This Generation is Standing up to Resurgent Dark Age of Fascist Conservatism

There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies as they emerged from World War II. On one hand, they began to dismantle their colonial oppression of other peoples and reaffirmed their beliefs in universal human rights, which they enshrined in their own constitutions and international covenants. Yet, their status as victors of the war granted them the power to make decisions that unfortunately did not match their signatures on these covenants and continued to do harm to the peoples and nations they enslaved for centuries. That contradiction is exploding in their faces as we write these lines.

The younger western generation feels that contradiction deep in its psyche: How can we live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, and most technologically advanced polities in history, while millions of people around the globe continue to suffer the ravages and consequences of colonialism. The West is rich simply because it pilfered the resources of the colonized south and east. Now that the south and the east are reclaiming their positions as free and equal nations to their former colonizers, the younger generations in the West who grew up believing in real justice and human rights on the ground, and not as theoretical principles. They were taught to love their countries (patriotism), but without hating other countries (nationalism). With the long distance separating them from the events of the mid-20^th century, they apply the tenets they were taught without exceptions, unlike Joe Biden’s generation that says it believes in those principles, but with caveats, exceptions, and residual animus and racism.

Globalization has made this younger generation aware of human diversity in a positive sense. They make friends with people from every far corner of the planet and understand that their own patriotism rejects all the residual discrimination and racism of the older generation. Yes, the West represents for them the best outcome out of the troubled and bloody human history of their elders. But still, this makes them wonder: Why do we, whose parents and grandparents pilfered the world to create this paradise of ours, not try to finally bring some fairness to an international order maintained with the threat of violence by the nuclear bullies?

This is at the heart of the revolutionary urge that is emanating from the university campuses. Unlike their hate-mongering conservative predecessor generations, many young westerners have felt it their moral obligation to militate for human rights and for justice for ALL nations and not for some, for the protection of the environment which their elders raped greedy corporations, and for the liberation of the last colonized people on earth: Palestine.

There is now a striking correlation between levels of education and holding constructive forward-looking ideas, between being highly credentialled and rejecting the conspiracy-theory-prone older generation. I have spoken to many Jewish Americans of the younger generation and they do not understand the racist supremacist blindness of the Zionist movement whose success is contingent on highly organized violence against the Palestinians. These young Jewish students are themselves the university campus militants protesting Israel’s continued rape of Palestine. For the Zionists, Israel has never been the sheltering homeland for Jews. It was designed by the British crooks to be a western colonial base in the heart of the Muslim world. Jews were never persecuted by the Muslim and Arab nations of which they were integral constituents during millennia. Jewish and Muslim traditions and customs are nearly identical; after all the Bible tells us that the Jews originated in Ur in today’s Iraq and were bona fide Arab nomadic tribes before they decided to ravage ancient Palestine and ethnically cleanse the Canaanite ancestors of today’s Palestinians.

Remember the 700-year-long Andalusian paradise under Moorish Arab rule where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in harmony and tolerance? That harmony ended when Christian monarchs and the Church decided to force Muslims and Jews to convert or face the Inquisition or suffer expulsion. The persecution and hatred of Jews were staples of Western societies for centuries and millennia. Antisemitism is a Western construct. Jews were persecuted by none other than the very religious western Christian conservatives who claim to want to defend them today. If there was any persecution of Jews in Arab lands, it occurred at the hands of the Jewish Agency and other Zionist agencies that acted to terrorize Arab, Persian, north African and other Jews and force them to emigrate to Israel, not out of love or kinship, but to increase the Jewish herd headcount in Palestine.

It can be easily argued that the West loves its Jews so much that, after slaughtering them wholesale, it gave the surviving ones someone’s else land where they shipped them off and got rid of them.

The virulence of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hatred on campuses across America is not new. Zionists spent much of the 20^th century demonizing Arabs and Palestinians for the sole objective of justifying the rape of Palestine. No truly civilized country would tolerate this, but the West lapped up Zionist propaganda and became the captive victim of its own hostage Israel in a disturbing Stockholm Syndrome relationship. Wearing the Keffiyeh is enough to trigger Zionists to shoot and kill the bearer of the headscarf. For the past century that Palestinians have been trying to salvage their country, the image that Zionist propaganda instilled in the West was one of terrorists, Islamists, Jew-haters, barbarians, etc. But this is a standard operating procedure by western colonials: portray the indigenous resistors to the colonial master as unevolved, primitive and violent sub-humans who should be either converted, enslaved, or killed.

Today’s protests are even more liberating than those of 1968. They reject Right-wing conservatism as archaic and primitive and incompatible with genuine democracy. They refute the white supremacy and racism that is raising its ugly head to take us back to the 19^th century where everyone who is not a white Anglo-Saxon male was treated as inferior.

Reputed historians, not the paid Zionist charlatans, compare the protests to the 1968 worldwide protests that ushered individual freedoms as foundations for a rejuvenated West.

The past six months have exposed the West’s Right-wing elites for the phonies that they are: A movement obsessed with seeing disturbing revolutionary movements sprout everywhere. These conservative elites fear that the stranglehold they have had over western societies for decades is unraveling. To this end, the student protesters are labeled antisemitic, anarchists, Marxists, woke operatives…. All stale labels from another long bygone era. The conservative elites do not mind the genocide in Gaza, the rape, abuse and sexual assaults by Israeli soldiers and fanatic settlers against the indigenous Palestinian population, just as they don’t mind China’s brutality against the Uighurs and Tibet as long as there is money to be made with the Chinese dictatorship. To them, Palestinians, Tibetans, Uighurs and other downtrodden colonized peoples are subhuman animals, and the world should not bother with disturbing China’s barbarity or Israel’s savagery.

In 2024, a resurgent Right-wing Fascist ideology is the new religion whose heroes are Putin, Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, Trump etc. These dictators are taking the world back to the edge of the abyss, just like their Fascist forefathers – Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, etc. - did in Europe and elsewhere. It was liberal America, liberal Europe, revolutionary Republican Spain, and others who put an end to the barbarity. Liberalism is under siege by would-be tyrants and dictators. Today’s student protests have lit a fire in the heart of every person who believes in fairness and justice. Their belief in our civilization is unshakable, but they want everyone on board, including Palestine, the last colonized country on earth. We won’t go back to double standards based on racism and supremacy. We cannot grant the barbarian neanderthal Right another run against our liberal institutions, including our universities. The West has no future if our youth are taught to submit to the notion that only violence solves problems.

"Asian-Handjob" Robert Krapt Pontificates on Hatred

Asian-Handjob Master and Patriots Owner Robert Krapt Ignores Zionist-driven "Palestine Hatred" in the 21st century, while nagging about 'Jew hatred' in Germany in the 1930s-1940s.

