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JdeB

#GazaProtest #Macklemore at #HindsHall #ColumbiaUniversity

"Free Palestine is also rooted in your protection, my loves" [jewish people]
"Never Again means never again for all. Have we've not learned our lesson my loves"

That's where I step in:
I got a load of reactions to the #NeverAgain that I use.
My response: how dare you claim that phrase for only one [your] people. Have you not learned the lesson history taught you ?

Now to the video, be sure to wait for that second half. On white supremacy.

"Macklemore - HIND'S HALL - The Free Palestine Song" [6:32 min]
by Emma Audrey

youtube.com/watch?v=X08SH1MBBx

Quote by EA: trans by Google from French
"May 10, 2024
This latest Macklemore melody is just incredible. I translated it into French so everyone can understand its message. I don't know how this melody will be received by streaming platforms, but it's definitely the most "Rage Against the Machine" melody of the last decades... Enjoy!
"Hind's Hall" is a protest song by American rapper Macklemore, released as a single on May 6, 2024. Written and produced by Macklemore, it expresses his support for pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses calling for divestment from Israel and a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
The song's title refers to pro-Palestinian activists' "renaming" of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl exiled by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. In the song, Macklemore criticizes US funding to Israel; he describes the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories as apartheid.
Hind Rajab's murder by the Israeli military occurred on January 29, 2024, in the Gazan neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa. The girl was the sole survivor of Israeli tank fire on the vehicle in which she and her family had fled.
Rajab's family was fleeing the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City when an Israeli army tank fired on their vehicle, killing Rajab's aunt, uncle, and four cousins. The only other survivor, Rajab's 15-year-old cousin, called the Palestine Red Crescent Society for urgent help in a recorded phone call, crying and screaming that Israeli forces were shooting at them amidst the sound of gunfire before stopping when she was killed.
Six-year-old Rajab was the only survivor in the car at the time, surrounded by her family's bodies, and her three-hour emergency phone call with the Red Crescent was released, in which she told the operator: "I'm so scared, please come. Come, take me. Please, will you come?" Hind was eventually killed by the Israeli military.
A Red Crescent ambulance was sent to rescue Rajab, who was attacked by Israeli forces, killing two Red Crescent medics, Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, in a deliberate attack, according to the organization, despite Israel being informed of its dispatch.
Israel claimed its troops were not near the vehicle in which Rajab was killed, however, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post refuted Israel's claims, basing their investigations on satellite imagery."

#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide #JusticeForHindRajab
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus

YouTubeMacklemore - HIND'S HALL - The Free Palestine SongBy Emma Audrey
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

As I've mentioned in the past, I'm only a solitary analyst, working through health complications and chronic pain issues; as hard as I try, I can't talk about every story or I want to, or debunk as much spin as I observe in corporate media outlets. Unfortunately in the time since I last covered the Trump regime's ICE abduction of a student protest leader legally residing in the United States, for purely ideological reasons, the Pork Reich has expanded its war on international students who protested Israel's US-back genocide of Palestinians in Gaza; first targeting other students at Columbia, and now expanding to additional schools, like Tufts University, and the University of Alabama.

As I (and many others) predicted, the Trump regime's use of immigration powers to engage in fascist ideological policing, and its loyal Gestapo (DHS/ICE) didn't stop at the illegal abduction of Mahmoud Khalil. In the time I've been writing about other stories, I've failed to talk about a lot of important information and events that shed light on how Trump is using his authority over immigration enforcement to prosecute a war on protestors, and protect a genocide he now owns just as much as the last administration and the rest of the imperialist US establishment do. Unfortunately, I can't rewind time; but I'm going to include some short posts with links to articles talking about what we've missed. It's a lot of reading, but putting it all here in this thread at least allows me to reference these incidents later, once I'm up to current events.

