Isra Hirsi was suspended along with two other students and they say the decision only 'galvanises the student body even more'

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.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The tenured academic has faced widespread calls to be fired ever since he referred to the Oct. 7 attack inflicted by Hamas terrorists as “awesome” and a “stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance.”

    “The sight of the Palestinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating Gaza from Israel was astounding,” Massad penned in a 1,800 word essay published 24 hours after the bloodshed.

    “Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them.”

    Mohamed Abdou

    Just days after the Oct. 7 attack, Abdou controversially declared on social media, “Yes, I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.”

    Hamid Dabashi:

    He’s come under fire in recent years for a slew of controversial social media posts, including a since-deleted one in which he blamed Israel for every “dirty” problem in the world.

    “Every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious happening in the world just wait for a few days and the ugly name ‘Israel’ will pop up in the atrocities,” Dabashi wrote in the 2018 Facebook post, cited by the Jewish Journal.

    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’.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      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?

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        “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.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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          7 months ago

          “Liberals involved” = liberals supporting Genocide instead of fighting against it.

          And then flipping reality and saying the resistance is actually the Genocidal ones.

        • hark@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          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.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            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.

            • hark@lemmy.world
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              7 months ago

              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?

              • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                7 months ago

                I didn’t realize biden has to support genocide.

                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”.

                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.

                … how many Republican candidates, do you think, would be better or even equal to Biden on the issue?

                Please. Regale me.

                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?

                “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.

                • hark@lemmy.world
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                  7 months ago

                  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”.

                  These polls?: https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx

                  … how many Republican candidates, do you think, would be better or even equal to Biden on the issue?

                  I see you missed the point in my post where having the republican party as an excuse means nothing will ever improve. Nice job defending this system even after having it spelled out for you. Genocide is unacceptable, full stop.

                  “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!”

                  If you’re funding fascists, you get fascists. It’s not a risk worth taking, but democrats are either brain-dead morons or they don’t mind fascism because it gives them an excuse to never improve anything. Either way, they keep doing it: https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/democrats-spend-53m-to-boost-far-right-gop-candidates/

                  Trump wasn’t the weakest candidate at all in 2016. He promised changed in an election year where people were hungry for change. Meanwhile galaxy brain Hillary promised more of the same, insisting that the status quo was fine. Oh look, another mistake democrats keep committing, the geniuses that they are.

                  It would be great if you could do something other than parrot the talking points of your fellow fascists.

                  You’re calling me a fascist yet you defend genocide.

                  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    7 months ago

                    Disapproval of the Israeli response is not the same as support for removing support from Israel

                    I see you missed the point in my post where having the republican party as an excuse means nothing will ever improve.

                    Yes, that’s why nothing has ever improved. Thanks. Great talk. 10/10 for illiteracy in modern history.

                    Genocide is unacceptable, full stop.

                    Right, so mind reminding me why you’re so eager to have a genocide in the US?

                    If you’re funding fascists, you get fascists.

                    There wasn’t a non-fascist going to win the GOP’s primary, unless you’re eager to play apologist for even MORE Christofascists. Which, honestly, wouldn’t surprise me at this point.

                    Trump wasn’t the weakest candidate at all in 2016.

                    lmao

                    He lost the popular vote to Hillary fucking Clinton.

                    I don’t think you can get much weaker than that.

                    You’re calling me a fascist yet you defend genocide.

                    I’m defending genocide because… I don’t want a genocide in the USA.

                    That’s a curious definition of defending genocide, but I suppose fascists aren’t known for their attachment to the meaning of words.