How U.S. College Administrators Are "Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests"

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    As the fall term gets underway for students across the United States, we speak with journalist and academic Natasha Lennard about how college administrators are attempting to quash Gaza solidarity actions following mass protests at campuses across the country in the spring. One example is New York University, which recently updated its student policy to make criticisms of Zionism potentially punishable under its anti-discrimination rules. "It's extremely dangerous," says Lennard, who teaches at The New School. "It performs de facto apologia for Israel, and to have that put into writing by a university so clearly is just open for further abuses."
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  • @user-xt8on4kf5o
    @user-xt8on4kf5o 10 дней назад +182

    When colleges stray away from the Constituon, we know that we are in real trouble.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад

      Kinda like when colleges are banning conservative speakers from speaking?

  • @smokindauberdoo4208
    @smokindauberdoo4208 10 дней назад +175

    What in the HELL happened to
    FREEDOM OF SPEECH ? 😢

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад +13

      Freedom of speach doesn't include. Property damage, kidnapping, violence, antisemitic slurs.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      To bad I couldn't include stupidity!

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 10 дней назад +13

      Dems and corporate cancelled it.

    • @lyle4244
      @lyle4244 10 дней назад

      @@georgemetesky5519 AIPAC bought it and used it as toilet paper.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 10 дней назад +3

      Tell that to the top judge in Brazil.

  • @henryericpeitz2029
    @henryericpeitz2029 10 дней назад +120

    Let me see if I have this right? We in America are so embarrassed by our colonial past that we re-name Columus Day to Indigenous Day. However, when students at Columbia University and NYU discuss the colonial implications of Zionism, they face adverse action. Yea, that's pretty much America today.

    • @Cloudchopper-x1r
      @Cloudchopper-x1r 10 дней назад

      Israel rules "Ueber Alles" over both parties. The professor singled out the right wing, forgetting that the Left wing of the party is sending all the weapons and money to Israel to kill Palestinians right now. More bombs were shipped in August than any other month.

    • @johnpiscitello6204
      @johnpiscitello6204 10 дней назад +6

      Well you can have all black tv and movies all black schools etc but heaven forbid if you want all white schools or movies or colleges, somehow I don’t think that’s what Martin king was thinking of🤔

    • @marcusviniciusdoprado7508
      @marcusviniciusdoprado7508 10 дней назад

      There where and still are all white schools and uni in USA

    • @TheSilence1
      @TheSilence1 10 дней назад

      @@johnpiscitello6204 HBCUs don't segregate you ignoramus.

    • @s-code-b
      @s-code-b 9 дней назад

      'Tis tyranny promoted as choice in political campaigns & sold as democracy at voting booths.

  • @NinjaStroll
    @NinjaStroll 10 дней назад +157

    Imagine wanting to silence and squash protest when that's one of the rights under the constitution

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +21

      @@NinjaStroll
      "The United States of Israel" AIPAC.
      The ICJ has an arrest warrant on Netanyahu yet, there he was addressing the US Congress to Rapturous standing ovations, even Elon Musk was there....

    • @rjl5759
      @rjl5759 9 дней назад

      Useful Idiots for Palestine unite!

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад +7

      Sure, peaceful protest. Yet, you do not have a right to interrupt classes, promote antisemitism, and imposing religious segregation.

    • @cookie14467
      @cookie14467 9 дней назад +4

      unfortunately when it’s on private property they can kick out whoever they want

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад

      @@mariahewitt9787 USA is not a member of the ICC.

  • @piku5637
    @piku5637 10 дней назад +202

    This is fascism plain and simple.

    • @TheZenGarden_
      @TheZenGarden_ 10 дней назад +1

      Aka "Christofascism," SOP since "Inter Caetera."

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад

      ​@@TheZenGarden_
      Read the Babylonian Jewish Talmud.

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +7

      ​@@TheZenGarden_
      Zio.....nism...!

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +1

      ​@@TheZenGarden_
      Proverbs 6:16 ~19.
      Lists 7 things which are also Abominations.

    • @TheZenGarden_
      @TheZenGarden_ 10 дней назад

      @@mariahewitt9787
      The only difference between Eastern Europeans practicing a "religion" and calling themselves "jews," and Western Europeans practicing a "religion" and calling themselves "christians" is that the "christians" did what violent religious zealots do, first.

  • @noorpath9127
    @noorpath9127 10 дней назад +73

    3 million Palestinians trees, mostly olive and citrus trees, were uprooted by Israeli forces between 2000 and 2012.

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 10 дней назад

      Israel is full of trees. You can see the green line from satellite photos.

    • @deboraandrade132
      @deboraandrade132 10 дней назад +7

      😢

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +7

      @@noorpath9127
      "If I don't steal your home, someone else will " said Yaakov from New York.

