For anyone who has Apple:

It's also pollen season, but that didn't really fit the theme.

Columbia student reporters are showing more bravery and integrity than Shafik. The protestors are embodying democracy more than the fucking president of their university.

Listen to Columbia’s student radio here or on FM radio at 89.9 WKCR.

Dear Media: The college demonstrations are anti-genocide, not "pro-Palestine." Israel's actions are horrifying no matter what population they're aimed at.

Writing that they're pro-Palestine brings the historic conflict into it and makes a good guys / bad guys narrative where none exists. The Israeli actions are freaking EVIL. There's no good and bad.

student journalists and the dean of journalism at columbia are being threatened with arrest by the NYPD if they attempt to leave the journalism building. the one named after joseph pulitzer.

Gaza Strip.  “Ibrahim is 12. He was hit by a tank shell in the school where they were displaced. He lost his right hand.

He is a child like any other child. A child who wants to play. A child with an amputated hand… who wants to play.

This is the first war I experienced as a photojournalist. I am 22 years old, passionate about environmental and humanitarian work. I was born and raised in Gaza, but the last two years I lived in Jerusalem and Ramallah and would only visit Gaza occasionally. I used to move around, and life was good. I did not expect to experience something like this in my life.

As a human being, I live in war and as a journalist, I cover the war. The feeling of fear always dominates us because there is nothing to protect us, neither as a human being nor as a journalist.

I always imagine that if I were in a country other than the one I live in, someone my age would be in college or volunteering, and he would still be at the beginning of his life. He would think about love, about life, about how to be happy, but what happened to us has made us much older than our age.

I mean, our biggest dreams have become just to sleep in our house or return home.”

JEHAD AL SHRAFII @JEHAD_ALSHRAFI

Also, from one campus radio station volunteer to all the other ones, exceptionally braver than me, putting themselves on the frontlines, broadcasting straight from the protests, getting themselves barricaded into their broadcasting booths overnight and continuing to be the only people bringing you live and on-the-ground coverage of the protests, I love you all.

CKUT, having covered the die-ins, coming live from the protests grounds at McGill, you have all my strength and love.

CJLO, for righting the disappointment we all felt in Concordia after earlier this year, thank you for your coverage of the Concordia protests, and supporting CKUT's coverage in Montreal.

WKCR, bravest of them all, putting themselves on the frontlines and bringing extraordinary coverage from Columbia. You are true journalists.

They're the future of journalism.

(A note about why some of these posts are coming from '[station]music' accounts: Meta, in retaliation to a demand from the Canadian govt to pay royalties for using news on their site (Bill C-18), decided to ban all news for Canadian accounts on IG and FB altogether. Of course, this did not touch commercial radio stations that simply play the same 5 songs over and over their breakfast shows, but every single campus radio station is now blocked in Canada, completely killing their reach especially to a younger, student audience. Many have made new accounts to continue posting about the non-news shows on air. There's never been a more important time to directly go to their websites for updates, and hell why not, throw them some donations if you can. They're the ones doing the good work in this time of need!)

by Todd Bensman

Columbia University finally sent in the New York Police Department on Tuesday night to clear anti-Israel protesters mouthing pro-Hamas messages.

But DailyMail.com can now reveal that administrators may need to look in-house next if they truly want to clean house.

For a new investigation has uncovered an endorsement of Hamas media outlets in – of all places – Columbia's storied journalism school.

Mounted on either side of the entryway to Pulitzer Hall – named after Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of the university's journalism school and the namesake of the coveted Pulitzer Prize – there is a memorial purporting to honor 'journalists' killed in the Israel-Gaza war.

The honorees were selected from a list compiled by the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

However, 21 of the 98 names displayed were employed by Hamas' propaganda TV and radio stations, 11 worked for outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, and at least three were active alleged terrorists before their deaths.

The school has not publicized the memorial, but in February Columbia's journalism professor Nina Berman shared a picture of it to her personal Instagram account, accompanied by the following warning: 'Anyone commenting with doubts about the legitimacy of these journalists or suggestions that they are terrorists will be promptly blocked.'

Though while Columbia Journalism School may regard its display as a tribute to 'journalists,' facts suggest otherwise.

Mohamed Khalifeh, a director at 'Al Aqsa Television,' is just one of 15 memorialized names who worked for the Hamas-operated media network operating in Gaza.

In 2010, the Obama administration sanctioned Al Aqsa TV as a terrorist entity.

'Al-Aqsa is a primary Hamas media outlet and airs programs and music videos designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood,' the US Treasury Department noted.

