An audio dispersal order was just given. Activists chant "there is no riot here, why are you in riot gear?"

#Austin #Palestine #UTAustin

Barricades are going up around the clock tower and I've seen some state troopers on motorcycles approaching the area. Activists are still chanting and holding space.

#Palestine #Austin #Texas #UTAustin

Here is the official dispersal order issued to students on the South Lawn of #UTAustin.

#Palestine #Austin #Texas

Activists are linking arms and have tables in the way to protect those putting up tents at the South Lawn of #UTAustin. Police are here but outnumbered.

#Austin #Texas #Palestine

Hundreds of people are here to support #Palestine and for a rally for educators and staff affected by the ban on #DEI at #UTAustin.

#Austin #Texas #news #activism

On the #UTAustin campus, activists hold up names of students and educators killed in Gaza, along with facts about the damage war has done to education.

#Palestine #Austin #activism

Fear is widespread on American campuses, researcher says

Students are “observing acts of physical violence and intimidation right in front of them. Jewish students are seeing Jewish buildings attacked. Muslim students are seeing people ... counterattack against Muslims. The students that are not Jewish and not Muslim, they’re just seeing everybody getting ... attacked.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/fear-american-campuses-00154855 #education #protests #Israel #Palestine #Hamas #antisemitism #Islamophobia #bigotry #violence

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)}

#Gaza #Palestine
#Endtheoccupation

German police were accused of using excessive force as they broke up a pro-Palestinian protest camp outside the Bundestag parliament building in Berlin, where several demonstrators were arrested.

Police dismantled tents, forcibly removed protesters and blocked the surrounding area to stop others arriving.

“The idea was to draw attention to the German complicity and active enabling of the Israeli genocide in Gaza,” the camp organizer, told Reuters.

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« Displaced Palestinians at camps in southern Gaza’s Rafah are thanking student protesters in the US for their solidarity. »

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9KYNaMBzbI

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine

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Displaced Palestinians in Gaza thank student protesters

Displaced Palestinians at camps in southern Gaza’s Rafah are thanking student protesters in the US for their solidarity.At the al-Quds refugee camp, displace...

^YouTube

The International courts have called Israel to court several times over human rights violations and acts of terrorism (including using children as shields). They have never showed. This alone is enough for me to support his arrest as a war criminal.

inb4: The international court has also called HAMAS to court, and they should be held guilty for their violations as well.

#Israel #Palestine

#Concordia and #McGill University students in Montreal, Canada have began an encampment at the McGill campus to demand the universities divest from #Israel and an end to the genocide in #Palestine. MP Anthony Housefather has already called for university administrators to clamp down hard on students who participate in #FreePalestine solidarity events, and faculty who support them.

He also called for more money for policing. All this in defense not of Canadians but of a foreign apartheid regime.

For months World Central Kitchen leadership censored material coming out of its Gaza operation and refused to honor staff concerns about our work there. They are finally taking a stand after personnel were killed but it is much too late.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/i-resigned-from-the-world-central-kitchen-because-it-refused-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

I resigned from World Central Kitchen because it refused to tell the truth about the Israeli genocide in Gaza

For months World Central Kitchen leadership censored material coming out of its Gaza operation and refused to honor staff concerns about our work there. They are finally taking a stand after personnel were killed, but it is much too late.

^{Ramsey Telhami (Mondoweiss)}

‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

https://www.inkl.com/a/GWbLWRCokGo

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UnitedStates #studentProtests #freedomOfSpeech #academicFreedom #emory #emoryUniversity #BDS #boycottDivestmentAndSanctions

‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty

^inkl

In response to pro-Palestine protests, Portland State University freezes ties with Boeing

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/psu-portland-state-university-boeing-israel-palestine-protest/283-040775fd-1aa5-4692-b7b2-6605deb1fb88

> #PortlandStateUniversity President Ann Cudd said the school will pause seeking or accepting further gifts or grants from #Boeing pending "debate."

#Palestine
#PDX

We live in a police state, we're just finally waking up to that reality.

Gaza IS the red pill.

#Police #Protest #Universities #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

#Gaza #Palestine
#Endtheoccupation

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has called for sanctions to be imposed on Israel and for it to be held accountable for its crimes against Palestinians.

“At this point, Israel has reneged on its international obligations to a degree that warrants a call for sanctions,” Albanese said in a press statement yesterday following a visit to Jordan and Egypt.

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C’mon folks, how bad can genocide really be if someone as nice as Biden supports it?

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #USA #UnitedStates #Biden #JoeBiden #GenocideJoe

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Opposing genocide is antisemitism.

– 2024

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

On Wednesday evening, students at Sciences Po Paris established the first university encampment for Palestine in France, before being forcibly removed by riot police. The students promise the movement will continue.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/inside-the-first-french-university-encampment-for-palestine-at-sciences-po-paris/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Inside the first French university encampment for Palestine at Sciences Po Paris

^{Sania Mahyou (Mondoweiss)}

“When members of the public are engaged in a peaceful #protest in a public space—assuming they are not obstructing traffic, or disrupting campus activities—there is very little legal basis for law enforcement to demand they leave.”

From yesterday: A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals on campus. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-palestine-first-amendment/

#FreeSpeech #UTAustin #Palestine #activism #Austin #Texas #police #StudentSpring

Did Texas Police Violate First Amendment Rights of Pro-Palestine Protesters?

A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration.

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}

Our horrible guy is still better than their terrible guy.

– Democrats, 2024

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #studentProtests #policeBrutality #USA #UnitedStates #Biden #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #fascism #policeState #zionism

they are currently arresting all the people refusing to leave the camp one by one

@palestine #berlin #palestine #gaza ##BesetzenGegenBesatzung

This half hour report (with transcript) is a pretty good condensation of where things are in North Gaza with the discovery of mass graves - 3 sites with a total of about 700 bodies found at the time of the report.

The call for a no-fly zone is such a "no shit" moment but it's way past overdue.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/25/gaza_mass_graves_war_crimes

#Palestine #Israel #genocide

Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution

At least 320 bodies have been discovered buried in a mass grave at the destroyed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, just weeks after a similar mass grave containing up to 400 bodies was discovered amid the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

^{Democracy Now!}

United States: we'll impose sanctions on a single, very specific IDF unit for egregious human rights violations

Every Israeli politician: this unit is no different from the rest of the IDF

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla’ prepares to challenge Israeli blockade | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/25/gaza-freedom-flotilla-prepares-to-challenge-israeli-blockade

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla’ prepares to challenge Israeli blockade

A ship with aid workers from 40 countries is hoping to leave a Turkish port on Friday and deliver 5,000 tons of aid.

^{Al Jazeera}