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The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza

May 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Free Speech, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Organizing, Palestine, US Hypocrisy, US Politics, Zionism

How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]

VCU USES HUNDREDS OF COPS TO BREAK UP PEACEFUL PROTEST

May 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Protest

VCU USES HUNDREDS OF COPS TO BREAK UP PEACEFUL PROTEST by Phil Wilayto, for The Virginia Defenders, April 30, 2024 RICHMOND, VA, April 29 — At about 8:30 this evening, Virginia Commonwealth University put out an alert that a “violent protest” was taking place on the campus of the state’s largest public university. There was violence, but it wasn’t from[…]