maryam alwan🇵🇸🍉
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// @sciencespo x @columbia ‘25 // @columbiasjp // “the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes & ears. it was their final, most essential command”😐
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@Columbia
University may have devolved into a fascist police state, but it cannot arrest our joy. It cannot arrest our love. Most of all, it cannot arrest our commitment to Palestinian liberation.
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‼️‼️BREAKING: SciencesPo Paris, the top university in France which hosts a dual degree program with Columbia, has just launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This officially marks the spread of the protests to Europe. So incredibly proud of my peers🔥🇵🇸💪
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Police were quite literally throwing tables and pushing students down the stairs until one passed out. Inviting the NYPD onto campus at
@Columbia
University has both destroyed more property and endangered more people than the original occupation of the building.
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Rise and shine from day five of Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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I have never felt as unsafe as I have on Columbia’s campus as I have over the past six months while facing death threats, harassment from peers and professors, and racialized school surveillance. I finally feel safe again for the first time in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. (1/)
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The cognitive dissonance of sitting on a lawn surrounded by people calmly reading and chatting while seeing articles describing us as a so-called mob on campus… media distortion is genuinely mind-boggling.
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Y’all will really do anything but actually listen to the students telling you to stop funding a genocide… this is crazy😭
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Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The space here is in their memory. Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine:
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I don’t really have words to encapsulate what took place on
@Columbia
’s campus last night. Here is an email I just sent to many administrators, in response to a January email following the chemical attack where I conveyed that they would not do anything if one of us was shot:
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Columbia University is currently issuing arbitrary suspensions to students, many of whom were not even present on the lawn yesterday following the order to disperse. Some are international students. This school’s cruelty knows no bounds.
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success of the day is getting the formidable beast of the New York Times to use the word “genocide” in an article🫶
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the line between satire and reality grows blurrier and blurrier.
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thinking about how when I met President Shafik on April 8th she told me to “take care of myself” only for her to arrest me the following week for peacefully protesting😭girl you are not taking care of me
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This school is so dystopian. Everything is completely militarized with police everywhere outside; they’ve set up barricades inside the campus; and now there’s a helicopter buzzing loudly overhead. The existence of some tents and Palestinian flags is that threatening to
@Columbia
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for months diaspora Palestinians like myself have been grappling with severe depression and the survivor’s guilt of not having survived anything in the first place. the fog has finally lifted; we college students sparked an international movement.
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Columbia admin is so manipulative. I was arrested on the grounds of “trespassing” at my own school on 4/18, meaning I should’ve been suspended first in order to be arrested, but I was retroactively suspended for “Violation of law (being arrested/trespassing).” Circular logic.
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Does nobody else find it bizarre that so many major news outlets across the country are writing entire profiles on individual students as if we are celebrities or criminals? The point of this is to disrupt, direct attention to Gaza, and divest. Every day I’m more disillusioned.
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THREAD: Songs I associate with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that
@Columbia
University cruelly destroyed, where I finally felt safe and surrounded by community on campus again for the first time in months🧵
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The level of community is unmatched. You leave your belongings for hours and come back to find them untouched in a lawn full of hundreds of people. People are constantly donating supplies, blankets, and food. Fathers bringing their children and old couples bringing their pets.
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thinking about how us college students were scarred by the doxxing trucks back in November and now we’re singing while getting beat up by cops😭
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Police are asking for Columbia ID blocks away from the campus gates. Instead of divesting from apartheid, Columbia used the NYPD set up its own checkpoints and barricades. The same “security” notion weaponized against Palestinians imported to corral NYC Ivy League students.
Intolerable: our campus at Columbia has been turned into a police state. Amsterdam and 116th blockaded. Morningside from 114th to 118th blockaded. Nothing but NYPD, no one else present. Leaving office now, empty hallways except 6 guards. All the trappings of authoritarian state.
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I’ve had heartfelt conversations with countless people of all walks of life in the past few days, all of us eating together and huddling under our blankets in rain & in cold. Movie screenings, dancing, teach-ins from 1968 protesters. We are reclaiming our education from fascism.
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I am still horrified by what I witnessed tonight. Columbia University will never be the same again.
