As pro-Palestinian #protests continued to escalate across the country, ofcls & students at #BrownUniversity set a rare example on Tues: They made a deal.

Demonstrators agreed to dismantle their encampment at #Brown, which had been removed by Tues evening, & university leaders said they would discuss, & later vote on, divesting funds from companies connected to the #IDF campaign in #Gaza.

#Israel #Palestinians
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/brown-divestment-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

And what should the next step be, you ask?

Simple:
Stop applying to Columbia University

#Israel #Palestine #IDF #Hamas #genocide #WarCrime #Columbia #Students #protest #divest #activism #CivilRights

I wonder if much of the U.S. campus unrest about #Gaza might be deliberately whipped up by #TikTok and other social media algorithms to soften support for #Biden among young voters.

(My own position is that #Hamas is utterly responsible for the October 7th atrocities. However, #Netanyahu has stupidly fallen into their trap. #IDF is creating orders of magnitude more terrorists than they're killing. Today's Gaza children will grow up with seething hatred and thirst for revenge.)

Your thoughts?

A source in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu's office declined to comment on the reported strike in #Iran.

The #IDF spokesman’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

#Israel #Hamas #war #geopolitics #MiddleEast #UnitedStates #GlobalSecurity
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/iran-israel-attack-live-updates-rcna148496/rcrd39357?canonicalCard=true

Live updates: Israel responds to Iran attack with reported strike

Latest news and live updates as tensions in the Middle East remain heightened following Iran's retaliatory attack against Israel this weekend.

^{NBC News}

“If #Netanyahu were to order the [#IDF] into #Rafah at scale …& make no provision for #civilians or for #HumanitarianAid, I would vote to condition #aid to #Israel. I’ve never said that before. I’ve never been here before,”Coons said.

…Among the changes #Biden wants to see…are “a dramatic increase in #humanitarian aid getting in, additional crossings opened up, & a reduction in #violence against #civilians.”

#Gaza #war #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #LawsOfWar #HumanRights

Charles Pierce:

"There is no reason for the United States to be engaged with any government that can do this."

Then he excerpts a BBC report about the IDF of 7 food-charity workers of chef Andrés' World Central Kitchen on Monday, something the IDF is trying to dismiss as, "It just happened."

#Israel #Netanyahu #IDF #Gaza #Palestinians

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60373049/world-central-kitchen-netanyahu-idf/

The IDF Killing of World Central Kitchen Workers Isn’t Going Away

The Netanyahu government is availing itself of the ancient legal principle of “Hey, sh*t happens.”

^{Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)}