    • @howardcohen6817
      @howardcohen6817 9 дней назад +1

      @@mariahewitt9787 Aye - this doesn't make it right, though.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад

      Isn't it amazing how the self declared anti-fascists have embraced all the ideologies, tactics, enemies, and allies of the National Socialists?

  • @johnk4437
    @johnk4437 10 дней назад +120

    Blatant fascism is here in the USA. Wow ! 😢

    • @gfys756
      @gfys756 10 дней назад +3

      Maybe next time, don't spread hate speech and call it "freedom". 🤣

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +10

      @@gfys756
      Truth hurts?

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      @@johnk4437 What is the definition of fascist in your special little world.

    • @ronstephen-wy4ib
      @ronstephen-wy4ib 9 дней назад

      If you are Jewish wake up! It won't be long before the difference between a Zionist and a Jew becomes meaningless. If you let them make antisemitism = anti-Zionism then you will turn all the anti-Zionists into antisemites.

    • @howardcohen6817
      @howardcohen6817 9 дней назад +2

      We recognize the potato-plants long before we harvest the potatoes, while the eating of the plant itself or its flower is horribly poisonous.

  • @KP-uc1ez
    @KP-uc1ez 10 дней назад +94

    Curious how quickly partisanship is overcome when moneyed interests are in the driver's seat 🤔

    • @MarisaCortes632
      @MarisaCortes632 9 дней назад +1

      Let's reveal the true moneyed interests of terrorism in the US. The following have "donated" to American universities, colleges (and also public high schools and elementary schools): QATAR $6 billion; Saudi Arabia $3.5 billion and UAE $1.5 billion. Most of these contributions don't list their purpose. Nearly 1/3 of these donations were made since 2020. Cornell university is the largest recipient --$2.1billion. Due to lax compliance and enforcement billions of dollars weren't reported to DOE.

    • @jfm14
      @jfm14 9 дней назад

      Exactly.

  • @heidi9547
    @heidi9547 10 дней назад +163

    The US Establishment, is raising it's Fascist game.

    • @elbarca223
      @elbarca223 10 дней назад +3

      Prof. Franke was out of line, saying your students are dangerous because of the country they are from is very inappropriate though, some would say even a fireable offense.If you use the same logic, a Palestinian student who shouted "We are Hamas" should she/they be called out as a threat? No.

    • @TheZenGarden_
      @TheZenGarden_ 10 дней назад

      More like desperately trying to maintain it for the last four hundred years. ~ Genesis 15:12-14 ⌛

    • @David-bc4rh
      @David-bc4rh 10 дней назад +2

      @@elbarca223 Did they serve in the IOF?

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад

      @@David-bc4rh
      It's mandatory.

    • @flixfan1
      @flixfan1 10 дней назад

      Trump will encourage the genocide of Palestinians and the annexation of Gaza. He will use the military to squash civilian protests in America. Time is running out to stop him while the Left fiddles, splits and divides. They are tools of the right.

  • @oblomofff
    @oblomofff 10 дней назад +20

    Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸

  • @cheesepizzaparty
    @cheesepizzaparty 10 дней назад +70

    While working towards my journalism degree at KU (2009-2013,), I was blocked from writing any articles about Palestine and isralala's illegal occupation and terrorism. US universities are neocon institutions working for the MIC and empire building.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      So young so wrong. FAKE NEWS and not hired yet.

    • @ontrada
      @ontrada 5 дней назад

      What is "MIC"? Thanks in advance.

    • @how.disability.justice
      @how.disability.justice 5 дней назад +1

      Have you considered documenting and distributing what happened? I'm working on that now so the institutional knowledge doesn't get lost, and people with similar values who come after can pass it on in an online/paper library. Hopefully, people can analyze previous people's experiences and develop more sophisticated infrastructure to organize against the censorship.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад +1

      @@cheesepizzaparty Yeah, see, that was because your bosses had these things called "respect for facts" and "moral decency" and therefore understood that Israel is not engaged in "illegal occupation" (every last inch of Gaza, Judea, and Samaria having been Israeli territory since 1948) or terrorism (as defending your country against genocidal terrorists like Hamas is not terrorism).

    • @cheesepizzaparty
      @cheesepizzaparty 5 дней назад

      @@ontrada "Military Industrial Complex" (Pentagon -and friends, corporation.)

  • @EricDraven-ci8wi
    @EricDraven-ci8wi 10 дней назад +47

    our young people have a right to free speech. Socrates preached this!

    • @gfys756
      @gfys756 10 дней назад

      Spreading hate speech and misinformation isn't "free speech".

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад +3

      Didn't complain when it was conservative speakers being banned. You brought this upon yourselves.

    • @kimg3503
      @kimg3503 9 дней назад

      @@IronskullGM but now here you are!

    • @addammadd
      @addammadd 9 дней назад

      Socrates preached nothing. He certainly didn’t agree with unlimited speech. Try reading.
      Fuuuuuuuck I can’t stand what colleges do to kids but your comment was such garbage.

