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Report: "Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin says it will sever all ties with Israel because of ongoing violations of international & humanitarian law”.

"The decision comes after a series of student protests bringing attention to Israeli military abuses in Gaza & calling for an end to ties with the country."

aje.io/5q7i7s?update=3752675

#TrinityCollegeDublin #studentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .

Al Jazeera · Updates: Israel kills nearly 100 people in Gaza in 24 hours, halts aidBy Tim Hume

Report: "Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin says it will sever all ties with Israel because of ongoing violations of international & humanitarian law”.

"The decision comes after a series of student protests bringing attention to Israeli military abuses in Gaza & calling for an end to ties with the country."

aje.io/5q7i7s?update=3752675

#TrinityCollegeDublin #studentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .

Al Jazeera · Updates: Israel kills nearly 100 people in Gaza in 24 hours, halts aidBy Tim Hume

the University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protestersBy Tom Perkins

Interview: "Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in Immigration Gulag, Challenges Deportation Efforts"

"Khalil has been detained in Louisiana for nearly three months, in what Azmy calls one of our immigration gulags.”

"Khalil’s legal team is now challenging the State Department’s determination that his presence in the United States harms the country’s foreign policy interests."

democracynow.org/2025/6/5/mahm

#Trump #Fascism #MahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol @palestine .

Democracy Now! · Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation EffortsBy Democracy Now!

Interview: "Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in Immigration Gulag, Challenges Deportation Efforts"

"Khalil has been detained in Louisiana for nearly three months, in what Azmy calls one of our immigration gulags.”

"Khalil’s legal team is now challenging the State Department’s determination that his presence in the United States harms the country’s foreign policy interests."

democracynow.org/2025/6/5/mahm

#Trump #Fascism #MahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol @palestine .

Democracy Now! · Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation EffortsBy Democracy Now!
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@angryeducationworkers

President Trump, we are not afraid of you!
Madeleine Jubilee Saito (June 2025)

“I am saying it clear and loud: To President Trump and his Cabinet, I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!” — Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi addresing supporters after being released following an ICE kidnapping

justseeds.org/graphic/presiden

JustseedsPresident Trump, we are not afraid of you! - Justseeds“I am saying it clear and loud: To President Trump and his Cabinet, I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!” — Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi addresing supporters after being released following an... Read More »

"Newly unsealed records provide new details about the Trump administration’s failed effort this spring to obtain a search warrant for an Instagram account run by student protesters at Columbia University.

The FBI and federal prosecutors sought a sweeping warrant, the records show, that would have identified the people who ran the account along with every user who had interacted with it since January 2024.

Between March 15 and April 14, the FBI and the Department of Justice filed multiple search warrant applications and appeared numerous times before two different judges in Manhattan federal court as part of an investigation into Columbia University Apartheid Divest, or CUAD, a student group. A magistrate judge denied the application three times in March, a decision which a district court judge later affirmed in April.

“The government is trying to criminalize constitutionally protected political expression associated with the pro-Palestine protest movement,” said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union."

theintercept.com/2025/06/04/fb

The Intercept · How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student ProtestersBy Shawn Musgrave

Interview: "Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in Immigration Gulag, Challenges Deportation Efforts"

"Khalil has been detained in Louisiana for nearly three months, in what Azmy calls one of our immigration gulags.”

"Khalil’s legal team is now challenging the State Department’s determination that his presence in the United States harms the country’s foreign policy interests."

democracynow.org/2025/6/5/mahm

#Trump #Fascism #MahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol @palestine .

Report: "Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin says it will sever all ties with Israel because of ongoing violations of international & humanitarian law”.

"The decision comes after a series of student protests bringing attention to Israeli military abuses in Gaza & calling for an end to ties with the country."

aje.io/5q7i7s?update=3752675

#TrinityCollegeDublin #studentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .

Al Jazeera · Updates: Israel kills nearly 100 people in Gaza in 24 hours, halts aidBy Tim Hume

Report: "Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin says it will sever all ties with Israel because of ongoing violations of international & humanitarian law”.

"The decision comes after a series of student protests bringing attention to Israeli military abuses in Gaza & calling for an end to ties with the country."

aje.io/5q7i7s?update=3752675

#TrinityCollegeDublin #studentProtests #GazaGenocide #BDS #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .

Al Jazeera · Updates: Israel kills nearly 100 people in Gaza in 24 hours, halts aidBy Tim Hume
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Yesterday, I spent a little time on this account writing about the Trump regime, Project Esther, and the fascist American right's plan to use anti-terrorism laws to crush their political opposition. Unfortunately, I ran out of room to say everything I wanted to say so last night I expanded my thoughts over on NIDC and did the sourcing legwork.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/27

Nina-Bytes: Trump’s COINTELPRO Looms Into Focus

"This then brings us to the ominous reality so very few observers in the media seem to be grasping, namely that targeting the anti-genocide, pro-Palestine movement is merely the tip of the fascist spear in the Trump regime’s war on dissent and political opposition. The rhetoric, suppression techniques, and legal arguments that are being deployed against foreign anti-genocide student protestors as we speak are easy to replicate while targeting more or less the entire oppositional left in America, including milquetoast NGOs, aid groups, and likely even “liberal” political organizations like the Democratic Party. The broad and extremely vague nature of our terrorism laws leaves room for the Trump regime to label almost anyone a member of a terrorist organization, and define material support for that organization in any way they please. The authors of Project Esther are very clear that they consider opposition to capitalism, or the American state as embodied by the Trump administration, to be valid targets for those designations. If anti-genocide protest is “materially supporting Hamas,” then funding migrant support work is probably “materially supporting narco-terrorist gangs,” and speaking out against the US government can be “materially supporting” any group of “bad guys” around the globe that do the same. The possibilities for targeted, legalized repression are quite literally endless."

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Nina-Bytes: Trump’s COINTELPRO Looms Into Focus | on NIDCAs Trump faces more public opposition to his fascist agenda, the regime is increasingly turning to the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" to crush dissent.
#Fascism#Trump#USPol

'The #Trump administration’s crackdowns on pro-Palestinian #activism look eerily similar to a conservative proposal to target universities and international students it claims are part of a “terrorist support network”.

'Who is behind the plan, and what will its impact be?'

guest: Tariq Kenney-Shawa, AJ+ producer and US policy fellow, Al-Shabaka

omny.fm/shows/the-take/usa-pro

#ProjectEsther #USpol #HeritageFoundation #stateRepression #studentProtests #civilRights #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

"Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, was met with a chorus of boos on Wednesday from some of the 12,000 graduates at the school’s main commencement ceremony as she took the podium to deliver remarks": nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregio #politics #StudentProtests

The New York Times · Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught YearBy Sharon Otterman

may many more colleges and universities follow.

King's College - one of the University of Cambridge, UK's largest - has decided to divest from the arms industry and companies complicit in "the occupation of Ukraine and Palestinian territories", following months of student protests.

middleeasteye.net/news/kings-c

Middle East EyeKing's College Cambridge to divest millions from 'occupation' and arms industryThe college says the policy was 'prompted by the occupation of Ukraine and Palestinian territories'