#Student Protests

[thestudentempanada]

March 29, 2025, BiCollege (Bryn Mawr and Haverford) SJP statement:

This entire statement assumes that Hamas is a legitimate political party rather than a designated FTO, and that normalization/a desire for peace between Israel and Gaza is a traitorous position for a Palestinian to take.

Especially interesting is the portion where they talk about the need for balance between protecting Hamas and allowing individual liberty-

“There is no playbook,” so maybe it’s okay for Hamas to murder people for protesting (which they don’t mention).

I also like the part where they essentially say that no debate can be had about Hamas abusing Gazans until they destroy the state of Israel.

[belongstolove]

The common people: Hey, we want an arms embargo, and a free Palestine

Police:

[workersworldparty]

May 4, 1971. Kent State/Jackson State

May 4 and May 15 mark the anniversaries of the 1970 murders of students at Kent State and Jackson State in the United States. Many people are familiar with the National Guard shooting of students and protesters of the Vietnam War at Ohio’s Kent State University, which left four dead and nine injured. Protests in hundreds of cities and campuses followed the Kent State massacres, along with a nationwide student strike of four million and as many as 100,000 marched on Washington.

This article gives a detailed accounting of what happened at not only Kent State, where white students were killed, but also at Jackson State, where the killing of two Black youth went largely unnoticed nationally.

[marvelshifter111]

Text on the bottom: who are you waiting for? I'm waiting for these children of ours to support them. When I can't go in front of them and say "follow me", I can say "go ahead".

Text in the middle and song: You will travel long roads, you will see other lands. Take one flower from here, let everyone see it, let the whole world know it. "This is Serbia", say the graves of warriors from ancient times.

Text in the end: Together to freedom.

[ksliberal]

Stanford University protesters charged with felonies after occupying campus building

[amons-hat-enthusiast]

Students of Serbia have begun their bicycle ride from Novi Sad to Strasbourg to deliver a message to the EU parlament

If you see the symbol of the bloody palm passing through your city, give a clap for the future Nobel Peace Prize winners! PUMPAJ!!! ❤️✊🇷🇸

[thestudentempanada]

May 13, 2025 photo from the May 7, 2025 “Press Conference” by the 8 CUNY students with charges against them:

Surely a sign that reads “the war is here” will convince the judge to drop the charges against them.

[eretzyisrael]

by Douglas Murray

And since Hamas had always insisted that there must not be one Jew in such a state – that it must be, to borrow a sinister term from history, Judenrein, or cleared of Jews – then that meant the Jews must all either be killed or forcibly evacuated. 

None of the student protest leaders or their followers ever put forward any non-genocidal plan for the removal of the Jews of Israel, so it is not a stretch to say that the chant was genocidal.

The same went for the cry of 'Intifada' – holy war. There was considerable debate as to whether this was inflammatory. 

But to anyone who was Jewish, the slogan could not have been clearer. Intifada is not a neutral term, any more than 'Sieg Heil' is a phrase that simply means 'Hail victory'.

Since the 1980s, Palestinian leaders and clerics have twice called for an 'Intifada' against the Jewish state, and these turned out to be among the bloodiest periods in Israel's history. 

For years, terrorist attacks against innocent civilians happened on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis.

On a beautiful summer evening in Tel Aviv in 2001, scores of young Israeli women queuing to get into a beach-front nightclub were targeted. 

A Hamas suicide bomber killed 21 of them. Sixteen were teenagers. Limbs were strewn across the road; bodies lay in piles.

A student from the University of Bristol pictured at their pro-Palestine encampment in May 2024 

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As they called for 'Intifada', did the protesters at American colleges know this? Equally, when they accused Israel of being an 'apartheid state' did they realise that almost a fifth of the population of Israel are Arabs and enjoy the same rights as Jews?

