This is not Iran, nor occupied West Bank: it’s the US, under a Democratic President, unleashing state violence against peaceful protesters… Arresting 1300 American students while threatening Int'l Criminal Court to protect Netanyahu from an arrest warrant for his war crimes in Gaza.

Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

'It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of [15k] thousands of children.” Edward Luce

We've reached the stage of the Arab Spring where the police stand back to allow violence against protesters by 'concerned citizens'

I’m a BBC devotee, but this is a shockingly misleading and even dangerous characterization.

The horrific acts of violence at UCLA yesterday were committed by extremist supporters of Israel *against* anti-war Palestinian rights protestors in a sustained assault.

Please reword.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is horrified by the violent criminalization of protests against genocide in the United States and elsewhere. What are people supposed to do when their government is actively supporting genocide? Civil disobedience is the honorable and moral choice in such a

Wrote for The Nation about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. thenation.com/article/activi…

Violent pro-Israel extremists attacking Palestinian rights defenders while police do nothing is a pretty familiar scene from the West Bank.

Gli studenti protestano pacificamente contro il massacro di Israele a Gaza.

Arrivano gli ultras fascisti pro Israele e li attaccano con violenza.

La polizia arresta i primi.

Ah che meraviglia la democrazia liberale, sembra di stare a Hong Kong o a Tehran.

This social unrest wouldn’t be happening if we had a President with the courage to stand up to Netanyahu.

None of this is about student safety, quite the opposite.

Israele bombarda quotidianamente Rafah, dove 1,7 milioni di civili sono intrappolati.
Ascoltate le gride delle donne e dei bambini che vengono trucidati con munizioni incendiarie.
Questo eccidio non sarebbe potuto accadere senza la complicità dell’EU e USA.

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance

I am praying for the safety of student protesters. They are showing bravery and a fierce moral urgency. They are rightfully fed up with the continuing bloodshed in Gaza and refuse to accept the imperial cynicism of Western governments.

Student journalists at WKCR-FM NY reporting that NYPD threatened arrest of student journalists and Columbia Journalism School Dean jelani cobb for leaving the Pulitzer Hall journalism department building for a better view of activity on the campus lawn

We need to understand, urgently, that we either divest from imperialism or we get fascism. The ruling class is eagerly ushering in fascism at home to defend their fascism abroad. And we have to reject all of it, right now.

A woman on CNN is saying the anti-Vietnam protests were different from the situation now, which is “very polarizing.”

People always do this — make it seem like past activists were somehow uncontroversial.

It’s nonsense. Activism by its nature is antagonistic to the status quo.

“3 cops at every door!”

NYPD are now surrounding and blockading students inside private homes outside of Columbia campus.

If Trump was president and Rudy Giuliani were mayor, most liberals would be screaming.

This is not directed at Ali, but at her network.

Spreading information like this, which is coming from a former police officer and current Mayor’s office, comes across as doing PR for cops in order to garner support for harsh law enforcement action.

Wife of a known terrorist?