Mr. KRAPT: How can a Jewish student protesting for Palestine be a Jew hater?

New England Patriots owner Robert Krapt said Thursday that the campus protests launched nationwide in response to Israel’s campaign in Gaza are another parallel of the lead-up to the Holocaust.

Krapt, a longtime supporter of Columbia University's Jewish students (but no others), said that when he created the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, in part as a response to the “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, he saw rising signs of extreme hatred.

In the current college protests, he said, he’s seeing further echoes of the forces that helped give rise to the Nazis.

“It starts like it did in the ’30s in Germany,” Kraft said. “Five years ago, I saw signs of hate developing here. I don’t want the 1940s to replicate here and unfortunately, I’m seeing signs of that and good people have to stand up and be counted. And, you know, that’s where the leadership is.”

“It’s shocking to me that young Jewish students at Columbia, in New York City, are scared...and going home” he says. But somehow, Mr. Krapt deliberately ignores those hundreds of Jewish students who are protesting the Zionist genocide in Palestine side by side with other students from various backgrounds, including Arab, Palestinian and Muslim backgrounds? Are they not Jews? Are they not mingling with Arab and Muslim students? Have they been harassed by their fellow protesters because they're Jewish? Why are the Jewish student protesters not fleeing the "hatred" and going home?

No, Mr. Krapt. Stop the lies and the slander. The amalgamation of upholding Palestine's right to be a free nation with Jew hatred will not work. American students of the top US universities are not dumb like the rest of backwater America that you so deftly exploit with your Zionist propaganda. They are smarter and more decent than you or your Goebbels-inspired propagandists.

The Columbias University's chapter of global Hasidic-Orthodox Jewish group - a fundamentalist and racist Orthodox Jewish movement - said Sunday that Jewish students have had offensive rhetoric hurled at them, including being told to “go back to Poland” and “stop killing children”. But they ignore chants by Zionist student protesters to "Kill all the Arabs", or "There is no Palestine", or "expel the human animals", or "Israel only from the River to the Sea", or the attempted assassination of three American students in Vermont because they were wearing the Keffieh headdress. That action by pro-Jewish criminals is not shocking for the likes of Robert "Asian-Handjob" Krapt.

Reports of harassment of Jewish individuals during campus protests are over-exaggerated by Zionist mouthpieces - hundreds of anti-Zionist Jewish students are taking part in the pro-Palestine movements on US university campuses. These over-the-top nags about rising anti-semitism are without any foundation. Their only purpose is to trigger the Pavlovian-trained western audience to drool, feel guilty and mute their real opinions and conscience. And in so doing, the Palestinian point of view is supressed and silenced, while drilling the notion that only Jews are victims. According to them, no one else's victimhood should rise to the sublime level of Jew hatred, a commodity that is used and abused by Zionists to deny any other people's suffering. But Muslim and Arab students have also faced threats and disparaging racist comments and insults hurled at them by right-wing fanatic Zionist students on campus since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict this fall.

"Asian-Handjob" Krapt, who graduated from Columbia in 1963, is dumb because he compared today’s protests to the antiwar ones he experienced as a student in the 1960s — hailing that era as an “open forum” where “free speech prevailed and people express[ed] their opinion” — which led to ending the Vietnam War. The protesters were right and the authorities were wrong. Kraft obviously does not want the same scenario to obtain in which the students are right to fight for a Free Palestine while he and his decaying ilk seem on their war to defeat.

Krapt went on to attack faculty members who have expressed solidarity with the student protesters. He said the faculty are “more focused on politics than they are on education.” Why is he then, a pedestrian brainless sports club owner, focusing on politics rather than on sports? Earlier this week, Krapt announced he would suspend his financial support of Columbia in response to its handling of the protests. Columbia: Tell this blackmailer of academic freedom that you don't need his dirty money, and good riddance. Mr. Krapt, go ahead and blackmail the university for not subscribing wholesale to your Zionist racist narrative that denies the existence of a Palestinian nation that was raped, massacred and expelled in order to create an ultra-religious backwater state in Palestine over the ashes of historic Palestine.

 

Fear and Loathing in America: The Zionist Reaction

Shares of “Antisemitism” Commodity Rise Sharply in the Zionist Propaganda Market.

American Zionists and their poodles to retaliate against those expressing their opinion and conscience.

Zionists and their allies propagate a false rise of antisemitism on US Campuses in order to terrorize people into silence and suppress pro-Palestine sentiment. There is no more antisemitism today than existed previously. But the commodity of antisemitism is very useful because the entire planet has been “re-educated” by decades of brainwashing and psychological blackmail to fear to express any thought that might disagree with the “official” narrative of Big Zionist Brother.

See below how Jewish students at Columbia University and other campuses across the nation who are defending the rights of the Palestinian people are terrorized by Zionist thugs into revealing their identities out of fear of retaliation. Zionism is adapting to the heightened awareness of the original sin of fabricating the state of Israel by turning to their Germanic DNA and adopting Nazi methods to repress and suppress their enemies. Unfortunately for them, the old and rusted Palestinian can of worms is open.

It just added fuel to the fire.

The decision by Columbia University’s president to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week has sparked outrage and strident student protests at universities in New York City and across the country in recent days. The convergence of using violent policing to silence protesters and the subject of the protests itself has crystallized the decades-old submission of American public discourse to one narrative only: That of Israel and its Zionist thugs who draw their inspiration and methods from Goebbels himself.

Last Thursday police arrested 108 Columbia University students. This was 1968 vintage Kent State University about to happen all over again, when the national guard killed several students on their own campus because they were protesting the Vietnam War. Similar protests spontaneously erupted on campuses across the country, including New York University, Yale University, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Southern California, among several others.

Students and young people are a beacon and a lens to the future. They hold the ideas that will become mainstream in a couple of decades. The Vietnam War was lost by the US not only under military pressure from the North, but also by the hundreds of thousands of young Americans who protested for years until the US government decided to end the war in disgrace. As the students on US campuses are protesting Israel’s colonial barbarity and the US establishment’s collusion with it, the trajectory is drawn: Palestine will finally be free. America is currently taking inventory of the severe regional and international losses it already is sustaining because of its blind endorsement of the savagery of the Zionist regime in Palestine. On balance, the US is losing much more than the utility of its Jewish colony in Palestine is providing. The sad thing is that the US has aligned itself behind a 19^th-century mindset, not unlike that of Vladimir Putin and his dangerous expansionist nostalgia for a long-lost empire, namely the Zionist colonial hallucination of a purely Jewish supremacist state over the ashes of historic Palestine. If the US and Israel believe they can emulate Putin by invading Gaza and annexing it by utter violence, they are traveling down the wrong road.