Let's start by looking at Betar; an international, pro-Israel right wing extremist (so, fascist) group who claims to be behind the ICE abduction of Khalil and boasts about supplying the Trump regime with a target list of "thousands" of people for harassment and deportation.

commondreams.org/news/betar-de

Far-Right Group Sent List of Palestine Defenders to Trump Officials for Deportation

"Betar, the international far-right pro-Israel group that took credit for the Department of Homeland Security's arrest of former Columbia University graduate student and permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil for protesting the annihilation of Gaza, claimed this week that it has sent "thousands of names" of Palestine defenders to Trump administration officials for possible deportation.

"Jihadis have no place in civilized nations," Betar said on social media Friday following the publication of a Guardian article on the extremist group's activities.

Earlier this week, Betar said: "We told you we have been working on deportations and will continue to do so. Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month. You heard it here first. Those who support jihad and intifada and originate in terrorist states will be sent back to those lands."

And just in case you think I'm being uncharitable about describing Betar as a fascist organization:

"Critics have voiced alarm about Betar's activities, pointing to the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League's recent designation of the organization as a hate group. Founded in 1923 by the early Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Betar has a long history of extremism. Its members—who included former Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin—took part in the Zionist terror campaign against Palestinian Arabs and British forces occupying Palestine in the 1940s.

Today, Betar supports Kahanism—a Jewish supremacist and apartheid movement named after Meir Kahane, an Orthodox rabbi convicted of terrorism before being assassinated in 1990—and is linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. The group has called for the ethnic cleansing and Israeli recolonization of Gaza. During Israel's assault on the coastal enclave, which is the subject of an International Court of Justice genocide case, its account on the social media site X responded to the publication of a list of thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces by saying: "Not enough. We demand blood in Gaza!"

As noted elsewhere, White House officials refused to comment on whether or not they were working with Betar, but given that former executive director of the US chapter, Ross Glick, confirmed the existence of the targets list, and held bipartisan meetings about punishing anti-genocide campus protesters with Senators like (R) Ted Cruz, and (D) John Fetterman, it seems entirely plausible that the regime is using Betar's list to target international student protesters for fascist reprisals and deportations.

Common Dreams · Far-Right Group Sent List of Palestine Defenders to Trump Officials for Deportation | Common DreamsBetar—which the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League has blacklisted after comments like "not enough" babies were killed in Gaza—says it provided "thousands of names" for possible arrest and expulsion.
#Fascism#Trump#Genocide
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Nonilex

Federal #immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a #Tufts PhD student who is a #Turkish national, her atty & community activists said.

The student, #RumeysaOzturk, is student at the Tufts’s doctoral program for Child Study & Human Development, & graduated w/a master’s degree from the Teachers College at #ColumbiaUniversity.

Her atty, Mahsa Khanbabai, has filed a #habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court for Ozturk to be released from detention.

#law #Trump
bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/met

The Boston Globe · Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk detained by federal officialsBy Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Mike Damiano, John R. Ellement
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DoomsdaysCW

Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!

#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech

"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.

"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.

"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.

"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'

"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.

"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."

Source:
aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation

AAUP · AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
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#FOX Hostage families SUE Columbia protest leaders, accuse them of ‘aiding’ Hamas

Hostage families SUE Columbia protest leaders, accuse them of ‘aiding’ Hamas Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams reports on a new lawsuit filed by Israeli hostage families against Mahmoud Khalil and pro-Palestine groups involved with the protests at Columbia University. #FoxNews #Israel #columbiauniversity #protest Subscribe to Fox News! Watch more Fox News Video: Watch Fox News Channel…

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SHIBUYA World News - SHIBUYA WORLD NEWS is an innovative news platform that delivers the latest global information in an easily understandable format, combining video and text. It provides real-time updates on worldwide events, enhancing viewers' comprehension of international affairs. · #FOX Hostage families SUE Columbia protest leaders, accuse them of ‘aiding’ Hamas - SHIBUYA World Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDomRFrSMvY Hostage families SUE Columbia protest leaders, accuse them of ‘aiding’ Hamas Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams reports on a new lawsuit filed by Israeli hostage families against Mahmoud Khalil and pro-Palestine groups involved with the protests at Columbia University. #FoxNews #Israel #columbiauniversity #protest Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: https://ift.tt/MO8YRFs
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DoomsdaysCW

Like I said before, #Trump will use ANY excuse to withhold funding. And he has NOT restored #ColumbiaUniversity's funding yet, despite their caving to the #BullyInChief's demands! Today, it's #TransgenderAthletes and #FreePalestine #Protestors. Tomorrow it will be...? The capitulation has to stop NOW!

