“A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now. ” (-slicin’ up eyeballs)
“Hands off the Columbia students! No expulsions or suspensions! Divest from Israeli/U.S. genocide! The repression will lead to more struggle, tomorrow, May Day!!” (-Gloria La Riva)
“It appears that Israel is mobilising local Zionist gangs to attack student encampments at US universities, which operate under the watch of US security forces, who are also attacking and arresting the students.” (-Lowkey)
“Massive brutal police repression of students. Called in by administrators. With the Biden Administration’s vocal support. All to protect a genocide. During an election year. Morally revolting and politically suicidal.” (-Daniel Denvir)
“So glad Trump lost in 2020 otherwise we’d be seeing fascistic crackdowns on political dissent, police brutalizing protesters, tyrannical suppression of free speech, and the facilitation of racist and Islamophobic agendas. That psycho would probably be committing genocide by now.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
The civil war isn’t going to be blue v red It’s going to be blue+red v you” (-Jason Call Green Party)
“People should be losing their absolute minds about what is happening in our country right now” (-Anya Parampil)
“People should be losing their absolute minds about what is happening in our country right now” (-Marisa Pyle)
“Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan and company now say they’re going to make it their top “all of the House” priority to focus on the critical, existential issue of “Anti-Semitism” on college campuses. Is this really the #1 issue for ordinary Americans? Or just the House GOP?” (-Michael Tracey)
“Keep protesting. Keep boycotting
Let them know no peace until they are all in the Hague Sunak, Macron, Biden, Netanyahu These criminals are a threat to humanity” (-Richard Medhurst)
It cannot be overstated how dangerous it is to send trigger happy American police officers into university campuses armed to the teeth against students. I hope no one is hurt engaging in their first amendment right to protest a genocide. This is a very scary situation and the damage that may come is on Biden’s hands as well as the cowardly administrators who attack their own students. ” (-Stephanie Skora)
“Mass media is attempting to lie and say infiltrators got into Columbia. There is zero evidence of that. At the same time they’re trying to say the NYPD was calm and professional in dealing with the protest. There is endless evidence that the opposite is true.” (-Read Let This Radicalize You)
” The fact that police forces still haven’t interfered to stop the pro-Zionist hooligans from attacking the Gaza encampment students only means one thing: The Zionists in question are being used deliberately as a fascist proxy to portray the event as “student vs student clashes”” (-Hussein)
“So let me get this straight
Liberals spend weeks criticizing Netanyahu in a way to deflect overall criticism from the state of Israel and Zionism They painted the picture that he was the worst thing ever Then the ICC floats the idea of an arrest warrant, and these same liberals who pretended to hate Netanyahu oppose the arrest warrant? I thought y’all wanted to get rid of Netanyahu? What happened Democrats? You see the game these scumbags are playing with us?” (-Revolutionary Blackout Network)
“It cannot be overstated how dangerous it is to send trigger happy American police officers into university campuses armed to the teeth against students.
I hope no one is hurt engaging in their first amendment right to protest a genocide. This is a very scary situation and the damage that may come is on Biden’s hands as well as the cowardly administrators who attack their own students.” (-Rania Khalek)
“America is prepared to throw its own young generation under the bus, just to keep crawling on its knees to Israel.
