> “There was absolutely no sign of any violence, of any antisemitism at all,” says Bartov, who warns antisemitism is being used to silence speech about Israel.
On the #UTAustin campus, activists hold up names of students and educators killed in Gaza, along with facts about the damage war has done to education.
Interview with Cosette Wu, a Taiwanese-American student at Harvard and co-director of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP. The Coalition is made up of Tibetan, Taiwanese, Uyghur and Hong Kong students working in solidarity toward their collective liberation
“When members of the public are engaged in a peaceful #protest in a public space—assuming they are not obstructing traffic, or disrupting campus activities—there is very little legal basis for law enforcement to demand they leave.”
New today: A UT professor and expert on freedom of expression weighs in on the controversial arrests of 57 individuals, including a journalist, at a campus demonstration yesterday. An interview from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-palestine-first-amendment/
About 50 #Texas DPS State Troopers were sent out in response to a peaceful attempt to march and occupy a Plaza at UT #Austin today. Reportedly three arrests according to those on scene.
UT #Austin faculty are reportedly planning to walk out tomorrow in response to the brutal #police violence on campus today against activists who support #Palestine.
This is an expansion of an already planned rally in solidarity with faculty who lost their jobs in an anti-#DEI backlash.