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inquiline<p>Rubio says they've stripped 300 people of visas for protesting on behalf of Palestinians</p><p>I still think we need to know more about the pipeline of the info leading to these arrests. Is it all being fed to them by motivated antagonists, or are they doing intel of their own?<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"Universities must resist our authoritarian leader’s dictates while there is still time. But the long erasure and dehumanisation of Palestinians is working against our urgent task" - Sandy Tolan<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/20/donald-trump-gaza-protests-us-universities-palestine-arrest-sanctions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/20/donald-trump-gaza-protests-us-universities-palestine-arrest-sanctions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”<br><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-ice-jails-palestinian-protester-universities-must-commit-to-academic-freedom/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/as-ice-j</span><span class="invisible">ails-palestinian-protester-universities-must-commit-to-academic-freedom/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"The reports start from the assumption that one need not possess any knowledge about Gaza, or Israel-Palestine more generally, to determine whether last year’s Gaza protests were antisemitic... Behind this absence is another: None of the task forces include the leading scholars of Palestine, Israel, or antisemitism on the university’s own campuses."</p><p><a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-of-universities-unscholarly-antisemitism-reports" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-</span><span class="invisible">of-universities-unscholarly-antisemitism-reports</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"the response of universities, with their long standing reputations of creating space for intellectual engagement and dissent, stands out. Faculty at <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> and other universities have described a growing climate of academic suppression. And staff have fewer protections"</p><p><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/universities-are-continuing-to-retaliate-against-staff-for-participating-in-gaza-campus-protests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mondoweiss.net/2024/12/univers</span><span class="invisible">ities-are-continuing-to-retaliate-against-staff-for-participating-in-gaza-campus-protests/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/UAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UAW</span></a></p>
inquiline<p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/NYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYU</span></a> has banned professors from campus for being at a peaceful Gaza solidarity protest at the library. One of them, Journalism prof Chenjerai Kumanyika, was merely filming the protest. As, you know, a media producer and scholar might do </p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/AAUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AAUP</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>Not McCarthyism at all... 🙄 </p><p>"Several professors around the US are currently facing investigations, criminal charges and suspensions over pro-Palestine speech" </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/university-professors-discipline-palestine-support" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/24/university-professors-discipline-palestine-support</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>JFC. Higher ed admin who are pulling this shit should all walk into the sea</p><p>"During the study-in, Securitas guards recorded the participants’ names and Harvard ID numbers and distributed sheets of paper warning of possible penalties"<br><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/17/harvard-faculty-protest-in-widener-library/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimson.com/article/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/17/harvard-faculty-protest-in-widener-library/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>Maybe I should have started a <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> thread way back... </p><p>Anyway here's the <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> saying that what uni's are doing "reveals a widespread hostile environment for the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association"; &amp; that this threatens "democratic systems and institutions; ...in addition to failing the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes and to contribute to peace" </p><p><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2024/10/universities-must-respect-peaceful-activism-and-revise-repressive-policies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ohchr.org/en/statements/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">0/universities-must-respect-peaceful-activism-and-revise-repressive-policies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"The University of California Regents approved the purchase of military equipment at September’s UC Regents meeting at UCLA. The unanimous vote took place behind closed doors while the <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/UCLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCLA</span></a> Police Department, dressed in riot gear, forced those who came to give public comment outside of the building"<br><a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/10/ucla-military-hardware-protest-ab481" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lapublicpress.org/2024/10/ucla</span><span class="invisible">-military-hardware-protest-ab481</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/militarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militarism</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/UC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UC</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/LAPublicPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LAPublicPress</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"“They’ve identified who they think are leaders [of the pro-Palestine movement on campus], and therefore [they] are trying to make an example out of me.”"</p><p>Nothing to see here just <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> threatening an international student with deportation for pro-Palestinian protest<br><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cornell-graduate-student-deportation-palestine-protest/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/society/</span><span class="invisible">cornell-graduate-student-deportation-palestine-protest/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"Rather than presume that certain speech is or is not antisemitic, we believe this guide can help clarify a nuanced and contextualized approach to thinking about <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> in this current moment. At the same time, the Guide is not intended as a legal standard nor to be enshrined into law, for to do so risks weaponization that could be used to suppress or chill speech" 👀 </p><p><a href="https://nexusproject.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/A-Campus-Guide-To-Identifying-Antisemitism-In-A-Time-Of-Perplexity.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nexusproject.us/wp-content/upl</span><span class="invisible">oads/2024/09/A-Campus-Guide-To-Identifying-Antisemitism-In-A-Time-Of-Perplexity.pdf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"nothing exceeds the shame and revulsion I feel about the events of the last five months: the violent arrest of our own students, subsequent charges against them for trespassing on their own campus, harsh academic sanctions, and the apparently permanent lockdown of our campus.</p><p>You can bet that other university presidents are keeping a close watch on USC’s experiment, to see if this kind of repression can stand"<br><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/22/usc-the-university-of-lockdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/</span><span class="invisible">22/usc-the-university-of-lockdown</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/USC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USC</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>"What’s happening is obvious: the House committee witch hunt is putting pressure on Northwestern to punish people, &amp; they’ve decided I am one of the people to punish. I am an easy target because—like so many people who are being punished for supporting Palestine on campuses around the nation—I am Black, queer, &amp; very loud. But it’s also awkward for Northwestern because my position is an endowed chair to focus on social justice reporting"<br><a href="https://lithub.com/false-profits-why-i-am-not-teaching-in-the-classroom-this-fall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/false-profits-why-i</span><span class="invisible">-am-not-teaching-in-the-classroom-this-fall/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/GazaProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProtests</span></a></p>