Three Barnard College students, including US lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, have been suspended for participation in an ongoing Gaza solidarity protest encampment at Columbia University in New York City.
The suspension of the three students came as university administrators called on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to dismantle the tents that had been set up earlier on Wednesday.
Several students told MEE that heavily armed police dressed in riot gear entered the university lawns on Thursday to tear down the 50-plus tents. By late Thursday afternoon, the camps were gone and dozens of students had been arrested.
The developments on Thursday followed the revelations that three students - Isra Hirsi, 21, along with Maryam Iqbal, 18, and Soph Dinu, 21 - had received letters earlier in the day informing them they had been suspended, effective immediately, due to refusing to pay heed to calls to end their protest.
I was curious about the statements of the Colombia professors that brought them congressional ire. Found this article about it. I think some of it is pretty gross glorification of Hamas but some of these professors are definitely being slandered just for being critical of Israel.
I wouldn’t trust that website.
I have received Facebook memes from demented old people that were more convincing.
It seems like this site just specialises in outrage and slander.
I was mainly looking for quotes which this article got for me, but I agree scrutiny isn’t a bad lens to read this through.
Yep checks out. Hamas forgot to be the perfect victim again. Time to ban free speech.
Anti-Palestinian sentiment in institutions is strong and must be fought, but most of the situations cited here are not about Hamas not being the ‘perfect victim’.
So who is going to stand up for the Palestinians? Is it Genocide Joe that just blocked recognition for a Palestinian state after half a year of Genocide and the entire world turning against israel? Are you going to save the Palestinians?
Put people in a concentration camp for 20+ years, completely ignore their suffering and peaceful protests, and when they finally fight back go “Oooh that’s bad! They didn’t do it perfectly!”.
If you want to deny Hamas that’s fine. Then tell me, who else is fighting for Palestinians. How is it going in the West Bank without Hamas?
“Who will stand up for the Palestinians, if we don’t simp for Islamofascists?”
It’s funny how your kind always lands on “NOT GOOD ENOUGH” whenever liberals are involved, but “Critical support for holsum pro-genocide chungus 😊” whenever authoritarians are involved.
Couldn’t you turn that around on yourself? I mean, I’ve heard plenty of people claim that we shouldn’t let a little thing like support for genocide deter us from voting for biden.
I didn’t realize Hamas was running in a FPTP election in which the other viable party was also a supporter of genocide. Here I thought they hadn’t had elections in almost two decades in Gaza while Hamas has squeezed every last ounce of political independence from the local institutions. Silly me.
I didn’t realize biden has to support genocide. Mighty convenient for that lover of genocide to have the other guy be worse, must be one reason why the democrats helped trump be the republican nominee in the first place. Here you are helping them out with their brilliant strategy while thinking democrats will ever improve things. Why would they bother when they have an infinite supply of worse candidates to run against?
Do I have to break out the polls again? Or do you just not understand what ‘democracy’ means? “Democracy” doesn’t mean “What I agree with, and the more I agree with it, the more democratic it is”.
… how many Republican candidates, do you think, would be better or even equal to Biden on the issue?
Please. Regale me.
“Wow, I can’t believe that the candidate who won the Dem primary (or presumed she was going to win even before she did) wanted the weakest possible candidate as opposition! She should have fought for the STRONGEST candidate to oppose her to emerge from the GOP primary!”
It would be great if you could do something other than parrot the talking points of your fellow fascists.
“Liberals involved” = liberals supporting Genocide instead of fighting against it.
And then flipping reality and saying the resistance is actually the Genocidal ones.
I look for Hamas what I look for in Israel, an adherence to humanitarian law. Hamas is perfectly happy to kill Palestinians, especially when they happen to be their political rivals. They remind me of the IRA, using a justified grievance for political gain.
Oppression is not an excuse to commit heinous crimes. A party can be brutally, illegally oppressed and still be held responsible for the things they do in retaliation.
That’s really cool maybe have the same feelings for those being oppressed for 75+ years instead of them striking back when everyone else has abandoned them.
Hey guess what, most people can hold more than one idea in their heads at thw same time.
Israel occupying palestine and committing genocide is bad! Israel killing civilians is bad!
Hamas killing civilians is bad! Hamas kidnapping people is bad!
These are not mutually exclusive, hamas don’t get a free pass to be cunts because Israel is a bigger cunt.
Absolutely they sure have massive flaws. But since there is nobody else standing up for the Palestinians right to self determination.
Hamas is the lesser of all evils. Including the US as Biden just proved.
If you want to prove Hamas wrong then show me someone else that’s stopping Palestinians from being Genocided.
Else don’t condemn the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.
Hm. Where the fuck have the billions in aid money to Gaza gone over the years?
Hamas has done some amazing “standing up for the Palestinians”…
Why doesn’t Hamas just make a liberal paradise inside of their concentration camp? Great question.
If your neighbor constantly shot at you, you’d build a wall between your houses too.
But Gaza has another boarder. Does Egypt participate in making Gaza a concentration camp?
Shut the fuck up
Nah I don’t think I will you man child.
Ok nazi
Are you 14?