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This tweet is from 2021.
Tonight, I put the kids to sleep in our bedroom. So that when we die, we die together and no one would live to mourn the loss of one another.
#GazaUnderAttack
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journalists please be patient we are utterly swamped and overwhelmed right now😭😭if you want a quote from me it’s to focus on why we’re here in the first place: 310 executed Palestinians were just found in Nasser Hospital. if you’re writing about us w/o mentioning this, don’t.
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Joe Biden is going to lose the upcoming election. He is banking on the assumption that the depravity of his opponent will force our hand, but he has lost the vote of the youth, Arabs, Muslims, and many people sickened by his unconditional aiding and abetting of genocide (1/3)
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interacting with Columbia admin as a Palestinian student feels like choking on my own food at a fancy dinner table with all of them pretending not to notice. and then later finding out that they poisoned the food.
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the elite really cannot fathom that the “most educated” students see Palestinians as human. the mere presence a keffiyeh on Columbia’s Alma Mater statue made donors throw a fit until they fenced it off last semester. suffice it to say that their brains are short-circuiting now.
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wowww so Palestinian-Americans will be able to access our land despite Israel’s apartheid entry policies??😍😍
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Photos taken moments before disaster: the Maryam squared tent before Columbia called the cops. We sure do look like a threat to safety…
@bluepashminas
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I can’t wait to read about this in the history books. “Liberated Zone” symbolism from Columbia University’s 1968 anti-Vietnam War protests reused for anti-genocide protests in 2024 and then spreading to colleges across the country.
good morning from the umich liberated zone
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if we’re talking about harassment one of the kids in this pic literally screamed “terrorist” into a bullhorn at us until I had a panic attack a couple weeks ago lol
This morning I went to Columbia University and convened City Hall, NYPD & Columbia’s President to discuss the need to fight antisemitism and protect public safety.
The recent harassment and rhetoric is vile and abhorrent. Every student deserves to be safe.
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Hey
@NYPost
, the epitome of ethical journalism:
1. Alwan*
2. I just celebrated my 22nd birthday in the camp!
3. I was arrested & suspended for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, not Resistance 101
4. This photo is not me but I’m honored
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It is truly a remarkable feat to make an apology video and somehow manage to not apologize at all
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The first image is from Israel’s onslaught on Gaza when I was studying at
@sciencespo
in May 2021. I thought France was repressive for kettling us. Little did I know that two years later,
@columbia
would arrest 108 of us ON CAMPUS for protesting yet another Israeli bombardment.
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Spending my 22nd birthday in Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment—there’s no place I’d rather be :))
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I hate to break it to these panicked politicians, but removing the figureheads of US colleges will not undo the awakening of thousands of students to the plight of the Palestinians. To the contrary, the more you crack down, the more we rise. There is no going back.
What’s happening on Columbia’s campus is the direct result of failed and incompetent leadership.
@Columbia
President Minouche Shafik has emboldened terrorist sympathizers and willfully neglected to protect the safety of Jewish students.
She must resign immediately.
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My friends keep saying they haven’t seen me this happy since prior to the start of the genocide. I’ve finally felt like myself again in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. In its latest act of psychological warfare, Columbia threatened to call the National Guard during negotiations.
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The encampment was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. I will never be able to recreate that sense of community, creation, sumud, & solidarity. But it lives on through our music and memories, and when Columbia divests, we will remember how they ripped this away
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Can everyone please let this sentence sink in….
The pro-Palestine protestors were arrested for attempting to block attempted vehicular manslaughter?
And the attacker is the relative of an Israeli extremist who bombed a Palestinian-American activist in California in 1985?
PRESS RELEASE: Zionist Driver Runs Down Peaceful Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Manhattan Street. Columbia University students picketed outside of trustee homes in protest of Columbia’s complicity in genocide.
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As someone who begged my dad to protest against this neo-Nazi march back when I had a mouthful of braces; who was scarred by Heather Heyer's murder and won a social change scholarship in her name; and who is now protesting for Palestine at Columbia—this Tweet is absolutely vile🧵
The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was reprehensible. But it ended in two days.
