@FediTips hi, any reason why my account would be locked in my settings? like my posts can't be boosted because there's a lock on them - but I don't know how that happened. i searched "lock" and "unlock" on your awesome site but couldn't find it.
"I realized this year that Muslims do not matter to #Columbia . And while that remains true, I cannot let myself be a diversity token for this service."
"During meetings with Religious Life staff leading up to Baccalaureate, I was told not to mention Palestine, nor name any specific regions of the world where my community was suffering. I was told there will be many communities in the room, and that it was just too sensitive to talk about."
"To be Muslim at Columbia is being told to stop ruining “the senior experience” for those who have the privilege of turning a blind eye to injustice, while we repeatedly put ourselves on the line for justice, every day."
“We are on strike because the president and the board of trustees have wreaked havoc on campus by disregarding academic procedures, refusing to negotiate in good faith with protestors as other presidents have done, calling and filming a massive police operation against the students and undermining faculty governance and autonomy of thought,” Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English, said at the press conference.
"Indivisible’s north star this year is to reelect Biden and a Democratic trifecta so we can pass democracy reform and codify reproductive rights nationally."
this would be great - but has Biden or any Dem leadership committed to these things if they get the Trifecta? or will they just take our votes and efforts and donations and ignore us and then beg for more donations for the next election, 'cause you don't want those other guys to win, do ya?
"Tens of thousands are protesting and demanding the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and early elections across Israel, as the IDF expands combat operations in the Gaza Strip, and ahead of Israel's upcoming Memorial Day on Monday."
"Netanyahu is sacrificing the country and sending our families to their death for political reasons," they said in a statement.
Several families have made a statement to the media, saying, "as long as Netanyahu is in power, the hostages won't return ... Netanyahu is leading Israel to complete and total failure. Stop cooperating with them! Rescue the hostages and save the State of Israel."
Ayala Metzger, daughter-and-law of Yoram Metzger who is held captive in Gaza, said that "These past two weeks, Netanyahu criminally sabotaged the deal to save the hostages. It is because of Netanyahu that there is no hostage release deal and there are no hostages being brought back home."
"Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete rejection of, and justifiable outrage over, the mass killing carried out by the state of Israel against defenseless Palestinians in Gaza. "