In fact, Gaza is a sideshow to the big dangling fruit Israel has set its eyes on, which is the West Bank. The current Gaza war is a dry run for Israel’s prospective invasion and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, followed by the expulsion of the Galilean Palestinian population and perhaps a sliver of Lebanon’s south as well as the already annexed Golan. It’s no secret: From the River to the Sea is a Zionist slogan for their Greater Israel biblical trash. Indeed, Israel has deliberately refused to write itself a constitution because that would require it to define its borders in relation to those of its neighbors.

Back to Columbia University. Rachel is a 19-years-old Jewish Columbia student who asked to be identified only by her first name because of fear of retaliation. RETALIATION? IN AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE? OR ARE WE IN PUTIN’s RUSSIA? Why retaliation? Because she joined the Free Palestine movement; Retaliation by whom? By the “powers-that-be”, namely the Zionist thugs holding guns to the university president’s head.

It is interesting that the last time a Columbia University president summoned the police to disperse student demonstrators was back in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. But even learned university presidents forget their history lessons. “Movements inherently boil when they’re facing extra suppression,” Rachel said. The Columbia students protesting the war have demanded that the school cut financial ties with Israel and divest from Israeli companies, pretty much what university students demanded – and won – to end apartheid in South Africa some 30 years ago., And they have inspired students across the country to do the same. “This is about solidarity," said Alex, another Jewish student at the University of Michigan who is part of the pro-Palestinian movement and also asked to be identified only by his first name out of fear of retaliation. AGAIN? RETALIATION? BY WHOM? "We have colleges all across the nation performing a synchronized act because we work together. This is a collective movement far beyond the United States."

Organizers say they were also inspired by protests against the apartheid government of South Africa that an earlier generation of Michigan students took part in. “It’s never been bigger than it is right now,” said a masked male organizer, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. AGAIN? RETALIATION? BY WHOM? “We’ve seen that this has been effective in achieving concessions from the administration towards divestment from Israel, apartheid and genocide.”

Just like during the Vietnam War, the protests have sparked a backlash from right-wing Trumpian politicians who want university administrators to use violence and crack down hard on the protesters.

Marianne Hirsch, a Jewish Columbia University English professor, said the university president, Nemat Talaat Shafik, an Egyptian-born Muslim Baroness, has been "squashing peaceful protest, squashing open debate, not allowing students to express their opinions and debate their opinions." And the fact that Shafik summoned the police last Thursday, a day after she was questioned at the congressional hearing, is no coincidence, she said.

"I’m extremely distressed right now to see antisemitism being weaponized and used, misused ... under the guise of safety and security," said Hirsch, whose parents were Holocaust survivors.

Sueda is a graduate student who helped organize the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia and asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid reprisals. AGAIN? RETALIATI? BY WHOM? She said students escalated pressure on the university and started the tent encampments after previous forms of protest did not lead to the intended results.

"Have those protests yielded any material results from the university? Have they yielded an acknowledgment of the pain felt by Palestinians and by the community that is in solidarity with them? Have they yielded any statements of sorrow or regret by the university for their overly punitive treatment of pro-Palestinian students? No," she said.

Oren Root, a longtime New York City lawyer and Columbia University graduate who was at the school when anti-Vietnam War protests rocked it in 1968, said Shafik's summoning of police was "an extraordinary miscalculation."

"President Shafik and her advisers clearly didn't learn from history," said Root, who was a top editor at The Spectator, the Columbia student newspaper, in 1968 and 1969. “Calling in the cops was clearly a mistake. Things have not gotten any calmer.” The decision in 1968 by university President Grayson Kirk to have the police forcibly remove protesters from the buildings they were occupying only inflamed the situation and tarnished Columbia's reputation for many years, Root said, adding that Columbia appears to have chosen a side in the Gaza battle.

Pro-Palestinian encampments have also been established at other schools that have been the sites of anti-Israel demonstrations, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

Given all the preceding, WHO IS REALLY EXPERIENCING FEAR ON CAMPUSES THESE DAYS? The hypothetical victim-status blackmailers? Or those speaking up for justice and for the truth?

 

US-Enabled Jewish Settler Violence in Palestine Goes Unpunished

Why rights groups say so many Palestinians in the West Bank are being attacked with impunity
CBC
Tue, April 23, 2024


Abdullatif Abu Alia kneels over a pillow soaked with dried blood from where he said his cousin, 25-year-old Jehad Abu Alia, bled to death after being shot in the head after his property was besieged on April 12 by Israeli settlers in the village of Al Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank. (Lily Martin/CBC - image credit)

For years, even decades, human rights groups that monitor the occupied West Bank have implored Israel's allies to take steps to punish Jewish settlers and members of Israel's military who attack Palestinians and seem to carry out their actions with impunity.

And so when word came over the weekend that Israel's closest ally, the United States, reportedly plans to hold members of an Israeli military battalion composed of ultra-orthodox and religious nationalist members accountable, they saw it as progress.

Earlier, the United States and Europe had placed economic and travel sanctions on a few key settlers believed to be responsible for instigating attacks, but implementing penalties and putting restrictions on a branch of the Israel Defence Forces is unprecedented.

Israel's government was indignant and rejected the suggestion that the military unit should be singled out.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said imposing sanctions on the Netzah Yehuda battalion while the war against Hamas still rages and the unit is fighting in Gaza "casts a heavy shadow" on other IDF units.

And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested the potential U.S. measure was "the peak of absurdity and a moral low," as he vowed to fight it.

Nasser Nasser/The Associated Press

A series of U.S. statutes, known as the Leahy Laws, prohibit U.S. military assistance from being transferred to organizations that the U.S. State Department determines have committed human rights abuses.

And by many accounts, the abuses attributed to Netzah Yehuda during its decades-long time as enforcers of Israel's rules in the West Bank are about as bad as they get.

In one incident in 2022, members of the unit dragged a 78-year-old American Palestinian man, Omar Assad, from his car after being stopped at a checkpoint. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded and beaten. An autopsy concluded he died of a heart attack from the stress of the encounter.

Violent rampages against property, Palestinians say

While the U.S. move is linked to events that happened before Oct. 7, the potential sanctions come at a time when violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has reached new levels in the aftermath of Hamas's attacks on southern Israel.

There have been violent rampages against Palestinian homes, businesses and property almost every day of late, in many cases with Israeli soldiers present, but not intervening to stop the rampages, say Palestinians who witnessed them.

Palestinian officials say more than 486 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7, many in military raids and others from attacks by settlers.

Wave of settler violence in occupied West Bank

The United Nations has recorded 774 attacks by settlers on Palestinians in the past six months, with Israeli soldiers present in nearly half the attacks. Human Rights Watch says the violence has forced Palestinians to flee at least seven communities permanently.

In its most recent report encapsulating the whole of the year — both before and after Oct. 7 — the UN said 2023 was the worst year for settler attacks on Palestinians in any year since tracking started in 2006.

