I’m a Jewish student at Yale. Here’s what everyone is getting wrong about the protests

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Peter Beinart Arielle Angel Lara Friedman Barnett R. Rubin Danny Postel

'The committee recommended the manuscript enthusiastically for publication...but the final decision rested with Bernard Lewis...Both I and the advisory group were shocked to hear that Lewis decided against its publication.'

Ussama Makdisi Mouin Rabbani Moustafa Bayoumi

Leaked USAID memo: “deterioration of food security and nutrition in Gaza is unprecedented in modern history, exponentially outpacing in six months the long-term declines that led to the only other two famine declarations in the 21st century”

Just damning
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Student challenging Morehouse College president Thomas' remark about making Morehouse a 'road to the White House,' saying he feels like the school is being made a 'tool OF the White House.'

He also said you won't answer yourself if what Israel was doing is a genocide, but you are…

Photos from #GazaSolidarityEncampment in downtown DC this morning

Here’s an interview with a Columbia protester named Ava where she talks about why she’s there, anti-Semitism, and the historical echoes of this movement.

I visited the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia yesterday and wanted to share a few
very brief observations.

First, it's one of the most highly organised student protests I've ever seen. They have media and de-escalation training, a nutzone to protest students with allergies.

'Based on The Appeal’s survey of local news reports and student newspapers, police have so far made at least 670 arrests on 18 campuses. The arrests occurred in 14 different states.'

Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace Moustafa Bayoumi

A quiet morning at #GazaSolidarityEncampment in downtown DC

Danny Postel Idrees Ahmad | idreesahmad.bsky.social

'According to a nationwide review...students and their allies have built protest encampments or staged sit-ins on at least 53 college campuses during the past month to demand an end to U.S. military aid to Israel'

Sarah Leah Whitson Ussama Makdisi

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A short thread on #Zionism as political theory and atrocity: #Zionists are genuinely incapable of seeing their actions against #Palestinians as criminal, or even wrongful, because they have indoctrinated themselves into believing that without a #Jewish ethnostate they will die.

From this perspective, #Herzl ’s conception of the political is not so different from Carl Schmitt’s both of whom believe that the friend-enemy distinction is the basis of political life and that politics is about guaranteeing the survival of one’s own group.

Netanyahu is genuinely terrified that the #ICC will issue warrants against him and others responsible for atrocities in Gaza.

'We stand in solidarity with our fellow journalists in Gaza...the question is: where's everyone else?'

For Zeteo, me, @gretathunberg, Naomi Klein, fatima bhutto, @byoussef & a host of Zeteo contributors read out the words of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza.

Watch:

The week that shook Columbia

Historian Mark Mazower gives a first person account

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Danny Postel Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace EQureshi Mehdi Hasan

UN says it could take 14 years to clear rubble from Gaza

In other words, the US-backed Israeli assault has made Gaza unlivable.

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Mouin Rabbani Rami G. Khouri Sarah Leah Whitson Mehdi Hasan

This used to be regarded as antisemitism: picking a Jewish figure and accusing him of secretly conspiring to destroy our societies

Hey everyone, this is exactly what students are protesting at US universities.

Nothing more, nothing less

Sarah Leah Whitson Mehdi Hasan
Ussama Makdisi Trita Parsi
Rami G. Khouri Barnett R. Rubin

Just now, Ahmed Hakami أحمد حكمي and I, from the People’s Vision of Reform, handed over an invitation to the Saudi Ambassador to come to our conference of a big Saudi activists and listen to the people of Saudi Arabia!
Next Thursday

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Read below and then think about how many of our American institutions have deep ties to these Israeli institutions that are defaming our students of all faiths. Is this acceptable?