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  1. In a moment that defines "psychological projection," Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations shredded the UN Charter at the lectern while lecturing the world: "This is what you are doing: shredding the UN Charter with your own hands." youtu.be/AQaLlpvuQdE?feature=shared
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  2. Remind me again why peace requires the demilitarization of the armed faction that killed 800 civilians, but not the military that killed 30,000 civilians.
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  3. World Food Programme update from Rafah. The Israeli incursion itself is making the food crisis more dead. x.com/mfjhollingworth/status/1788568532470333905
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  4. For my father, the move from Jim Crow to imperfect multiracial democracy meant everything. To be honest, it wounds me that people I love can and do accept segregation and subordination for Palestinians in the West Bank. I don't understand how they can look me in the eye.
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  5. A Democratic rep is dissertation doxing a doctoral student protester. As obnoxious—and potentially threatening—as this is, it's only happening b/c he can see that anti-genocide encampments are a more credible expression of the popular will than the US Congress. x.com/erikmbaker/status/1787679098136912132
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  6. I'm old enough to remember this kind of rhetoric leading to arrests in Rwanda and outrage at totalitarian violence in Russia (toward Ukraine). x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1787495113578491967
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  7. The open censorship of Al Jazeera is one more step that Israel has taken following the model of Apartheid South Africa. A refusal to hear criticism is both undemocratic and morally corrosive. x.com/UNHumanRights/status/1787108354499731572
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  8. "The seeds of the NYPD’s 30 April raid on Columbia University were planted nearly six months ago. [The] administration unilaterally created an illegitimate university event policy… granting them the “‘sole discretion’ to determine sanctions on student organizations…" x.com/mattspast/status/1786822979160100933
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  9. There's several pages on the evidence for primate self-médication in Cat Bohannon's Eve, but it's all internal medicine. x.com/CrocodileCam/status/1786563409506435374
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  10. This man works for an newspaper that forbids using the word "refugee camp" for Palestinians and insists on calling them "neighborhoods." But he's still offended when student protesters don't trust journalists. x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1786771884496830733
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  11. Young Americans have more access to the reality of Israeli violence in Gaza than ever before, and generally more than older Americans. Many have virtually witnessed multiple deaths every day.
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  12. Occupying buildings indefinitely is directly responsible for the unionization of manufacturing in the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitdown_strike?wprov=sfla1 And indirectly responsible, therefore, for the American middle clsss. x.com/atrupar/status/1785865185317589149
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  13. Every person who shouted at Biden for a ceasefire in Gaza, only to be dragged out, was engaged in peaceful protest. x.com/POTUS46Archive/status/1786170368882860133
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  14. A Vanderbilt student journalist asked me about our Chancellor's "principled neutrality" policy. One thing I said: "If you want to be neutral, you cannot invest a dime in one country killing another. You must divest."
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  15. Human rights are all well and good, but.… Do the students really know these humans well enough to say they have rights?
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  16. Generation after generation, the ruling class media is baffled by concepts like "an injury to one is an injury to all" and "our struggles are connected."
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  17. A May Day flyer from Reclaim the Streets in Berkeley (c. 2000–2002) celebrating the May 1970 national student strike. #MayDay #ReclaimTheStreets #StudentProtests
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  18. My Plan B is for the US to send arms neither to Israel or Saudi Arabia. And certainly never to join a "defense pact" with a monarchy that has bombed Yemen and invaded Bahrain. x.com/GuardianUS/status/1785634652947894740
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  19. Overnight, pro-Israel counter-protesters engaged violently w/ UCLA Gaza encampment, including launching fireworks, beatings, as documented in this thread. x.com/MrOlmos/status/1785575555620123065
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  20. Protesters occupying buildings were crucial to establishing; the United Auto Workers as a national union, Ethnic Studies as a discipline, the disability rights movement, and deaf leadership of Gallaudet University.
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  21. Palestinians are being shot and killed for trying to return to their homes. mondoweiss.net/2024/04/israeli-army-opens-fire-on-thousands-attempting-to-return-home-to-north-gaza/?utm_content=buffer9b8f8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer
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  22. First Nations' validation for McGill encampment as holders of the land. x.com/decolonialsol/status/1785098398606975419
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  23. For some, chanting and camping is coercion, but suspending students and dragging them out is not. x.com/sapinker/status/1785009330493984988
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  24. This is exactly how Tucker Carlson would pitch Mein Kampf if it were written today. x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1785066534995714067
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  25. United Nations human rights expert 👇🏾 x.com/MaryLawlorhrds/status/1785020792197038101
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  26. Police have arrived at UT Austin solidarity camp with Gaza, now live on Al Jazeera.
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  27. As someone who has participated in waves of activism involving mass arrests since 1998, and intensively studied the prior waves of the 1930s and 50s-70s, I don't see the same increase in threats as this thoughtful thread. x.com/brendanetynes/status/1784196239451451509
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  28. Old story from Northwestern University: The same fraternities that campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964 had flags that said "Revolution Now" by 1970. Never give up on the possibility of generational change. x.com/az_resist/status/1784124442068873232
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  29. “When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982–2021.” just published in Journal of Latin American Studies @JLAScamb Why: x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1783867535537951122 Data/Results: x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1783876854421549205 Implications: x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1783897040239329683
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  30. New, data-driven research on Bolivia shows that the "backfire"—the moral and political backlash to repression— can happen even when movements fight back… up to, and including, when they cause deaths among security forces. cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/when-does-lethal-repression-fail-unarmed-militancy-and-backfire-in-bolivia-19822021/EF57368D13F9C5683EE42BD9025F2B6B
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  31. What does the data from Bolivia tell us the success of unarmed militant protest in the face of deadly repression? I used our dataset of four decades of protest deaths to find out.
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  32. In October 2003, Bolivian movements faced the deadliest repression in a quarter century, and yet they succeeded in overthrowing a president. This is "backfire," a moment when repression dramatically fails for those who initiate it. The subject of my newly published article.
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  33. If you want me to "save democracy" in November, you'd be best be side-by-side with us saving democracy in April. x.com/UICProfWatch/status/1783625176887799938
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  34. In the Special Collections section of Deering Library, there are some fascinating mimeographed newsletters from Northwestern's 1970 antiwar student strike, which among other things tore down the fences and used them to block Sheridan road, and… x.com/thrasherxy/status/1783548447968084196
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  35. Northwestern University's student senate passed a resolution demanding divestment from Israel by a 20-2 vote. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/24/campus/asg-signs-peoples-resolution-calls-for-nu-to-divest-from-israeli-institutions/ This follows prior divestment votes in 2015, 2021.
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  36. A history of divestment campaigns at #Northwestern University: 1978, 1985: South Africa / $3M divested (of larger total) 1995/96: Burma / $15M divested 2005: Sudan / divested fr 4 companies 2012–: Fossil fuels 2015–: Palestine dailynorthwestern.com/2015/05/22/campus/deciding-divestment-northwestern-student-activists-face-obstacles-beyond-their-control/
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  37. Northwestern: We're watching you. Stop this. @NUAlumni Association: Speak up! x.com/ericrennerbrown/status/1783480391321448448
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  38. How to reach the @NorthwesternU President's Office: x.com/thrasherxy/status/1783478252188684389
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  39. This widely circulating tweet is based on a wrong reading of the source. The graph refers to the home addresses of college applicants, not the region of the schools to which they are applying. x.com/DKThomp/status/1783254310853201943
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  40. The message from Vanderbilt student activists: Focus on the Palestinian students being denied the right to an education.
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