Every university protest against the genocide in Gaza has specific demands.
Each group wants their university to do something specific.
At UT Austin in Texas, for instance, the protesters have called for the school to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers. I'll say that again. The school has official working agreements with weapons manufacturers that are currently being used to kill Gazans.
If your argument against students is "they're just using this as an excuse to not to go to class and just want to cause disruption" then you are either being lied to or you are the one lying to others.
If you have not heard of the specific demands and terms of what would stop the protests...
...then you might want to question where you get your news and what other propaganda you have consumed and currently believe.
Once, back in college, I sang Sunday, Bloody Sunday at karaoke. Some guy yelled out “the war is over” while I was singing.
Now this was pre-9/11, so the world probably seemed almost peaceful then. I don’t remember exactly what year it was, but there certainly were wars going on right then.
I remember thinking yes, the conflict it was originally written about may be over, but wars still continue.
Marvel movies have always been pretty fascist / patriotic crap, but if you needed another good reason for a boycott, the new Captain America movie will feature Sabra, an israeli "superhero".
Picture shows marvel cartoon with that character, TW for bullshit israeli propaganda:
If you wanted to buy a Pluto Book anyway, this week they donate 30% of all money* to Medical Aid Palestine.
"Any full-priced book, ebook or audiobook bought on plutobooks.com between 12:00am BST 22nd April 2024 and 11.59 BST 29th April 2024 is eligible. Please note this does not include any orders where a discount code has been applied, or the book’s price is already discounted. Pre-orders for books published in the future are also not eligible.
Professors condemn Columbia crackdown on pro-Palestine students (Guardian, 2024-04-21)
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“The #Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a joint statement condemning Columbia president Minouche Shafik’s crackdowns on student-led pro-Palestinian protests.”
Professors condemn Columbia crackdown on pro-Palestine students (Guardian, 2024-04-21)
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“The #Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a joint statement condemning Columbia president Minouche Shafik’s crackdowns on student-led pro-Palestinian protests.”
When #Namibia Stands Up to #Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South (Dr. Ramzy Baroud | Counter Currents, 2024-04-18)
... beside Nicaragua, South Africa & al.
"Since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Namibia answered the call of solidarity with the Palestinians, along with many African and South American countries..."
"The Nicaraguan case accuses Germany of violating the ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’. It rightly sees Germany as a partner in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians."
"The horrific crime of the Holocaust, and other mass killings carried out by the German government... during WWII, is a continuation of other German crimes committed against Africans, decades earlier."
When #Namibia Stands Up to #Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South (Dr. Ramzy Baroud | Counter Currents, 2024-04-18)
... beside Nicaragua, South Africa & al.
"Since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Namibia answered the call of solidarity with the Palestinians, along with many African and South American countries..."
"So when Namibia took a strong stance against Israel’s largest military supporter in Europe – Germany – it did so based on Namibia’s total awareness of its history."
"The Nicaraguan case accuses Germany of violating the ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’. It rightly sees Germany as a partner in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians."
"The horrific crime of the Holocaust, and other mass killings carried out by the German government... during WWII, is a continuation of other German crimes committed against Africans, decades earlier."
Israeli army broadcasts intimidating sounds to lure, kill, and forcibly displace civilians in the Nuseirat camp (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 2024-04-16)
About a new tactic of IDF to 'lure' Palestinians:
"... that the sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones."
Don’t allow words to create power. They have murdered, stolen and destroyed. They own nothing. Our planet is shared. This does not end with a racist group who bombs fellow humans to force their delusional lies of superiority over others. This is a poisonous fruit. Never give in! We all leave the planet at some point. They will meet the consequences in their time… we are all worthy of peace. This harm is man made. #permanentceasefirenow#stopgenocide#endstarvationhttps://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1780241989415600178
Statement on the Western Media Narrative Regarding Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, 2024-04-14)
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“The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention condemns the misleading framing in the western media’s coverage of Israel’s bombardment and genocide of the Palestinian people. Since this latest cycle of attacks on Gaza began in October 2023, the narrative most prominent in western media has been that Israel is exercising its right to self-defense. There has been little analysis of what the right to self-defense allows and little challenge of Israel’s justifications for the IDF’s indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas or its responsibility for humanitarian crises, including famine and water shortages throughout the enclave…”
Roads blocked as thousands protest in US against Israel’s attack on Gaza (Guardian, 2024-04-15)
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“A portion of the Kennedy Expressway into Chicago O’Hare international airport, one of the US’s busiest, was blocked off”
“In the San Francisco Bay Area, two major highways – the southbound 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge and northbound 880 in nearby Oakland – were disrupted”
“Protesters were also arrested on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge and in Philadelphia, where several streets in the city center were blocked off…”
Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine
Monday, April 15, 2024
The global economy is complicit in genocide...
A proposal to coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15th in solidarity with Palestine recently received overwhelming commitments to participate around the US and internationally.
Activists in the Netherlands block a highway exit, resulting in a traffic jam, to protest Dutch complicity in the genocide that the zionist occupation is committing in Palestine
The action is part of the #A15 series today aimed at causing economic disruption, with the message: