension and expulsion. Security and UCPD both retreated as pro-Israel counter-protesters and other groups attacked protesters in the encampment – led by Students for Justice in Palestine and UC Divest Coalition at UCLA – that followed similar ones across the country.

There has been a minimal police presence on campus despite multiple events of counter-protesters antagonizing the encampment since Thursday.

fucking hell

the whole event sounds nightmarish. I saw a tweet that four Daily Bruin reporters were followed and assaulted by "counter-protesters"

Student journalists at @WKCRFM reporting that NYPD threatened arrest of student journalists and Columbia Journalism School Dean @jelani9 for leaving the Pulitzer Hall journalism department building for a better view of activity on the campus lawn

— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) May 1, 2024

Remember, this is being done all in the service of making students safe.

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

On the connections between Cop City, Israel & the IDF, and police brutality at Emory:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/at-emory-university-cops-are-using-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut/

NEW: ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS HAVE STUDENT GAZA SOLIDARITY PROTESTS 🤯 https://t.co/BVJxZbcd76 pic.twitter.com/4tX2ODKfZW

— Saul (@saaaauuull) April 30, 2024

<3

WOW

Effin. A. Love this. I'd have to go WAY back (few months-ish so, forever) but there was video of this tactic of looking up/calling out cops on the spot being used before and... Oh yeah I forgot I made a video edit someone requested!

Great way to throw them off. https://t.co/pdfuVpceqj pic.twitter.com/vytrZ5Otfk

— Jen (@jenelaina) May 1, 2024

that's a great example of making the internet work for you. everything is public and verifiable. go get em.

Yeah that’s great

Last time I saw Antarctica get involved in protests was the Iraq war.

This is so gross:

#HAPPENINGNOW: An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole. 🇺🇸@NYPDPC @NYPD1stDep @NYPDChiefOfDept @NYPDChiefPatrol @NYPDnews pic.twitter.com/XZWFmvXcUs

— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 1, 2024

yeah I posted that on the Abolish the Police thread

see also this: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3krgqsgggvs24

Minouche Shafik wrote a 2021 book - 'What we owe each other' - where she proposes a reset of the social contract to improve intergenerational fairness.
Then she went to Columbia and brought a notoriously violent police force into that social contract https://t.co/sI3aGz1wCR pic.twitter.com/QcdZWZrHw3

— Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) May 1, 2024

Does NYC have a budget deficit or is it in a good financial place? … Not to discount the repressive impulse of cops, but they are also motivated by OT pay

Maybe they feel righteous going after privileged college kids… what’s the racial makeup of the students?

Nyc is realizing that paying 6B to cops leads to cutting library hours and other things people like

i can't believe the cop really did the gulp + tug collar thing, i thought that was just in cartoons

that was so good lol