Filthy, weak, cucked congress. Cops and National Guard “just doing their jobs” like the Nazis did back in WW2. Mindless automaton fascist cunts.” (-Mannie Quinn)
“There are no “clashes” at UCLA
Zionists came to the encampment, attacked it, and beat students If I come to you and attack you, it’s not a clash. The encampment didn’t descend upon Zionists gathering. Zionist came to attack the encampment in premeditated fashion” (-Remi Kanazi)
Some people told me this wasn’t a Black issue. They laughed when we protested for Palestine, but we always knew if it can happen to them, it can happen to you! ” (-Unholy; Revolutionary Blackout Network/Rome’s Rebellion)
“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?” (-Teresa Watanabe)
“LAPD let the zionists do their dirty work tonight. You don’t give a shit about the safety of the students. Fuck you.” (-People’s City Council-Los Angeles)
” Anyone telling you Biden isn’t responsible for the violent crackdowns on campuses today is ignoring reality: 1) Students are protesting because Biden is arming and funding genocide. 2) Biden has repeatedly criticized the protests while ignoring the violent behavior of police.” (-Chuck)
There’s a literal Zionist riot at UCLA right now and the police are currently destroying everything they can grab at Columbia in a fit of rage. It’s not even summer yet. ” (-BlackRedGuard)
” UCLA palestinian supporters asleep in their tents attacked by vigilantes carrying Israeli flag. Very violent. Going on for 1 hour no police present. Live fire and many hurt.” (-Nola Wallace)
ALL EYES ON UCLA. ALL EYES ON UCLA. ALL EYES ON UCLA. ALL EYES ON UCLA. The pro-Palestine students are being violently attacked by pro-Israel mobs. Their encampment was raided while many were sleeping. ” (-Karim Wafa Al Hussaini)
“Are y’all watching CNN? They are clearly pro-police as they discuss the tactical challenges of repressing the students at Colombia. But hey, under republicans it would be worst.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“Armies of cops brutalizing young kids for holding up signs, the US choosing to attack The Hague rather than give up on genocide, rafah under attack with nowhere left to go. This is a defining moment.” (-Eric Reinhart)
“This country has more force for student protesters than they did for Jan. 6 or white supremacists marching through campuses with Tiki torches.” (-Karen Attiah)
“The most shocking thing about students protesting at Columbia is that, children in Gaza are being starved to death and buried alive.” (-Thia Ballerina)
“In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man’s values.” (- Frantz Fanon)
“Beware of establishment bootlickers who call opposition to genocide “nihilism”.” (-Chuck)
“Never let the settler break you. ” (-Kamau Franklin)
“They won’t walk into a school to save little children from a mass shooter but they’ll act tough with unarmed youth.
Fuck the police and fuck our government.” (-Independent-Woman)
“What do women think about Biden and his chosen people having a 40% kill rate for kids in Palestine and a 30% kill rate for women? Of the 30% left, maybe 2% are actual fighters.” (-Rabbit)
“Second dispersal order – issued over loudspeaker a couple blocks away, so you couldn’t really hear the words. Police reported to be amassing nearby. Students responding with determination – they’re not going anywhere!” (-Jess Sundin)
“PROUDLY INDEPENDENT
I went just as hard at Trump as I do against Biden. Just as hard on the GOP as I am on Dems. If we don’t hold politicians in power accountable, we’re giving them license to trample our rights.” (-Peter Daou)
“Police are intentionally escalating. It’s part of their mandate to antagonize protesters and find an excuse.” (-K)
“We the People are so divided. You are either on the side of truth & justice or you are on the side of genocide. If you turn away at genocide, what won’t you turn away from?” (-Pepper Oceanna) ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN
“Pretending that protests movements you don’t like are systematically violent and entail attacking minorities – all to justify your desire to censor it – is lame and deceitful.” (-Glenn Greenwald)
Are we at the stage where we can talk about the Palestinian right to resist this relentless aggression or are we meant to pretend they should accept a slaughter without resistance when most of us would defend our own right to resist an intruder in our home! SPEAK UP ” (-Dr. Myriam Francois)
” Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the hallmark of the new generation. It is testament to the majesty of these young people that they have risked their futures for the sake of a poor, powerless people halfway around the world in order to uphold that sacred principle that every life is worthy and the murder of none shall pass in silence. As Abraham Lincoln famously quoted, “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” The right of the people of Gaza to live is an eternal truth. May the young soldiers in Hamilton Hall be honored and blessed for not countenancing, come what may, its extinguishment.” (-Norman Finkelstein)
“It’s interesting that 3 Palestinian students have been shot, one Palestinian has been stabbed, her son stabbed to death and yet we hear absolutely NOTHING about Palestinian safety from media or politicians.” (-Katie Halper Is A Jew For #CeasefireNow)
” Solidarity with the students of Columbia University. Your unwavering stand against genocide has sparked an unstoppable uprising for peace and justice. This generation is taking its place in history as heroes leading a peaceful revolution to take back our future. ” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“It’s always the people who support the most tyrannical government in the entire world that aren’t satisfied the student protests are peaceful enough.” (-Tiberius)
Crazy how many politicians and media personalities are more upset over a few broken windows at elite universities than they are at thousands of murdered children in Gaza ” (-Cabral)
“I have finally been released after two days in jail after being arrested by Texas Police for protesting the genocide in Palestine in Austin…” (-Nour Zaidan)
“In the U.S. under Joe Biden they send stormtroopers to schools to arrest and beat up students who oppose his genocide.
