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vyorei · 8 months

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Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

#free gaza #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #free palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Jewish Voice for Peace #USA #American Solidarity with Palestine #JVP

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kropotkindersurprise · 1 month

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May 10, 2024 - Students of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras have taken down the colonial US flag flying over their school and replaced it with the Palestinian flag. [video]

#puerto rico #free palestine #palestine #University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras #UPRRP #solidarity #occupation #anti-colonialism #rio piedras #students #student protest #2024 #american flag #usa

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delilahmidnight · 7 months

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#tiktoks #solidarity #palestine #indigenous peoples #native Americans #cultural dance

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decolonize-the-left · 8 months

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#FREE PALESTINE #palestine #gaza #israel #usa #westerners #Americans #liberals #progressives #where is your solidarity

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capybaracorn · 1 month

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Columbia suspends students after deadline to end Gaza camp passes

The number of arrests has crossed 1,100 since New York police detained first demonstrators at Columbia on April 18.

(April 30th 2024)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a protest outside Columbia University in New York City. [Michael M Santiago/Getty Images via AFP]

Columbia University has begun suspending student demonstrators after they defied an ultimatum to disperse.

The New York University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian protests that have upended college campuses across the United States, made the call on Monday.

The move follows almost two weeks of protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, which have swept through higher education institutions from coast to coast, and spread into Europe. The demonstrators have demanded that the universities cease all investment in Israel or companies that are seen as supporting its war effort.

The response of the authorities has been tough, with critics of the protests referring to sporadic instances of anti-Semitism. About 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia on April 18.

In the latest crackdown, authorities at the prestigious university in New York had demanded that the protest encampment be cleared by 2pm (18:00 GMT) or students would face disciplinary action.

“These repulsive scare tactics mean nothing compared to the deaths of over 34,000 Palestinians,” said a statement, read out by a student at a news conference after the deadline passed, referring to the death toll in Gaza.

“We will not move until Columbia meets our demands or … [we] are moved by force,” said the student.

A few hours later, Columbia vice president of communications, Ben Chang, said the university had “begun suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus”.

He said students had been warned they would be “placed on suspension, ineligible to complete the semester or graduate, and will be restricted from all academic, residential, and recreational spaces”.

Meanwhile, at the University of Texas in Austin, police used pepper spray as they clashed with protesters on Monday. Arrests were made as they dismantled an encampment, adding to the more than 350 people detained nationwide over the weekend.

“No encampments will be allowed,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on social media. “Instead, arrests are being made.”

Protests against the Gaza war, with its high Palestinian civilian death toll, have posed a challenge to university administrators trying to balance free speech rights with complaints that the rallies have veered into anti-Semitism and hate.

Footage of police in riot gear summoned at various colleges to break up rallies has been viewed around the world, recalling the protest movement that erupted during the Vietnam War.

Columbia University president, Minouche Shafik, in a statement on Monday announcing talks had broken down, said, “Many of our Jewish students, and other students as well, have found the atmosphere intolerable in recent weeks.

“Many have left campus, and that is a tragedy,” she continued. “Anti-Semitic language and actions are unacceptable and calls for violence are simply abhorrent.”

Protest organisers deny accusations of anti-Semitism, arguing their actions are aimed at Israel’s government and its prosecution of the conflict in Gaza.

They also insist there have been incidents engineered by non-student agitators.

A protester wears the university's disciplinary warning covered over by support for Palestinians in Gaza at Columbia University in New York City. [Alex Kent/Getty Images via AFP]

The protests have upended university campuses across the US, with the number of arrests crossing 1,100. [Caitlin Ochs/Reuters]

A faculty member holds up a sign as faculty members seek to protect students in the Pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at Columbia University. [Michael M Santiago/Getty Images via AFP]

Protesters at Columbia defied a deadline to disband the event with chants, clapping and drumming. [Stefan Jeremiah/AP Photo]

Columbia University issued a notice to the protesters asking them to disband their encampment after negotiations failed to come to a resolution. [Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP]

Demonstrators gathered outside an entrance to Columbia University as the 2pm deadline to disband or face suspension approached. [David Dee Delgado/Reuters]

Students condemned the university’s attempts to silence the protesters and said they were determined to continue. “What trumps our fear is our love for Palestine, and our love for liberation, and our refusal to accept subjugation and censorship from an oppressive institution,” one said. [Nuri Vallbona/Reuters]

Pro-Palestinian supporters continue to demonstrate on the campus of Columbia University. [Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP]

One graduate student protester said: "It's finals week. But at the end of the day, school is temporary." [Alex Kent/Getty Images via AFP]

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runalongprincevaliant · 6 months

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Palestinian people being attacked in the US.

#palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #free gaza #free west bank #the west bank #west bank #genocide #genocide joe #this is a genocide #education is important #media #palestinian americans #antizionism is not antisemitism #jewish solidarity with palestine #Instagram

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readingsquotes · 28 days

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"Ten years ago this August, a white police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. What happened on Canfield Drive that day sparked a nationwide movement to save Black lives, end police brutality, and make safety a reality for all people. As a registered nurse, pastor, and local activist, I spent over 400 days protesting alongside thousands of my fellow community members.