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 7 дней назад +1

      @@IronskullGM boo hoo

  • @brownyedgrl
    @brownyedgrl 10 дней назад +44

    A new McCarthyism, so on point.

  • @harsharnsandher1363
    @harsharnsandher1363 10 дней назад +29

    It has nothing about religion, it has nothing to do with being Jewish, it is about not being able criticise Israel and the wrongs the Isreali government is doing and has done in the past. There are a
    lot of Jewish people around the world who do not agree with what Israel has, and is doing.

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 7 дней назад

      It's ALL about religion.

    • @harsharnsandher1363
      @harsharnsandher1363 6 дней назад +3

      No it is not about religion, there are Jewish people also speaking up for the Palestinians and its wrong to not allow people to to protest against Isreal.

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 6 дней назад

      @@harsharnsandher1363 You need to do a little research.

    • @harsharnsandher1363
      @harsharnsandher1363 6 дней назад +2

      @@ADBLOCKER4RUclips No I don’t.

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 6 дней назад

      @@harsharnsandher1363 Okay. Then keep making ignorant posts.

  • @AuntyKsTarot
    @AuntyKsTarot 10 дней назад +38

    Start calling Zionism what it is - settler colonialism.

    • @jamesbarnes3832
      @jamesbarnes3832 9 дней назад

      Zionist are Jewish Supremacists in the same way that White Supremacists are Supremacists.

    • @SadaK-tr6dm
      @SadaK-tr6dm 9 дней назад +3

      💯 👍

    • @thierrynolevaux9268
      @thierrynolevaux9268 6 дней назад

      Zionism is racism as per the UN.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад

      @@AuntyKsTarot Start calling people who call Zionism "settler colonialism" what they are: ignorant antisemitic bigots who distort history to promote terrorism and genocide against Jews.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад +2

      @@AuntyKsTarot Start calling the act of calling Zionism "settler colonialism" what it is: racism and antisemitism.
      And start calling people who make this fake equivalency in order to delegitimize the only Jewish state what you are: racists and antisemites.

  • @user-pw9cx1rd9t
    @user-pw9cx1rd9t 9 дней назад +31

    So proud of these Professors for standing up for what used to be right!

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад

      @@user-pw9cx1rd9t In the reality-based community, we know there's nothing right about promoting antisemitism, which includes disingenuously claiming that Israel's justified acts of self-defense are a "genocide."

  • @MsOpineminded
    @MsOpineminded 10 дней назад +26

    I disagree with her categorizing this as Rwing motivated, the liberal left and democrats are equally if not even more responsible for this censorship and thought policing... if anything, WAY MORE hypocritical.

    • @EricForney-uz4iz
      @EricForney-uz4iz 10 дней назад +15

      Both political parties have lost their credibility and are serving the corporate, moneyed interests who set the policy positions of both parties. They use social issues to help drive a wedge between the poor and working people in this country.

    • @mathieufaltys
      @mathieufaltys 10 дней назад

      Many Democrats, especially the liberals, are right-wing.

    • @jamesbarnes3832
      @jamesbarnes3832 9 дней назад

      Trump doesn't claim to be a Zionist.
      Biden claims to be a Zionist.

    • @ZaisHernandez
      @ZaisHernandez 7 дней назад

      This is world polictics. both democrats and the republican party are right wing

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 6 дней назад +1

      @@EricForney-uz4iz Who is the largest foreign funder of American Universities?

  • @deboraandrade132
    @deboraandrade132 10 дней назад +13

    This is horrible for Columbia and other universities too.They receive students and researchers from all over the world and were recognized as respected and free institutions however no more.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад

      @@deboraandrade132 Yes and now they'll be respected even more for welcoming students and researchers from all countries (the phrase "all countries" including Israel, in case you didn't know) and not creating a campus culture of vicious antisemitism.

  • @apolodelsol
    @apolodelsol 10 дней назад +13

    Stay strong, go GREEN; UNITED FOR PALESTINE 🕊️🇵🇸✊🏼🍉🌳

  • @greorbowlfinder7078
    @greorbowlfinder7078 10 дней назад +66

    I have an idea. We could hold apartheid Israel accountable for the recent genocide happening in Gaza. That might stop the protests. Just spit balling ideas.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад +3

      Ignoring facts because they don't fit your narrative, is ignorent.

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 10 дней назад +2

      Hold global jihadists accountable, they are all allies.

    • @greorbowlfinder7078
      @greorbowlfinder7078 10 дней назад +8

      @@user-xv3gl8kh2u yeah genocide is like that every time. Even when the Israelis do it.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      @@greorbowlfinder7078 Genocide is the killing of a people with the intention of removing them from the face of the earth.
      Hitler vs Jews is genocide. Husayn vs Kurds is Genocide. Turkey vs Armeanians is genocide. Israel evacuating an area before an attack is war. War with the intention of fighting Hamas not the civilians.

