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Well well well
"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"
Pro-Israel billionaires urged New York crackdown on Gaza protests: Report
WhatsApp leaks reveal group of business leaders discussed ways to pressure officials to clear pro-Palestine protesters.Al Jazeera
Compare this kind of reporting with the reporting by your national networks.
No 'live' footage of violence just a decent interview on the reasons to demonstrate and what happened on the previous demo's. Kudos to Step Vaesen.
Btw. what happened to the filmed zionist actors that started the violence on these demo's ?
Not a one arrested, while they came from behind police lines ! 🤬 🤬
"Amsterdam University walkout: Staff protest after police crackdown" [4:03 min]
by Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xamEyJxJlUA
Amsterdam University walkout: Staff protest after police crackdown
Staff at universities across the Netherlands are staging a walkout.It follows a violent police crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters on Amsterdam Universit...YouTube
Many responses to this focus on Trump promising much worse but it just strikes me as incoherent.
Yes, #Biden made a small, late contribution to the moral panic but the crackdowns are coming from college administrators buckling under pressure from GOP demagogues in Congress and are carried out by local cops. #gazaprotests
Hard to overstate how irresponsible that Politico piece is. Not only is it substantially inaccurate, but this is the stuff that leads to threats, harassment and violence. It has in the past, so I’m not speaking hypothetically. And yet they chose to publish this bullshit story for clicks. #media #conspiracytheories #gazaprotests
Politico Misses Mark in Story on Who’s Funding Pro-Palestine Protests
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it has “reached out to Politico for correction.”Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
This is a well reported piece but the framing is bizarre.
When a mob attacks a group of protesters under cover of darkness, they are not counter-protesting.
And as the reporting makes clear, they didn’t “provoke” violence, they *perpetrated* it as the cops and campus security stood by. #media #fascism #gazaprotests
How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours
The New York Times used videos filmed by journalists, witnesses and protesters to analyze hours of clashes — and a delayed police response — at a pro-Palestinian encampment on Tuesday.Neil Bedi (The New York Times)
Many media outlets are paying a lot more attention to arrests than to the actual demands of protesters.
US media largely ignored campus protests until encampments (and police clearing of encampments) got going, fitting in with a general pattern, according to a researcher who studies how journalists cover protest movements:
https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172
#News #GazaProtests #journalism @academicchatter
Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.The Conversation
“UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement.”
#acab #fascism #gazaprotests
https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/
I'm a UCLA professor. Our leaders could have prevented violence – The Forward
Last night's violence at UCLA was something the university's administrators could and should have anticipated.The Forward
“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/
I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
Referring to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, students protesting against Israel's attacks on Gaza at the University of Texas at Austin chanted at Texas Department of Public Safety troopers:
"Who failed Uvalde? DPS!"
via https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/112359163831984195
#StudentProtests #GazaProtests #KidsAreAlright
Texas Student Protesters To State Police: 'Who Failed Uvalde?'
Department of Public Safety troopers came on campus and arrested several students protesting the war in Gaza.Paige Skinner (HuffPost)
Chanting "Who failed Uvalde?" at the DPS officers who came to riot was just cold. Absolutely deserved but also a stark indictment of Texas' incompetent police state. That took bravery but the students also had nothing to lose - they were going to get brutalized by DPS no matter what they did so they might as well call out DPS for its cowardice and ineffectiveness. Still, bringing up Uvalde was admirably cold.