I will never forget the brutality we faced in response to our calls for humanity. Police used tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, noise munitions, batons, shields, fists, and boots against us. The Missouri National Guard called us “enemy forces.” Our government labeled us “Black identity extremists.” Many politicians condemned us. Those of us on the front lines were traumatized, but we knew that time would prove we were on the right side of history — and it did. Time will prove the same for the students currently protesting across the country.

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None of what protesters in Ferguson and at Columbia University have experienced is new — it’s happened hundreds of times throughout our history. It happened in Boston in 1770, when protesters supported independence from British rule. It happened in Pennsylvania in 1897, when mine workers demanded labor rights. It happened in Virginia in 1917, when protesters demanded equal rights for women. It happened in Selma in 1965, when protesters demanded civil rights for Black people. It happened in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and elsewhere in 1968, when protesters demanded an end to the Vietnam War. And it happened in Washington, DC, and in communities all across our country in 2020, when protesters demanded an end to police brutality.

Behind every attempt to silence a protester is an idea that those in power don’t want people to hear, yet protest movements have been remarkably successful throughout our history. The women’s suffrage movement led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment despite opposition from those in power. The same is true of the Civil Rights movement, which culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the youth-led nationwide protests that led to the end of the Vietnam War, and South African apartheid.

...During the Ferguson protests, a group of Palestinians visited us and taught us how to protect ourselves against tear gas. That moment opened my eyes to the connection between state-sanctioned violence at home and abroad.

..It’s time our government responded to popular social movements with an ear, instead of a boot.

#student protests #cori bush #police state #police brutality #police violence #solidarity #gaza solidarity encampment #palestine #free palestine #gaza #genocide #isreal #colonization #apartheid #american imperialism #us politics #settler police #settler colonialism #settler violence

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freedom-in-truth · 7 months

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News: US police attack peaceful Jewish and allied vigil for Gaza

US police throw Jews down stairs, interrupting their peaceful candlelight vigil

Have you called your reps yet?

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labelleangel · 6 months

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Detroit, MI - November 29th, 2023 - protestors blocking the U-Turn in front of the tunnel to Canada to create artwork pertaining to Palestine and the Indigenous American Land Back Movement

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alinahdee · 8 months

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INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

#SOLIDARITY #PALESTINE #NDN #NATIVE #INDIGENOUS #NATIVE AMERICAN #FIRST NATIONS #CULTURAL GENOCIDE #LANDBACK #free palestine

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soxiyy · 3 months

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“ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DESERVE SELF DETERMINATION IN THEIR HOMELANDS!!!”

My brother in Christ you can’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and the thought that Jews are native.

P.S. the thought that only one group can be indigenous to a piece of land IS colonial thinking. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the land, deal with it.

#jumblr #Israel #jews are native to israel #israeli palestinian solidarity #i stand with palestine #free Palestine #am israel hai #antisemitism #say no to settler colonialism #colonialism #colonization #colonial history #first nations #native americans #Palestine

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vyorei · 7 months

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Pro-Palestinian activists briefly paused the annual Macy's Genocide Dinner Thanksgiving Parade in the US, cops led them off after a few minutes

But goddamn, that's badass, nice one 💜

BASED USA ✊ 🇵🇸

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #USA #American Solidarity with Palestine #USian Solidarity with Palestine #Protest #macy's thanksgiving day parade #Thanksgiving #Genocide #Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

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crystalsandbubbletea · 4 months

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"You're nonbinary and queer! You should be supporting Israel!"

Hah!

No. <3

I don't care what you say, I am not supporting genocide!

I will never be prideful in genocide, pinkwashing, or apartheid. I will forever speak against it.

It's "Free Palestine" until Palestine is free.

From Turtle Island to Palestine.

🌎🇵🇸🍉

#free palestine #palestine #indigenous american solidarity with palestine #🇵🇸🍉#🍉🇵🇸#🇵🇸#🍉#no pride in apartheid #no pride in genocide #no pride in pinkwashing #endisraelsgenocide #queers for palestine

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troythecatfish · 1 month

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spacebeyonce · 7 months

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"Of course there are moments where you feel extremely distressed, and this is one of those tragic moments in our recent history, but I should also say that...it takes time.

It takes time, and oftentimes we cannot see where we are headed. But we have to believe that it is possible to make change, and we can't give up, we can't give up, we can't not hope, because hope is the condition of all struggles."

#video #free palestine #black american and palestinian solidarity #Youtube #angela davis

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lildoodlenoodle · 4 months

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Me whenever I meet an Irish American(who are always So Proud of their heritage) who is absolutely dick riding for Israel:

Meanwhile, actual Irish people:

#free palestine #free gaza #but yea a lot of Irish Americans SIDE EYE #this is also not the only show of solidarity by any means from Irish people and Irish officials

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