"If you want to solve the problem, you have to go after the government that's responsible for allowing this to happen," said Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director for Human Rights Watch.

"The reason why we're seeing this unprecedented increase in settler violence is because of decades of impunity for settler violence," he told CBC News in an interview in Ramallah.

"They [settlers] are armed by the Israeli government. They are sometimes directly encouraged to carry out attacks, and they're doing so in more and more areas that the Israeli government covets for settlements."

In a What's App message to CBC News, the IDF said its role is to "protect the property and lives of all citizens," and that security forces have "means to disperse demonstrations." 

 

Lily Martin/CBC

A team from CBC News recently spent time in the village of Al Mughayyir, about 27 kilometres northeast of Ramallah, which was the site of a deadly rampage by hundreds of settlers on April 12.

Over the following two days and nights, other Palestinian villages nearby were also burned, causing damage to 60 properties and more than 100 vehicles, according to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din.

We visited the scene of a deadly shooting at the home of Abdullatif Abu Alia.

A blood-soaked pillow and blanket on the flat roof of his home marked the spot where he said his cousin, Jehad Abu Alia, bled to death.

"Hundreds of settlers besieged the house," he told CBC News.

Jehad Abu Alia, 25, was visiting his extended family when the home was suddenly surrounded by masked settlers, many carrying guns, and others throwing rocks.

Abu Alia said his family barricaded themselves inside as windows were smashed and vehicles outside set on fire.

Abu Alia said at one point, someone on the ground fired shots at their position on the top of the building and Jehad was hit in the head.

 

Lily Martin/CBC

"The army was helping [the settlers] and they stopped all kinds of ambulances and medical people from coming to help the injured," Abu Alia said.

With no way to get his cousin to hospital, Abu Alia said all he could do was to try to stop the blood gushing from the wound himself, in what turned out to be a futile effort to save his life.

The trigger for the Al Mughayyir rampage was the disappearance that morning of a 14-year-old Israeli teenager and sheep herder, Benjamin Achimeir.

Not long after the mob attack began, a police drone spotted his body not far from the outskirts of Al Mughayyir.

Although the circumstances of his death remain unexplained by Israeli authorities, Netanyahu called it a "heinous murder."

On Monday morning, the IDF, Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet and Israeli police announced they had arrested a 21-year-old Palestinian. The statement said he had "implicated himself" in the teen's death after an interrogation by Shin Bet.

Since the violence in Al Mughayyir, there have been several attacks by settlers in the West Bank, including one this past weekend that killed a Palestinian ambulance driver who came to help the injured in the town of As-Sawiya, according to the Palestinian Health Authority.

"Since Oct. 7, we have seen an unprecedented integration of violent settlers into the security forces," said Shakir, of Human Rights Watch.

"So whereas before there was a clear differentiation between security forces and settlers, you have increasing situations where settlers are wearing army uniforms."

Settler population increased

Under successive Israeli governments, the settler population has surged, growing 15 per cent in the last five years, according to one study by the pro-settler group WestBankJewishPopulationStats.com.

There are now more 517,000 settlers living in the occupied West Bank, with 200,000 Jewish settlers living in occupied areas of East Jerusalem.

The United Nations considers the Jewish settlements to be illegal, as do Canada and many other Western countries.

Palestinian officials say more than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, with Israel's military flattening vast parts of the territory in an effort to destroy Hamas.

Israeli settlers and U.S. blamed for West Bank violence

During the CBC News visit to Al Mughayyir, our team also met with Palestinian shepherd Imad Abu Alia.

He said in the months leading up to the attack on the village, settlers from several nearby communities had been using drones to watch his property and track his herd of sheep while they grazed.

During the mayhem in Al Mughayyir, he said a group came onto his farm and burned his barn, killing some of his sheep and stealing the rest of the 120 animals in his herd.

Lily Martin/CBC

When he tried to save his flock, he said the mob attacked him, leaving him with a neck brace and immobilized in bed.

"They beat me so much to the point that I saw death with my own eyes," he told CBC News.

Without his sheep to support his family, Abu Alia said he does not know what he will do.

"These sheep are like my children," he said. "I just want them back."

Lily Martin/CBC

Rights groups say seizing the livestock of Palestinians and constructing grazing outposts has become a new tactic of the settlers, as it deprives Palestinians of an income and often forces them to abandon their properties.

CBC News asked Israel's military for more details on the death of Benjamin Achimeir.

In a WhatsApp message, the IDF said that there were "signs of violence" but did not provide further details.

With regards to Palestinian allegations about the conduct of Israeli soldiers in Al Mughayyir, the IDF said complaints "about soldiers' behaviour that is not in accordance with orders will be examined."

Regarding the allegations that security forces held up ambulances and prevented the wounded from reaching hospital, the IDF said that was necessary for a "security check" before the ambulances were given the authorization to continue.

Israeli human rights group Yesh Din says between 2005 and 2022, 93 per cent of investigations against settlers who attacked Palestinians were closed without any charges.

 

Columbia Univ Jewish Students and Professors: We are not Antisemites

Jewish students and professors speak out against claims Columbia protests are antisemitic

Richard Hall

Thu, April 25, 2024

In the week since a protest camp exploded across the grounds of Columbia University in solidarity with Gaza, PhD student Jonathan Ben-Menachem has been fielding worried calls from his family. They had been watching the news and were concerned for his safety.

"I’ve had to reassure them that I am not about to get mobbed by antisemites anytime I go to campus,” he told The Independent. “It’s just people trying to take a stand for what they think is right, very peacefully.”

Mr. Ben-Menachem is one of many Jewish students who joined the protests at Columbia and other universities across the US calling for their institutions to cut ties with companies linked to Israel over the war in Gaza.

He said he has watched with amazement as the media and political figures have attempted to characterise the protests as antisemitic and dangerous, despite Jewish student organisations playing a central role in them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia and other US universities “antisemitic mobs” that are taking over “leading universities,” on Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Columbia University on Wednesday and called those protesting “lawless agitators” and “antisemitic.”

Mr. Ben-Menachem said his experience on campus had been completely different.

“There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground playing games, chanting and doing homework. There was a Passover Seder held on Monday,” Mr. Ben-Menachem said. “It’s crazy how bad faith that discourse has become.”

Student protests over the war in Gaza have been common across college campuses since the war in Gaza broke out in October, following a surprise Hamas attack that killed 1,200 in Israel. The resulting war has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and aid blockages have resulted in famine conditions in northern Gaza, creating a humanitarian disaster. Hundreds of schools, and all of Gaza’s 12 universities, have been damaged or destroyed since the Israeli attacks began.

