An anti-Israel student group at #Columbia Law School sent a threatening email on Friday telling #Jewish students that they will be neither "safe" nor "free" until "everyone is safe" and "Palestine is free."

The National Lawyers Guild chapter that defended #Hamas #Oct7 attack, put out a statement condemning school for calling in #NYPD to clear out occupied building.

The statement told #Jews that they are not safe & accused Jewish students who oppose divestment of threatening everyone's safety.

"To the #Jewish students, faculty, & trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone's safety. Our safety cannot be predicated on the oppression of others, whether campus protestors or Palestinians," the statement added.

The warning to #Jews at #Columbia was attributed to "the Jewish members" of the National Lawyers Guild chapter.

While no students publicly signed their names on the letter, the group's organizing committee took credit.

"Jewish Columbia Students Release Letter Calling Out Antisemitism On Campus"

https://meidasnews.com/news/jewish-columbia-students-release-letter-calling-out-antisemitism-on-campus

"More than 250 students have signed onto the open letter"

#Hamas #Columbia #Jews #antisemitism

In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University

Nearly 650 students give us their true and unfiltered feelings about being Jewish on campus.

#🟦 #mazeldon #jewish #columbia

https://tinyurl.com/ycx7ekck

More false accusations of "anti-Semitism" about Columbia

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Judges boycott Columbia grads, calling the campus demonstrations "anti-Semitic".

13 Trump-hired U.S. federal judges said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University over so-called "anti-Semitism" at the university, calling the Manhattan campus an “incubator of bigotry”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/conservative-us-judges-boycott-columbia-grads-over-campus-gaza-protests-2024-05-06/#:~:text=May%206%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20A,handling%20of%20pro%2DPalestinian%20demonstrations.

#USPol #Columbia ..

NYC Mayor Smears Grandmother as Columbia “Outside Agitator”

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/03/nyc-eric-adams-columbia-outside-agitator-al-arian/

#USnews #NewYork #protest #Columbia #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ceasefire #police

NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Then Mayor Eric Adams said she was the reason NYPD raided Columbia University.

^{Jeremy Scahill (The Intercept)}

Latest comic: Where's the crisis?

(Drawn before events of last week, but still relevant!)

#protest #columbia #gaza #college #firstamendment #cartoon #uspol

Content warning: UCLA NYU COLUMBIA YALE HARVARD Reveal/hide

#UCLA #NYU #COLUMBIA #YALE #HARVARD

Speaking at a campaign event in #Wisconsin on Wed, #Trump derided the #protesters as “raging lunatics & Hamas sympathizers," & called on #Biden to “speak out” — accusing him of being “definitely against #Israel.”

Trump also took aim at #Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik….

“The person that heads it up — a woman — she waited so long. She was so weak. She was so afraid. She was so bad.”

#misogyny #MaleSupremacy #Gaza #Palestinians #FreedomOfAssembly #FirstAmendment #law

One instance of police violence captured at Hind's Hall was a cop in tan pants throwing a person down a flight of stairs.

This incident was caught from several angels and feels like the sort of thing there will likely be law suits over.

📸 TW: @taliaotg

#Columbia #FreePalestine #nyc #nypd #f12

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.

#Gaza #FreePalestine #Columbia #Israel

During the night time raids on campuses. Groups of cops were seen agitating crowds who'd gathered to support the students encampment. The cops randomly charged into them, tackling people and then arresting them.

📸 TW: @kimizar1

#NYPD #Columbia #FreePalestine

At columbia, protesters outside of the campus linked arms to block the gates. The NYPD arrested them one at a time with over whelming force.

📸 TW: SpyderMonkey0_0

#Columbia #NYPD #nyc #FreePalestine

The cops wore tan pants and busted out some custom built toys to raid Hind's Hall. Bc you gotta dress nice when you're at an Ivy League.

📸 TW: @isabelle_leyva

#acab #nyc #columbia

Cops were seen entering the building with guns drawn. They raided the building room by room with pistols drawn and at times carrying basaltic shields.

... Naturually I've still not seen any reports about any weapons charges etc. Feel like that would be a huge deal if the cops had actually found anything material to justify all this.... anyways.

📸 TW: @YWNReporter

#Columbia #NYC #acab

I'm not the only one who thinks the cops were over board. Here's a cop himself telling a loved one about his day . . .

His previous text reads:

"I thought we fucking shot someone"

📸 TW: @ColumbiaSJP

https://linktr.ee/columbiasjp

#Columbia #ACAB #NYC #NYPD #FreePalestine

Given how amped up they were to be using the batman-esque entrance I can see why the cop above thought they might have killed somebody.

And again, have we EVER seen this level of force used on fascist protests?

📸 IG: @jacobbergerbackup
🔗 TW: @gregjstoker

#Columbia #nypd #nyc #freepalestine

The NYPD severely beat and brutalized people as they arrested them last night.

Multiple students arrested had to be taken directly to the hospital.

This was a cop riot.

The cops worked to remove as many press people from the encampment prior to the sweep as possible.

📸 TW: @ColumbiaSJP

#NYPD #NewYork #Columbia #FreePalestine

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".