This is supposed to be the lesser evil?” (-Rania Khalek)
“The protesters are just copying each other!!!” the college president screamed, as he uniquely sent in the same cops wearing the same armor to use the same techniques to crack their skulls as 100 other college presidents ” (-Prof Thrasher)
these kids about about the get beat up for Palestine, BLM, lgtbqia, reproductive justice, every fucking march that has happened for good causes and they get to use zionism as cover to attack these kids and it is so disgusting “(-derecka)
“Columbia students have just been ordered to “shelter in place” like there’s a mass shooting or something. The lengths to which the entire US political system will go to defend Israel’s eternal right to pulverize Gaza into submission is truly astounding” (-Michael Tracey)
“As NYPD clamps down on university encampments the IOF are bombing tents in Rafah.” (-Saul Williams)
“People that have been arrested for opposing genocide are political prisoners” (-Joey Wreck)
“Why is the “Squad” still endorsing Genocide Joe for President?
No one can take you seriously until you denounce Butcher Biden.” (-Empire Of Lies)
“Driving to work down the West Side Hwy I saw about 20 cop cars SWAT team ambulances headed up the north bound side.. I’m guessing Colombia Uni protests . Stay tuned . So scared for these kids ..” (-DJ Tanasi NYC)
“There are two fascist parties.” (-Hampus Eckerman)
“Banning TikTok and sending police forces to crack down on student protesters is a great way to galvanize the youth vote!” (-Sin arepas no hay paraiso)
STUDENTS, if you’re negotiating with admins remember you are negotiating on behalf of Gazans and Palestinians and the CALL IS FOR DIVESTMENT. PERIOD. Disinvestment from Israel and war machinery. Please do not settle for hollow victories.” (-Jennifer FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Jajeh)
“When the NYPD first attacked students at Columbia it ignited a wave of over 100 Gaza solidarity encampments across the country and across the world. You’d think they wouldn’t do the same thing again. But we’re seeing the reality of a system that knows nothing but violence.” (-Read Let This Radicalize You)
“Once again college students are being attacked for being correct about our brutal foreign policies. Smack them down young.” (-drlearnalot)
“The images of hundreds of police officers responding to anti-genocide student protesters will be enduring, especially when the US condemns repression of protests in other countries.” (-Laila Al-Arian)
“I’ve been voting for the Democrats since 2004. I voted for John Kerry and Barack Obama so we could end the wars and get healthcare for all Americans. Here’s what I actually got:
– Expanded neocon wars – Mitt Romney’s health plan – Roe v Wade overturned – War w/ Russia – Genocide” (-Tone Police)
“LRAD audible from the street stating people will be placed under arrest, unclear why.” (-Talia Jane)
“In case anyone is under any confusion here – we are WAYYYY past a ceasefire deal now – this is a liberation movement which demands nothing less than the full dignity, freedom&security of all who live under violent military occupation – this is a demand to end Israeli apartheid.” (-Dr. Myriam Francois)
“So they’ve turned a dozen blocks – a whole NYC neighborhood – into a fully locked down police zone to repress a small number of nonviolent students.
