A scene resulting from Columbia University president Minouchye Shafik’s attempt to mollify neo-McCarthyite Congressional Zionists and Republi-fascists by bringing in the NYPD to crack down on students who dare to rise up against the genocidal US-Israeli Crucifixion of Gaza.
The piece I did last week here.
Michael Yates’ statement here.
Report on Union Theological Statement Serene Jones’s statement here.
Avakian’s statement on the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA here.
Breaking…..USA Today just reported this: ‘As tensions over the Israel-Hamas war continue to boil on campuses across the country, Columbia on Monday moved classes online while dozens of students were arrested in protests at Yale and Harvard officials closed Harvard Yard to the public…Demonstrations at both Yale and Harvard were planned, in part, out of solidarity with protesters at Columbia who set up an encampment last week that led to the arrests of more than 100 students. The protests have raised concerns for the safety of Jewish students and fueled a national debate over student demonstrations as campuses across the country grapple with growing unrest over the war in Gaza…Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said in a statement on Monday that while online classes are being held, a working group of deans, university administrators and faculty members "will try to bring this crisis to a resolution" by, among other actions, speaking with student protestors….Lawmakers, meanwhile, called on Shafik to resign.”
The neo-McCarthyites in the US House, many of them Republi-fascist election-deniers, want their third Ivy League presidential head (they’ve already taken down Ivy League CEOs at Harvard and Penn). President Shafik’s willingness to call in the gendarmes isn’t good enough for them.
In other news of imperialist, Western capitalist Orwellian thought control and cancel culture and on the blue side of US intellectual and political culture:
‘THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.” ’
See the full Intercept report here.
American imperialist repression and thought control is richly bipartisan.
(I could swear my friend TT wrote something on all this but can’t find it and could be mistaken. My apologies. I love reading about past rock concerts!)
Pro-Zionist US-Imperialist Repression in "Higher" Education