"I witnessed things that were wrong," she said of her visit. "I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground . it was amazing time to be here
The claims of Zionists not to feel safe on campus are by no means new and I do recall years ago when I was going to one of those universities, Zionists would block so much shit, spy on our events, and even try to suspend pro Palestine organisations during a time when we weren't organising protests or sit ins and the most we did was poetry readings, or that one time we built an "apartheid wall" with wood panels in an open area with each panel displaying info about Palestine and the occupation. That was the most we did that year, and the same year we had SO MANY Zionist complaints about feeling unsafe by the org, some of them literally fake crying in front of members of the administration.
Now I know I'm not saying anything new but of course they feel unsafe! Their entire existence has been propagandised by their own community and they have been shielded from any negative blowback by both government and private administrations for decades.
Of course they feel threatened, because why would they want to be faced with this ugly, ugly truth about Israel? They feel threatened by the amount of support and the tides shifting which is a constant reminder that their narrative had failed miserably.
Of course they feel threatened when they feel like they have lost their cozy bubble where they blocked out any mention of Israel being a terrorist state. They don't want to be constantly reminded and confronted by their complicity in this genocide.
Their cozy bubble has been burst and their safe space of genocide and apartheid denial has been burst, and now they are being forced into the reality of what Zionism actually is and what it is viewed as by the rest of the world, so of course they are scared.
This bloodbath has gone on for far too long. At the start of this aggression, the school year had barely just started. The academic year ends in just a month. Everyone, from first graders to university seniors, have lost an entire year at least. I say at least considering even if there is a ceasefire today, Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.
You absolutely cannot mistake the intent behind all of this.
Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.
But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.
It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.
Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:
“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”
BTW... There was no Hamas at that time, not in Egypt not in any other place.
On this day, April 8, 1970, Israeli occupation forces’ aircraft bombed the Bahr El-Baqar primary school in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, resulting in the martyrdom of 30 children and injuring more than 50 others as they sat in their classrooms.
Despite 54 years passing, the Bahr El-Baqar massacre will remain a testament to the criminality of the Israeli occupation state.
This year’s memory comes at a time when the mask has fallen from Israel in front of the world, and most of the world’s populations have learned that Israel is a state built on massacres.
The blood of the thirty martyred children has now returned to haunt you and to be a curse upon you at a time when you have lost the media war in front of the world.
في مثل هذا اليوم 8 أبريل 1970 قامت طائرات قوات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي بقصف مدرسة بحر البقر الابتدائية في محافظة الشرقية بمصر مما أدى إلى استشهاد 30 طفلاً وإصابة أكثر من 50 آخرين، بينما كانوا يجلسون في فصولهم الدراسية.
رغم مرور 54 عام عليها إلا أن مجزرة بحر البقر ستظل شاهدة على إجرام دولة الاحتلال الاسرائيلي، وتأتي الذكرى هذا العام في وقت سقط القناع عن دولة إسرائيل أمام العالم وعلمت أغلب شعوب العالم أن إسرائيل دولة قامت على المذابح.
دماء الثلاثين طفل شهيد عادت الآن لتطاردكم ولتكون لعنة عليكم في وقت خسرتم فيه الحرب الإعلامية أمام العالم.