Jews for Palestine: mass college protests

It begins…military tanks clear “peaceful” NYC protests

(Cash Jordan) May 12, 2024: Protests in NYC reached a point where colleges paid police to come in and take drastic measures to clear campuses of student-led demonstrations. Did the police go too far? 

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Live from ceasefire rally in NYC as Israel assaults Rafah and starves Gaza

(Status Coup News) Started streaming noon (PT) Status Coup has covered over 50 ceasefire demonstrations. This is only possible with funding. Support for $5 a month: statuscoup.com/join.

Jon Farina is Live in New York City as Pro-Palestine protesters gather in response to Israel's continued assault on Rafah. They demand a Free Palestine and permanent Ceasefire, and for companies/colleges that are financially tied to the genocide to remove their funding from these institutions.

@jonfarina on Instagram PRE-ORDER Jordan's upcoming book We the Poisoned (barnesandnoble.com). #freepalestine #freegaza #ceasefirenow

Radio Free Palestine (worldwide)

You will not observe "Nakba Day 2024" only our Holocaust, our suffering under Nazis!

Macklemore sings in front of a Free Palestine flag (banned new pro-Palestinian viral song)

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Here's love to your IDF hate.

From Tuesday to Wednesday for 24 hours (May 14-15, 2024, 9:00 pm Pacific Time) radio stations on five continents and Los Angeles' KPFK 90.7 FM become RADIO FREE PALESTINE.

• LISTEN: Radio Free Palestine (WPFW FM)

On the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba (literally the "Catastrophe," the Holocaust Israel is raining down on Palestinians) and the growing resistance to decades of Israeli occupation, apartheid, and internationally-condemned genocide.

Radio Free Palestine will launch at midnight (Eastern Time, US, which is 9:00 pm on the West Coast) on dozens of stations across North America to air 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producers across five continents, hosted by Pacifica Radio's sister station WPFW.org.

There will be separate streams in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish (Espanol). Live on 90.7 FM free worldwide: KPFK.

Los Angeles Free Speech Radio (KPFK.org) - Berkeley's Pacifica Radio (KPFA.org)

• Listen LIVE at kpfk.org or to past programs (and Buddhist Radio Los Angeles) in the Pacifica Online Archives of KPFK LA 90.7 FM
• KPFK Rebel Alliance News - KPFK 90.7 FM
• Middle East in Focus - KPFK 90.7 FM
• CODE PINK Women for Peace Radio - KPFK 90.7 FM
• Radio Intifada (SWANA Region Radio) - KPFK 90.7 FM
• Letters & Politics with Mitch Jeserich - KPFK 90.7 FM
• Democracy Now! - KPFK 90.7 FM
• Nakba Day (the modern Holocaust)

• California Roots Music and Arts Festival 2024 Tickets at Monterey County Fair and Event Center in Monterey by California Roots | Tixr
• Book Soup and KPFK Radio Present: SOAD's singer Serj Tankian signing Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

• Jews for Justice (jvp.org)
• Not in our name! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews for Palestine
• Jewis military veterans: breakingthesilence.org.il
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionists
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• American Veterans for Peace
• Amnesty International
• American Civil Liberties Union

• Radio Free Palestine via KPFK.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Macklemore against Biden & Bibi's war

RATM's Tom Morello endorses Macklemore's new song for Palestine (consequence.net)

You cost me the election, Bibi! - Don't cry, Joe.

(CNN) In a surprise new song (twitter), rapper Macklemore praises college students across the US who are protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and Palestine, vowing that he will not vote for President Joe Biden come November.

The song, released Monday, is titled “Hind’s Hall” in reference to the new temporary name pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a building they occupied on campus.

Words of wisdom from the mindfulness meditator on a Buddhist Retreat

Whatever Bibi wants: more money, bombs, diplo-
matic cover in the UN, CIA planners, Pentagon...

With its release, the Grammy-winning rapper becomes one of the first major music artists to explicitly condemn the US government’s continued aid to Israel.

Moreover, he praises students who are protesting their American universities’ financial war-profiteering investments in companies tied to Israel [with prominent Jewish donors threatening universities that they had better shut down their pro-peace students] on campuses across the US.

