Muzzling Critics

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Crackdown on pro-Palestine protestors in NYC appears to backfire, with new encampments springing up at Fordham University

Campus security stood aside as the mob unleashed bricks, fireworks and pepper spray, organizers said.

Both the police crackdowns at Columbia University and elsewhere, and the propaganda that enabled it resembled scenes from an authoritarian foreign country. So we wrote about them as if they were.

New York police officers’ wild claims about student protesters that could put them at risk

The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine.

And they have the legal means to do so.

President Michael Schill agreed to allow students to weigh in on university investments and continue to protest if they end encampment

More than 100 Israel supporters attacked pro-Palestine students at UCLA, using sticks, poles and bear spray to remove protest site

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday that he is “troubled” by the “heavy-handed” steps taken to disperse and dismantle pro-Palestine protests on university campuses in the...

A 65-year-old history professor was 'lucky to be alive' after being 'body slammed and crushed' during a brutal arrest at a Palestine camp at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri....

Pro-Israel protestors attack and destroy pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA in the early hours of Wednesday morning

US police cleared a building occupied by protesters and the main protest camp at Columbia University on Tuesday.

Police fired tear gas at protesters who’d set up a camp at the University of South Florida to condemn the war on Gaza.

A group of pro-Israel supporters have attacked anti-Gaza war protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Police delay intervention into ‘shocking’ attack, featuring masked vigilantes armed with pepper spray and fireworks.

Or UC–Irvine. Neither one resorted to brutalizing its own students.

The famed scholar Judith Butler talks to Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.

The scope of Pro-Palestine activism continues to widen in the U.S. Radical writer Paul Street noticed a distinct difference to the April 15th call for a

In her 60s, she was strip-searched, handcuffed so tightly it caused pain, denied access to food, water and medication for several hours, and held overnight in a cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets, conditions her lawyers described as “terrible” and designed to humiliate.

Country's higher education minister criticizes decision, insisting there were no antisemitic remarks or violence at the Sciences Po demonstrations

Erroll Southers is a top USC administrator facing demands to resign after canceling a valedictorian commencement speech and cracking down on protestors. He has also produced research labeling identifying with Palestinians as a sign of radicalization.

‘The ICC has been biased against Israel for decades,’ Schumer tells JI

‘Antisemitism is not a nuanced academic theory,’ McConnell said on Tuesday

The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression

Press freedom advocates condemned Carlos Sanchez's arrest and called for the charge against him to be dropped.

CUNY's law school canceled student commencement speeches after Muslim women used the platform to criticize Israel.

Over 1,200 protesters have been arrested across dozens of campuses just over the past two weeks.

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