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They have closed entire New York roads to traffic so that no one can come in to stop the world's largest police force from beating college kids up for protesting a genocide.

This understanding, almost entirely absent from mainstream media coverage as US campuses are being violently attacked, has never been more vital (and it's an issue I investigate in my Scribe Publications Verso Books title, 'The Palestine Laboratory'):
mondoweiss.net/2020/06/israel…

ON BROADWAY 113TH

Columbia issuing a shelter-in-place order before unleashing the NYPD on its students is beyond bleak. The Student Movement is once again stripping bare the ugly, racist face of this Zionist country. Liberation within our lifetime.

Thinking about late 20th c. military dictatorships in Latin America & elsewhere, a common feature was universities being overrun by cops or troops to violently shut down dissent.

Anyone justifying this draconian crackdown, no matter the reason, is literally siding w/ fascism.

Arrests underway on 114th as NYPD clears protesters from the area surrounding campus. They’re shoving people into buildings and blocking the doors. NYPD has kicked all legal observers out of the area.

The first in a series of excepts from Israeli scholar Maya Wind's book 'Towers of Ivory and Steel' documenting the extensive complicity of Israeli academic institutions in Israel's decades-long regime of apartheid.

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This Wednesday: join us at the n+1 office for a conversation between Hannah Proctor and Tess Edmonson about Proctor’s new book, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat.
nplusonemag.com/online-only/ev…

while we obsess over every tiny moment at student protests here, israel is planning to invade rafah, which is expected to be magnitudes more brutal than even what we've seen thus far thecradle.co/articles-id/24…

As Columbia University students take over Hamilton Hall, renaming it Hind's Hall in honor of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces in January, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman spoke to protesters calling for the university to divest from Israel.

For the sixth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Phillip E. Wegner discusses Fredric Jameson's The Ideologies of Theory: versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

What came first: secularization or capitalism?

Dip a toe into the philosophical and sociological this weekend to consider the rise of “fossil capitalism” with Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth” translated by Jonathan Adjemian.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/toward…

🚨BREAKING:

The New School encampment has expanded into Parsons!

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Kicking off this week in Hell: Jodi Dean on her Verso Books blog post, 'Palestine Speaks for Everyone.'

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Hundreds out The New School, rallying for Gaza and divestment 🥲

For the sixth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Phillip E. Wegner discusses Fredric Jameson's The Ideologies of Theory versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

Meanwhile, towards its own staff Columbia University Presidency is engaged in deliberate obfuscation. 2 hours ago we received a rambling email suggesting an increasing impatience with negotiations and new focus on graduation etc but no specific deadlines or threats.

I recommended The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein from Verso Books -

Finally got my hands on the galleys! 📕 Verso Books

Behind the cute cover, Everything To Play For is an unwavering materialist critique of the videogames industry. It weaves together high-brow concepts, personal anecdotes, lil rants & a lot of heart. 🖤

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