“The problem isn’t the protests, it’s what they’re protesting,” Macklemore raps. “It goes against what our country is funding.”

Keep it up, Demented Joe. Push them to my side.

Macklemore echoes the sentiments of pro-Palestinian protesters who say they’ll refuse to vote for Biden in the presidential election this year due to his continued support and arming of genocidal Israel.

There has been concern among complicit Democrats that losing support among young voters frustrated with Genocide Joe Biden’s handling of a one-sided war and war crime that may cost Biden the election and see former President Don John Trump return to office. More + PHOTOS

Which one's Macklemore? He's the two-man team who began with the hit "Thrift Shop"

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Macklemore drops pro-protest song in support of Palestinians and student campus protests

(The Rational National) May 7, 2024: Let's break down and add context to Macklemore's lyrics for his new song "Hind's Hall." Video referenced: Jewish Columbia University Student Debunks Media...

REACTION: Macklemore drops "Hind's Hall" song about Palestine and white supremacy (CartierFamily) May 8, 2024: Join God's channel to get access to perks: @theofficialcartierfamily

• Macklemore (age-restricted official video with "F the police" reference); TRT World, May 8, 2024; CNN, May 7, 2024; CartierFamily, May 8, 2024; The Rational National, May 7, 2024; Seth Auberon, Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jim Dore: You can't criticize Israel (comedy)

Chris Hedges’s show shut down by Real News Network under gov't pressure

• Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (jimmydore.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

UCLA arrests: Brutal police use grenades

Should we grow up to support war and police?

Anyone expecting a bloodbath was relieved this morning that police, led by the LAPD, exercised restraint in abusing student demonstrators at the UCLA encampment on campus. Students for Palestine had explosives hurled at them the night before, and although this violence was brought to them from the outside, it was used as a sufficient pretext to declare the gathering unlawful. Everyone was threatened with arrest and worse.

Give thugs guns. Don't be surprised they kill.

More than 500 cops (some say 800) rolled in like stormtroopers dressed for the riot they were there to provoke. Students held their ground, but eventually, after 1:00 am, police began the violent take down of the camp and tents, kettling students and subjecting them to arrest. Most students managed to get away, but those who were arrested report police abuses and brutality. Will wealthy parents step forward and defend their children in the court system or simply take it on faith that the paramilitary force did no more than was absolutely necessary to take youngsters into custody? At least those students now know what many of us had to learn long ago -- police do not arrive to protect but to impose obedience using the threat and exercise of violence. So next time victims of police abuse report it, take it as very likely to have happened. Mayor Bass was going to call out the National Guard, but fearing another Kent State massacre, they decided to be much nicer than they usually are.

(FOX 5 Washington DC) UCLA CAMPUS PROTESTS: Police lobbed flashbang grenades from projectile launchers to move in and begin dismantling pro-Palestinian encampment. This is RAW VIDEO of police removing barricades at an anti-Zionist-Israel demonstrators' encampment on the world-famous campus of UCLA. DETAILS: tinyurl.com/ytt4p35a

(AP) Live on the scene of the camp clean up and graffiti removal

Protesters continue to be arrested on the UCLA campus

(KCAL News) May 2, 2024: Over 100 people have been arrested at UCLA's pro-Palestinian (anti-Zionist-Israel) encampment as protesters are accused of "resisting" officers for not immediately all commands without question or hesitation. The CHP says multiple students and faculty members were among those being forcibly detained -- with zip tie handcuffs cutting off circulation to their hands as a little torture trick police are allowed to practice at will, even when it leads to permanent damage to nerves because petty acts of vengeance are fun and make the job personally empowering -- as law enforcement officers raided the pro-Palestinian encampment on UCLA's West Los Angeles campus.

• KCAL 9 News, Los Angeles, May 2, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Live at UCLA's pro-Palestine protest camp

Violent Jewish extremists: Fights break out at UCLA; bombs thrown at student tents

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Started streaming 11:00 pm, April 30, 2024: Multiple fights broke out and pro-Israel, pro-genocide counter-protesters threw bombs (fireworks) at student tents in dueling demonstrations between pro-peace pro-Palestine student protesters and anti-peace, pro-genocide Zionist Jewish Israel supporters.

