#college protests

[drsonnet]

Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

Gadzooks Bazooka Instagram: gadzooks_bazooka

Remembering #HindRajab & children in #Gaza: This is what the mother of the child, Hind Rajab . https://tmblr.co/ZTeZMyfB_GHeeu00

Update (July, 2024)

UPDATE FROM

@sunnydice: (and please don't forget Layan Hamadeh , her 15 yr old cousin who was trapped with her or Yusuf Zino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun who bravely volunteered to try to save hind and were murdered by the IOF )

DrSonnet — هذا ما قالته والدة الطفلة هند رجب عندما سمعت بخبر... (tumblr.com)

[raygun631]

[memys-art-stuff]

It is vital that we keep the efforts of so many students across the United States from going to waste. We need to keep the momentum going and ensure that news of the cruelty happening to the people of Palestine is not ignored or suppressed.

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

These students are calling to divest college funds from Israel. Do not let the media warp their efforts and paint them as an antisemitic mob. Do not let those opposing these demonstrations hide behind claims of antisemitism to justify their actions. This is about stopping human suffering, and to believe anything different is willful ignorance.

[fuck-u-maga]

Jesus

[aqlstar]

Yes, civil disobedience is a form of protest that is well established and should be respected as such.

But what is civil disobedience?

A lot of kids (and media outlets, honestly) seem to be confusing “civil disobedience” with “mob rule.”

Another key feature of civil disobedience is non-evasion.

That is:

Civil disobedients are standardly expected to take responsibility for, and accept the legal consequences of, their lawbreaking. Their evading punishment would make their acts ordinary crimes or acts of rebellion.

[chthonianalacrity]

This black student sings gospel (which originated from slaves) as she's carried away by black policemen, who likely heard the same song in church, but practice the tradition handed down from slave patrols. What a sight to behold.

This student is not showing us a cause for hope and celebration, but rather they unyielding determination and spirit activists have. This struggle nay not cause what we want immediately, but it is still our struggle. It is our destiny, as humans, to struggle. And struggle we will, until change is seen.

[thetourguidebarbie]

Look you can say that the students with Hezbollah flags quoting hitler are "not part of your movement" all you want but they ARE in fact sitting at the protests long enough for people to take pictures of them and post them on the internet without getting told to leave so ??????

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

I really want everyone to stop and watch this video.

Yesterday, on 10.7 - the one year anniversary of the deadliest day for Jews since the holocaust, pro-Hamas students at my alma mater, The Claremont Colleges, engaged in a protest that resulted in the students who were attending class ESCAPING through the window.

Not only did they disrupt classes but they rendered the building so vandalized, the electronics so cut up that it is unusable for at least the rest of the semester. I want to empathize, STUDENTS BROUGHT KNIVES TO A PROTEST - they sliced a projector screen in half.

Oh, they also shoved a professor and kept him trapped in the building.

this behavior is unacceptable, abhorrent and obscene.

For anyone who says "oh this is free speech," it's absolutely fucking not

[victusinveritas]

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Something I think is so important to acknowledge with the Columbia university protests is that these students were the class of 2020

the seniors, passing up on their college graduation, where once high schoolers denied their prom & graduation due to a global pandemic that the American government scoffed at.

They are not children protesting a war they "don't understand", these are students at one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world, they are well educated young adults looking back at the milestones that have been taken from them and willingly letting go of their second chance, because that is how strongly they believe in this cause

[drsonnet]

#US, #ISRAEL : Human Rights in #Gaza. Cartoon by Ahmad Qaddura:

[kick-a-long]

"In fact, “normies” like Hovater are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the neo-Nazi skinheads and criminals who have up until now been the face of the far-right extremist movement. Thugs carrying guns and beating people up in alleys may evoke more fear, but historically they are outliers. Incidents of mass violence like the Holocaust, Rwandan Tutsi Genocide and the Cambodian Genocide begin when average citizens buy into racist ideology and do the work of turning a society against a group of people. And those average citizens do have regular jobs and careers. They may even have friends of different racial backgrounds, and they may be loving parents.

Testimonies of genocide survivors tell us, time and time again, of the once friendly neighbors who turned in their Jewish acquaintances to the Gestapo. The classmates and teachers who taunted students with racist chants. The manifestos shouted on the radio and printed in newspapers. All the people responsible for these acts were “normies.” Genocide prevention depends on recognizing that future perpetrators are not a special breed of evil: they are normal people who, without proper intervention, can be easily persuaded to become more and more open about their hate until eventually they resort to violence."

the only defense to becoming a monster, even if you don't look or recognize you are becoming one, is to learn about the world and the people in it. seeing in black and white, perfect good and perfect evil, misses the complexity of life.

stop trying to moralize acting shitty to strangers and friends by covering it in coded language and excuses.

[theamoristwriter]

স্বাস্থ্য ভবন। আজ।

12/9/24 ✊🏻

[fuck-u-maga]

[aqlstar]

Legitimately I don’t care who you are or what you’re protesting: when the police say there’s an active bomb threat, you shut up and get out of the way.

[mtnman451]

Rut Roh Raggy!

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5185620-rubio-ice-arrest-pro-palestinian-columbia-mahmoud-khalil-green-card-dhs-trump-immigration-crackdown/

The Former Student who has been leading Pro-Hamas Anti-Semtic protests on the campus of Columbia University is going home. Sucks to be him. There's an old saying: Play Stupid Games, win stupid Prizes. This kid was in the country on a Student Visa and he already graduated. He's here at the pleasure of The US Government and was biting the hand that was letting him stay here. If you're in the US on a student visa, I have a novel idea for you. Go to class and get your freaking education. Because if you act like this kid did, you won't be here for much longer.