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +9

      ​@@user-xv3gl8kh2u
      "The Biggest insult to the Memory of the Holocaust is not denying it, but using it as an excuse to justify the Genocide of the Palestinian people "
      ~Dr Norman Finkelstein.

  • @hayatraja7360
    @hayatraja7360 10 дней назад +45

    Long Live 🇵🇸

  • @nathankrueger8346
    @nathankrueger8346 10 дней назад +27

    Thank you democracy now!!

  • @genichirodiestwice4186
    @genichirodiestwice4186 10 дней назад +19

    UK, Germany and USA, the history won't forget what you've done. Shame on you, supporting and defending Israel till last second.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад

      LOL Germany supported Israel? Umm, who was the Free Arabian Legion?

    • @NathanChesnaky
      @NathanChesnaky 3 дня назад

      the fact that you would mention Germany (you know, the country that killed 6 million jews directly leading to the creation of Israel in the aftermath of WWII) should be ashamed for "supporting Israel till the last second?" I mean, yes, thankfully, they are no longer calling for the extermination of the Jewish people, and are in fact allies with Israel, as is literally every other modern country on this earth. I though it kinda sorta sounds like you have a problem with this? Did you think they had the right idea the first time?

  • @esteearie
    @esteearie 10 дней назад +37

    This is the reason to watch Democracy Now, free speech, free exchange of ideas and opinions. Great coverage of the tapping down of world discussion of moral responsibility.

    • @monicabeaston4996
      @monicabeaston4996 10 дней назад +3

      Best journalism out there.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 5 дней назад

      @@esteearie In the reality-based community, we understand "Democracy Now" is not promoting an "exchange of views" when it comes to Zionism and Israel but is promoting old-fashioned antisemitism.

    • @chuletaization
      @chuletaization 3 дня назад

      Depends on the subject. They totally dropped the ball on Russiagate and the Syrian gas attacks.

    • @jeffreywilheim5970
      @jeffreywilheim5970 3 дня назад

      @@esteearie Normal people don't consider promoting antisemitism a reason to watch a news program, dear heart.

    • @monicabeaston4996
      @monicabeaston4996 3 дня назад

      @@esteearie Don 't worry about charges of anti- semtism. Amy Goodman anti- Semitic? Seriously.

  • @XE1GXG
    @XE1GXG 9 дней назад +8

    Why don't the gringos move all their beloved Israelis to, say, Utah or Alabama? Plenty of like-minded fanatics there.

  • @khan3116-vGR
    @khan3116-vGR 9 дней назад +11

    Then how can US criticize other countries for suppressing dissent voice 🤔

  • @MattMajcan
    @MattMajcan 10 дней назад +44

    never ceases to amaze me how history has proven literally every single time that oppressors get whats coming to them but they still try it anyway

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад +3

      Also in history, it was prophesied that God would bring the Israelites back to their home land. It also foretold that Israel's enemies would be feckless.

    • @frankdunne-gp6oy
      @frankdunne-gp6oy 10 дней назад

      ​@@user-xv3gl8kh2u...

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 10 дней назад +3

      Jihadists gonna lose.

    • @jayleeper1512
      @jayleeper1512 10 дней назад +5

      That is the God you made up. My God says different.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад +1

      @@jayleeper1512 My God said it would happen and it did. What does your god say?

  • @tweaker1bms
    @tweaker1bms 10 дней назад +6

    Great point by Prof. Franke. Indeed, one of the Holocaust museums I visited in Berlin noted that during Kristallnacht the Nazi rioters chanted "Juden raus, nach Palästina!" Translation: "Jews out, [go] to Palestine!"

    • @luisdavidllense2293
      @luisdavidllense2293 9 дней назад

      Technically, then, there is nothing more 'anti-Semitic' than Zionism. What a shock!

  • @henryericpeitz2029
    @henryericpeitz2029 10 дней назад +20

    The irony of the Shafik matter is that she ostensibly left her position because she did not do enough in defense of Jewish students who "felt unsafe'"(whatever that meant) when in truth she failed to adequately stand up for free speech and defend Palestinian students who actually were harmed (the "skunk" spray matter, for example).

  • @melanieberthelo9582
    @melanieberthelo9582 6 дней назад +4

    It's awful in Canada too. They stopped an Indigenous march in Toronto on Canada Day, because they invited Palestinians.

  • @sugarmagnolia1475
    @sugarmagnolia1475 10 дней назад +7

    COMMUNITY COLLEGES NEED STAFF AND STUDENTS TOO.

  • @devinaudette9770
    @devinaudette9770 8 дней назад +4

    This isn’t surprising. All through history, America has chosen which speech is free.

    • @iamlightsunshine6628
      @iamlightsunshine6628 6 дней назад

      As oppose to? Hamnazis? Sharia law? Ayatolahs of iran? Muslim brotherhood, isis, hesbolahs? Houthies?

