We also speak with two Columbia University students who witnessed the police crackdown. “*When the police arrived, they were extremely efficient in removing all eyewitnesses, including legal observers,” *says journalism student Gillian Goodman, who has been covering the protests for weeks and who says she and others slept on campus in order to be able to continue coverage and avoid being locked out.
I think the biggest recent thing brought to my attention is that Israel is massively donating virtually every US university.
That is what explains a lot of the vehement "repeat Kent state" rhetoric out there. Its not "fear of antisemitism", its boringly dollars.
We send billions to Israel, and in my mind they are spending it all to genocide Palestinians, but they also use the money to maintain a foothold in our universities.
What else is Israel "donating" to that is also as problematic as the current University structure? Are they funding healthcare trusts? Are they directly funding US police?
I knew that Israel was a tool to get a foothold across the pond, spread instability, and try to spark wars so the military industrial complex keeps their sales up, but I was fully unaware of how much the federal government was using the Israel money laundering the advance oppressive practices in the systems we are screaming for help and reform on.
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