#colombia university students

[workersolidarity]

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COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY VIOLENTLY STORMED AND SHUT DOWN BY NYPD

📹 Scenes from the violent dispersal of Colombia University protests after police stormed "Hind Hall", named by students in memory of 6-year-old Hind Rajab who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces along with two paramedics in the Gaza Strip.

Protesters are violently assaulted and arrested by NYPD, among the most notoriously violent police in the country.

News reports meanwhile claim no tear gas was used in the raid, and say no one was injured in the assaults, video evidence to the contrary.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

[the-eyespy]

🇵🇸🇺🇸 In an interview in the early 1980s, the legendary Palestinian Columbia University Professor Edward Said expressed his pride in his campus. Today, he would likely be even prouder of the strides made.

🇵🇸🇺🇸 في مقابلة أجريت معه في أوائل الثمانينات، أعرب الأستاذ الفلسطيني الأسطوري في جامعة كولومبيا إدوارد سعيد عن اعتزازه بحرمه الجامعي. واليوم، من المرجح أن يكون أكثر فخراً بالخطوات التي حققها.

[drsonnet]

Gadzooks Bazooka

@GadzooksB

Here’s a drawing in my sketchbook of NYPD beating people protesting in solidarity with Palestine yesterday. They violently attacked people and press members at random on the Nakba day protest in Brooklyn, punching and choking them for protesting genocide.

[vyorei]

Colombia University is rightfully catching heat for the suspension of students in the activist groups Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace

[philsmeatylegss]

As someone into contemporary history and getting a degree in it, I don’t think people realize how much the phrase “history always repeats itself” applies in this situation at colleges right now. I don’t think people understand how similar the treatment of college students protesting peacefully against the genocide in Palestine and the treatment of college students who peacefully protested the Vietnam War is. And if you know a bit about peace Vietnam War protests, you know people were shot and killed.

Peaceful protests have never been respected as an American right unless the government is funding their cause.

[nyxx01]

A question about protest safety

I heard people shouldn’t wear contact lenses to protests because pepper spray and tear gas. So it’s better to wear glasses, but won’t you damage and injure your face far easier? And some people are practically blind without their glasses what if they lose them?

[pia-writes-things]

I hate French universities' administrations so fuckin much ! I'm currently changing schools and reorienting myself to do a publishing Master degree and in order to join my new university, I need documents from my former university. I wrote to them on the 10th of July ; they never wrote back. We are now the first of August and I wrote to them again because I still need those fucking documents, but, of course, because we're in France and it's the summer vacations, the school is closed so I won't have any answer before the 24 of August ! BUT! In my new university, they said that any document sent after the 21st of July means that my inscription will only be valid at the beginning of September. Except I'm going back to THAT school on the third of September. So, I just won't have any documents that will prove that I am, in fact, a student at that university the day I'm going to said university.

I want to scream and hit walls, and just, like, erupt in French rage about the f****** French administration

[motherofcats17]

Beautiful 👏👏❤️

Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver

[mypatchworkreflection]

"On Sunday, some current faculty members at Columbia University learned through a news article that all new students and faculty at the school will be mandated to go through an orientation on antisemitism. The plan was not announced in any direct communications from the university.

Rather, it was reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in a story about the university’s task force on antisemitism.

Formed last November as political pressure mounted against criticism of Israel on campuses, the task force set out to examine specific notions of bigotry at the university, which has become a flashpoint of protests against Israel’s war on Gaza — often followed by violent police crackdowns.

Numerous participants in the antisemitism task force, including its three co-chairs — Columbia faculty members, many of whom are outspoken Israel supporters — openly discussed the not-yet published report with the newspaper before any such information was shared with the university’s community, or even their colleagues."

[workersolidarity]

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GAZA'S DISPLACED PALESTINIANS TO COLOMBIA: "FROM RAFAH, WE SEND YOU STRENGTH"

📹 Gaza's displaced Palestinians thanks the students of Colombia University and other student protesters for their solidarity during Israeli occupation's genocide.

"From Rafah we send you strength"

"The children of Gaza are proud of you."

"Thank you students of Colombia University"

"The students give us hope"

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

When people say they want “peaceful” protests they’re really just saying “be quiet”.

This kind of thinking reminds me of the Dr. King quote: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

[drsonnet]

Today's photos from @OxAct4Pal Encampment by the Radcliffe Camera.

Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) is a collective of members of the University of Oxford community who are dedicated to Palestinian liberation.

Credit: Madeleine Jane (@_MadeleineJane) / X

[vyorei]

Colombia University is being a fucking prick again

[probablyasocialecologist]

The economic indicators speak of nothing less than an economic catastrophe. Over 46,000 businesses have gone bankrupt, tourism has stopped, Israel’s credit rating was lowered, Israeli bonds are sold at the prices of almost “junk bonds” levels, and the foreign investments that have already dropped by 60% in the first quarter of 2023 (as a result of the policies of Israel’s far-right government before October 7) show no prospects of recovery. The majority of the money invested in Israeli investment funds was diverted to investments abroad because Israelis do not want their own pension funds and insurance funds or their own savings to be tied to the fate of the State of Israel. This has caused a surprising stability in the Israeli stock market because funds invested in foreign stocks and bonds generated profit in foreign currency, which was multiplied by the rise in the exchange rate between foreign currencies and the Israeli Shekel. But then Intel scuttled a $25 billion investment plan in Israel, the biggest BDS victory ever.  These are all financial indicators. But the crisis strikes deeper at the means of production of the Israeli economy. Israel’s power grid, which has largely switched to natural gas, still depends on coal to supply demand. The biggest supplier of coal to Israel is Colombia, which announced that it would suspend coal shipments to Israel as long as the genocide was ongoing. After Colombia, the next two biggest suppliers are South Africa and Russia. Without reliable and continuous electricity, Israel will no longer be able to pretend to be a developed economy. Server farms do not work without 24-hour power, and no one knows how many blackouts the Israeli high-tech sector could potentially survive. International tech companies have already started closing their branches in Israel. Israel’s reputation as a “startup nation” depends on its tech sector, which in turn depends on highly educated employees. Israeli academics report that joint research with universities abroad has declined sharply thanks to the efforts of student encampments. Israeli newspapers are full of articles about the exodus of educated Israelis. Prof. Dan Ben David, a famous economist, argued that the Israeli economy is held together by 300,000 people (the senior staff in universities, tech companies, and hospitals). Once a significant portion of these people leaves, he says, “We won’t become a third world country, we just won’t be anymore.” 

19 July 2024

[drsonnet]

Palestinian from Gaza confronted the dishonorable SAMANTHA POWER, head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for her silence on the cause of the “famine” in Gaza.

Palestinian from Gaza confronted the dishonorable SAMANTHA POWER, head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for her silence on the cause of the "famine" in Gaza.

The cause, of course, is the genocidal Zio.nist entity that has and continues to use STARVATION AS A WEAPON OF WAR in Ghazza. It does so by blocking any humanitarian aid from entering the strip. Furthermore, "Israel " continues to mobilize its settlers to block aid trucks from entering Ghazza, with many recent videos showing settlers destroying the contents on the aid trucks as well.

@samanthajpower is not just complicit in this systematic and weaponized starvation, but her silence, as seen in this video, makes her part of the corrupted ruling elite that are directly responsible for this atrocity. You are a complete fraud, Samantha.