After Columbia University ordered the New York Police Department to break up a protest camp on its campus last week, leading to the arrests of more than 100 students, the protests have spread across the country and grown into a movement that some have compared to the student-led protests against the Vietnam War of the 1960s. Similar protests have since erupted at Yale and New York University (where arrests were also made), Ohio State University, Stanford University and Berkeley, to name a few.

The protests at Columbia in particular drew national attention due to videos of several antisemitic incidents near the campus, including one in which someone shouted “Go back to Poland” at a group of Jewish students. In a separate incident, the Columbia chapter of the Orthodox Jewish movement Chabad said Jewish students had been told to “Go back to Europe.”

While Mr. Ben-Menachem said there had been credible reports of antisemitism in and around the campus, they were not representative of the hundreds of protesters who had camped out to protest against Israel’s war. What concerned him more than outside agitators was the university’s attempts to crack down on the protests — including the rumours that it may soon enlist the National Guard to intervene.

“We’re terrified that there’s going to be a second Kent State at Columbia,” he said, referring to the killing of four unarmed college students at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970 during protests over the Vietnam War.

“It’s absurd to say that they're gonna bring in the National Guard and the NYPD to protect Jews when it’s actually Jews who are being arrested,” he added.

Sarah, a Jewish student at Columbia who asked for only her first name to be published, was among those arrested for taking part in the encampment. She was held by the NYPD for eight hours, with her hands in zip ties, after they moved in on the camp on Thursday. She was suspended the next day, but snuck back onto campus a few days later to take part in a Passover Seder celebration with fellow protesters.

“It was definitely one of the more joyful experiences I’ve had at Columbia,” she told The Independent. “So many of us got arrested or suspended, it was really nice to see so many Jewish faces at the Seder.”

Sarah said she too had been appalled by attempts to smear the Columbia protests as antisemitic, saying that the term had been “weaponized in a really deceitful way by political opportunists who insist on conflating anti-Zionism and antisemitism.”

“There’s never any substantive response to people like me who are anti-Zionist Jews,” Sarah noted. “There’s a long tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism. I have so much love for the Jewish people of my community, we just have a political dispute, and that’s it.”

The crackdown on protests has also drawn criticism from staff. Nara Milanich, professor of history at Barnard College, which is partnered with Columbia University, was among nearly two dozen Jewish faculty members to write to Columbia president Nemat Shafik before the protests broke out, ahead of her appearance at a Congressional committee on antisemitism on campus, warning against the “weaponization of antisemitism” at Columbia by politicians eager to stoke division.

She told The Independent it was the university’s decision to bring the NYPD onto campus that “inflamed” the situation and “shut down spaces of debate.”

“It’s not the students who have created the chaos,” said Professor Milanich. “It’s the leadership of the university that has participated in this ridiculous police raid and has thrown the faculty and students of the university under the bus.

“Are Jews on campus, or anyone else, safer because hundreds of police in riot gear with firearms were invited to come onto campus and haul our students off in zip ties?  I don’t feel safer,” she said.

Professor Milanich said the protesters at the encampment had written a code of conduct for inclusion and held training events on de-escalation to prevent extremists from outside causing trouble.

Protestors also have a clear set of demands, asking for the university to divest from companies that help fund Israel’s war in Gaza, which Columbia College students voted on in a referendum and passed with over 75 per cent of the vote.

“The story is fundamentally not one of ‘pro-Hamas mobs’ running rampant on campus,” said Professor Milanich. “The story is of an administration that’s thrown the values of the university to the wind.”

 

US campuses: It's Vietnam, it's South Africa, it's Palestine

American students have a long history of forcing change in their otherwise rigid and brainwashed "consumer" society. 

They first broke through the taboo of the Vietnam War and ultimately scored a victory when the US army was defeated and forced to withdraw in shame in 1975, with 55,000 US soldiers killed. 

Then American university students broke through the much bigger taboo of colonial apartheid white South Africa - which shares in many ways the American mythology of the white "civilizing" pioneer who invades and dominates (when it doesn't decimate) the indigenous colonized population. The students protested and ultimately scored a victory against their appalingly conservative government's insistence of keep propping up the supremacist white apartheid regime: The Boycott-Divest-Sanction movement forced the downfall of the apartheid regime and the liberation of Nelson Mandela.

Similarly, American college and university students have come to realize that there is something highly immoral in the US government's propping up the savage colonial apartheid Zionist regime in Israel which not only invaded and raped most of historic Palestine to establish a racist Jewish supremacist state, but continues in its slow simmering ethnic cleansing and genocide of what remains of indigenous Palestine. By the way, Apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel were best Fascist friends and allies before the defeat of apartheid rule. All three - the US, South Africa and Israel - were born of the same womb of colonial white European violence against native indigenous populations in the Americas (US), in Africa (South Africa) and Asia (Israel).

Student protests have spread like wildfire across all US university campuses in support of a free Palestine, with the students demanding that their universities stop investing and supporting the abject and criminal regime in Tel Aviv. We can see the end of the dark and deadly tunnel: The conscience of millions of young educated Americans is in rebellion against what the foreign zionist settlers have done, and are doing, to the native indigenous Palestinian population. If history is any guide, this augurs a significant shift in the US blind and submissive policies vis-a-vis Israel, ushers the end of the occupation of Palestine, and the rise of a free Palestinian state.

What will the Columbia school administration do now that it has given the students until Friday to dismantle their protest tents from the campus? Send the national guard and the police? Remember how Kent State University students were massacred by the Ohio National Guard in 1970 for their anti-Vietnam war protests? Is this what criminal minds are plotting right now? To move in and kill a dozen students to deter others from speaking out against Zionist racism, supremacy, and colonialism, and for a free Palestine?

The tide has changed. The dark forces of evil have long insidiously betrayed the American faith in human liberty, and our many troubles, past and present, show us the way ahead and teach us to remain faithful to our principles. Every human being deserves full dignity and liberty. We refuse the attempts by Zionists and their ignorant primitive conservative American allies to relativize the condition of certain human populations: Palestinians are like everyone else. They are not "human animals" as the Zionists call them. They are the victims of the Zionist enterprise that continues to expel them from their lands, steal these lands, and establish a supremacist Jewish-only state.

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Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist

JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY

Updated Thu, April 25, 2024

ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nationwide.

While tensions rose between police and protesters at USC earlier in the day, in the evening a few dozen demonstrators standing in a circle with locked arms were detained one by one without incident.

Police officers encircled the dwindling group, which sat in defiance of an earlier warning to disperse or be arrested. Beyond the police line, hundreds of onlookers watched as helicopters buzzed overhead. The school closed the campus.

