Lynn Erskine @lynn_erskine
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Amnesty International joins with other groups in front of the White House on the Global Day of Action to demand states #StopSendingArms that fuel atrocities in Gaza.
8/ The decision of campus leaders at Columbia, Texas, Yale, and elsewhere risks normalizing heavy-handed responses to all sorts of dissenting speech and protest everywhere.
Who is protecting our college students? Not the police, who stood by for AN HOUR watching people attack and injure #UCLA students. Shameful. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
I lived in Tel Aviv & many of my relatives & friends still live there. Calls to burn Tel Aviv to the grounds are calls to kill my relatives. But anyone who has been on university campuses in the past month knows that this is a far cry from the heart of the movement. 4/29
don’t really see anyone talking about this but: arrestees at CUNY were charged with *felonies* while arrestees at Columbia were charged with misdemeanors. nobody should be charged with anything but it is a travesty that poorer & racialized students bear the brunt of this struggle
I am an Israeli living in NYC. I lost family on October 7th and have Gazan friends. I am not afraid of the student protestors, even if I deeply disagree with some of their stances. What I’m afraid of is a world that sees thousands of children being blown up and says nothing.
We're grateful to students across the country for elevating our country's role in enabling the war in #Gaza into the national spotlight. Our shameful complicity in mass-violence and starvation must end. And the violence and repression against students must stop. Now.
Faculty at U.S. universities have been violently arrested / thrown to the ground by armed police -- all while protecting students bodies. Videos show them bravely using words or their own bodies to try to protect young adults from physical injury.
An estimated 19,000 children in Gaza have been orphaned.
An estimated 19,000 children in Gaza have been orphaned.
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)
We must remember our political and civic leaders continue to condone the U.S. sending weapons to a government that is collectively punishing people in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war, and which has also leveled universities in Palestine using American-provided bombs.
What do you think will happen if you keep casually conflating American student protestors with Hamas and terrorist groups? Or in the case of some politicians, explicitly calling them Hamas and terrorists? You're putting a target on American kids. Dangerous, reckless, and wrong.
Israel cannot simply presume that all “military age” men are a security risk and detain them without cause because it is not lawful to presume that an entire sector of the population is made of combatants. This is a massive red flag
Israel cannot simply presume that all “military age” men are a security risk and detain them without cause because it is not lawful to presume that an entire sector of the population is made of combatants. This is a massive red flag
Israeli scholar of the Holocaust @bartov_omer argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous. “There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression."
On one of the most crucial days thus far, when all of us are waiting anxiously to see if a hostage deal will be made, Netanyahu proves once again that he is willing to put his personal and political interests above the lives of every single one of us.
Shame on @VCU administration and shame on police arresting peaceful college students. I am so sad to see how our country is treating young people! President Biden: stop funding bombs that have killed 13,000 children. Parents speak up!
Shame on @VCU administration and shame on police arresting peaceful college students. I am so sad to see how our country is treating young people! President Biden: stop funding bombs that have killed 13,000 children. Parents speak up!
At this critical moment, too many cowardly university leaders are responding to largely peaceful, outdoor protests by inviting law enforcement in riot gear to campus & condoning violent arrests. These administrators are failing in their duty to their institutions… 8/
We condemn these attacks on students, and condemn this fundamental assault on democracy. We are calling on our leaders to respect students’ fundamental rights to free expression. Stop this violent attack on students.
.@GovAbbott is escalating the situation at UT Austin and putting Texas students and journalists in danger. These young adults have a right to protest peacefully. DPS needs to be recalled before someone gets seriously injured. The Governor should respect the First Amendment.
.@GovAbbott is escalating the situation at UT Austin and putting Texas students and journalists in danger. These young adults have a right to protest peacefully. DPS needs to be recalled before someone gets seriously injured. The Governor should respect the First Amendment.
So are these protestors antisemitic too? Are these people “pro-Hamas” who are protesting Israel’s government? Are they being disrespectful and asking for violent arrest?
So are these protestors antisemitic too? Are these people “pro-Hamas” who are protesting Israel’s government? Are they being disrespectful and asking for violent arrest?
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Students have reclaimed spaces on campuses globally & are demanding divestment inspired by the S.African anti-apartheid divestment campaigns. Agreements to divest so far have been reached at -Rutgers -Minnesota -Evergreen state college -Brown agreed to hold a divest vote
Hala Rharrit is the first American diplomat to publicly resign over U.S. policy in Gaza. In an exclusive televised interview, she explains to Democracy Now! why she could no longer work "within the system" after her expertise was "silenced" and "sidelined."
Dear Democrats and Biden supporters, a majority of Biden voters think Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Genocide. Let that sink in. You can disagree with that position, sure, but you can't mock or belittle voters into ignoring it either. So, yes, the war is a problem for…
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6/The Hamilton Hall occupation and the police raid that followed were the predictable consequence of the university’s first, highly punitive response. Many, many more students were traumatized by the shutdown and militarization of campus than by (sometimes) unruly protests.
It's a freaking occupation, with an impending risk of violent police attack at any moment. Of course people were tense. Nobody wants to have a debate about the one state vs two state solution.People are there to take a stance, make their voices heard, and pressure the university.
@WJohnson68 People have opinions. People didn't believe that Disabled people deserved rights back then too (including Carter) hence the protest. It's comfortable to sit back and look at history and say something was obviously righteous while denying rights in the present.
This means mass movements cannot have a single, well-defined message. They are open, diffuse and decentralized. Those who do not fully grasp the ethos of the movement (including people who are mentally unstable) can join in. 7/29
@RioStover That's a good question, but nobody knows since he was detained without charge, which is kind of part of the point 🙃 And I cited his age because 50 year old men don't usually die for no reason. If this were in Russia, everybody would be all over it, but since it happened in the…
AIPAC spending $100 million raised from Republican donors to unseat Democrats who oppose unrestricted weapons aid to Israel is a much, much greater threat to our democracy and values than anti-war campus protests.
Democrats and Biden voters currently angry at me, it's OK to criticize the party and it's leaders. They aren't kings or emperors. They are servants of the people. They get it wrong sometimes which is why people have to speak up and push for change and reform.
4/ When students call for divestment and boycott, or when they demand that Palestinian voices be heard, they are ridiculed. When blunt Antisemitism is heard the demonstrators become enemies of the nation. If Israel is right, it should be able to withstand such attacks. --->
Protecting peaceful protest is how we defend human rights of others. Statement out now. amnestyusa.org/press-releases…
Your friendly reminder not to be a warmonger.
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Honestly, I'm excited that there's a line out the door. Looks like standing run only. They're bringing in more chairs.
Appalled by those who tell me that people saying things like “all zionists should die” isn’t antisemitic. It’s antisemitism in its most violent form. Can’t we all see this?
Has President Biden spoken about this yet?
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?
As a Quaker who was raised Catholic, it's a joy to advocate with these faith colleagues to uproot racism and end poverty, including by expanding the #CTC. 75 Christian leaders urge president, Congress, churches to act on racism, poverty ncronline.org/node/270631 via @NCRonline
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