Just got a call from the library where I donated 7 boxes of my dad’s books and they asked if I had known that I included a copy of Why We Can’t Wait inscribed to my grandfather by MLK in 1966.
This professor, who is Jewish, was suspended for posing a threat to Jewish students, AKA participating in a protest (where he was violently arrested). Now he's in a kind of limbo.
I have to get my dad’s house cleaned out, which is gonna cost thousands of dollars. This guy showed up to pitch his services in a truck covered in fuck Joe #Biden and related stickers and it cost him real money. I’m sure it’s not the first time.
That’s your work truck, dude, and you service a county where #Trump got 36% of the vote.
If they continue on this trajectory, Israel is gonna turn itself into another right-wing culture war item and that will not serve them well.
“The tone of this letter is not reflective of the fact that the U.S. is the primary guarantor of Israel’s security. An unaware reader would assume that #Israel is the superpower in this relationship and the U.S. the recipient of aid.”
Israeli defense experts estimate that #Hamas has lost around a third of the 30k fighters it had before the war, just to put how unhinged this is into perspective. #gaza#israel
I read a Politico piece that referred to students walking out to demand a ceasefire as an “antisemitic incident.”
That kind of nonsense tells people that there’s no shame in being called an antisemite and that perhaps reports of real antisemitic incidents are overblown. Just makes the world more dangerous for Jews. #media#gazaprotests#antisemitism
This is a well reported piece but the framing is bizarre.
When a mob attacks a group of protesters under cover of darkness, they are not counter-protesting.
And as the reporting makes clear, they didn’t “provoke” violence, they *perpetrated* it as the cops and campus security stood by. #media#fascism#gazaprotests
“UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement.” #acab#fascism#gazaprotests
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