While universities struggling to defuse unrest have quickly turned to law enforcement, the arrests in California were in sharp contrast to the chaos that ensued just hours earlier at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hundreds of local and state police — including some on horseback and holding batons — pushed into protesters, at one point sending some tumbling into the street. Officers made 34 arrests at the behest of the university and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

A photographer covering the demonstration for Fox 7 Austin was in the push-and-pull when an officer yanked him backward to the ground, video shows. The station confirmed that the photographer was arrested. A longtime Texas journalist was knocked down in the mayhem and could be seen bleeding before police helped him to emergency medical staff.

Dane Urquhart, a third-year Texas student, called the police presence and arrests an “overreaction," adding that the protest “would have stayed peaceful” if the officers had not turned out in force.

“Because of all the arrests, I think a lot more (demonstrations) are going to happen,” Urquhart said.

Police left after hours of efforts to control the crowd, and about 300 demonstrators moved back in to sit on the grass and chant under the school's iconic clock tower.

In a statement Wednesday night, the university's president, Jay Hartzell, said: “Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Our University will not be occupied."

North of USC, students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, were barricaded inside a building for a third day, and the school shut down campus through the weekend and made classes virtual.

Harvard University in Massachusetts had sought to stay ahead of protests this week by limiting access to Harvard Yard and requiring permission for tents and tables. That didn't stop protesters from setting up a camp with 14 tents Wednesday following a rally against the university’s suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.

Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies enabling its monthslong conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus, partly prompting a heavier hand from universities.

At New York University this week, police said 133 protesters were taken into custody, while over 40 protesters were arrested Monday at an encampment at Yale University.

Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier Wednesday. University President Minouche Shafik had set on Tuesday a midnight deadline to reach an agreement on clearing an encampment, but the school extended negotiations, saying it would continue talks with protesters for another 48 hours.

On a visit to campus Wednesday, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, called on Shafik to resign “if she cannot bring order to this chaos.”

“If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation are not stopped, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard,” he said.

On Wednesday evening, a Columbia spokesperson said rumors that the university had threatened to bring in the National Guard were unfounded. “Our focus is to restore order, and if we can get there through dialogue, we will,” said Ben Chang, Columbia’s vice president for communications.

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Harvard law student Tala Alfoqaha, who is Palestinian, said she and other protesters want more transparency from the university.

“My hope is that the Harvard administration listens to what its students have been asking for all year, which is divestment, disclosure and dropping any sort of charges against students," she said.

Police first tried to clear the encampment at Columbia last week, when they arrested more than 100 protesters. The move backfired, acting as an inspiration for other students across the country to set up similar encampments and motivating protesters at Columbia to regroup.

On Wednesday about 60 tents remained at the Columbia encampment, which appeared calm. Security remained tight around campus, with identification required and police setting up metal barricades.

Columbia said it had agreed with protest representatives that only students would remain at the encampment and they would make it welcoming, banning discriminatory or harassing language.

On the University of Minnesota campus, a few dozen students rallied a day after nine protesters were arrested when police took down an encampment in front of the library. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose daughter was among the demonstrators arrested at Columbia last week, attended a protest later in the day.

A group of more than 80 professors and assistant professors signed a letter Wednesday calling on the university's president and other administrators to drop any charges and to allow future encampments without what they described as police retaliation.

They wrote that they were “horrified that the administration would permit such a clear violation of our students’ rights to freely speak out against genocide and ongoing occupation of Palestine.”

Perry reported from Meredith, New Hampshire. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists in various locations including Joey Cappelletti, Will Weissert, Larry Lage, Steve LeBlanc, Dave Collins, Jim Salter, Haven Daley, Jesse Bedayn, John Antczak, Julie Walker and Joseph Krauss.

Meanwhile, another ex-State Department official confirms how the Israeli military gets 'special treatment' on its record of abuses and violations of every law and norm of basic humanity. He recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance, and revelaed on Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians.

Before stepping down in August, Charles O. Blaha was a director of a State Department security and human rights office closely involved in helping ensure that foreign militaries receiving American military aid follow U.S. and international humanitarian and human rights laws. He is the second senior State official involved in that relationship to assert that when it comes to Israel, the U.S. is reluctant to enforce laws required of foreign militaries receiving American aid. “In my experience, Israel gets special treatment that no other country gets,” Blaha said. “And there is undue deference, in many cases, given to Israeli officials’ side of things when the U.S. asks questions about allegations of Israeli wrongdoing against Palestinians, he added.

Blaha and other members of an unofficial, self-formed panel of former senior U.S. civilian and military officials released a report pointing to civilian deaths in specific airstrikes in Gaza. They said there was “compelling and credible” evidence that Israeli forces had acted illegally. Blaha's comments echoed those of another State Department official and panel member, Josh Paul. Paul resigned as a director overseeing arms transfers to other countries' militaries in October in protest of the U.S. rushing arms to Israel amid its war in Gaza.

Asked about the allegations from the two, a State Department spokesman, Vedant Patel, said “there is no double standard, and there is no special treatment.”

Israel historically is the United States' biggest recipient of military aid, and Biden on Wednesday signed legislation for an additional $26 billion in wartime assistance. But Biden has come under growing pressure over that support as Palestinian deaths mount. In coming days, the administration says it will announce its official findings from reviews it did into allegations of especially serious human rights abuses by specific Israeli military units. Those units would be barred from receiving U.S. military aid if the U.S. review confirms those allegations.

Wednesday's unofficial report points to 17 specific strikes on apartments, refugee camps, private homes, journalists and aid workers for which these former U.S. experts find no evidence of the kind of military target present to justify the high civilian death tolls.

They include an Oct. 31 airstrike on a Gaza apartment building that killed 106 civilians, including 54 children. Israeli officials offered no reason for the strike, and a Human Rights Watch probe found no evidence of a military target there, the officials said. Israel has said in many of the instances that it is investigating.

The double standard from which genocidal Israel has benefited for so long is evidence of a long-standing collusion by the United States with the criminal colonial state of Israel. How then does anyone with a brain believe that the US can be an honest broker in the Palestine conflict? The US is not an honest broker: It has been fooling the Arabs with promises that never materialized. For decades, it has scared the numskull Arab regimes, most of which are dictatorships and absolute monarchies, with the Iranian boogeyman in order to force them to comply and accept the growing Israeli cancer colony in their midst.

 

Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein Would Boycott Columbia University

Like Robert Kraft, Roman Polanski and their ilk. Taking advantage and abusing weaker people are how they operate. Just like the Zionists did and continue to do in Palestine, which they raped before ethnically cleansing it.

Now at Columbia, and to confront and silence a new generation of decent Americans, many of them Jewish by the way, every jackass Zionist, rapist, financier, entertainment mogul and white collar criminal is pledging to cut off their support to American universities because some of their students are calling for justice and an end to the genocide of the indigenous Palestinian population by foreign terrorist settlers who happen to be Jewish. Like Asian-handjob veteran Robert Kraft. Like Richie Torres. Like so many others.

