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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 16:01:45 JST Aral Balkan

   ‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

   https://www.inkl.com/a/GWbLWRCokGo

   #israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UnitedStates #studentProtests #freedomOfSpeech #academicFreedom #emory #emoryUniversity #BDS #boycottDivestmentAndSanctions

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 16:41:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Don Ray

     @donray I’m not sure you can call it a war zone when on one side there’s an army and on the other students. I think you call that something else entirely. Even the use of the term “war” by the media to imply a clash of armies is disingenuous at best.

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     Don Ray (donray@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 16:41:05 JST Don Ray

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     @aral

     The administration invited an army, and they got a war zone.

     The episode makes clear that a militarized police force is not capable of respecting civil and human rights.

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     Don Ray (donray@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 22:46:45 JST Don Ray

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     #guatemala

     It was a professor from Guatemala who said: “I felt like I was in a war zone.”

     And he has a basis for comparison.

     From the article;
     From Guatemala, Keme came to the US as a teenager, escaping “a civil war against my people … involving the Guatemalan army, who received training from Israelis”.

     He said: “Police immediately began to force people to move. I felt like I was in a war zone, with all the police and their weapons, the rubber bullets.”