#gaza#studentprotests#genocide#israel
Jonathan Cook reporting on the war on truth & the right to protest:
"The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed".
"Universities have even gone so far as to suspend leading student groups, like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), organizing against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza. Yet, students across the US and the world have remained defiant and steadfast in their demands against their universities' complicity with Israel’s genocide."
"We believe that these dynamics are likely present in many of the current Palestine Solidarity Encampments around the country and world, and that describing and naming the counterinsurgency tactics of organizers can help us find new ways forward on the path of ending colonialism and genocide in Palestine."
"On Tuesday, April 30 and into the early morning of May 1, 2024, hundreds of people, fulfilling different roles and moving fluidly between them, collectively constructed an encampment at the University of Arizona, raised a perimeter around it, barricaded that perimeter, held off a police advance, launched a supportive rally of several hundred people on the public avenue west of the encampment, and then formed a defensive line in the street to protect the encampment from a second police advance."
"As protests against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the #WestBank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of encampments on US university campuses, still more have popped up across the globe—in Asia, Europe, Mexico and elsewhere."
"As protests against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the #WestBank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of encampments on US university campuses, still more have popped up across the globe—in Asia, Europe, Mexico & elsewhere."
The Palestine discourse in Germany has reached escape velocity from reality and has entered an orbit of pure self-referentiality.
There are now serious people talking about how,
even if don’t agree with them,
people shouldn't be slandered for voicing their opinion that,
even if you don’t agree with them,
the authors of an open letter shouldn't be slandered in the press and threatened by politicians, whose letter said that,
even if you don’t agree with them, student protesters shouldn't be brutally beaten up by police for saying that,
even if you don't agree with Hamas,
children in Gaza shouldn't be starved to death…
"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"
Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.
Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.
"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."
"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"
Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.
Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.
"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."
"What started as a student encampment at #Columbia University in New York City three weeks ago has now turned into a global #StudentMovement, expanding to Europe, Australia, Canada and beyond. We’ll get the latest from the campus grounds and ask what is next for the global #StudentMovementForGaza."
The Boston Globe refused to publish a commissioned piece on how students are demanding justice for Palestinians.
"If you find yourself in opposition to our movement, I ask you this: When was the last time a student revolution was on the wrong side of history, and state repression on the right side?"
Author Ruya Hazeyen, Students for Justice in Palestine, UMass Amherst.
After Raids, #NYPD Denied Student #Protesters Water and Food in Jail
Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed #students.
by Akela Lacy
May 6 2024
"Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at #ColumbiaUniversity’s #BarnardCollege who collected reports from students who were inside.
"Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
"Police arrested 282 protesters at Columbia University and the #CityCollege of New York. According to the professors, they ended up at one of two jails downtown: NYPD headquarters or the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.
"'The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane. They take away the dignity of every person in there.'
"Students arrested during the crackdown said at least two of them were put in solitary confinement for three hours and others reported much longer stays, according to Barnard College professor #ShayoniMitra and a tenured faculty member who asked for anonymity to protect their livelihood. The faculty members were working to support jailed students. (The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
"Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
"'The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane,' Mitra told The Intercept. 'They take away the dignity of every person in there.'
"Police forces and state troopers raided university protests at dozens of campuses across the country last week. Nationwide, police have arrested more than 2,500 people, according to an arrest tracker from The Appeal."
"The NYPD’s New Sizzle Reels Aren’t Just Dumb. They’re Dangerous"
“This is copaganda.... insidious forms of police propaganda that serve to justify crackdowns..on dissent while allowing police to portray themselves as heroic."
It is really incredible just how big the student revolution has become. This is Lausanne in Switzerland, a country hitherto on a par with Germany or even worse in oppressing criticism of Israel. #studentprotests
#studentprotests A Jewish student at Cambridge giving a tour of their encampment. Really moving to watch and hear - especially his explanation of why he is wearing his Kippah - because protesting is a religious act; something he is doing because of his faith.