What this reveals is that the Zionist juggernaut over free speech and justice for colonized people has been lifted. For decades, Jewish Zionist multi-billionnaires gave money to universities on condition that the Israeli rape of Palestine never be openly and objectively discussed in what should be a free and open academic environment. As soon as some academics open their mouth or write an opinion against Israel, the Zionist hounds attack them, smear their reputations, and in many cases ruin their careers. You have Zionist dwarfs in England writing for the toilet paper The Telegraph who call a giant Palestinian intellectual, the late Columbia University professor Edward Said, and celebrated author of the breakthrough anti-colonial masterpiece, "Orientalism", a "charlatan".

Here is another example of the witch hunt mounted by flithy Zionists who are unwilling to admit their crimes, apologize to the Palestinians for stealing their lands and expelling them out of their historic homes into refugee camps. Supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid whose father Mohamed, a Palestinian-born American real estate developer, have been persecuted ever since October 7 for expressing their support for the cause of a free Palestine. Mr. Hadid has called a Puerto Rican member of the US House of Representatives, one Ritchie Torres, a "slave to whites", a sort of Uncle Tom whose ancestor slaves were mistreated by white supremacists in a manner similar to how Jewish supremacist Israel is treating its colonized slaves, the Palestinians. Mr Hadid said about Mr Torres that he is "a shill being used by Israel".

Bella Hadid for her part dared to confront the criminal ultra-religious barbarian Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. In an interview arguing for increased security measures in the West Bank, Mr Ben-Gvir had suggested that the right of his family, made up of foreign Jewish settlers of Palestine, “to travel on the roads” (of illegally-ocupied Palestine) was “more important than the right to movement for Palestinians”. 

This is from a barbarian Iraqi illegal migrant to Palestine. Ben-Gvir was born to an Iraqi Jewish family. His mother was a member of the Jewish terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, that committed atrocities, rapes and massacres against Palestinian villagers during the barbaric ethnic cleansing of Palestine that led to the creation of Israel. Ms Hadid, 27 replied to his racist comment on Instagram, where she has close to 60 million followers, as follows: “In no place, no time, especially in 2023 should one life be more valuable than another’s,” she wrote. “Especially simply because of their ethnicity, culture or pure hatred.” But the paradigm has been for a very long time that Jewish lives are sacred while Goyim lives, especially the Palestinian victims of Zionist savagery, are disposable "human animals".

Academic life in the US is inching closer to that in the Soviet Gulag: You either subscribe without dissent to the official line or else. To all the Jewish and Zionist wealthy buyers of academic consciences: Good riddance. If I were running these universities, I'd tell these criminal blackmailers to fuck off. Most Ivy League students are wealthy and can pay their tuition without help. All the money given by these rabid racists to the universities does not help the students; it goes to buying up the consciences of researchers and professors and to twisting the truth. It goes to erect useless buildings that bear the names of these donors, or to fund moronic programs whose sole objective is to drill the victim status of one community and inflict guilt upon all the other communities. At best, it goes to enlarge the school's endowment and investments in criminal colonial enterprises in apartheid Israel. A gigantic waste of dirty money. 

Robert Kraft, the Jewish billionaire owner of the Patriots and a Columbia alumnus, announced he would be pulling all donations to the school "until corrective action is taken." What he meant by "corrective action" is unclear. But Kraft said he'd continue to support the school's Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life (a request for an Asian-massage handjob annex was fortunately turned down), an example of money squandered on useless self-serving programs. Does Columbia really need this money that does not serve the broader academic enterprise or the larger student population? Can't Kraft open his center outside the university? Isn't giving money to the university to serve one community at the expense of all other student communities a violation of equal opportunity for all students and a lever with which to blackmail the university into complying with Kraft's political and religious preferences?

On the other hand, wealthy people from the anti-colonial, anti-Zionist-bullying Global South (Arabs, Africans, Asians, etc.) should step forward to help these universities compensate whatever loss they may suffer as a result of the Zionist blackmailers' withdrawal of their funding. If one can buy academic consciences and minds with money, then the hell with these universities that violate their basic charters of academic freedom and objective reasoning. If this is what the flower of American education has been reduced to - a paid producer of Zionist propaganda within pre-defined narrrow norms of free speech and free conscience to satisfy a racist and misguided view of the world, and whose sole object is to raise intellectually compliant generations of Americans, then now is the time to undo this deplorable and heinous scheme.

Were Anti-Apartheid South Africa Student Protesters anti-White? anti-Afrikaaner? anti-Boers?

The lame, old, stale accusation of antisemitism against students at US universities is still brandished to counter and demonize their protests against apartheid Israel and for a Palestine free form Israeli occupation and its ongling genocide in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Back in the 1980s, I was at Syracuse University where students, mostly wealthy Jewish students from across New York State, held protests against South Africa's apartheid policies and called for BDS actions (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) against the Afrikaaner segregationist and racist regime there. (See: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/22/Anti-apartheid-protests-spread-to-university-campuses-across-the-nation/3575482994000/). Their protests helped achieve freedom for black south-Africans.

Not once were the student protesters back then accused of anti-white racism, anti-Afrikaanerism, anti-Boerism, or any such specious charges because they were defending the rights of the repressed, oppressed, abused black south Africans. Why is it then that those students protesting against apartheid Israel's occupation and abuse of the Palestinian indigenous population are called names and, if the advice of neanderthal republicans like Rep Elise Stepanik is followed, are threatened with expulsion from the United States.

Because of the entrenched double standard over anything that touches the gloden calf that is Israel, the magic bullet of "antisemitism", honed over decades of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian hatred by the Zionist barbarians of Israel, is immediately thrown happazardly and perfidiously at today's student protesters. The word "antisemitic" is lobbed at anything that moves with the word "Palestine" on it. Words and phrases are banned in the land of liberty. Ideas are repressed. Peacefully demanding justice causes outrage in those same circles that have long dominated the discourse and denied many downtrodden peoples and minority communities their place under the sun.

But beyond the blatant double standard of elevating 1980s American university students who called for a free black south Africa as heroes, while demonizing their 2020s fellow students who call for free Palestine as antisemitic terrorists, the outrage is in watching the average American being treated like a brainless member of a herd. Americans are being denied their right to form their own opinions, are instructed to believe only the Zionist colonialist narrative, are accused of being anti-Jewish, and are immediately repressed if they dare express any other opinion than the official pro-Zionist one. 

Despite their claims otherwise, Americans are trained like pavolvian dogs to drool at the "antisemitic" whistle. For some reason, peoples of large countries (Russia, China, etc.) are the more likely ones to conform to the dictates of their overpowering governments, and most large countries are totalitarian without even noticing. America is becoming a totalitarian Gulag where only the Zionist shade of the facts is promoted and allowed as the official truth, while any other variants of the truth are prohibited and punished.

