The Palestinian Authority security forces doing what it does best… attacking Palestinians in the streets and preventing protests.

a very telling quote from this report on the rising impact of the academic boycott:

“International links are the oxygen of the academy, and the academy is the oxygen of the hi-tech & security industries” says head of Israel’s National Security Institute themarker.com/news/education…

In my room, trying to breathe in and out to shutdown panic attack due to the sounds of police helicopters circulating around Columbia Uni as NYPD is preparing to sweep the encampment. This is aimed to terrorise students, and punish them for even standing up against genocide.

NEW!

#StopTheGenocide -Shatha Abdulsamad شذى عبد الصمد's new policy brief on Al Shabaka analyzes the current defunding of UNRWA within Israel’s decades-long campaign to dismantle the agency & elaborates on the far-reaching implications of eliminating UNRWA.

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The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has called for global strikes and solidarity on May Day.

Rafeef Ziadah of Workers in Palestine speaks to Progressive International about fostering worker-to-worker global solidarity to build momentum for a free Palestine.

progressive.international/wire/2024-04-3…

Statement from the Columbia Student coalition:

“Students take over Hamilton Hall after Columbia’s persistent refusal to divest, complicity in genocide, & continued violence against its students.

This escalation is in line with the historical student movements of 1968, 1985,

After weeks of negotiations amidst a militant student encampment, Columbia University has failed to meet student demands to disclose and divest. Today, administration issued suspension orders for the encampment and its students, giving them until 2pm to vacate. The last time

The “most moral army in the world” specializes in killing women and children then wearing their clothes for fun.

The traditional council of Kahnawake has confirmed that students have the right to be on this land.

NO CLASS. NO GRADES. NO FINALS. STRIKE!

Starting May 1st, we call on faculty, academic workers, and graduate students to join the student movement by withholding their labor from institutions that are invested in genocide.

#BZU students in solidarity to our families in #Gaza , and a salute to #the_global_student_movement that's calling for the end of the genocide and for holding the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes.
#FreePalestine
#stopthegenocide

🚨New podcast episode from Al-Shabaka الشبكة!

Brendan Ciarán Browne joins me to discuss the historical solidarity between the Irish & Palestinian peoples, and how the Irish government's policy towards Palestine fails to reflect grassroots demands against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Nujoud, the little girl, is finally reunited with her parents in Egypt after enduring over 200 days of Israeli genocide in #Gaza . She faced displacement, being trapped in Al-Shifa Hospital, famine, and relentless Israeli bombing, all on her own.

Israeli forces raided the offices of the Hadash Party and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) in Nazareth a day before a scheduled march opposing the Israeli war on Gaza. Two activists who were preparing displays and flags were arrested, according to the Israeli left-wing party.

In defiance of the Israeli genocide, Palestinian Christians hold Palm Sunday mass at the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza City.

It is being well documented that hate speech occurring at the US protest encampments in solidarity with Palestine is coming from agitators NOT from protestors.

This is not new- it is an age old tactic.

The way that it is being dealt with by those on the ground is smart &

A salute from #Birzeit_University to all the students leading the unprecedented movement in the US universities that call for the end of the #genocide in #Gaza commited by the the Western-backed Israeli occupation.

Baby Sabreen was the baby that was saved from her dead mother’s stomach.

Her rescue was documented and shared on screens all around the world.

It had now been confirmed that baby Sabreen was killed in an air strike last week that killed 16 other children.

The cruelty of this

Shoutout to every freedom supporter in US universities. #Gaza needs your screams to be loud and persistent.

We are counting on you to be our voice when we’re silenced.

If you’re setting up a liberation library at your Gaza solidarity encampment and you’d like some rad books, write to us at orders[at]haymarketbooks.org and we’ll send some free books to get you started
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