Shame on Columbia. Shame on the NYPD. Shame on Eric Adams & Governor Hochul. Shame on CCNY.” (-Katie Unger)
So they’ve turned a dozen blocks – a whole NYC neighborhood – into a fully locked down police zone to repress a small number of nonviolent students. Shame on Columbia. Shame on the NYPD. Shame on Eric Adams & Governor Hochul. Shame on CCNY. ” (-Alexander The Meh)
” The Biden administration won’t: Stop funding war in Ukraine or genocide in Palestine Stop the criminalizing of peaceful protest Stop wage theft or price gouging by corporations Stop criminalizing immigrants Cancel student debt Stop the criminalization of the homeless or help solve the housing crisis Stop cop cities or funding repressive police forces across the country But wants us to believe he will save democracy?! What democracy? Whose democracy?” (-Claudia De La Cruz)
“Don’t stop talking about Palestine /Gaza – this is not a debate with two sides that can be normalized and all the hired bullshit in print and on tv will never change the narrative
it’s a genocide – it must stop” (-John Cusack)
If you belong to the “America First” movement then why are you supporting sending billions of US taxpayer dollars to a genocidal apartheid project in the Middle East? ” (-William Murphy)
” You live in a nation where dozens of universities would rather call in the national guard to beat the shit out of students camping out on a lawn than divest from Israel committing genocide. Ponder that.” (-Bike Slutty)
Protests continue to spread across the country. Hundreds of universities & even high schools taking part. These students are the hope. They are the dream for a better world. They are the moral compass of this nation when the ruling elite clearly have none. ” (-Lee Camp)
“Students who stand with Palestine are our future.” (-Vijay Prashad)
“United States is about to wage war on the International Criminal Court meanwhile liberals are calling college students terrorist sympathizers . The United States sanctions 1/3rd of the worlds population
Now the United States is threatening to sanction the International Criminal Court over potentially issuing arrests warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli war criminals All this is happening while liberals still believe United States are the good guys Unreal” (-Revolutionary Blackout Network)
“Students should shut down every college and university in America.” (-Steven Cotterill)
“Are you disowning friends and acquaintances who are pro-genocide?” (-Dances With Spiders)
“Now you see why the Biden/Clinton neo-liberals wanted the police militarized? The moral and ethical don’t need protection from the people.” (-Ex Dem 3rd Party Voter)
“The “social media is for sharing fun content with loved ones and is no place for politics” ideology really paid off for the establishment.
Friends and family who only use Facebook/Instagram/don’t watch cable TV have no idea what’s going on in the world and it’s terrifying.” (-Just. A. Thought)
“The oligarchy is destroying America for the sake of Zionism, while the students are trying to save it for the sake of morality, human rights, the International Court of Justice, and the Geneva Convention. This is not a difficult case for which one is on the right side of history.” (-Primo Radical)
“The oligarchy is destroying America for the sake of Zionism, while the students are trying to save it for the sake of morality, human rights, the International Court of Justice, and the Geneva Convention. This is not a difficult case for which one is on the right side of history.” (-Kent Peterson)
“College was once considered a place of learning. Now they are a place cops beat our children.” (-From The River To The Sea palestine Will Be Free)
“Is Columbia really going to ignore student and faculty calls for divestment from Israel while Israel is poised to invade Rafah, the last “safe zone” for civilians in Gaza – and while Israel’s leaders face potential warrants from the International Criminal Court for war crimes?” (-Prof Zenkus)
“FYI Israel said they’re invading Rafah no matter what. That’s why encampments are spreading. That’s why we must escalate. That’s why all eyes on Rafah.” (-Sumaya Awad)
” We are witnessing a great bifurcation of western societies between (1)those who oppose apartheid, settler colonialism & genocide on human rights grounds & (2)those who defend these crimes on the basis of political ideology, ethno-chauvinism or personal benefit. #choose#Palestine” (-Craig Mokhiber)
“So for decades police have met student protesters with violence
Why? Why would colleges continue to allow these acts of brutality to continue when they know it’s negotiations,education,listening & tolerance that are needed” (-Lixa)
“Intifada means “uprising” as in, “Let’s engage in an uprising to stop Europeans from stealing our homes, ripping up our ancient olive trees, and pushing us off our land.”