What’s happening now on college campuses is worse. It’s been happening for weeks with no end in sight. It’s based on hatred toward Jews and America.
Where is Biden? Biden the hypocrite…
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Less than 4 hours after an encampment in solidarity with Palestine was set up,
@sciencespo
has unleashed the police on its students, dragging them out by their hands and feet. Our violent institutions rear their ugly heads as they protect the dying viability of their investments.
Students are violently taken one by one out of Sciences Po through the main narrow door of Saint Thomas to Place Thomas D'Aquin.
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Meanwhile, Columbia invited police onto campus to arrest us for the first time since 1968 (AND suspended us) for merely setting up tents within the “designated demonstration zone” of South field, which does not disrupt any classes. Columbia shut itself down for no reason.
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It was an honor to join
@JoyAnnReid
and
@ministter
tonight to show the reality of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment!
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these conspiracy theories are so funny. we are youth camping out to stop genocide who are facing empty threats of the national guard by our University, government officials breathing down our necks, individual NY Post hit pieces written about us… unreal.
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Arresting pro-Palestine protestors only galvanized the onlooking student body to spontaneously occupy the second lawn. If Columbia wants to return to normalcy, it must listen to us and divest. There is no normalcy for those in Gaza being pummeled with our tax & tuition dollars.
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Columbia hasn’t continued with any graduation preparation since last week; they were always going to cancel it. Students are outraged and did not even receive an email. They all found out from the news.
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It is really disheartening to see our media and government officials smear and distort Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Anyone who studies social movement theory knows that fringe incidents are consistently overblown in order to delegitimize efforts for change.
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best mother-daughter duo! thanks for coming by❤️🔥
I had the honor of seeing the Columbia University anti-war encampment firsthand.
Contrary to right-wing attacks, these students are joyfully protesting for peace and an end to the genocide taking place in Gaza.
I’m in awe of their bravery and courage.
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It’s not normal that Columbia SJP has had to deal with lawsuits, an unaddressed hate crime in January, repeated hospitalizations, illegitimate arrests, doxxing, threats. Everyone is forgetting that we are just college students. This is the most hostile environment imaginable.
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ALL EYES ON
@SCIENCESPO
‼️‼️‼️
URGENT: French police have just entered
@sciencespo
Paris after the students have started earlier today an encampment for Palestine.
#SciencesPo
#Palestine
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no matter how long divestment takes, we’ve already successfully educated the future leaders of the U.S. about the Palestinian struggle. that is precisely why the elites are so terrified: they know that the status quo of apartheid and dispossession is crumbling before their eyes.
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The
@NYCLU
lawsuit I helped file to challenge Columbia’s suspension of SJP and JVP is particularly relevant now. From April 14th to April 21st, 2016, students occupied Low Library (the main administrative building!) to demand divestment from fossil fuels. They weren’t arrested.
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At this point, I would wager that almost every single Palestinian student at this school has been targeted by draconian, disproportionate disciplinary policies. Institutional discrimination is a violation of Title VI. Imagine if any other minority was subject to this.
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the past 24 hours I’ve gotten sexually charged hate mail calling me an “inbred dirty Arab whore,” a confession of love from someone I haven’t spoken to in two years, a NY Post smear piece mixing me up with someone else, 2,000+ texts/calls, a false alarm about the national guard..
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The Gaza Solidarity Encampment won’t let me play Taylor Swift🤬🤬🤬maybe the mainstream media is right about these fools😤
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Columbia offered an “alternative resolution” to lift the suspension and put us on probation if we promise not to protest again between now and June 2025, and they keep trying to pressure us to agree. They know we’re not a threat to anyone’s safety—they just don’t want dissent.
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As Columbia students were arrested last week, we linked arms, sang, and chanted, “disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest,” over and over as we were picked off one by one. These words are now echoing around the world for the people of Palestine🇵🇸🥹
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oh gosh I haven’t practiced French in so long 😭😭
Maryam Alwan, étudiante au sein du double programme Sciences Po Paris - Columbia, a été arrêtée par la police new yorkaise et suspendue par son université pour avoir pacifiquement participé aux campements mis en place en soutien à Gaza sur les campus américains
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Does nobody else find it utterly bizarre that instead of fighting crime, the NYPD is using their brutalization of college protests to spin an incessant self-indulged PR campaign?
