@omdimbeyachad Standing Together is an Jewish/Arab Israeli #solidarity org, they are forming a citizen guard to protect aid trucks going to #Gaza from attacks. Here is where you can donate to fund the guard and legal defense.
Please boost and share widely and donate if you can. If you are in #Israel or have contacts there, see the reply for a link to volunteer.
Members of the group People in Solidarity with Palestinians hold signs during a rally outside the Israeli embassy in Seoul, South Korea [Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA-EFE]
A debate about the differences of #antiZionism & #antiSemitism isn't possible @freieuniversitaet . Some might say that's corrupted by design, but I'd call it a classic conflict of interest.
However, #FUBerlin president prof. Ziegler published today: “This kind of protest is not dialogue oriented. An occupation of university property is not acceptable. We welcome academic debate and dialogue – but not in this form,”
“The Anger in the region [about Palestine] is palpable and it is traumatic. When people are consuming daily images of massacres of people suffering and yet they hear that United States willfully enabling it by continuing to send bombs, it makes people lose complete faith in the United States.
“This is painful to me as an American Diplomat. I've worked for the last 18 years to straighten ties between the United States and other counties; to advance US interests, to promote America's image, but this policies [Arming Israel without condition] made it impossible. How can we talk about Press Freedom when we remain willfully silent about the killing of so many journalist.”
– Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza
“If President Biden, if Secretary Blinken had solved this crisis there would have been no #StudentProtests. The buck stops with president.
“Again I'm going to say it: It is a failed policy. It had not succeeded in bringing home the hostages. It had not succeeded in making Israelis safer and when students are seeing a potential, plausible ongoing genocide, they are reacting to it. They are reacting to the fact that their academic institutions maybe financially invested in the killings of innocent people in Gaza. They are reacting to the fact that their government is continuing to enable the killing of innocent civilians.
– Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza
ULWU local 10 forced the closure of the Port of Oakland yesterday, and voted to refuse to handle all Israeli cargo. Plans to ask the international to do the same.
The union representing 3,000 grad student workers at USC has filed an unfair labor practice charge against USC to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty arrested in Pro-Palistinian protests there.
Today In Labor History May 1, 1830: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was born. Mother Jones was renowned for her militancy and fiery oration, as well as her many juicy quotes. She once said, “I’m no lady. I’m a hell-raiser.” She also was an internationalist, saying “My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.” Despite the difficulties of constant travel, poor living and jail, she lived to be 100. She was also a cofounder of the anarchosyndicalist IWW.
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that it was a student in their dorm, recording on a cassette recorder, who forever captured the order to fire on students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State
Students at Columbia University paint a banner in response to a message of thanks Palestinians wrote on tents in Rafah, on Sunday [Caitlin Ochs/Reuters]
I love that #UK lawyers are pre warning the police that if they act like American police did against #student protestors they will help the students immediately. #Oxford#Solidarity#BDS#Palestine
small occupation so far by the psu library, it'll no doubt grow through the night, and perhaps the weekend -- no megaphones as of 7:00pm, i hope they keep it that way!