Protests at Universities across the fruited plain

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Really hate to see these arrests of faculty.

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video.
@ATLNewsFirst

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US Congressman @GregCasar joins the protest, calls for ceasefire

“My message to the university is clear: students and faculty are not the enemy. Students and faculty are the university.”

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What do they want? Divestment from Israel.
https://x.com/RyanChandlerTV/status/1783568711976206438

The organizers of this protest, Palestinian Solidarity Committee, reads a list of “campus demands,” including financial divestment from Israeli interests and resignation of UT President Jay Hartzell

“Hartzell out” chant rings not far from his office in the tower

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JFC don't touch random blood with your bare hands.

an Emerson College student sent me this video of city crews cleaning blood from the alleyway where 108 students were arrested last night during an encampment sweep. I'm at Boston municipal court today where eight of those arrested have been given summons for arraignments in May.

[Flatpoint High]

NEVER FORGET THE KENT STATE MASSACRE

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NEVER FORGET THE KENT STATE MASSACRE

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We learn nothing.

[Flatpoint High]

We learn nothing.

sadly true, and the authoritarians want another massacre. They LOVED seeing student protestors mowed down by militaries around the World back in the day.
and they creamed their jeans when Kent State went down

[raison de arizona]

This sort of attitude is not helpful.

[Rolodex]

I've been really confused by all of this. I admit I have never followed the Middle East political world because it's just so complicated.

But my view is that these students are overwhelmingly non-violent and are asking their schools to divest from investments in companies arming/helping Israel because of what they see as genocide.

Has it long been a thing that protesting a county/its leaders (Israel/Netenyahu/IDF) is the same as antisemitism? I mean, Israel is home to folks of other religions than Jewish. And a country's leader =/= its people (see: USA 2016-2020).

So is it that Abbott and all these other folks clamping down on campus protests are calling it "pro Palestine" so that they can say students/protesters are antisemitic? I mean, it's gross, but saying "I hate Jews" is 1A speech, right? But these people aren't even saying that, afaik. They just want investments out of Israel and to stop genocide.

What am I missing?

[p0rtia]

Life in the autocracy.

The people in power don't give a shit about anything but violence and fear to control the masses. Truth or Constitution not a consideration.

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You can hear the officer tasing a prone, handcuffed, clearly in control student. Is this what we want for our children?

One of the primary functions of police is to violently crush progressive social movements. It's one of the reasons expanding the size and power of police is always authoritarian and is never an answer to inequality. *It is a key part of preserving inequality, in all its forms.*

The outright police brutalization and assault on Emory students exercising their constitutional right to free speech is a disgusting display of fascism. These young leaders, many who are LGBTQ+, deserve the right to assemble and protest in peace without fear of state violence.

[AndyinPA]

Not really new. Remember Kent in May 1970? It was Ohio National Guard, but the same idea. And it doesn't stand alone.

[p0rtia]

Remember the Occupy movement? Even more recent.

I will never forget the video of police slowlly walking along a line of peaceful protesters sitting perfectly still on a low stone wall--and casually spraying pepper spray in their faces.

I think that's when I knew for sure that the ideals I had been brainwashed with as a kid were bunk. Or, maybe not the ideals themselves, but the idea that they were followed by LE and gov't.

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Pro-Palestine protests coming from Temple and Drexel campuses are now at Penn

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This is the kind of free speech that IS allowed on college campuses.

Cops didn’t do a thing as these folks marched through my backyard yelling “Jews will not replace us” on UVA’s campus a few years ago. Free speech they said.

More from a protest on a college campus that was totally kosher.

“A little peanut… It was nothing”

Trump says neo-Nazis and KKK members marching in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” was “a little peanut”: “It was nothing”

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More anti-semitic content from GWU.

“I am a Holocaust survivor. I experienced as a child every single thing a Gazan child is experiencing on a daily basis. There’s no excuse 4 the slaughter of 15K children. I am proud to be here with you.”

Amazing Jewish solidarity at encampment at GWU #FreePalestine #Occupy4Gaza

[RVInit]

I've been really confused by all of this. I admit I have never followed the Middle East political world because it's just so complicated.

But my view is that these students are overwhelmingly non-violent and are asking their schools to divest from investments in companies arming/helping Israel because of what they see as genocide.

Has it long been a thing that protesting a county/its leaders (Israel/Netenyahu/IDF) is the same as antisemitism? I mean, Israel is home to folks of other religions than Jewish. And a country's leader =/= its people (see: USA 2016-2020).

So is it that Abbott and all these other folks clamping down on campus protests are calling it "pro Palestine" so that they can say students/protesters are antisemitic? I mean, it's gross, but saying "I hate Jews" is 1A speech, right? But these people aren't even saying that, afaik. They just want investments out of Israel and to stop genocide.

What am I missing?

When you can't address Israeli government treatment of Palestinians with a straight face the only thing you have is to scream antisemitism. IMO that is what we see very often when the subject of Israel's actions against Palestinians comes up. They try to claim that people who are concerned about Israel mowing down tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians must be "pro Hamas", which I am quite certain most of us are NOT pro Hamas or antisemitic. It's just like saying if you think Black Lives Matter than means that you believe white lives do not matter. Just BS to confuse and complicate and maintain the status quo.

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I liked what a student interviewed at a protest said the other day:

I AM:

• pro-Palestine
• pro-Israel
• anti-Hamas
• anti-Netanyahu

That about sums it up.

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Students at City College in Harlem, NYC have their own Gaza Solidarity Encampment. CUNY cops just tried to enter the encampment but were repelled by students. Once cops scurried away defeated, students & other protesters protested “I believe that we will win!”

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Well this is a bad look for midwestern universities.

I saw that snipers are on the roof of the student union at Ohio State right now as well. It’s incredible how terrified these universities are of their own students

Sniper on the roof of the IMU.
Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.

Ohio- don't see rifles at least.

snipers on the roof of Ohio Union at Ohio State

[AndyinPA]

Any cop/national guard member/etc., in Ohio should be really wary of this. May 4 is the 54th anniversary of the massacre at Kent State.

[Ben-Prime]

This sort of attitude is not helpful.

What happened to 'Universities shall not limit free speech'?

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What happened to 'Universities shall not limit free speech'?

Nazis exercise free speech. Students? Not so much.

[Volkonski]

USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

https://apnews.com/article/israel-pales ... bcc8a56b8b

The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony Thursday and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.

College officials across the U.S. are worried the ongoing protests could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month. Some universities called in police to break up the demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and arrests nationwide, while others appeared content to wait out student protests as the final days of the semester ticked down.

Schools such as Columbia University continued to negotiate with protesters, while others are rewriting their rules to ban encampments and moving final exams to new locations.