We
@NYPDDaughtry
@NYPDnews
@NYPDDCPI
had,and will continue to have, a strong weekly platform to tell our story. A platform to highlight the daily work of the greatest police department in the world. This is now a two way street with our reach hitting millions! Great job to our…
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Israeli soldier students who physically assaulted my Arab friends in a mass hate crime at the GS gala, without any mainstream coverage, haven’t faced any consequences. Meanwhile, I’m suspended for setting up tents in the designated demonstration zone.
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As funny as this video is, it should be deeply concerning to Biden. His government is resorting to fascism and state violence to repress dissent instead of listening. If college kids are willing to get arrested and suspended en masse, what makes him think we’ll vote for him?
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#2
: A song that goes “Where you go I will go my friend, where you go I will go. Your people are my people, your people are mine. Our struggles align.” It hasn’t left my head since April 17th, when a protestor taught it to the massive crowd that mobilized to protect us from arrest
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Following the occupation of Hamilton Hall, Columbia University is officially on lockdown. It is unclear what this means for those who rely on a meal plan or health services. I guess we’re all interim suspended now… 🥴🥴
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SJP x JVP when we help start a student revolution and then get our noses pierced 😎😎
@NYPDChiefPatrol
you wish you were us😤😤
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We were wearing masks back then for protection from the pandemic, not from peers doxxing and digitally harassing us. But the parallels are all too noticeable—France had banned this peaceful demonstration in advance. The Palestinian exception to free speech transcends borders.
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#1
: “Linger” by the Cranberries because it was stuck in my head as we were setting up the tents for the very first time at 4am on April 17th. I kept singing it that night and then a lot of people started sleeplessly humming it for hours
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Columbia admin will not stop citing the “importance” of their new policies, which they violated both their own policymaking rules and institutional precedent to create; all while they profit off of endless humanitarian law violations… give me a break
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Today, Columbia announced that it will not divest from Israel without explaining why. But just as our brave student predecessors eventually won divestment from fossil fuels, we too will prevail—no matter how much racist force our school sics onto us.
#cu4palestine
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Since the fall semester, Columbia admin has been closing the campus gates for no reason during every pro-Palestine protest to associate the inconvenience with us. Now, they’ve shut down campus altogether. They don’t realize that students see through it & only resent them more
what is the point of arresting all of these students & then shutting campus down? is upper columbia admin that scared of tents? it’s not stopping anyone from protesting, autonomous actions are happening. this doesn’t fix any of the tensions & makes students resentful.
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I can’t sleep waiting for what’s about to unfold in Rafah. I don’t know how we’ll ever be able to forgive the world for normalizing Palestinian death.
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To clarify: by protests, I meant protests of a tent nature.*** SciencesPo (and other European universities) have been going strong for months now, including when they took over the school auditorium on March 12th! More photos of their encampment here:
‼️‼️BREAKING: SciencesPo Paris, the top university in France which hosts a dual degree program with Columbia, has just launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This officially marks the spread of the protests to Europe. So incredibly proud of my peers🔥🇵🇸💪
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Can the trolls lay off of me for one second… I swear I could tweet something like “the sky is blue” and they’d respond with “we’ll beat you until you’re black and blue Am Yisrael Chai😡😡😡”
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The only harassment I’ve witnessed inside the camp has come from Zionists. I urge the public to question why certain narratives are always overvalued. Our institutions all have a stake in profiting off of this genocide, which necessitates manufacturing consent by sowing hysteria.
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#4
: “We Shall Not Be Moved,” a song from the Civil Rights Movement that we sang the afternoon of April 18th as we linked arms and the NYPD arrested us for “trespassing” one by one because we refused to leave until Columbia divested
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#5
: Not a song, but the chant “Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest”—which has now spread nationwide along with the encampments
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My Palestinian friend has been racially profiled and suspended by Columbia three separate times this year. Columbia suspended the encampment’s lead negotiator, another Palestinian student on a Visa, as an intimidation tactic and then rescinded it the next day. It’s all arbitrary.