The Zionists are tenacious, but not for long: As the African proverb says, "Ninety nine lies may help you but the hundredth lie will hurt you". The student pro-Palestine protests on US campuses have already scored a major victory for truth and justice. They are finally discarding their parents and grandparents' brainwashed generation that was raised and trained to ignore real history, to listen only to the Zionist biblical trash, to believe all the lies promoted by the Zionist-biased media and Hollywood trash. The student protests by a younger generation that has now access to ALL the information thanks to the Internet and social media, are now overcoming decades of repression of the other side of the tragedy of creating a state for European Jews by ethnically cleansing the entire nation of Palestine. 

Thanks to the student protesters on American college and university campuses, the cat is out of the box, and Palestine is on its way to freedom, just like South Africa. You can genocide the people of Palestine, jail its leaders, steal their lands, kill their children, label their resistance as terrorism, and use all the American military violence that is given to you at taxpayers' expense to kill more Palestinians, Palestine will still remain a thorn in your side until it is free. No one, not even the Chosen Ones, can stop the cause of freedom of a people who have been evicted from their ancestral homes, orchards, villages and cities for no fault of their own to make way for hordes of illegal migrants bent on establishing a spuremacist racist state in a land not their own. The Palestinian victims of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine had nothing to do with the German, French, Italian, and other European Fascists who perpetrated the Holocaust. Palestine will never be the price for the Holocaust.

To the students of Columbia, MIT, Harvard, Barnard, Yale and others: Your actions are not antisemitic and your fellow Jewish students should not fear you. Unfortunately, the Zionist machine has no arguments (lies) anymore to counter the Free Palestine movement, so it resorts to its old and abused "victim" weapon by claiming that Jewish students on these campuses are targets of your actions. The Zionist Fascist machine is exploiting your fellow Jewish students as intellectual human shields behind which it hides its colonialist racist filth against Palestine.

US Campuses: Do for Palestine What you Did for South Africa

Confronting the usual lame accusations of antisemitism, US students across the country have initiated a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement to bring a definitive end to the international collusion with Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine, just like they did in the mid-1990s with Apartheid South Africa and contibuted to the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the end of the segregation regime there. 

The protesters include large numbers of Jewish students. So all the flithy accusations of antisemitism, leveled by the White House and other poodles of the Zionist lobby, are no more than a dog whistle to terrorize people into silence and sumbission to the Big Zionist Brother.

Despite more arrests Monday night at NYU, other leading US university campuses like Columbia, MIT, Yale and others are determined to break the omerta over Israel's genocide in Palestine.

April 23, 2024

New York, US - April 22: Police intervene and protests at New York University (NYU) who continue their demonstration on campus in solidarity with the students at Columbia University and to oppose Israel's attacks on Gaza. Pro-Palestinian protesters have launched a wave of protests on campsuy condemning Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has displaced over 765% of the coastal enclave's estimated 2.3 million people, and resulted in over 34,000 deaths, 75% of whom are women and children.

Campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war continued to escalate Monday night. A number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested outside a New York University building, and Columbia University moved its main campus to a hybrid schedule for the rest of the semester in response to turmoil that has led to more than 100 arrests.

The tumult followed dozens of arrests at Yale University earlier Monday, while protest encampments sprung up at a number of other universities. Here’s a closer look at what's happening, and why:

Columbia University

Things hit a boiling point at Columbia last Thursday, when over 100 people, including the daughter of US Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, were arrested at a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. Columbia President Minouche Shafik had asked the NYPD to help clear the crowd, which had begun amassing the day prior.

Arrests continued over the weekend, prompting Shafik to move to virtual classes Monday over heightened safety concerns. Shafik said in a statement the decision to hold classes virtually was made to “deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.”

The university took things a step further Monday night, announcing a hybrid schedule for the remainder of the school semester at its Morningside main campus in Manhattan.

"Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students’ learning and all the required academic operations," the statement from Provost Angela V. Olinto and Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway said. The protesters haven’t been deterred, however, as Monday marked the sixth day of demonstrations.

What’s the reaction been?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the White House have all expressed concern for the safety of students and spoken out against all forms of racism. The hypocrite dog-on-a-Zionist-leash US President Biden, however, was "magnanimous" enough to tell reporters Monday, "I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians", as he sent 26 billion dollars to Israel to keep bombing, raping, displacing and killing Palestinian civvilians.

New England Patriots owner and Columbia graduate, the Orthodox Jew Robert Kraft said in a statement Monday he was "not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken". On the other hand, he was comfortable enough a few years ago to commit adultery by getting a hand job at an Asian massage parlor in Florida [Read all about it in: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-disturbing-saga-of-robert-kraft] 

How did it get here

Protests at many universities and colleges across the U.S. have remained a flashpoint since Oct. 7, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel and killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped roughly 250 hostages. Israel subsequently launched a war against Hamas in Gaza that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinian civilians — about two-thirds of them women and children — according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.

The pro-Palestinian demonstration encampments on Columbia’s main quad started last Wednesday just before Shafik testified before a congressional committee investigating antisemitism on campus. The same panel last year grilled two of Shafik’s counterparts at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, who resigned amid backlash for their responses.

The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” was set up by a coalition of student organizations that have criticized Columbia’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. They have demanded that the school divest “all economic and academic stakes in Israel,” according to the group’s website.

What’s happening at other universities

As pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia entered their sixth day Monday, a wave of solidarity protests at other colleges and universities have sparked up across the country:

Yale University, New Haven, Conn.: Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators staging an encampment on campus since Friday night were arrested Monday morning on trespassing charges. Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell said they were warned Sunday night and again early Monday before the arrests took place. The protesters are demanding that the university “divest from military weapons manufacturers,” according to the Yale Daily News.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.: Pro-Palestinian student demonstrators set up the “Scientists Against Genocide Encampment” on MIT’s Kresge Lawn on Sunday night. They want the school to cut its research ties with the Israeli military.

Emerson College, Boston: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a nonaffiliated student organization want the college to support “Palestinian liberation” and have set up tents in an alley off Boylston Street. Emerson College president Jay Bernhardt said the area is “not solely owned” by the college and is under Boston Police jurisdiction.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.: The school has restricted access to Harvard Yard until Friday afternoon, hoping to avoid any pro-Palestinian demonstrators or camps. An email sent to students and faculty who work in the Yard explained that the closures are “out of an abundance of caution and with the safety of our community as a priority,” according to the Harvard Crimson.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles: Hundreds of protesters gathered on campus Sunday in support of the school’s Class of 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum. Officials had told Tabassum earlier this month that she was barred from speaking at this year’s graduation ceremony, citing safety concerns due to her pro-Palestinian social media posts.