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Sr. Manager of Campus Organizing at jvp.bsky.social | Anthropologist of human rights, Forensic Science, Death, and News Literacy / "Fake News"
🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....
09.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 60 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/MtU2QxEhy0Fr...
09.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UCSF Chancellor emailed the whole campus to say that anything that "politicizes Zionism" - a political ideology - is somehow antisemitic. We live in absurdist times.
chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...
"The Trump admin’s “deals” turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old. Left unchecked, this spells disaster for the field....Jews will not fare well. They will become exactly what the Trump administration sees them as: symbols to be manipulated, paraded & blamed to explain the ills of the world."
07.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/03/o...
03.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
01.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 2507 🔁 647 💬 33 📌 39Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
If you are a member of MLA, please sign on to support the proposed resolution 2026-1. We need 100 signatures by 10/1. www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...
29.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0So glad that very serious centrists devoted so much time between Trump terms to the urgent national issue of someone being mean on Twitter. As always, finger on the pulse of threats to the First Amendment.
18.09.2025 03:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Head of Trumps's Combatting Antisemitism Task Force Leo Terrell celebrates the corrupt ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil. If the ruling combined with this clown's social media post don't sum up the incredibly sorry state of affairs of this country, I don't know what does.
18.09.2025 03:30 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon I'm on it. And all the other haters at our American funded schools. Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer. Sep 14 It's time to defund American universities. You don't need to go to college. Charlie Kirk didn't go to college....
The DOJ official who leads investigations of civil rights violations promising to use her powers to defund American higher ed at the behest of a bigot. One example of how MAGA is weaponizing Kirk's murder as an excuse to go after their perceived enemies.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
Opinion | It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence.
15.09.2025 18:36 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
@alicesperi.bsky.social is quickly distinguishing herself as the leading journalist documenting attacks on academic freedom today
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The fact that anyone would defend this is beyond atrocious: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
16.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Urge Governor Newsom to Veto Classroom Censorship Bill AB 715 win.newmode.net/caircaliforn...
15.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New UMich Pres should take a Poetry 101 class:
"If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense."
Geee... Ya think?
"Andreas Stamatakis, founder of the admissions consulting company Ivy League Roadmap, worries the dialogues could become a popularity contest, rewarding students who moderate their opinions and penalizing those with more heterodox views."
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