5 min interview with Fiona Lally, an activist from the Revolutionary Communist Party who is coordinating multiple pro-Palestinian encampments across UK universities. She has called Suella Braverman a war criminal on GBNews :blobcheer:
Sublime.
Christian Appy, professor at University of Massachusetts, arrested for standing in support of students pro-Palestine demonstrations, talks about the police brutality and the choices he had to make: "Am I willing to be arrested? Is it the right thing to do? Could it make a difference? Would there be negative consequences for my career?" Here's his analysis of Daniel Ellsberg's actions to fight the Vietnam war.
"...Israel’s attempted eradication of intellectual life in Gaza echoes far beyond the territory, with U.S. universities ensuring that some professors vocal in their support of Palestine can no longer do their jobs either"
Anita Levy, senior program officer with the American Association of University Professors: "We are at the dawn of a “new McCarthyism,” Levy said. “This may be the tip of the iceberg.”
There is a level of discomfort and cognitive dissonance that keeps growing in me working in HE while scholasticide and ecocide (yes, they are part of the genocide or ethnic cleansing) committed in Gaza for more than half a year, and the deafening silence of Western universities completely ignoring it.
I truly believed that if there is any place in the world when dialogue should and must always be a priority, is in academic fora. Dialogue is the foundation of #academia
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Do you remember, back in 2022, when EU countries and the US were so eager to call out the Russian repression of dissent and protest? How they were inundating the media with words about free speech and people's rights, about democracy and the importance of public opinion?
The Netherlands: Bulldozers used to clear the student camp.
Putin: "Hold my vodka".
1.Does a government have the right to murder tens of thousands of its own innocent, defenseless women and children?
2. Should a government be able to ethnically cleanse millions of people from land their ancestors lived on for 2,000 years?
3. Should the U.S. government be assisting in this, the most open and notorious ethnic cleansing and genocide of the twenty-first century?
The answer is No and therefore the students protests are legit.
Sanaa offers to accommodate students expelled from US universities
"The Sanaa University announces that students expelled from US universities over pro-Palestinian protests could continue pursuing their degrees at the Yemeni institute."
Echoing "the head of Iran's ...Shiraz University, who confirmed the institute's readiness to grant scholarships to the students expelled from US and European universities over the pro-Palestinian protests."
Seems like every university in the US has forgotten the Vietnam protests and Kent State. People are going to die at the hands of university presidents. #gaza#StudentsProtest