  • @SadaK-tr6dm
    @SadaK-tr6dm 9 дней назад +7

    - Terr. Netanyahu regime let the attack happen on his own country, despite knowing about the attack 3 days before it happened.
    - Music festival was organised with lot of foreigners just 3 miles away from the border. On whose order?
    - Music festival was extended by one day as the attack did not happen when it was thought to happen. On whose order?
    - Noticing that music festival casualty were less, used IDF to increase the casualties in the music festival. On whose order?

    • @jaykay415
      @jaykay415 8 дней назад

      Do you have any verification/proof for this claim?

    • @SadaK-tr6dm
      @SadaK-tr6dm 7 дней назад +2

      @@jaykay415 Are you aware that the Zion state knew about the attack months before and had also prepared a detailed report on the attack?

    • @jaykay415
      @jaykay415 7 дней назад

      @@SadaK-tr6dm show me the proof.

    • @SadaK-tr6dm
      @SadaK-tr6dm 7 дней назад +3

      @@jaykay415 Is is there over all the international news channels. Which news channel do you read or watch?

    • @jaykay415
      @jaykay415 6 дней назад

      @SadaK-tr6dm I watch a bunch, and I've never seen proof on this, only internet comments from people such as yourself. It's wrong to spread rumors and *hope* people will believe it. Embrace the truth, not innuendo, gossip, or lies.

  • @gailhitson7340
    @gailhitson7340 10 дней назад +18

    Freedom of speech and the right to peacefully protest? Shame on these universities. It's disgusting. So much for learning and debate.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад +1

      Didn't complain when it was conservative speakers being banned. You brought this upon yourselves.

    • @gailhitson7340
      @gailhitson7340 9 дней назад +1

      @@IronskullGM You're expressing your opinions just like I am, and nobody has stopped either of us, as far I can tell.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад +1

      @gailhitson7340 are we talking about this platform or access at universities?

    • @gailhitson7340
      @gailhitson7340 9 дней назад +1

      @@IronskullGM I am talking freedom of speech in the U.S.A.

    • @IronskullGM
      @IronskullGM 9 дней назад

      @@gailhitson7340 Well, the censorship is pretty much coming from one side of the aisle. Zuckerberg admitted this recently in Congress.

  • @EthanKironus8067
    @EthanKironus8067 9 дней назад +3

    I'm Canadian, and Western University (in southwestern Ontario) has just issued this lovely new policy (text is copy-pasted from CBC article):
    ------
    'Groups now have to get authorization from Western's director of campus safety and emergency services (CSES) at least five business days before a planned demonstration, the new policy, which went into effect Aug. 29, states.
    If approved, the director will provide "reasonable directions, including time, location and manner for the demonstration," the policy said. Protests can only happen from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday and individuals can't advertise protests until they're approved.'
    ------
    The kicker is that when Western had its encampment, which was extremely well-organized and Alhamdulillah didn't get taken down violently, the organizers had actually secured a meeting with the administration...albeit the DEI office, not the university president; the meeting got kiboshed specifically because Western refused to let Michael Lynk, a Western professor and THE FORMER UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON PALESTINE, sit in on the meeting as an advisor/witness for the organizers. Because the meeting was "only for students."

  • @elvisiscat
    @elvisiscat 10 дней назад +5

    Thank you.✊☮️❤️🇵🇸

  • @noorpath9127
    @noorpath9127 10 дней назад +9

    Due to settler attacks protected by IDF, Many Palestinian farmers have lost their lives. Hundreds have been injured. West bank Palestinians farmers are subject to land grabbing, annexation and confiscation. ( International Land coalition)

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      Read "From Time Immemorial ".The Muslims have the history of harassing and killing Jewish farmers.

    • @user-xv3gl8kh2u
      @user-xv3gl8kh2u 10 дней назад

      Get your facts straight.

    • @noorpath9127
      @noorpath9127 10 дней назад +1

      @@user-xv3gl8kh2u my comment is part of an article, please copy paste the comment & google for full article. many thanks for your comment.

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 10 дней назад +1

      Israelis are not "settlers" in their own ancestral land.

    • @noorpath9127
      @noorpath9127 10 дней назад

      @@user-xv3gl8kh2u International Land coalition

  • @emelynjudge1011
    @emelynjudge1011 7 дней назад +2

    Time to abandon NYU. Make note, don't send kids to college there.

  • @nightwaves3203
    @nightwaves3203 6 дней назад +3

    Tell the young they can't do it and they definitely will.

  • @mikerobinson3695
    @mikerobinson3695 10 дней назад +10

    Who Paid for America, and HOW MUCH..................

    • @howardcohen6817
      @howardcohen6817 9 дней назад +1

      This is not a rhetorical question. Who indeed and how much?

  • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
    @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings 5 дней назад +2

    Mind Begs the Question:
    ▪︎If a Govt,Business,University
    ▪︎Criminalize protesting policies of
    ▪︎Starvation,Gassing White Phosphorus,Concentration Camps,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
    ▪︎Pro-Democracy or Pro-Nazi?

  • @Saramn2369
    @Saramn2369 10 дней назад +7

    Pure censorship of knowledge and historical facts

  • @stephen_pfrimmer
    @stephen_pfrimmer 9 дней назад +3

    Thank you all. John Dewey was a professor at Columbia.

    • @howardcohen6817
      @howardcohen6817 9 дней назад

      Haven't you heard that he's been posthumously fired, censured and imprisoned?

  • @fuckbankers
    @fuckbankers 10 дней назад +6

    Zionism has nothing to do with religion.

  • @CaoimhinOMaol
    @CaoimhinOMaol 5 дней назад +1

    Found at one university, the following leaflet. It read : ”Isn’t it true that every honest person is ashamed of his government these days? Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes -crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure- reach the light of day ?”
    This was written by a professor and students at one university.

  • @ADebsLife
    @ADebsLife 9 дней назад +4

    I previously understood the the USA was a democracy with "freedom of speech" written into their constitution.

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 7 дней назад

      Ask any white-winger. The only sacred amendment is the second....🤔

  • @terriej123
    @terriej123 10 дней назад +3

    Excellent segment! Thanks Amy & thanks to the other ladies!! Ultimately the truth will win over though.

  • @yassiguy
    @yassiguy 4 дня назад +2

    when education is a for profit business. Universities are obliged to make policies to appease the largest donors. It's as simple as that.

  • @KushiteComplex
    @KushiteComplex 10 дней назад +7

    Weak and desperate move by Columbia administrators.

  • @kevinwilliams1768
    @kevinwilliams1768 10 дней назад +3

    what a shame .

  • @2serve4Christ
    @2serve4Christ 6 дней назад +1

    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
    - Martin Niemöller

  • @ronstephen-wy4ib
    @ronstephen-wy4ib 9 дней назад +4

    Why are institutions of higher learning so he'll bent on investing in war? Why aren't they investing in their local communities instead?

    • @Molly-iw1rc
      @Molly-iw1rc 9 дней назад

      They benefit from disparity. My university is a PWI, mostly white and Asian students I believe. But the neighborhood surrounding the area is mostly poor black and various Spanish speaking communities. It's wild seeing black kids going to an underfunded school while across the street is this fancy university with barely any black kids there. They benefit from surrounding communities being underfunded, and they benefit from communities from outside of the neighborhood coming to their university (because they are more likely to have money to give to the school).
      On top of this, most of the things they claim to invest in within the schools are useless to most students. My school is literally building a stadium, but I will never be able to go because I'm a low income student that has to work a lot and cannot go to a football game. Meanwhile students on campus have to beg the institution to invest in and find resources for free or reduced price textbooks. Imo that should already be a part of the university, a committee or group dedicated to increasing access to educational resources to more students, as well as food and financial resources (because college students notoriously don't have access to a lot of good food and many deal with not eating enough). But instead they have commitments to building sports establishments and more Starbucks on campus, stuff that only benefits some students, students who probably would also benefit more from having access to better food as well.
      Like most colleges should have a community garden on campus or in the neighborhood, where students and the locals can access free, fresh food and local farmers market items at a reduced price. But instead I just see Starbucks and Chick fil a and no markets on campus at all. Being on a college campus can feel very isolating for low-income, non white kids, especially if you don't have access to a car and you have to go to school in your work clothes. Things can be done about these issues and many people have solutions, but universities do not want to invest in solutions that don't earn them money (even though it probably will earn them money).

    • @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE
      @ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE 7 дней назад

      Why doesn't the country invest in local communities instead of bombs and terrorism (our two main exports)?

  • @KingArthurWs
    @KingArthurWs 3 дня назад +1

    Good; freedom of speech is not freedom to perform acts of violence.

  • @andreaandrea6716
    @andreaandrea6716 6 дней назад +2

    Ah.... all the Universities are committing suicide.

  • @TheKathybarth
    @TheKathybarth 10 дней назад +2

    Thank you Democracy Now!!! Thank you! It is frightening that free speech(?) has diminished to this point already. Great concern if there is a second Trump term.

  • @lochinvar5589
    @lochinvar5589 9 дней назад +2

    Why not have Jill Stein on your show?

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 10 дней назад +3

    Don't forget to add the "right wing" Democratic president, "right-wing" Democratic presidential candidate, and "right-wing" Democrats in Congress. They're ALL right wing.

  • @Awe1202life
    @Awe1202life 10 дней назад +5

    From Pain To Advocacy Gabor and Daniel Mate

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 10 дней назад +1

      "How I Unlearned Zionism"
      Dr Gabor Mate.
      I wish more people would follow this Honourable Gentleman's Lead.

