from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"
"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."
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
"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."
But #Biden wants us only latched to allegations of the anxieties of Zionist #students:
“interacting with #Columbia admin as a Palestinian student feels like choking on my own food at a fancy dinner table with all of them pretending not to notice. and then later finding out that they poisoned the food.”
This morning, students at #Columbia University picketed outside the homes of three trustees.
At two of the three locations, random harassers suckerpunched student picketers. At one, a car drove into a student. NYPD arrested the victim.
The attacker is Reuven Kahane, a cousin of Meir Kahane, the late fascist founder of the JDL and the murderous #Kahanist movement in occupied Palestine
Student picketer who was struck by Kahane this morning was detained and is in the hospital, handcuffed to a bed, awaiting x-rays. Early reports of a wrist injury.
from #NewYorkTimes [gift article below]
The One-State Solution
By Edward Said
Jan. 10, 1999
This is an article by the late #EdwardSaid. He was a #Palestinian - American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. and a professor of literature at #Columbia University.
It spells out his position that only a binational state based on equality will work in #Palestine - #Israel.
from #YouTube #RashidKhalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at #Columbia gave this blistering speech about the university’s crackdown on pro-#Palestine protesters on May 1, 2024.
"The campus crackdown, at both #Columbia and schools across the nation, is indefensible. But when you are defending the indefensible, you need a spokesman like Adams, as prolific an inventor of fables as Scheherazade."
Any single one of those protestors who faced down violence from the zionist thugs, the neo-nazi thugs and the police thugs, and peacefully kept their ground, or was wrongfully arrested, deserves the USA Presidency more than either #GenocideJoe or his comedic bloated mafiosa fool of an opponent.
The #NYPD in particular, and #cops in general, are such fucking clowns.
They're claiming the thick chains protestors at #Columbia used when occupying a building are proof that the protesters weren't real students.
In fact, not only are those chains widely used by students all over the city... Columbia itself sells them to students.
Don't fall for the NYPD's attempts to manufacture consent for violently attacking peaceful protesters. #StudentSpring#politics#ACAB
Ref: https://www.404media.co/email/1cc25606-201a-4f10-87ce-aeefa8285c3f/
Over 1,000 American college students have been arrested as a pro-Palestinian protest movement rocks campuses this spring.
The @Flipboard editorial team curated this collection of stories on what the protesters want, how the activism compares historically and how it's all impacting this year's U.S. elections.
There's a TON of footage of brutal take downs, cops dog piling people who are already down, and of course dragging them while beating the crap out of them to make it look like their reaction to being dragged is them "resisting".
Quick refresher, the student's named their liberated building after Hind. A young Palestinian girl whose finally moments were caught on an EMS call.
In the call Hind can be heard discribing how here family had just been murdered by an IDF tank crew. Her final words are snuffed out but the sounds of IDF machine gun fire.
Hind's body was eventually recovered from her family's car as well as those of her parents and the EMS crew dispatched to rescue Hind.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are 'surviving' in the world's largest open air concentration camp.
Who assaults Palestinians on daily basis violating #HumanRights everyday? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force.
Who deliberately targets non combatants men, women, children, toddlers, humanitarian aid workers, UN staff, journalists, food convoys then calls all those killed terrorists? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force ordered by neo Nazi copycat war criminal pedophile netanyahu.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are surviving in the world's largest open air concentration camp.