#policingthecampus — Public Fediverse posts
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"They champion me for my humanitarian views and now they’re canceling me for them"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/rutgers-cancel-graduation-speech-pro-palestine-post
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"On a day meant to honor students for their accomplishments, I thought it important that we would honor the student activists who have, over the course of time, pushed the institution toward justice"
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“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”
https://truthout.org/articles/as-ice-jails-palestinian-protester-universities-must-commit-to-academic-freedom/ -
Maybe I should have started a #PolicingTheCampus thread way back...
Anyway here's the #UN saying that what uni's are doing "reveals a widespread hostile environment for the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association"; & that this threatens "democratic systems and institutions; ...in addition to failing the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes and to contribute to peace"
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"The University of California Regents approved the purchase of military equipment at September’s UC Regents meeting at UCLA. The unanimous vote took place behind closed doors while the #UCLA Police Department, dressed in riot gear, forced those who came to give public comment outside of the building"
https://lapublicpress.org/2024/10/ucla-military-hardware-protest-ab481#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #academia #California #militarism #UC #LosAngeles #LAPublicPress
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"Rather than presume that certain speech is or is not antisemitic, we believe this guide can help clarify a nuanced and contextualized approach to thinking about #antisemitism in this current moment. At the same time, the Guide is not intended as a legal standard nor to be enshrined into law, for to do so risks weaponization that could be used to suppress or chill speech" 👀
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #Academia #Israel #zionism #antizionism #Palestine #PolicingTheCampus