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alwaysbewoke · 3 days

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odinsblog · 21 hours

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Dear President Shafik,

We write as Jewish faculty of Columbia and Barnard in anticipation of your appearance before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 17, where you are expected to answer questions about antisemitism on campus. Based on the committee’s previous hearings, we are gravely concerned about the false narratives that frame these proceedings to entrap witnesses. We urge you, as the University president, to defend our shared commitment to universities as sites of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production against this new McCarthyism.

Rather than being concerned with the safety and well-being of Jewish students on campuses, the committee is leveraging antisemitism in a wider effort to caricature and demonize universities as hotbeds of “woke indoctrination.” Its opportunistic use of antisemitism in a moment of crisis is expanding and strengthening longstanding efforts to undermine educational institutions. After launching attacks on public universities from Florida to South Dakota, this campaign has opened a new front against private institutions.

The prospect of Rep. Elise Stefanik, a member of congress with a history of espousing white nationalist politics, calling university presidents to account for alleged antisemitism on their campuses reveals these proceedings as disingenuous political theater.

In the face of these coordinated attacks on higher education, universities must insist on their freedom to research and teach inconvenient truths. This includes historical injustices and the contemporary structures that perpetuate them, regardless of whether these facts are politically inexpedient for certain interest groups.

To be sure, antisemitism is a grave concern that should be scrutinized alongside racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and all other forms of hate. These hateful ideologies exist everywhere and we would be ignorant to believe that they don’t exist at Columbia. When antisemitism rears its head, it should be swiftly denounced, and its perpetrators held to account. However, it is absurd to claim that antisemitism—“discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews,” according to the Jerusalem Declaration’s definition—is rampant on Columbia’s campus. To argue that taking a stand against Israel’s war on Gaza is antisemitic is to pervert the meaning of the term.

Labeling pro-Palestinian expression as anti-Jewish hate speech requires a dangerous and false conflation of Zionism with Jewishness, of political ideology with identity. This conflation betrays a woefully inaccurate understanding—and disingenuous misrepresentation—of Jewish history, identity, and politics. It erases more than a century of debates among Jews themselves about the nature of a Jewish homeland in the biblical Land of Israel, including Israel’s status as a Jewish nation-state. It dismisses the experiences of the post-Zionist, non-Zionist, and anti-Zionist Jews who work, study, and live on our campus.

The political passions that arise from conflict in the Middle East may deeply unsettle students, faculty, and staff with opposing views. But feeling uncomfortable is not the same thing as being threatened or discriminated against. Free expression, which is fundamental to both academic inquiry and democracy, necessarily entails exposure to views that may be deeply disconcerting. We can support students who feel real and valid discomfort toward protests advocating for Palestinian liberation while also stating clearly and firmly that this discomfort is not an issue of safety.

As faculty, we dedicate ourselves and our classrooms to keeping every student safe from real harm, harassment, and discrimination. We commit to helping them learn to experience discomfort and even confrontation as part of the process of skill and knowledge acquisition—and to help them realize that ideas we oppose can be contested without being suppressed.

By exacting discipline, inviting police presence, and broadly surveilling its students for minor offenses, the University is betraying its educational mission. It has pursued drastic measures against students, including disciplinary proceedings and probation, for infractions like allegedly attending an unauthorized protest, or moving barricades to drape a flag on a statue. Real harassment and physical intimidation and violence on campus must be confronted seriously and its perpetrators held accountable. At the same time, the University should refrain whenever possible from using discipline and surveillance as means of addressing less serious harms, and should never use punitive measures to address conflicts over ideas and the feelings of discomfort that result. Where the University once embraced and defended students’ political expression, it now suppresses and disciplines it.

The University’s recent policies represent a dramatic change from historical practice, and the consequences are ruinous to our community and its principles. In the past, Columbia has periodically confronted attacks against pro-Palestinian speech, ranging from the vile slanders against Professor Edward Said to the reckless accusations from the David Project. But where for decades the University stood firm against smear campaigns targeting its professors, it has now voluntarily accepted the job of censoring its faculty in and outside the classroom.

Columbia’s commitment to free inquiry and robust disagreement is what makes it a world-class institution. Limiting academic freedom when it comes to questions of Israel and Palestine paves the way for limitations on other contested topics, from climate science to the history of slavery. What’s more, students must have the freedom to dissent, to make mistakes, to offend without intent, and to learn to repair harm done if necessary. Free expression is not only crucial to student development and education outside the classroom; the tradition of student protest has also played a vital role in American democracy. Columbia should be proud of having participated in nationwide student organizing that helped secure civil rights and reproductive rights and helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa.

We express our support for the University and for higher education against the attacks likely to be leveled against them at the upcoming congressional hearing. We object to the weaponization of antisemitism. And we advocate for a campus where all students, Jewish, Palestinian, and all others, can learn and thrive in a climate of open, honest inquiry and rigorous debate.

Many members of our University community share our perspective, but they have not yet been heard. Columbia students, staff, alumni, and faculty can sign here to show your support for this letter’s message.

—Jewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism

The 23 authors of this letter are Jewish faculty members of Barnard College and Columbia University. This letter derives from a much longer one by these same 23 faculty sent to President Shafik on April 5.

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the-lady-maddy · 2 days

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⚠️Dead child⚠️

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intersectionalpraxis · 4 months

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A few weeks ago the UN reported that everyone in Gaza is facing a food crisis -and that 1 in every 4 people in Gaza are starving -a quarter of their population is hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people. EVERYONE is hungry -their medical systems have collapsed and there are imminent outbreaks of diseases. How HUMILIATING and dehumanizing it is to have to fight for basic necessities. Imagine seeing a humanitarian truck -something rare because as we know the IOF has been collectively punishing Palestinian people for months now and has been committing mass genocide under the guide of 'war.' Not letting through resources to prevent people from dying from starvation is beyond depraved. And the fact we will NEVER see this on western/European mass media is just... absolutely infuriating.

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claraameliapond · 2 months

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Palestinian child rescued from under the rubble after being trapped for nine days.

Children's bodies are smaller, they need constant nutrition to maintain health. This is the fastest rate of malnourishment in history. Ceasefire NOW. FEED PALESTINE 🇵🇸 NOW

FEED NORTH GAZA NOW

FEED GAZA NOW

DECOLONISE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

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beam-of-sunlightbb · 6 months

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palestinegenocide · 2 months

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The flour massacre...

80

families lost their beloved members.

80

people killed with no mercy

Some put the death toll around 112

280

injured

This is what the iof said when confronted:

The Israeli version of events changed over the course of the day. The first account given by the Israeli military was that the victims had died in a stampede in which people had been “killed and injured from pushing, trampling and being run over by the trucks”. Later, Israeli military officials briefed the Guardian and other news outlets to say that their forces had only opened fire on a crowd that threatened them after the aid convoy had moved on, and that most of the casualties were caused earlier by the stampede or people being knocked down. Israeli officials also questioned the death toll from Palestinian authorities.

We all know by now that the only thing israel knows how to do is lie

THEY OPEN FIRED ON A HUNGRY CROWD.

They have been purposely starving all the people stuck, and as soon as aid arrives, they kill all of them with no mercy.

I swear this is some dystopian hunger games kinda shit.

MEN WHO SAID GOODBYE TO THEIR FAMILIES PROMISING TO COME BACK WITH FOOD WILL COME BACK NO MORE 💔

We will never forgive you israel, we hope your downfall will be as painful as the pain you have caused every single Palestinian.

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gooogoogaagaaa · 1 month

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PETITION TO STOP UNETHICAL COBALT MINING IN CONGO!!

Sign and share with as many people as you can!!!!! Many people, including little kids, are mining in unsafe and unethical conditions in Congo. Sign this petition to stop these horrible conditions and violations of human rights and advocate for boycotting companies that profit from these horrible conditions eg. tech companies, vapes etc!!!!!

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alwaysbewoke · 2 days

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faentasy-paesta · 2 months

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Resources Masterpost

I made Masterlists Of Organizations And Families To Donate To But They Are In Parts Because Of tumblr’s Link Limit So I’m Going To Compile Them All In Here As Well As Additional Resources. Will Be Updated Frequently.

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the-lady-maddy · 1 day

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intersectionalpraxis · 3 months

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48 million people in Sudan still can not contact their families across the diaspora. They're cut off from the internet, which includes their online banking services as well. Thousands of displaced Sudanese people were also recently turned away as asylum seekers:

This continues to be horrifying. Please keep talking about Sudan.

#feminist #social justice #sudan war #sudan crisis #sudan genocide #eyes on sudan #free sudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan #world news #global news #rsf #human rights violations #liberate sudan #telecommunications blackout #telecommunications

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historyforfuture · 3 months

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Even the injured children whose families

Have been martyred do not find a place to rest or have medical treatment . israeli killer forces bomb any where any times . No life is valued . No laws are followed , no rules is respected .

They only follow their blood thirst .

Who will be courage enough to force the killers to stop slaughtering the innocents .

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claraameliapond · 2 months

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Irish MP Barrett: How do we know it's a massacre and a genocide? Because the Israelis told us they were going to do it.

Their ministers told us that they were going to starve the entire population of water , electricity, food, medical supplies; "punish them all".

They described them, as 'human animals'. The classic dehumanisation which is the prelude to every single genocide that has ever taken place. Where the president of Israel said, "they are all responsible". 15th November 2023

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Gaza #Free Gaza #Decolonise Palestine #Liberate Palestine #Human rights violations #Human rights #Genocide #Ethnic cleansing #Massacre #Apartheid #Nakba #The Nakba hasn't ended #Illegal invasion #Illegal occupation #Illegal settlement #Illegal Israeli expansion settlements

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mazzd4 · 3 months

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from Plestia's instagram story, it's extremely sad to see her saying that and extremely real : nothing is left in Gaza and Palestine, all because of Isreal's non stop violence that not only touched civilians but also the whole country and destroyed all of it's monuments, places, homes, markets, streets, parks.... to the point that Plestia cannot even recommend beautiful places to visit because all of them ended up being destroyed by Isreal, not only them, the US, France, the UK....

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