Intifada does not mean “Kill the Jews.” It’s important to learn the meaning of the words.” (-Rupa Marya MD)
“So many people hurting so badly and I just wish I could do something…” (-Phillip Marks)
“Genuinely fearful for the students right now. They have been courageous, resolute and doing what most of us don’t have the galls for in the face of the most barbaric assholes. Hoping they continue to stand together and make it through safely.” (-Clever Pseudonym)
“According to American politicians and leading opinion makers the campus protests are being financed by Hamas, Putin, the Chinese Communist Party, Soros, Maoists and Marxists.” (-Mo Green)
“I truly cannot believe this is happening” (-Karen Attiah)
“And once again, I see all my tax money being spent on violence and protecting war, instead of being used for healthcare and the betterment of our American communities.” (-#NotinMYname)
“American militia and police have become the same things because Democrats and Republicans have declared war on the American people.” (-Stephanie Voltolin)
“I will never forget how White people repeatedly lied and said Black Lives Matter Protests were violent. Then scientific studies came out and proved that was a damn lie. The vast majority were nonviolent” (-Allison Wiltz)
“Both liberals and conservatives claim to speak for the majority, yet any time anyone disagrees with them they both start bitching about cancel culture or the younger generations being big meanie heads. It couldn’t possibly be that they don’t represent the majority of people.” (-Huckleberry)
“Gotta love how the “Limited Government” people beg for their daddy State to send in its cop enforcers anytime some protesters don’t go along with the *State is the BeSt aNd fREeSt* State propaganda” (-Brutal Regime, Apocalyptic Dream)
“Iraq War protests, Occupy, BLM / Defund the Police… grassroots movement die when Democratic politicians get involved & shift focus to elections.
The Anti-Genocide movement cannot let their cause become focused on electing more members of the Squad. It’s about freeing Palestine.” (-Primo Radical)
“You have to be a really sick person, both psychologically and spiritually, to want a group of people to be deprived of the same basic rights and freedoms that your life and your pursuit of happiness depend on” (-Tiberius)
“This is so sad to state but it seems we are all holding our breath in anticipation of the first death from these student protests by cops aren’t we?” (-Palestine On My Mind)
“An active shooter alert, but the twist is that the school is the shooter.” (-Jeff Melnick)
“Columbia: A shelter in place order was just sent to all Columbia students. They responded by leaving their dorms to watch whatever is about to happen.” (-Talia Jane)
“I’m very concerned for these student protestors (especially those in NYC, GA, FL, TX and LA).” (-Willow)
“The immense, incredible bravery of protestors in New York right now is inspiring millions of people around the world.” (-Escalate Network)
“understand me: NYPD is about to attack these students and not just punish them on behalf of the university, but they are about to take out ALL of their anger against the left and progressive causes against these kids. Everything you care about is going to hurt them” (-derecka)
“What’s happening at Columbia will go down as a pivotal moment in U.S. student protest history.
Yet Columbia, home to the Pulitzers and the Knight First Amendment, isn’t letting journalists, faculty, researchers in.” (-Karen Attiah)
Neo-liberals of the Democratic party have been working with a foreign country to defeat progressive politicians and policies that would save American lives. This should outrage everyone. We need hearings. ” (-Ex Dem 3rd Party Voter)
“Keep seeing these tweets where people claim to know that people protesting have no idea what they’re protesting.
Every person I know who opposes Zionism & the carpet bombing of Gazza knows exactly why they oppose it and why they protest it. Protesters have absolutely nothing to gain from protesting Zionism and everything to lose, including being arrested, having a criminal record, being kicked out of universities & losing lucrative job opportunities. It makes Zionist feel better to discredit anti-war protesters by claiming theyre mindless and don’t know what they’re doing. But that’s what pro war propagandists have always done to anti-war people. It’s been my experience that the people who are Zionists are the ones who really have little information about the situation. The ones I’ve talked to don’t know anything about the Balfour declaration the Nakba, that Israel is an occupying force, that Israel ACTUALLY funded Hamas for the last 15 years , etc. etc.” (-Jimmy Dore)
“@AOC must be getting really excited to vote “present” for the bills giving raises to all these cops beating up college kids.” (-Chuck)
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