Join us this Sunday for a public webinar and discussion hosted by the PSL Action Network featuring 2024 Socialist Presidential Candidate Claudia De la Cruz!
First they came for the Palestinian in attempts of stifling the pro-Palestine movement – but we refuse to back down!
Sunday, 3/16
2PM ET/11AM PT
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WTF??!!
"The Ivy League school in New York City said it had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students involved in the protests who have since graduated."
https://www.newsweek.com/columbia-revokes-degrees-pro-palestine-student-protesters-2044596
Columbia University expels, suspends and revokes degrees of 22 students
"Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Marjam in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night, burning three houses and a number of cars in the latest in a series of raids that have surged during the war in Gaza. Local residents said settlers stormed through the village, firing live ammunition and hurling teargas bombs at people trying to put out the flames."
"“If you were accepted to Columbia University, don’t come here. This school will ruin your life for a McChicken and a nice tweet from Donald Trump.”
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Columbia #USpol #academia #education
When 17-year-old Mohammed Abu Sahlool stepped off the Red Cross bus bringing hundreds of Palestinian captives released from Israeli custody to Khan Younis, he was barely recognizable to his family.
Emaciated and terrified, he had endured over a year of abuse at the hands of his Israeli captors, including frequent beatings, electrocution, starvation, prolonged shackling, and psychological torture.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-captive-gaza-abuse-minor
@cairnewyork, Institute for Middle East Understanding, and the law firm of Dratel & Lewis held a press conference to announce the filing of a federal lawsuit on behalf of Columbia University students against Columbia University and the Committee on Education and Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives regarding the Congressional request to disclose thousands of student records.
Columbia University has just expelled, suspended or revoked degrees of over a dozen students involved in the pro-Palestine student movement.
This blatant act of political repression and violation of free speech rights follows the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a leading student activist at Columbia.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast doubt on Hamas’s offer to release a living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals. Read more from @CBSNews
https://flip.it/xIsK20
#MiddleEast #Hamas #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush share stories you’ve never heard before. From how the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC takes down candidates and gets bills they want passed, to how fundraising for the Democratic Party paralyzes candidates who aren’t corporate-backed, and the many ways that Cori and Jamaal tried to fight for everyday people from within Congress – but were vilified for it.
Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as part of an intensifying crackdown by the Trump administration on student activists.
“Has the world given up on Gaza? Has the world put its fingers in its ears now?”
LBC radio host James O’Brien questioned why Israel cutting off aid to the Gaza Strip on Sunday has gained less media attention than a BBC documentary on Gaza.
The documentary sparked controversy after it was revealed that its 13-year-old narrator, Abdullah al-Yazuri, is the son of a deputy minister of agriculture in Gaza, which is administered by Hamas.
A far-right Jewish/Israeli group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment.
Betar said on Monday that it had “been working on deportations and will continue to do so”, and warned that the effort would extend beyond immigrants. “Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” the group’s post on X read.
It was revealed this week by Zeteo that Khalil had emailed Columbia University the day before his arrest, appealing for protection and telling the university’s interim president that he was being subjected to a “dehumanizing doxxing campaign” that week led by Davidai and David Lederer.
#israel #betar #enemiesOfDemocracy #hostilestateactors #palestine #gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump
I couldn't ever vote for a racist rapist such as trump, & can't help but participate in the Tesla demos against fascist musk. However, I have not lessoning, but increasing sympathy for folks who saw the Biden Administration's loyal support for indicted war criminal Netanyahu, which enabled his genocide of Palestinians, as intolerable. I grieve our betrayal of Ukraine, & have donated to Ukraine many times, but I also grieve for children buried under the rubble of Gaza. #Palestine
Another report that will get minimal coverage in North America:
GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities ...
Despite a ceasefire signed in January, Israel has imposed a blockade on humanitarian aid and cut off electricity to Gaza this month in an attempt to exert pressure on Hamas and secure the release of more captives.
International rights groups have condemned Israel’s moves as violations of international law.
Redi Tlhabi talks to Craig Mokhiber, a former director in the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
As #German expansion increased the European dimensions of the so-called Jewish problem, and as the realization grew that the millions of #Jews living in Germany's new Lebensraum in the East might never fit into tiny #Palestine, the idea of dumping millions of Jews on the island of #Madagascar gained popularity among certain circles of German policy makers.
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#history
https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/archives-and-reference-library/online-resources/simon-wiesenthal-center-annual-volume-4/annual-4-chapter-17.html
@israel @palestine @iran @lebanon @yemen @syria @ireland @histodons @russia @uk @australia
Today in History, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. In addition to being one of the most significant physicists of all time, he was also a pacifist. Yet his letter to President Roosevelt warning of the Nazi progress on atomic weapons research was arguably key to the U.S. implementation of the Manhatton Project, a decision he later lamented. In 1955, well after the Cold War and nuclear arms race had begun, he and ten other intellectuals and scientists, including other Nobel Prize laureates, like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling, wrote a manifesto warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Einstein also participated in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, calling racism America’s “worst disease.” Later in his life he began to support socialism, and he criticized the Bolsheviks for their barbarism. Einstein was also a Zionist, and supported Jews’ right to return to Palestine. However, he did not support a Jewish state, or an Arab state, to replace Mandatory Palestine. Rather, he wanted a free, bi-national Palestine in which Jews and Arabs shared sovereignty, living peacefully and equally with each other.