Probably not, because two months after the Hamas massacres, an opinion poll revealed that while 81 per cent of respondents of all ages backed Israel in its fight against Hamas, among 18 to 24-year-olds an extraordinary 60 per cent thought the October 7 attacks were justified and 51 per cent in the same age bracket agreed that Israel 'should be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians'.

It is bewildering that these opinions come from the exact same generation of students who were brought up to believe that words are violence and that silence is violence. Yet calls for genocide appear to be just about the only thing that is not violent.

But, though the campus protests made little impression on Western government, one set of leaders was taking a keen interest. 

In May 2024, a Hamas leader addressed a conference in Istanbul hosted by the Muslim Brotherhood and expressed his thanks for 'the great student flood' that had emerged at American, British and other Western universities.

What students on these campuses were doing was all part of Hamas's plan and had been factored in. A plan that led direct from campus demonstrations in America to jihad on the streets of Israel.

The endorsements kept coming. The supreme leader of the Iranian revolutionary Islamic government, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote praising the students of America. 

'You are now part of the Resistance Front,' he told them, 'and you have begun a dignified struggle under the ruthless police pressure of your government that evidently defends the oppressive and brutal Zionist regime.'

There's more than one irony in this, but in the years since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Khamenei and his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, have killed, tortured and imprisoned thousands of Iranian students, especially when they have come out and protested against their own government as the American students were now doing.

In one crackdown in 2009 the government's security forces openly shot student protesters on the streets, then ordered the digging of mass graves for the bodies of those who were murdered and tortured. 

Students who were detained in the regime's prisons in the aftermath of these protests attested to having been raped with batons and bottles. 

But the Ayatollah wasn't going to allow something like his own track record to get in the way of destabilising America. 

In his letter to American students, Khamenei talked about a changing situation, consciences awakening and history turning a new page. 

He concluded his salutations with citations from the Quran and said: 'I empathise with you, young people, and I respect your steadfastness.'

The fact that 2024 saw a record surge in executions inside Iran was left out of his letter, as was the fact that his regime publicly executes people convicted of homosexuality by hanging them from cranes and throwing them off high buildings. 

Khamenei was clearly pleased with the ignorance of America's students and his own ability to foment dissent in a country he describes as 'The Great Satan'.

[globalmediaplanet]

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[aqlstar]

22 year old Gazan anti-Hamas protestor Oday Nasser Al Rabay was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Hamas last night.

There is no hope for peace and mutual prosperity while voices of dissent in Gaza end up murdered brutality.

Anyway, I wish a very fuck you to all the American college students complaining about how Khalil was “disappeared” for “peacefully protesting” and staying predictably silent as their favorite terrorist group disappears and murders a 22 year old protestor in Gaza.

[thestudentempanada]

May 14, 2025, CUNY for Palestine Instagram account uploads promotional video including Hezbollah flag to their story:

For reference, the flag of the Lebanese Hezbollah:

https://www.dni.gov/nctc/terrorist_groups/lebanese_hizballah.html

US designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997.

[allthegeopolitics]

The Trump administration's plan to use artificial intelligence to deport international students that are deemed "pro-Hamas" has received a wide range of reactions this week from across the political spectrum, stirring fears of what this could mean for free speech in the US.  The US State Department reportedly plans to use AI to revoke the visas of foreign students who are deemed "pro-Hamas", Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. The “Catch and Revoke” project, launched by Secretary of State Marco Rubio according to Axios, will see "AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts [and] marks a dramatic escalation in the US government's policing of foreign nationals' conduct and speech”. 

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[mossadegh]

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[aqlstar]

Here I am again complaining about people who view ethnic, religious, and other minorities joining the police force as a betrayal and single them out for harassment.

We can clearly see that female officers, black officers, Latino officers, and Asian officers in the NYPD have significantly fewer complaints filed against them then their white male counterparts.

The NYPD is a flawed institution, but we have clear evidence that increasing diversity helps helps fix those flaws!

Even if your long term goal is to not have a police force at all, you should be able to prioritize immediate actual improvement in the system over theoretical revolutionary change.