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The best time to boycott Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now
20.05.2025 11:37 β π 1251 π 961 π¬ 1 π 12The Revolutionary Council of the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front condemns the Seattle Worldconβs alliance with the plagiarist pollution machine and calls on all artists to engage in acts of resistance against the techno-fascist death cult.
30.04.2025 23:05 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Screenshot of the NYT. Headline: "Strike Highlights Israeli Attacks on Hospitals and How Hamas Uses Them" Text below reads: "Aid groups and UN investigations have accused Israel of aiming to destroy Gaza's health infrastructure. Israel says Hamas leave it no choice." Picture is of a crater on the grounds of a hospital, left by an Israeli strike
Read this headline.
I am once again asking for you to unsubscribe from this genocidal newspaper.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawiβs First Amendment rights, the Rubio Determination and Mr. Mahdawiβs unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawiβs statutory rights and due process rights. PARTIES 8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Masterβs program at Columbia Universityβs School of International and Public Affairs (βSIPAβ), to begin in the fall of 2025.
After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States. 22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia University Buddhist Association and led it for two years. 23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (βDarβ) at Columbia University which βserves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and identity.β Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to Palestine.
Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and kill his best friend in the West Bank. 27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.
β¦and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all. 25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who made an antisemitic comment, chanting βshame on himβ. Mr. Mahdawi stated that βwe are against 2:25-cv-00389 Document 1 Filed 04/14/25 Page 6 of 19 7 antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.β The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
βhas green card
βwas Columbia Buddhist club president
βsaw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
βsaid "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Vitally important for every single writer in the US to understand, especially those who consider themselves progressive or anti-imperialist.
13.04.2025 22:28 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
The history of America's unwillingness to sacrifice the profits of the U.S. defense industry to the rule of law, combined with the unique privilege enjoyed by the state of Israel, should have meant that U.S. support for Israel in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, was not surprising. Yet even the Israeli military expected the United States to allow them to carry out the indiscriminate bombing campaign only for a matter of weeks before reining in the scale of destruction, as the U.S. had repeatedly done in the past. Instead, the Biden administration violated American laws and bypassed Congress to rush an unprecedented $17.9 billion in weapons and security assistance to Israel, all while lying to the American public about working tirelessly toward a ceasefire.
Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:
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An automated email popup asking me to unsubscribe from the New York Times, because I haven't opened any emails from them in the last month.
Unsubscribe from this Radio Rwanda ass, transphobia-laundering newspaper? Way ahead of you, Google.
05.04.2025 05:25 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 5 π 0This is a fun kind of liberal attitude towards history, that being honest about the atrocities of the past absolves you of responsibility for committing those same atrocities in the present. Like, duh, all that "wretched truth" is in the past. 20 trillion more dollars to Israel.
03.04.2025 20:57 β π 29 π 7 π¬ 5 π 0Since Israel resumed its terror bombing of Gaza on March 18, every day we see images of small children with their heads or limbs blown off by U.S. weapons. Doctors having to cut holiday clothes off of children in a desperate attempt to save them. Amputations without anesthesia.
02.04.2025 10:51 β π 88 π 40 π¬ 1 π 4
Recent revelations about Microsoft's support for Israeli apartheid and genocide prompt BDS National Committee to designate Microsoft a priority target.
Low-hanging fruit for writers: cancel your Microsoft 365 Copilot (formerly Office) subscription!
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bds-calls-...
I can vouch for LibreOffice, having made the switch a few months ago: It Just Works, and it's free! Which means your hard-earned money doesn't go to a company that's deeply invested in genocide AND LLM tech.
03.04.2025 18:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Recent revelations about Microsoft's support for Israeli apartheid and genocide prompt BDS National Committee to designate Microsoft a priority target.
Low-hanging fruit for writers: cancel your Microsoft 365 Copilot (formerly Office) subscription!
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bds-calls-...
And what does "stepping back" even mean? He'll still be on speed dial, probably keep his *office* and has all of his DOGE people in every department. I don't believe anything these people say especially Tr*mp.
02.04.2025 15:42 β π 2913 π 405 π¬ 55 π 0Did any senator speak for 24 hours straight about the genocide or were they all like Booker too busy supporting it
02.04.2025 01:27 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Israel executed 15 paramedics because they know they can. Because they know no rules apply to them and the U.S. will fund and back their genocide through every barbaric, indisputable atrocity, because that has been the case for decades
31.03.2025 20:02 β π 164 π 64 π¬ 0 π 4
One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I remember how, one of the very first instances of our indoctrination into the glories of US First Amendment law was the βvagueness doctrineβ - that US courts would come down hard on attempts to restrict or penalise speech through vaguely worded laws. (1/n)
31.03.2025 07:02 β π 18 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
To illustrate: favoring Jewish and Israeli sources (books, human rights organizations, rabbis, historians, ex-soldiers, soldiers, cops, government officials, political analysts) over Palestinian sources, not based on the content of their contributions but on an identitarian basis, a choice rooted in the farcical, though deep-seated notion that the former are somehow more credible, more reliable.
and then "Perfect Victims" in the first chapter:
> To illustrate: favoring Jewish and Israeli sources... over Palestinian sources, not based on the content of their contributions but on an identitarian basis, a choice rooted in the... notion that the former are somehow more credible, more reliable.
Trans people: please use our correct pronouns and don't call us freaks
The Trump administration: if you publicly oppose genocide our secret police will disappear you and send you to a torture gulag in El Salvador
Centrists: these two things are the same
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
29.03.2025 14:24 β π 17946 π 6494 π¬ 177 π 162"<X large percent> of Jewish people are Zionists (implying that it's antisemitic to be antizionist)" okay?? Zionism, an ethnonationalist ideology, isn't unique. Hindutva has a lot of support along Indian people, but it's pretty easy to distinguish opposition to Hindutva vs. anti-Indian racism
29.03.2025 02:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fuck Zionism and Zionists, by the way.
29.03.2025 01:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saw a post in the discourse that said, summarized, "Palestinians can say what they want, but non-Jews don't get to use 'Zionist' as a pejorative." What an amusing evolution of the "permission to narrate." Now Palestinians can say what they want, but nobody else has permission to listen.
29.03.2025 01:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Woahhh congrats!!
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