But, first I think you should see this meme!

📸 TW: @probablyreadit
🎤 IG: @noshu4me

https://linktr.ee/noshu4m3

#acab #nyc #columbia #bonk #meme #FreePalestine

Over night hundreds of NYPD cops descended on Columbia's campus and other NYC universities.

📸 IG: nycpym

https://www.instagram.com/NYCPYM

#NYC #Columbia #FreePalestine #acab

#nypd continues to occupy the #columbia neighborhood in #nyc

Hard to capture the number of #nypd and cop cars of every size on every block from my bike.

And the #press covering how the protestors prevent folks from getting around … is itself occupying the public #bikenyc #citibike station actually interfering w peoples ability to get around.

It feels like it’s an occupied zone.

I am feeling shame and sadness this morning.

Brown University has reached an agreement with student protesters to disband tent encampments, and it will hold a formal vote to divest from companies with ties to the occupation state of Israel.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/607858/brown-university-encampment-divestment-gaza/

#Palestine #divestment #Israel
#Columbia #BrownUniversity

Brown University protesters reach a deal with administration – The Forward

Student organizers agreed to break down their encampment by 5 p.m. Tuesday in exchange for concessions from Brown's administration.

^{The Forward}

Boy did he ever

#NYC #Israel #Gaza #Columbia

Columbia Anti-Viet Nam War Protest leader:

"They’re pretty much the same as we were. The basic impetus of the students, I think it’s not that complicated. It’s that they see a moral tragedy and moral crime going on, and they want to try to do something to stop it,” Rudd told the Daily Beast.

“They don't have the violent rhetoric we had, like calling the cops pigs and ‘Up against the wall, motherfucker,’ that kind of craziness. I think they’re a lot more careful. I think they’re smarter."

https://buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich/archive/history-repeats-itself-at-columbia/

#Columbia #Gaza #Fascism #Injustice #Genocide

History Repeats Itself at Columbia

By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...

^{The Sword And the Sandwich}

#USpol #Palestine #UniversityProtests

(1/n)

About 1,000 #US students have been arrested in the #ProPalestine protests. #Columbia has started #suspensions.

This is crazy. Peaceful and legal protests are possible, as #NorthwesternUniversity's example shows.

Via #VOA:

"In a rare case, Northwestern University said it reached an agreement with students and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus near Chicago. It allows...

https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/112359899307357468

Voice of America

2024-04-30 11:20:02

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.

https://www.voanews.com/a/pro-palestinian-protesters-take-over-columbia-university-building/7591600.html #voanews

Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Columbia University building

Number of arrests at campuses nationwide is approaching 1,000

^{Associated Press (Voice of America (VOA News))}

Good.

"Columbia Prez Gives Protesters a Deadline: Scram or Get Suspended"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/columbia-university-president-gives-protesters-a-deadline-scram-or-get-suspended

"Minouche Shafik said negotiations had broken down and that the university would not divest from Israel. Protesters have until 2 p.m. to voluntarily end their demonstrations."

#Hamas #Columbia #protest #Israel

Columbia University president says negotiations with pro-Palestinian protesters have stalled, school will not divest from Israel.

NBC News reports: "Columbia was the first elite institution [in the U.S.] struck by protests in support of the Palestinian cause, with students demanding that the school divest from investments in weapons manufacturing and that support Israel amid the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, in which more than 34,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Protests spread quickly last week on campuses from coast to coast, resulting in mass arrests and crackdowns."

https://flip.it/MU9GQJ

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Protest #Columbia #News

Columbia University president says negotiations with protesters have stalled, school will not divest from Israel

Columbia University’s president said Monday that talks with student organizers had failed to reach an agreement, and that the university will not divest from Israel — a demand that has sparked protests on college campuses across the country.

^{Marlene Lenthang (NBC News)}

This is not Iran or China. It's Austin, Texas:

#texas #journalism #democracy #fediverse #usa #america #campusprotest #columbia #mit #police

A Jewish student at #Columbia: "This crackdown was the most violence inflicted on our student body in decades. I implore you, as our Jewish Voice for Peace chapter does, to consider whether arresting Jewish students keeps us and Columbia safe.

"Smears from the press and pro-#Israel influencers, who have levied charges of antisemitism and violence against Jewish students, are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety." https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia?publication_id=2325511&post_id=143899407&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

^{Jonathan Ben-Menachem (Zeteo)}

“From the other side of the world, we University of #Melbourne For #Palestine #UM4P, express our full and unwavering #solidarity with the brave actions of #Columbia Students For Justice in Palestine #SJP.
From Australia, we join the global chant ‘disclose, divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!’”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/21/pro-palestinian-organizations-at-universities-across-the-world-protest-in-support-of-columbia-gaza-solidarity-encampment/

#Gaza #solidarity #educationworkers

Pro-Palestinian organizations at universities across the world protest in support of Columbia ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’

As the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia enters its fifth day, students at over a dozen universities across the country—and the globe—have begun protesting in solidarity with the encampment after 108 affiliates were arrested on campus by the N…

^{Columbia Daily Spectator}