#Academia Confronts a Watershed Moment at Columbia, and the Right Revels

Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.

"The end is not clear. Columbia’s moves on Friday — revealed in a letter to the campus from the interim president, Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong — were essentially an opening bid in negotiations with the federal government to let the $400 million flow again. But the Trump administration has not publicly said what other concessions it might seek from Columbia or the dozens of other universities, from Hawaii to Harvard, that it has started to scrutinize since taking power on Jan. 20."

by Troy Closson, Alan Blinder and Katherine Rosman, March 22, 2025

"Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university.

"Columbia University’s concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely viewed as a watershed in Washington’s relationships with the nation’s colleges.

"By design, the consequences will be felt immediately on Columbia’s campus, where, for example, some security personnel will soon have arrest powers and an academic department that had drawn conservative scrutiny is expected to face stringent oversight. But they also stand to shape colleges far from Manhattan.

"'Columbia is folding and the other universities will follow suit,' Christopher Rufo, an activist and senior fellow at the #ManhattanInstitute, a conservative think tank, wrote on social media after the university’s announcement on Friday."

[...]

"Many worry that the administration’s pursuit of Columbia was a test drive — a way to gauge public reaction, assess the prospects of legal pushback and develop a precedent. On Wednesday, the administration seemed to bring another test case, saying it would withhold about $175 million from Penn because the university had allowed an openly transgender woman on its women’s swim team in 2022."

Read more:
nytimes.com/2025/03/22/nyregio

Archived version:
archive.ph/xQeLn
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #HigherEducation #DumbingUsDown

The government’s actions targeted Columbia, but the implications are likely to be felt far beyond its Manhattan campus.
The New York Times · Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a WatershedBy Troy Closson
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Nonilex

The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader approach than a flurry of other recent lawsuits challenging the federal govt’s #deportation policies on college campuses. Those suits, including 2 involving a #ColumbiaUniversity student & a recent grad who are #GreenCard holders, aim to stop individual deportation proceedings.

The lawsuit filed Tues challenges the #Trump admin’s overall approach to deportation, saying it is #unconstitutional.

#immigration#law
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DoomsdaysCW

#ColumbiaUniversity student sues #Trump administration over threatened deportation

#YunseoChung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old

Mar 24, 2025

"A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed.

"Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived in the U.S. since she was seven, but her legal team was informed two weeks ago that her lawful permanent resident status was being revoked, according to the court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

"The Trump administration says her U.S. presence hinders its foreign policy agenda, according to the lawsuit. Chung has not yet been arrested. Immigration agents have made multiple visits to her residences looking for her."

Read more:
cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-stu
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #GreenCard #FreePalestine

CBCColumbia University student sues Trump administration over threatened deportation | CBC NewsA Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to prevent her deportation, a court filing showed.
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Christine Johnson

"I am speaking today for one reason: I think it matters for our students to know that we recognize what is happening here.

We know that the Trump administration's attack on Columbia University -- its threat to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from our university; its demand that the university accept its dictates about our curriculum, our faculty, our departments; its targeted bullying, harassment, slander, and far worse of our students -- has nothing to do with opposing antisemitism.

We know that this is about control."

From: collected remarks from #ColumbiaUniversity faculty vigil, March 24:

drive.google.com/file/d/1QiCsk

Google DocsColumbia AAUP faculty vigil 3-24 collected remarks.pdf
#USPol#HigherEd#histodons
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