'[We] will not distinguish between a business financed and controlled by a terrorist group, such as Al-Aqsa Television, and the terrorist group itself,' the department concluded.

Police Arrested Over 100 Students at Colombia University for Peacefully Protesting

{If you all scroll to the end of this there's some articles on what to do if arrested if peacefully protesting as well as some pictures and videos from Columbia last night and today.}

Rarely do I make posts about global issues on my blog, I usually just reblog to spread support, however as someone who's currently heavily studying the Civil Rights movement for school and watching my country's law enforcement violate our civil liberties, so let's talk about something.

Firstly, a lot of Americans misunderstand how our justice system works. Firstly, in most states if you are detained without sufficient evidence you must be released after 72 hours, it's your right to a speedy trial. The prosecutor has to decide charges within 72 hours, and usually you'll be released before then if you're arrested for something like, I don't know, peacefully protesting which is kind of a right you have here? Says so in this long paper that helped found the country.

Anyways, last night, hundreds of Columbia University students were arrested for protesting in support of Gaza. The university is insisting it wasn't due to the cause the protest argued for, but the fact there was "vandalism and violence". Let's be clear on one thing: There was in fact vandalism going on, but not by a few hundred people. However, the only violence that occurred was from the NYPD, who showed up in riot gear with a military grade armoured vehicle. The police denied using tear gas but they did use flash bangs and used zip ties to arrest the protesters, who were then filed onto a bus. Sound familiar? Look up the Birmingham, AL Child Crusades during the Civil Rights Movement:

If anyone has been reading about this as well, a lot of the university officials and police are saying there were outsiders who were let into the library to assist in the protest, and that they were arrested for trespassing; Several students participating in and observing the protest have stated that this is not true and the protestors were students who were wrongfully arrested for this.

The dean of journalism at the university was also threatened with arrest if he came outside during the police arrests of the protestors; The police had no grounds to arrest this man on and were coercing him with arrest to stay inside. The police also claim their arrests of students were perfectly peaceful, while once again, both onlookers (with video and pictures) as well as students who were arrested said they used excessive force in their arrests.

Before everyone cries innocence, let me say as someone with several defense attorneys in her family that some of these students were in fact guilty of an actual crime when they began to vandalize the building. Also, there were fight outbreaks among students, however police didn't show up until after most of these fights and during said fights, stood and watched in front of the student crowd outside. (It should be mentioned, however, that these student fights were not mentioned by police or protesting/onlooking students, but students not involved in the protest and the media, so there is a chance they didn't happen at all and student injuries are from police or breaking into Hamilton Hall. It's likely the fights were not started by the protestors, but the students at Hamilton Hall as a response to the break in). However, the police had no reason to: A) Use the force and riot gear that they did. B) Threaten onlookers and staff. C) Arrest over 100 people. They didn't have reason to arrest that many people as that many people were not associated with the vandalism or trespassing, and due to the amount of people at the protest those people couldn't have been arrested for assisting in vandalism due to not even knowing about it. One of the students stated she was unaware of what was happening in most parts of the building during the protest.

The police let most of these students go pretty quickly post arrest due to: What's that? Oh yeah, lack of evidence. Either due to the amount of random arrests or because they quite literally did nothing wrong and were exercising their right to peacefully protest.

To those of you who stuck around to read this to the end: Firstly, thank you I hoped you learned something. And two, if you're planning on going to any Pro-Palestine protests, or any protests, for that matter, and you're doing so peacefully: Here's an article specifically for protest rights, and then a general article about your arrest rights in America and what to do if arrested, detained, and how to file for violation of rights or witnessing police brutality. They're very helpful and apply to all of us in America.

I'm all done rambling but here's videos and images about this if you're interested:

The Police (videos and pictures):

Interview from student who was threatened with arrest if they left the dorm (described injured students and showed video of a girl telling police she needed medication and was unable to get it due to being forced to stay in dorms)

Vandalism at Hamilton Hall:

The Protestors:

Interviews from Students and Journalists about arrests and student motivation (ft. videos of arrest)

Anyways, free Palestine, that's the message, but for your own sake take a page out of MLK's book and do it as non violently as possible. That's what garners the most sympathy and makes it so you can point to the aggressor as, well, the aggressor 🇵🇸

lol. lmao, even.