Pro-Palestinian protests and arrests grow on campuses nationwide

(NBC News) April 29, 2024: The protests against Israel and its war crimes, atrocities, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank, expanded on American campuses from coast to coast. New York's Columbia University and other schools warned those who have set up encampments that they better clear them or face disciplinary action from authorities. Many students remain defiant, with a few being arrested. NBC News' Liz Kreutz reports. NBC News: nbcnews #Protest #College #IsraelHamasWar

Bombs hurled by Jewish domestic terrorists dressed in all black, some holding flag of Israel, attacking UCLA students

Bomb throwing counter-protesters attack UCLA encampment overnight as Jewish violence erupts amid dueling pro-war and pro-Palestine demonstrations

(KTLA 5) May 1, 2024: Police were noticeably absent when violence erupted on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles Tuesday night amid dueling protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Dozens of pro-Israeli protestors, many wearing white masks and flags around their shoulders, arrived around 10:45 p.m. and began attempting to dismantle the encampment, deploying fireworks and what may have been bear spray. At least one person was injured and was seen being carried away.

US students on their campus protests

Protester Danny Dow, UC Berkeley (Wash Post)

As pro-Palestinian protests [and anti-Israeli and Zionist Jewish genocide demonstrations] spread to college campuses across the country, the lives of many students have been upended.

Some have jumped into protesting for the first time, while others are watching on the sidelines, their own thoughts about Israel's war on Gaza and Palestinian civilians is still evolving.

• [Israel has already killed or maimed 100,000 Palestinians, mutilating and murdering about 15,000 children. These numbers do not all of the injuries and the devastation to those being ethnically cleansed by bombardment and forced relocation.]
• Right-wing conspiracy theory: Jewish billionaire George Soros is paying activists to head campus protests
• I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my town's star athlete
• Study shows most children grow out of gender confusion

Many say a feeling of unease, and fear, has settled in as bucolic campuses are transformed into an ideological battleground. Some are wary about what students and civil rights leaders have decried as an overly aggressive police response. Others are concerned the protests have emboldened antisemitic viewpoints.

Here are the stories of five students in the middle of a spring of upheaval.

Sofia Ongele

Campus encampment (Jabin Botson/Wash Post)

Protesting isn’t new for Sofia Ongele. She organized her first demonstration at the age of 15 and credits her father and grandparents with instilling her with a sense of social responsibility.

Over the last week, she’s joined fellow Columbia University students at the encampment on the school’s west lawn, participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and listening to speakers. Ongele, 23, said she is proud of how students have banded together.

"I love being in and around the encampment,” she said. “I’ve never seen something that is such an outright show of solidarity and mutual aid in my entire life.”

But the increased police presence around campus has been uncomfortable, she said. She described calling the university’s public safety line to ask about a way to navigate campus without encountering riot police, only to have the call abruptly disconnected.

“I don’t feel particularly safe just walking around the area, because of the sheer number of cops,” said Ongele, a senior studying information science.

She said the university’s response feels contradictory.

"The university wants us to learn about protests and social movements – people like MLK did participate in civil disobedience – but not to take that knowledge and apply it to something that really, really matters,” she said.

But the growing wave of demonstrations sparked by the Columbia protests has made her hopeful for college students around the country, who she said now share a common sense of purpose.

“It’s been beautiful to see,” she said. More: What students say about the protests rocking their campuses

• Monica Campbell, Alisa Shodiyev Kaff, Christopher Hoffman, Washington Post via msn.com, 4/26/24; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Columbia U. leads the way in protests

"From Ireland to Palestine, occupation is a crime."

House Speaker Mike Johnson addresses Columbia University students, who booed him, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in NYC (Kevin R. Wexler / NorthJersey.com)

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The state needs war to make $$$

USA TODAY Israel's US-funded genocide, which was unleashed on Gaza and the West Bank, spreads unrest on college campuses, Columbia, Berkeley, NYU, Yale, UT Austin, Cal Poly Humboldt.