  • @Molly-iw1rc
    @Molly-iw1rc 9 дней назад +3

    My school literally yesterday on campus squashed a protest and claimed that it's because it's the same group that did encampments a few months ago. They claimed if any other student group did the protest then they wouldn't stop them, which is pure bs. The staff thay stopped it were really proud too, while they told the students that they have no freedom of speech. It's gross and I didn't even know what to do, it was my first time physically on campus seeing it happen. I can say those students are extremely brave because it's probably scary to think of getting suspended or expelled after probably working really hard in school for years, but they protest despite the threats to their future paths. I even felt threatened and I wasn't literally participating in the protest at the time, I just happened to see it get stopped.

  • @UKindness4
    @UKindness4 6 дней назад +1

    This fascism from Universities show what hiring fundraisers as their Presidents to do the rich Alumni orders. Building new buildings is more important than paying for superior teachers professors. Why was Clinton's Donna SHALALA given the Presidency of the Universiity of Miami within experience???

  • @David-m8i
    @David-m8i 4 дня назад

    Why can't the college professors just teach ethics and be good at money. This country would be so much better.

  • @tubermind
    @tubermind 3 дня назад +2

    Look, so many of us see the ideological capture of the universities today by the political Left. I personally experienced it in the 1990's. Professors used to keep their personal ideologies/political leanings out of the discussion and just focused on factual materials. Not that discussion shouldn't be robust. But no professor should use their lectern as a pulpit to preach their own perspective, and I personally saw that over and over in my experience back then -- it's far worse now.

  • @sambaxrock
    @sambaxrock 10 дней назад +3

    SO scary.

  • @chibinyra
    @chibinyra 3 дня назад

    We must protect Isr@3l from discrimination by discriminating against Palestinians!

  • @DaveE99
    @DaveE99 8 дней назад +2

    Every time someone tells me “but Hamas xyz killed or hurt” I tell them to stop looking at the ants. Look at not the ant hill, but the ecosystem and its evolution. It’s also useful to know that from a visual media strategy, it’s really easy to trigger and manipulate empathy as a automatic reaction that then distracts you from the ecosystem and the evolution of it

  • @user-zf2kv8il6w
    @user-zf2kv8il6w 2 дня назад

    Disgraceful. Rich donors and AIPAC are to blame for denying rights.

  • @MIKEMIKE-te2dt
    @MIKEMIKE-te2dt 8 дней назад +1

    Israel Fun Fact: Genealogical tracking services are illegal in Israel. This is surprising, considering that with so many Israelis being curious about their Hebrew lineage, such services would be very lucrative. However, the genealogical data simply proves that ninety-five percent of the self-styled "Jews" in Israel are neither "Hebrew" or semite. According the genealogical, linguistic and historical data, their place of ancestral origin was in fact an area known as Khazaria, located in the area know occupied by Ukraine.

  • @thyownshadow5280
    @thyownshadow5280 4 дня назад

    This is great, thanks team. Democracy NOW not later.

  • @user-fn7ev7nx4c
    @user-fn7ev7nx4c 10 дней назад +2

    Freedom of speech means nothing without pursuit of understanding!

  • @straunwagner6322
    @straunwagner6322 8 дней назад +1

    I want to go back to school just so so can violate these fascist policies.

  • @fuckbankers
    @fuckbankers 10 дней назад +4

    Do not conflate antizionism with antisemitism.

  • @Lucy-s2q3i
    @Lucy-s2q3i 5 дней назад +1

    Ghoulish is an accurate description

  • @slavdomania
    @slavdomania 7 дней назад

    Thank you democracy now

  • @annetteburger1912
    @annetteburger1912 3 дня назад

    Don't let the Spiral of Silence theory take over,Thank you for speaking truths

  • @Lucy-s2q3i
    @Lucy-s2q3i 5 дней назад

    💚. Please have Dr stein on. I was thinking about voting for her but want to learn more about her. Hard questions reveal her intentions

  • @janetwebb1507
    @janetwebb1507 3 дня назад

    MUZZLING FREE SPEECH CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT

  • @fdsmith905
    @fdsmith905 2 дня назад

    Chanting "intifada now" and "from the river to the sea", is not protected free speech.

  • @Kavala76
    @Kavala76 День назад

    Zionism is a form of religious nationalism, which in turn is a political ideology.
    All political ideologies (e.g. anarchism, authoritarianism, nationalism etc.) should be open to criticism.

  • @travismoore2492
    @travismoore2492 6 дней назад

    Imagine if the law was applied on the other side and you said any criticism of Hamas or Al Queda equated to hate speech towards all Muslims. How would people like that?

  • @cq6813
    @cq6813 4 дня назад

    These are kids learning how to learn about the world. Why harm them?