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It was so lovely to meet you❤️🔥❤️🔥
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#3
: “Dammi Falastini,” which played at midnight on April 18th with hundreds of students surrounding us and chanting in solidarity with Gaza. We hardly slept, waiting for the police to come at any minute, but the celebration of making it through the day overshadowed the fear
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I am so full of love & pride for my beautiful friends. For those who are speaking out and revealing their names for the first time, even as their parents are called with threats. For those who do so much behind the scenes without recognition. For every single person on this lawn.
PRESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHT:
Arrested and suspended Jewish students at Columbia University reaffirm their commitment to Palestinian Liberation.
Solidarity with
@JVPColumbia
🕊️
#cu4palestine
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thinking about the fact that
@Columbia
started holding daily press conferences because the students in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment do… they copy everything🤣
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#6
: Songs I forced everyone to sing on my corrections van when I was arrested on April 18th: “The Wheels on the Bus,” “I Will Survive,” and, for some reason, “What Makes You Beautiful”
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female friendship is so beautiful and I fear that Minouche Shafik will never understand this
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Beyond Biden’s blatant disregard for his voter base (and humanity) is historical precedent. The backlash against the anti-Vietnam War college protests led to Nixon’s “law and order” campaign and election in 1968. Biden’s refusal to stop funding war crimes will bring us all down
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The hysteria is actually killing me why are you threatened by kids doing yoga 😭😭😭😭
Palestinian activists do yoga while wearing medical MASKS as they continue to occupy the Columbia campus with their ‘Liberation Zone’ encampment.
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oh my heart🥹🥹🥹
📍Birzeit University 🇵🇸
*FALASTEEN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
images from @ Nazzal.BZU on Instagram
#StudentIntifada
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This is such funny framing pleaseeeeee😭😭😭
Masked Columbia University students perform bizarre silent dance without music as they entertain the hundreds of Palestinian activists occupying the university campus.
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ironically, as the false smear campaigns and graphic death/rape threats reach new heights, I’ve never been happier. no sinister force can undo the history that we’ve made. they want us to feel helpless and we’ve proved them wrong.
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It’s been 3 weeks, the arrest summons charges were all dropped, & Columbia still hasn’t provided any information or hearing date whatsoever. I knew there would be consequences to civil disobedience, but there has been no due process. The illegitimate arrest should’ve been enough.
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certain images have stuck with me from this genocide. this will be another.
Another morning of grief in Rafah on the 214th day of the Israeli-sanctioned bloodbath in the Gaza Strip.
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#7
: Songs that the NYPD radio was playing that were deeply unserious: “Toxic” by Britney Spears, “Water” by Tyla, “Dance the Night,” by Dua Lipa, “Hello,” by Adele. According to my friends in another corrections van, they were tuned into the same radio station
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Consistently in awe of the talent and ingenuity of our student body. The plot of this year’s Varsity Show — an annual tradition satirizing Columbia — was President Shafik’s incompetence in handling a plane crash and her censorship of the victim students as they demanded change.
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Interim suspensions are emergency measures for situations where the student is a “danger” (re: violence). Columbia is engaging in racist criminalization and clear retaliation. It is weaponizing our ability to gain credit for the semester, our access to dining halls/healthcare…
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Can’t get over how any negative symbolism of the Israeli flag is deemed a hate crime while every institution erases the Palestinian flag without considering it to be discriminatory. The 🇮🇱 flag is an identity but the 🇵🇸 flag is political? Palestinian students don’t exist?
interesting how this photo
@Northeastern
is using to celebrate its recent grads only includes two of the three flags this student was waving
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this looks like an SNL skit
After seeing everything on the news, I decided to go and see for myself what is happening at UCLA. I went in with the intention of having honest conversations to try and truly understand each others pain and suffering . However, no one would speak to me . The only thing they…
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all Columbia does is lie… every student leader I’ve talked to says they were not consulted🤔🤔the student body quite literally found out through the news and a leak on the anonymous social media app Sidechat this morning, before they sent any emails. everyone is fuming.
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Incredible analysis of the current situation at Columbia University:
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