Genuinely confused about what these white frat boys at Ole Miss and other schools want.
The students in the encampments have been clear in their demands for universities to divest from Israel and stop being complacent in a genocide.
And these counter-protesters (if you can even call them that) are fighting for… what exactly?
All of these students have the First Amendment right to freedom of speech/assembly and all that jazz, but clearly one side is fighting for change while the other is trying to shut them up. Embarrassing!!
the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.
The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.
we need to study why all the chelsea fans on here disappeared into thin air as soon as mount and kai left. i understand a portion of them were largely there for those players but surely not all of them. where are they. it used to be u couldn't even make a joke about chelsea without them surfacing from nowhere and reblogging it to bully u
i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.