Jamila Hammami | جميلة @jmhammami
“Who grows thorns will reap wounds" // 🇹🇳 Texan Marxist | Strategist, Organizer, Writer, Communicator | Defending Pro-Palestine Dissent @ParachuteProj linktr.ee/jamilahammami Joined January 2024-
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I never want to hear any of you complain about Gen Z ever again. Ever.
In case you missed it! Catch the critical conversation that took place yesterday with @Jodi7768 and @minuetinGmajor moderated by @mariamdurrani and @4Bassam below or on YouTube: youtube.com/live/TB8hR274E…
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@TeresaWatanabe @UCLA @latimes @safinazzal They’re right here filming it on their phones.
200+ pro-Israel counterprotestors are attacking the @UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment. They started beating on one student and stomped another under a plywood board per @latimes @safinazzal on the scene. Where is UCLA security?
watching this happen in real time and knowing it will go down as a deeply shameful moment in history for both columbia and new york city is just… surreal. my heart is with the students
Do I agree with every word in every statement, every choice and every tactic? Maybe not. But I am moved by their maturity, persistence and grace. These aren’t kids. These are leaders. (10/10)
I’ve seen student journalists operate both tirelessly and more effectively than the professionals- claiming partial knowledge when that’s what they have, reporting truthfully, not repeating mischaracterizations. (6/10)
I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking of my @Columbia undergraduates as “kids.” But here is what I’ve seen them do in the last two weeks: (1/10)
You may well have the unusual situation of the Columbia student radio station being eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, administered by Columbia University, for the station’s coverage of how Columbia called the cops on Columbia students. (They’re doing an extraordinary job).
Im ending my shift. More thoughts later. I was sprayed by Zionists along with everyone else tonight. Attempts to characterize this as if both sides started it will be completely false.
In a year Shafik will be speaking to Davos from a cushy World Bank post about global citizenship or whatever. Students protesters will be navigating hellish legal battles, maybe still nursing injuries and trying to figure out how to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in debt
Imagine if encampment students started physically attacking Jewish students & began chanting “Second Holocaust.” These Zionist students are calling for massacres & ethnic cleansing while deploying physical violence, but it’s ok because the victims are advocates against genocide
Imagine if encampment students started physically attacking Jewish students & began chanting “Second Holocaust.” These Zionist students are calling for massacres & ethnic cleansing while deploying physical violence, but it’s ok because the victims are advocates against genocide
Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down @UCLA encampment barriers and screamed "Second nakba!" referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per @latimes @safinazzal on the scene with another video:
may columbia’s reputation never recover
I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968: https://t.co/2GO9MwUdx7
Hind never got to go to college. She didn’t even get to finish elementary school. Yet now an Ivey League building in New York has been named after her. History books will forever reference her. The soldiers who murdered her thought she’d be forgotten like thousands of others.…
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
Tomorrow Congress is holding more hearings on whether Jewish students feel safe enough, while tonight, Zionist protestors at UCLA are launching fireworks directly into the Palestine encampment, tearing down camp infrastructure & attacking students
Tomorrow Congress is holding more hearings on whether Jewish students feel safe enough, while tonight, Zionist protestors at UCLA are launching fireworks directly into the Palestine encampment, tearing down camp infrastructure & attacking students
ZIONISTS ARE SETTING OFF FIREWORKS AT UCLA ENCAMPMENT.
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NOW: Fordham University students hold up the letters they just received informing them they are now suspended Protesters wrote “free Palestine” on the letters
The country of Colombia picked the funniest possible time to do this
BREAKING: Colombia cuts diplomatic relations with Israel
Reminder: The cops are not an ideologically neutral peacekeeping force. They are a militarized, occupation force whose job is to protect elite interests and the status quo. They quell dissent using techniques honed on Black and Brown bodies for centuries.
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I never want to hear any of you complain about Gen Z ever again. Ever.
In Defense of Academic Freedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension - Featuring: Jodi Dean and Mohamed Abdou, Moderators: Bassam Haddad Mariam Durrani x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
In case you missed it! Catch the critical conversation that took place yesterday with @Jodi7768 and @minuetinGmajor moderated by @mariamdurrani and @4Bassam below or on YouTube: youtube.com/live/TB8hR274E…
In Defense of Academic Freedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension - Featuring: Jodi Dean and Mohamed Abdou, Moderators: Bassam Haddad Mariam Durrani x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
200+ pro-Israel counterprotestors are attacking the @UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment. They started beating on one student and stomped another under a plywood board per @latimes @safinazzal on the scene. Where is UCLA security?
@TeresaWatanabe @UCLA @latimes @safinazzal They’re right here filming it on their phones.
watching this happen in real time and knowing it will go down as a deeply shameful moment in history for both columbia and new york city is just… surreal. my heart is with the students
Do I agree with every word in every statement, every choice and every tactic? Maybe not. But I am moved by their maturity, persistence and grace. These aren’t kids. These are leaders. (10/10)
And now I’ve seen them face down police in military grade gear. (9/10)
I’ve seen them educate themselves on history, political theory, social movements and real world social differences. I’ve seen teach-ins on antisemitism and anti-Jewish bias, the history of the Middle East, geopolitics, political resistance, poetry, music and art. (8/10)
I’ve seen groups of students learn skills like working with press, issuing statements, polling participants, compiling data , bargaining and using social media to disseminate information. (7/10)
I’ve seen student journalists operate both tirelessly and more effectively than the professionals- claiming partial knowledge when that’s what they have, reporting truthfully, not repeating mischaracterizations. (6/10)
4. I’ve seen students taking care of one another, ordering special meals for students with dietary or religious restrictions, amassing medical supplies for neighbors who need them, sharing info and resources, and working together to problem-solve. (5/10)
3. I have seen students struggle to balance coursework and political engagement, cognizant of their responsibilities in both arenas. (4/10)
2. I’ve seen students face hecklers calmly and with grace, simply turning their backs as they are yelled at and insulted. (3/10)
1. I’ve seen small groups of student engage in thoughtful, respectful dialogue across unbridgeable ideological divides. (2/10)
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