Three-quarters of Americans have heard about the recent arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrating on college campuses throughout the country. Nearly half of people oppose the protests, while around one in four support them. Few support demonstrators' calls for divestment, and one in three believe college administrators have not responded harshly enough to the protesters.

Americans are more likely to strongly or somewhat oppose (47%) than support (28%) pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses throughout the country in recent weeks, according to a YouGov poll this week of 9,012 U.S. adults. American Muslims support the protests by 75% to 14%; Jewish Americans, however, oppose them by 72% to 18%. Adults under 45 are twice as likely as older adults to be in favor of the protests (40% vs. 19%).

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A message from the without tears humanitarian camp in Rafah, to the students of the US and the world. Reposted from telegram

Early this morning, University of Connecticut (UCONN) PD and Connecticut State Troopers stormed the UCONN encampment and arrested 23 (and likely more) students.

UCONN is the pride and joy of Connecticut legislatures, meaning they’ve been quick to shut UCONN Encampment down.

The UCPD is notoriously brutal to anti-racist, anti-zionist students. When asked about this brutality, university President Maric (a die hard Zionist as well) was seen smiling.

If you can donate and share this, it would be amazing for the cause.

Other CT Schools starting encampments as of 4/30/24:

Wesleyan University

Yale

Nearly four months after a homeless encampment under the Ville-Marie Expressway was dismantled, about two-thirds of the people who were evicted are still unhoused, according to advocates.

Community workers argue that given the number of people in the city who are living in makeshift shelters, a strategy, other than simple eviction, needs to be developed.

“Encampments are going to be with us for a while,” David Chapman of Resilience Montreal told Global News.  “That’s just the facts. The question is, how do we engage them in a responsible manner?”

Some former campers are still being moved around, like Jacko Stuben. He and one other person moved to a wooded spot near Atwater Avenue, next to the Ville-Marie Expressway, not far from where he and more than a dozen others were evicted by Transports Québec last July to make way for what the ministry said was urgent repair work.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

"Spoke to @CNN this morning about the violent dismantlement of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at #UCLA. The horrific escalation by Gene Block’s administration is sacrificing our student safety and academic community for political clout.

The encampment exemplified democracy, and its destruction only furthers the decay of what little civil society we have left."

#Palestine #StudentSpring #Encampments #Politics

Historic wave of dissidence

A flyer seen on a street sign that reads "Together we can block encampment evictions" "Protest your neigbhors".

I'm very tired of this "queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they'd kill you there!" I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, "but what name do you want to go by?" A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure purple haired protestors got out safe. I don't want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

Rapper Macklemore posts on Instagram a song in support of Palestine called “HIND’S HALL” that will be on streaming platforms soon and all proceeds will go to UNRWA

from Falasteen Lawn at UW-Milwaukee

Turning point in history