This, right on the heels of the Pulitzer Prize board, which awards Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism (and was founded by Columbia University), on witch the president of Columbia University Minouche Shafik sits, has issued a statement commending student journalists' incredible work covering student activists' demands for Columbia's divestment from Israel and the escalating conflict on campus. The president of Columbia testified in Congress, maligned their purpose and capitulated with legislators hellbent on destroying free speech and right to assembly. She suspended students (and is being investigated by the Department of Ed. for discrimination against Palestinian students), called in a militarized police force, locked down campus, and put student journalists in situations that career journalists have trouble covering. See the timeline verifying these events here.

This is abusive. Gaslighting. This is called manufacturing consent. Meanwhile the same thing is happening at UCLA. And any other campus with a strong student journalism presence.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, journalists and their families are being murdered by IDF forces in unprecedented numbers. [x]

The names of those killed by Israeli forces since October 7 2023. Targeting, suppressing and killing journalists is a war crime, and something Israel has been documented as perpetuating since at least 2001.

Support journalist risking their lives in Gaza. They are the reason we know the genocidal conditions that the Palestinian people are enduring. The world owes them. Donate:

International Media Support

International Federation of Journalists

ARIJ - Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism

If anyone has verified, direct links to journalists fundraising efforts, please add them to this post.

Stay strong students of the world. Eyes on Gaza. Don't talk to cops. Take care of each other. Palestine will be free within our lifetime.

Saw this absolute fuckwad while scrolling Twitter

What. The. Hell. Coming from a candidate too.

The ‘outside agitator’ excuse is obviously easy to see the BS lying in it (because it’s used so often), so now they’ve resorted to dehumanization. Considering how this all even happened in the first place, it shouldn’t be too hard for them.

And how some of them are reacting to graffiti and broken windows like it’s the end of the world? Condemning property destruction like society is collapsing because of it? And they don’t bother to show the shelled and desolate areas of Gaza under siege.

There’s an underlying reason for that damage, and notably, that damage can be repaired. While you’re demonizing students, you ignore the actual demons which they have been (PEACEFULLY) protesting. Of course, it’s hard to justify riot gear against peaceful protestors, so I don’t blame them when people scramble to find a way to have it make sense to them. They have to for their mental health! And maybe yachts, if you have money. You gotta understand that they really need those yachts! So they can’t divest! …poor things….

People understand that suddenly divesting would put you in hot water over a lot of things. But really? A genocide is not enough to make you reconsider?

Note: if you feel like increasing your risk for cancer (this alone could’ve been a whole post but I just didn’t have the energy):

(It looks even worse after skimming a preview of her book which talks about what sort of ‘social contract’ the 21st century should have. I don’t think I’ll read the entire thing, mostly because I have no interest in supporting here, but damn. What do we owe to each other, she has asked, and this is a microcosm of her answer)

(AGH the way she puts ALL the blame on the students too. Who was the entity that called the NYPD again? The kind of group who puts up fucking sniper checkpoints against kids?)

Anyway I should go to bed. I’m tired and it’s hard to articulate things. I’m just frustrated

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is a MAGA lickspittle who is perennially trying to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump. Now that Kristi Noem's execution of her dog has also probably executed her chances of being Trump's VP pick, Vance sees an opening.

So Vance got called out by CNN's Kaitlan Collins for criticizing the forcible takeover and vandalism of a university building at Columbia University by Gaza demonstrators while he's been raising money for the pro-Trump terrorists who assaulted and vandalized the US Capitol on 06 January 2021.

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance believes that people should follow the law—except when it’s convenient to his personal political cause. In a testy exchange with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Vance got caught up in his own loose definitions, revealing a double standard conservatives hold when it comes to the Gaza solidarity protests happening on college campuses across the nation. “You can’t police people for being anti-Israel or pro-Israel; you can police people for violating the law,” Vance said. “OK, so you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?” Collins said, to which Vance replied with a quick “Yes.” “OK, I’m just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6,” Collins continued. “Which was, you know, impeding an official proceeding, breaking into a building that they weren’t allowed to be in, and vandalizing the Capitol.”

A reminder...

Nearly 2,000 January 6 rioters were charged with crimes related to assaulting officers, destruction of government property, entering a restricted federal building, conspiring to obstruct a congressional proceeding, or for impeding one. Approximately 467 of them have been sentenced to periods of incarceration, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

They need also to incarcerate the instigator of that January 6th coup attempt.

Frankly, I'm opposed to political vandalism and hate speech by anybody and think it should be called out. If the MAGAsphere wants to criticize people for doing that they should not hypocritically omit their lowlife Nazi brownshirt allies.

And props to CNN's Kaitlan Collins for being quick on her feet as a journalist.

Columbia Hall has been cleared by NYC police.