#college protests

Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

Gadzooks Bazooka Instagram: gadzooks_bazooka

Remembering #HindRajab & children in #Gaza: This is what the mother of the child, Hind Rajab . https://tmblr.co/ZTeZMyfB_GHeeu00

Update (July, 2024)

UPDATE FROM

@sunnydice: (and please don't forget Layan Hamadeh , her 15 yr old cousin who was trapped with her or Yusuf Zino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun who bravely volunteered to try to save hind and were murdered by the IOF )

DrSonnet — هذا ما قالته والدة الطفلة هند رجب عندما سمعت بخبر... (tumblr.com)

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

But what is civil disobedience?

A lot of kids (and media outlets, honestly) seem to be confusing “civil disobedience” with “mob rule.”

Another key feature of civil disobedience is non-evasion.

That is:

This black student sings gospel (which originated from slaves) as she's carried away by black policemen, who likely heard the same song in church, but practice the tradition handed down from slave patrols. What a sight to behold.

I really want everyone to stop and watch this video.

Yesterday, on 10.7 - the one year anniversary of the deadliest day for Jews since the holocaust, pro-Hamas students at my alma mater, The Claremont Colleges, engaged in a protest that resulted in the students who were attending class ESCAPING through the window.

Not only did they disrupt classes but they rendered the building so vandalized, the electronics so cut up that it is unusable for at least the rest of the semester. I want to empathize, STUDENTS BROUGHT KNIVES TO A PROTEST - they sliced a projector screen in half.

Oh, they also shoved a professor and kept him trapped in the building.

this behavior is unacceptable, abhorrent and obscene.