Re: [Salon] 'Campuses in revolt:' Columbia-like encampments emerge across USA

[Tom Pauken <twpauken@sbcglobal.net>]

Tom Cotten is a protege of neoconservative Bill Kristol who helped him get elected. At one point I believe Kristol’s son was on his staff. Along with Lindsey Graham, Cotton is one of most reliable neocon Warhawks. Tom Pauken
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> On Apr 24, 2024, at 7:13 AM, Todd Pierce via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
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> Sent this to Chas alone, the first time, with just doing a “Reply.”
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>> On Apr 24, 2024, at 6:44 AM, Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com> wrote:
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>> What the escalation/acceleration of Israeli genocide of Palestinians has produced is a clear “battle line,” using Willmoore Kendall’s analogy to Carl Schmitt’s “Friend-Enemy” distinction, between human beings increasingly becoming opposed to what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, such as college students belatedly realizing it, and taking action against it now. And those who prefer to be part of what an “anonymous” Israeli General calls “The Human Machine Team” as the title of his book is, engaged in mass murder of Palestinians, using the full-array of modern warfare, to especially include AI, that’s been in the news lately.
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>> But politicians long favored by the "New Right,” as extolled in The American Conservative so often, Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, and though less often, the Quincy Institute, for Josh Hawley, have not only taken their place next to the worst of the worst Israeli fascists, but are in the vanguard of the “Conservative Revolutionary Movement” of Yoram Hazony, fighting for “Israeli Settlers and fascist’s “rights.” “Rights” they demand for endless Greater Israel expansion, free of the shackles of International Law. To especially include the Law of War.
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>> So not surprisingly, Cotton and Hawley are in the forefront in the simultaneous “cognitive war operation” against protesters opposing Israeli genocide. To include, perhaps even a majority, of Jewish Americans who declare “Not in Our Name,” and are in the forefront opposing Israeli genocide and fascism.  
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>> Here’s Cotton doing all he can to defend Israel against truth tellers:
>> https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/us-senator-recommends-ripping-skin-gaza-protesters
>> BLUF: "On Thursday, Cotton also weighed in regarding a report that the International Criminal Court could bring “international arrest warrants in the relatively near future against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials for alleged war crimes.”
>> "Cotton, attempting to intimidate the court and its officials, said he was “putting ICC officials on notice.”
>> "He added, “If you side with Hamas and Iran (allies of Putin) and enter the political battlefield against Israel, you will be sanctioned. Get your dollars out of the US now and say goodbye to ever visiting America again.”
>> "He’s clearly worried that a fair appraisal will find Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza – and with US arms."
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>> Here’s Hawley, in the lead from the beginning to suppress any dissent to Israel’s current genocidal escalation onslaught:
>> https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-urges-doj-investigate-outside-funding-far-left-anti-israel-student-groups
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>> And now in tandem with Cotton demanding military force be used against antiwar protesters, as the Right/Conservatives, have always called for:
>> https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4612618-hawley-cotton-biden-national-guard-gaza-protests-columbia/
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>> And showing the Republican Party is 100% supportive of suppressing any criticism of Israel, which Trump defined as “anti-semitism” for the USG:
>> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-hawley-calls-out-palestinian-student-group-anti-israel-messages-campus-building
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>> But from the article below:
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>> "At University of Minnesota Twin Cities, activists attempted to establish an encampment, but authorities cleared it on Tuesday before it could fully assemble. Eight UMN students and one staff member were banned from the campus for one year and arrested and charged with trespassing.”
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>> The U of M administrative leadership is very much pro-war, as I’ve seen in my experience, hosting and “whitewashing” Condoleeza Rice, as one glaring example. And promoting drone warfare at the Law School, etc. So no surprise here that they would “nip in the bud” any protest against Israeli genocide.  
>> So, in response to an email yesterday from a local antiwar group, I went to the jail where a protest against the arrest was taking place, even contributed a few dollars for bail, and volunteered to help in their defense to the National Lawyers Guild attorney present.