NEW YORK − Columbia University announced Wednesday (4/24/24) that students had agreed to scale down their protest encampment as peaceful student demonstrators across the nation pressed their demands for an end to Israel's grotesque violence and the civilian casualties it has inflicted on Gaza that have destroyed the American public's historically mindless support for anything Israel wants.

Netanyahu is antisemitic, killing so many Semites

Meanwhile, police gently turned over willing protesters Wednesday to campus security at the USC (University of Southern California) campus, which closed to the public Wednesday amid clashes between authorities and pro-Palestinian student demonstrators at the college and nationwide.

In solidarity with American and Israeli Jews who oppose genocide and Zionism (Shoresh)

Arrests were actively being made on the USC campus Wednesday night, an LAPD spokesperson told USA TODAY. The spokesperson said he could not provide an estimate on how many people were detained.

Columbia student protesters earlier in the day issued a statement saying the school had made a "a written commitment and concession not to call [out] the NYPD or the National Guard," calling the progress "an important victory for students.” More + VIDEOS

• Columbia U says encampments will scale down; scores of protesters arrested at USC: Updates 
• John Bacon, Eduardo Cuevas, Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Reaction to peaceful student protests (video)

Israel commits genocide, calls it a "war" with Hamas, kills civilians to steal their land.

On day of serious news, flashback to anchor caught dancing because she thought her camera was off

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It isn't an American movement of "Gentiles." Our friends in Jewish Voice for Peace are here.

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I'm here to bust heads with impunity

The day began at USC (where officials banned the valedictorian from speaking for fear of what she might say about Israel) with yoga and meditation and a movie screening planned for 9:00 pm. Then police came in and threatened the "sleep-in" peace demonstrators with mass arrests and other police state actions -- secret surveillance by a paramilitary force and spies to infiltrate the peaceful crowd, stooges to instigate and use as a pretext for police violence if called on, broken limbs, loss of civil rights, possible sexual assault and a smaller chance of execution. Fox 11, KTLA, and other news outlets were on sight with a number of non-participating students standing behind the police to see the gore, grenades, and football style police abuse near the world-famous Colisseum, just south of Downtown Los Angeles.

• There are simultaneous police abuses and student demonstrations against Israel and for Palestinian lives going on at UT Austin, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Humboldt, Columbia University, Yale, Boston, Harvard, and NYU.
• Malala Yousafzai supports Palestine after backlash over her musical with, of all people, Hillary Clinton

LAPD and campus cops break up USC pro-Palestine peace demonstration

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Streamed live April 24, 2024: USC student groups at the University of Southern California gathered Wednesday morning for a tent sleep-in demonstration, with plans to camp out at the school's Alumni Park to advocate for peace in Palestine, criticizing genocidal Israel and contradicting their government in Washington, DC, which is doing all it can to FUND the genocide and U.S. proxy-war in Ukraine. More: foxla.com/news/usc-pro-pa... FOX 11 on YouTube: @foxla

Pro-Palestinian peace demonstrators get harassed by police at USC

(KTLA 5) April 24, 2024: Watch KTLA 5 News live coverage from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. KTLA 5 News, keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947.

• Police Dep't special: Discount on cadaver transports for students killed by unchecked police violence (add FEMA-quality body bags for greater discount)

(FOX 7 Austin) UT Israel protest: Clashes between cops and students

Police arrest 22+ and bring chaos to peaceful anti-genocide demonstration, as protest at UT Austin

(KXAN) April 24, 2024: Pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide American protestors were met with a heavy police paramilitary reaction after UT Austin demanded they cancel their peaceful demonstration. KXAN's Ryan Chandler reports.

• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• Not in our name! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• breakingthesilence.org.il
• American Veterans for Peace
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Hate the Left, 'woke,' 'Hamas lovers'

*Anchor caught dancing on Good Day LA

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Araksya tells the back story that led to this moment here: myfoxla.com/story/26235485... FOX 11's Araksya Karapetyan was caught dancing in front of the green screen just before GDLA's Big Deal/No Big Deal segment on Good Day LA. Watch her reaction when she finds out she was on camera. More behind-the-scenes photos of Araksya on Good Day LA here: myfoxla.com/story/18575191...