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A NYU student denounced Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the complicity during his graduation speech.

In response, the university announced that it is withholding the student’s diploma and accused him of “misusing his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views.”

Following the student’s speech, several pro-Israel groups have targeted the student amid accusations of spreading “ugly lies about Israel.”

https://qudsnen.co/nyu-student-condemns-israels-gaza-genocide-during-graduation-speech-university-withholds-diploma-in-response/

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Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (Paperback, 2017, Duke University Press) Aucune note

Author: INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and …

The AIC [Academic Industrial Complex] framework brought renewed attention to the role of the academy in directly supporting criminal punishment systems and military industrial complexes. [2] At the same time, if non-profits have been essential sites for access to life-saving and sustaining resources, universities have remained important locations for generating critical dissent. In recent years, students and teachers have found that space shrinking and made vulnerable through attacks on critical and ethnic studies programs, centers, and faculty members; the elimination of tenure track lines and adjunctification of labor; and the cutting of state funds and increased privatization on the backs of students in the form of unbearable debt. [3]

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Also timely, given that universities have been sites of struggle against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The universities' implicit bargain with the capitalist ruling class of funding-for-workers, at the expense of an education-first model, has left these sites painfully vulnerable -- and sadly, largely ineffective at making material gains.

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Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (Paperback, 2017, Duke University Press) Aucune note

Author: INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and …

La seule chose que je partagerai sur cet event : un danseur a déployé un drapeau palestinien et soudanais lors du show de mi-temps par Kendrick Lamar au avant d'être plaqué par la sécurité et escorté hors du terrain.

Full text of the resignation letter of Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden appointee to resign over the war in Gaza:

Dear Secretary Haaland,

I joined the Biden Administration because I believe in fighting for a better America, for a future where Americans can thrive: one with economic prosperity, a healthy planet, and equal rights for all people. I have dedicated my career to candidates who I believed would further this vision.

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