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>> That’s taking my stand, on the opposing side of the “battle lines,” of Cotton, Hawley, the National Conservatives, the New Right, and the ZioCons (self-described as "Traditional Conservative”), all backers of Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy. All of whom in various ways call for the elimination of any resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation and its genocide, and fraudulently dba “Restrainers” and “Right-wing Peaceniks.”
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>>>> On Apr 23, 2024, at 7:53 PM, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
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>>> https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-798301
>>> 'Campuses in revolt:' Columbia-like encampments emerge at US universities Encampments were started at Yale, the University of Michigan, New York University, The New School, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, and Rutgers University. By MICHAEL STARR
>>> Updated: APRIL 23, 2024 21:31 A counter protestor talks into a microphone as people gather outside of Columbia University to demand a ceasefire and the end of Israeli attacks on Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a protest in New York, US, April 20, 2024. (photo credit: Reuters/Adam Gray)
>>> Anti-Israel protest encampments have emerged on at least 10 American universities in emulation of the Columbia University campus occupation, following National Students for Justice in Palestine and several other pro-Palestinian groups calling to seize the institution to force the adoption of boycott, divestment, and sanctions on Saturday night.
>>> In addition to the Columbia encampment that had started on Wednesday, encampments were started in recent days at Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The New School, New York University, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Vanderbilt University has had an encampment since March 26, and rededicated the protest with the Columbia movement.
>>> NSJP listed Rutgers University as the location of another encampment, but the local SJP groups haven't displayed any such demonstration. The protests have spread beyond the US, with encampments appearing at University of Alberta in Canada, and University of Sydney in Australia.  
>>> An encampment was also established on Friday at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but the local SJP chapter said on Instagram on Monday that they had moved from the location. A University of Washington St. Louis encampment was removed, and a police presence has prevented protesters from returning.
>>> At University of Minnesota Twin Cities, activists attempted to establish an encampment, but authorities cleared it on Tuesday before it could fully assemble. Eight UMN students and one staff member were banned from the campus for one year and arrested and charged with trespassing. Demonstrators sit in an encampment as they protest in solidarity with Pro-Palestinian organizers on the Columbia University campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in New York City, US. April 19, 2024. (credit: CAITLIN OCHS/REUTERS)More than 40 arrested at Yale
>>> In a social media post by NSJP entitled "campuses in revolt," the organization promised that more encampments would be established.
>>> "Over the last 72 hours, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapters across the country have erupted in a fierce display of power and pressure targeted at their universities for their endless complicity and profiteering off the genocide on Gaza and the colonization of Palestine," said NSJP on Sunday.
>>> "The encampments transform mass mobilization into long-term sustained occupation, leveraging our tangible power as students to give our institutions no other option but to divest."
>>> NSJP said in a Monday statement that there would be no classes or compliance with the administration until their demands to adopt Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions policies were met.
>>> "We will seize control of our institutions, campus by campus, until Palestine is free," said NSJP.
>>> On Tuesday, several SJP chapters published identical demands, including the disclosure of financial ties to "zionist entities," issuance of a call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian students arrested and suspended because of the protests.
>>> Yale anti-Israel activists claimed on Monday that over 40 students were arrested that morning by police at the behest of the administration. American Muslims for Palestine Connecticut put the number at 49 activists.
>>> "We will not stop, we will not rest until we have disclosure and divestment," said AMP.
>>> While the encampment was removed by the police, students have continued to protest and have demanded the return of their protest materials. They moved to a new location on campus on Monday. Yalies 4 Palestine said that they were "still here," on Tuesday but that "Police and Yale are still threatening us with arrest."
>>> The New School SJP said Monday that they had terminated negotiations with the administration after they threatened them with suspension unless they left the school lobby.
>>> NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition said that over 100 students, faculty, and community members had been arrested by the NYPD at the encampment Monday night, but said Tuesday that they had all been released.
>>> Humboldt for Palestine said that police had pushed into their encampment on Monday night, and while several student activists had been arrested, they had been released.  
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