  • @GrandmaBev64
    @GrandmaBev64 3 дня назад

    STUDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTEST! ESPECIALLY AT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES! STOP MILITARIZING OUR POLICE. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT AND SERVE. NOT JUST ENFORCE PETTY LAWS! STOP USING PEOPLE'S MISFORTUNES FOR REVENUE! SUBSIDIZE PEOPLE NOT CORPORATIONS.

  • @isaiahthompson2134
    @isaiahthompson2134 10 дней назад +2

    Did anyone else notice the subtitles changed McCarthyism to Maoism ??

    • @brookeelliott7549
      @brookeelliott7549 10 дней назад

      I think it was an accident

    • @howardcohen6817
      @howardcohen6817 9 дней назад +1

      Thanks for the tip. I went back to see and, although the subtitles throughout are very accurate, here McCarthyism is "transcribed" to "maoism".

    • @isaiahthompson2134
      @isaiahthompson2134 9 дней назад +1

      ​@@brookeelliott7549I fail to see how it could be, Maoism & McCarthyism sound nothing alike beyond both starting with M and ending ism

  • @jubersurve
    @jubersurve 4 дня назад

    Thanks professors for your expert opinion ❤

  • @Trumpforeever
    @Trumpforeever 7 дней назад +2

    Threatening people is not free speech, get your minds right.

    • @josephsilkstone7535
      @josephsilkstone7535 4 дня назад

      The only ones threatening were the Israel counter protesters and the police who are trained by Israel.

  • @gw7217
    @gw7217 3 дня назад

    Love you Amy, good job 🎉

  • @ilfyf
    @ilfyf 2 дня назад

    New Rules of War for the West: A Dangerous Precedent
    The protesters claim that Palestinians are the oppressed,
    with Israel as the oppressor.
    They argue that the violence and terror,
    such as the actions of October 7,
    are justified as part of their resistance.
    However, they overlook the fact
    that Israel's efforts are focused
    on avoiding harm to civilians
    while targeting a terror organization.
    This narrative of "oppression"
    has been similarly used in the West
    by groups claiming historical injustices-
    whether Indigenous, Black, or others.
    These protesters are now pushing
    to rewrite the rules of war for the entire West,
    justifying massacres, kidnappings-
    including babies, the elderly-
    and brutal abuse of women, men, and children.
    Are they setting the stage for future violence,
    potentially turning it against whites themselves?

  • @aliabouyeh8017
    @aliabouyeh8017 9 дней назад

    i just love seeing such a courageous ladies speech so uplifting god and force be with you.

  • @Kryojenix
    @Kryojenix 9 дней назад

    If there are any Australians in the comments, now you know why Bill Shorten turned down a cushy Paris diplomatic posting to be vice chancellor of Canberra University instead.

  • @Blackjack09721
    @Blackjack09721 10 дней назад +1

    Lol, and I am sure these college admins don't think about race or income when choosing who comes into the school. I am sure everything is based on merit only to become a student.

  • @patricialongo5870
    @patricialongo5870 9 дней назад

    Privatized education was never going to do something else.

  • @nelms78
    @nelms78 10 дней назад

    The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects several freedoms, including:

    Freedom of speech: The right to speak, including offensive words and phrases used to convey political messages

    Freedom of the press: The right to gather information and publish it

    • @jamesbarnes3832
      @jamesbarnes3832 9 дней назад

      for real. The Justice Department will defend Neo-Nazis right to say what they want, but not people that want freedom for Palestinians?

  • @addammadd
    @addammadd 9 дней назад

    Quit.
    Quit going to these institutions.

  • @ma32851
    @ma32851 День назад

    Why does DemocracyNow! keep popping up on my RUclips feed? I hate it and wouldn't watch it if you paid me.

  • @angelobee2038
    @angelobee2038 9 дней назад

    THANK TO BE THERE NRVER GIVE UP HOPE🐝🐝

  • @TheWillmo65
    @TheWillmo65 10 дней назад +1

    Reagan and Meese did that in the 1960's.

  • @CarltonSmith45
    @CarltonSmith45 4 дня назад

    Why won't you have Jill Stein on?

  • @thinkingtoomuch7974
    @thinkingtoomuch7974 2 дня назад

    Students should go to China to get a better but cheaper education. Why stick around and get squashed for sticking up for what's right?

  • @lyle4244
    @lyle4244 8 дней назад

    1964 New York times vs Sullivan case supreme court case law debate on public issues shall not be uninhibited
    “[W]e consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
    Justice William Brennan (Majority)

  • @SUZESTONE
    @SUZESTONE 5 дней назад

    So if we're going to talk about freedom of speech, how about not ignoring Jill Stein as a presidential candidate? What's your beef with Jill Stein, Amy? What happened to fair and balanced reporting on Democracy Now? What exactly about your news reports are democratic?

  • @DONeasyfrag
    @DONeasyfrag 3 дня назад

    I read Kathrine Franke's letter supporting the students who cheered october 7. Wow! How do you become such a bad personand such a bad jurist? It was a clear violation of international law.