Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campus

A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.

Hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested by the New York police department last week and also suspended by the university.

The solidarity protest came as students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.

The university on Monday morning announced that classes would be held remotely after further days of unrest on the New York campus, following the arrest of pro-Palestinian protesters there last week.

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  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    473·
    8 months ago

    I think you can agree that we can support a group that is suffering from genocide to fight back and it isn’t necessarily antisemitic. Of course, there may be antisemitism from some sectors, but Israel conflates criticism and antisemitism all the time. As a result, at this point, I don’t think it is a big concern. Allowing the protestors to fight against a genocidal nation is the more important issue.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      412·
      8 months ago

      Honestly, I blame AIPAC. AIPAC has been weaponizing any criticism of Isreal as antisemitism for the past decade - doing this erodes our ability to call out genuine antisemitism. AIPAC is accelerating social acceptance of absolutely vile positions.

      For reference, I’m not Jewish but grew up in an antizionist slanted Jewish community and I think that Isreal’s actions in Gaza are atrocious but I also don’t fucking tolerate any genuine antisemitism (which does pop up on lemmy from time to time).

    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.worldEnglish
      224·
      8 months ago

      I was just shocked that there are apparently people who don’t hear “zionism” and have the same reaction as hearing the word “Nazism”. The whole article is written from the perspective of a Zionist (bad).

      • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        263·
        8 months ago

        Exactly, you have people protesting a genocide, and then there are students carrying the flag of the genocidal nation to provoke the protestors. To me, I would probably treat it as a white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag to a George Floyd protest.

        I agree with the other poster, this article is revolting in it’s one-sided treatment of the issue.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      I saw a TV playing Fox News today, and they were running a bit on this labeled “anti-israel protests”, so that certainly doesn’t help either.