#student boycotts

[hack-saw2004]

TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

[sayruq]

[odinsblog]

S 🇵🇸 O 🇵🇸 L 🇵🇸 I 🇵🇸 D 🇵🇸 A 🇵🇸 R 🇵🇸 I 🇵🇸 T 🇵🇸 Y 🇵🇸

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

One day, students will be studying posts like this in law textbooks and history textbooks.

[vyorei]

BASED SCOTLAND

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Video below!

Source: @LowkeyØnline on Twitter from Socialist Worker Student Society

[comrade-onion]

Some more advice to the students ❤️🇵🇸

[troythings]

today in the U.S, congress passed a bill banning tiktok and sending more aid to israel. joe biden is expected to codify it into law.

columbia threatened to sic the national guard and NYPD on pro-palestine protesters. as of now, “counterterrorism” forces have arrived on university grounds.

nyu built an apartheid wall.

the university of minnesota is shutting off the water supply to pro-palestine protesters.

zionism has come home to roost in america. keep raising awareness. nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

[vaguelyaperson]

Bruh why does it feel like I'm the only one pointing out that primary elections are a thing?

We were all so gungho about primaries and nearly got Bernie to the general election, but then y'all seemed to abandon the concept when we got Joe instead. Don't you fuckin see??? Bernie's near victory in the primaries is WHY the Dems (under Biden) have been so progressive lately about student loans, unions, ect. It's because the Democrats are aware there's a large voting bloc that won't support them unless they have progressive policies.

Y'all can do that again in the 2024 primaries!!!

(I'm currently compiling a list) but there are a number of Democrat pro-Israel incumbent House and Senate reps up against better Democrat candidates in the 2024 spring primaries.

One example race is for California Senator; former House Rep Barbara Lee is running, and she has been among the few 18 House reps to cosponsor a bill for ceasefire. If you vote in the primaries, you could have 🍉 Barbara Lee as your Democrat Senator on the November ticket! 🍉

You can vote against the guys who let 10k+ people die without voting Republican or giving up your vote altogether.

Come the general election, we vote Democrat no matter what, because it is leagues better than the alternative.

But in the meantime: primaries, primaries, PRIMARIES

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lex McMenamin at Teen Vogue:

College students have been at the forefront of the movement for a ceasefire in Palestine since Israel's ongoing incursion of Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack. As soon as organizing for that movement began, there was backlash against it, including doxxing and harassment at Harvard, attempted state-level bans of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters in Florida, and also the banning of protests and SJP chapters at other universities. In Vermont, Palestinian college students on a walk, wearing kuffiyehs, were shot at during Thanksgiving break. (The reported shooter, who has pleaded not guilty to attempted second-degree murder, remains in jail as the case proceeds.)

Over the past few weeks, several student protesters have received criminal charges, expulsions, suspensions, and campus bans due to their involvement in protests for Palestine. This includes students at Columbia, who say they are being scapegoated before an April 17 congressional hearing to investigate Columbia University over campus antisemitism. (After a similar proceeding in December, the president of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania each stepped down.) According to Inside Higher Ed’s reporting, "some observers have described [the April hearing as] a political trap set by Congressional Republicans critical not only of campus leaders’ response to antisemitism but also of higher education in general.” The apparent suppression on campuses, while currently intensifying, isn’t new or recent: For the past several years, the organization Palestine Legal has represented and supported student organizers facing similar backlash. A representative for Palestine Legal tells Teen Vogue that, since October, the group has received “over 720 reports of suppression of Palestinian rights advocacy on campuses across the country.”

Meanwhile, the movements for ceasefire and Palestine are credited with reanimating student organizing, as well as pushing President Joe Biden’s policy stance on US support for Israel. That outcry has manifested in Uncommitted campaigns that have built momentum in presidential primaries across US states, and may also be pushing Biden to shift his policy. But these same organizing movements are seeing pushback on forms of protest that are historically common on campuses. Some students have been suspended or arrested for occupying campus buildings. In other instances, the backlash comes after students pushed to hold student body votes on divesting university funds from Israel or Israeli companies; at Vanderbilt, Ohio State, and Harvard, attempted referendum votes on the matter were canceled, suspended, or indefinitely postponed.

Teen Vogue reports on the disturbing trend that colleges across the USA are suppressing pro-Palestinian protests and referendums against divesting funding from Israel Apartheid State by arresting, suspending, or even expelling students protesting for Palestinian rights.

[feluka]

i was on the fence about approaching the cafeteria on campus and giving them a list of alternatives for boycotted products because i didn't wanna come off as "hey, you, poor retail worker, i'm holding you accountable to fixing every problem" and i was worried about how to control my tone to sound easygoing about it (the good old 'tism gets in the way sometimes) today i finally spoke to them and the guy was really open to the idea! i gave him the pricing and website names for some stuff and he told me he'll make an order :]

[hack-saw2004]

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.

[sayruq]

[awek-s]

serious question what laptop brands do you guys use

[vyorei]

Colombia University is rightfully catching heat for the suspension of students in the activist groups Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace

[comrade-onion]

Stand with students, stand with Palestine❤️🇵🇸

(Not OC)