Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
Happiness Vampire; Assist Prof of Soc @ UNB; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; preorder *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
No, you’re right, it doesn’t. Certainly a more complex question. The students are showing us exactly the kind of fights that matter most.
Illiberal in the mainstream usage of ‘liberal’ as ‘progressive’ or left, very much *liberal* in its classical usage, although of late more fascist than that.
We should make sure to be cognizant of two things at once here: 1) this is absolutely a scheme to destroy higher education through the frame that it is ‘woke,’ and 2) these administrators are in no way actually left-leaning and in fact the neoliberal project of higher ed is already illiberal.
One by one they’re removing these university presidents. I have no doubt it’s part of the bigger scheme to end liberal- leaning higher education. Don’t fall for it, people!
The UN says 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel attacked on May 6. That is half the entire population.
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Every time I learn something new about what happened to the amazing students at the UCLA encampment I become more incensed. What a perfect American mirror for the unconscionable injustice that is the genocidal violence in Gaza.
On the night of April 30, peaceful anti-genocide protesters at UCLA were subjected to a vicious assault by Zionists, Proud Boys and other white supremacists who chanted, “I’ll kill you,” “I’ll rape your sister,” and “What Israel does to Gaza, we’ll do to you,” as police looked on.
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“People were crying and being like, ‘Can you call my mom, I need to call my mom, please help me’.”
The violence inflicted on anti-genocide protesters at UCLA by zionists and white supremacists was horrific.
At one point at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment, one of the agitators “harassed several Black women and femmes working security, calling them ‘slaves’ and threatening rape.”
In the days after the rally, “All students passing by the quad endured near-continuous video loops of the October 7 attacks, audio clips with graphic descriptions of rape and sexual violence, sounds of gunshots and screaming babies, clips of President Biden pledging unconditional support for Israel”
At that same anti-encampment rally, one agitator shouted, “We’re not American Jews! We’re Israelis! You stand up against us, we’ll fucking slit your throat.” That night, someone emptied a backpack full of mice injected with an unknown substance into the encampment.
During a rally against the encampment authorized by the university, students were pushed, punched, spat upon, called “dogs,” “whores” (sharmuta in Hebrew), “bitch-ass n—,” and told to “listen to your master” and that “Hamas would rape and murder you for what you’re wearing, sweetheart.”
Earlier in the week, the anti-genocide encampment at UCLA was harassed by agitators who “sexually harassed women in the encampment, blasted loud music, screamed throughout Muslim prayer times, and brought bunches of bananas—which terrified and drove out the student with the allergy.”
This is from an incredible piece by Robin Kelley that assiduously documents everything that happened at UCLA in preparation for a May 23 congressional show trial that will put the school’s Chancellor on the stand and defame the brave and principled protesters.
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UCLA’s Unholy Alliance - Boston Review
House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence.
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On the night of April 30, peaceful anti-genocide protesters at UCLA were subjected to a vicious assault by Zionists, Proud Boys and other white supremacists who chanted, “I’ll kill you,” “I’ll rape your sister,” and “What Israel does to Gaza, we’ll do to you,” as police looked on.
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Thank you for your service, Duke students arrested at the UNC encampment.
“The individual[s] continued to resist the processing efforts of officers by refusing to move, forcing officers to carry the individual[s] throughout a majority of the process.”
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U of T does not, citing a contract they signed with investment firm to protect proprietary information.
In the last 5 years, the NCAA + P5 conferences have spent $15 M+ on lobbyists to undermine the rights of campus athletic workers, particularly the push for employee status.
In case anyone tells you that an outcome other than full employee status is in the best interest of players.
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So many incredible stories of student (and faculty!) activism, including The New School’s occupation of an admin building in the heart of NYC.
To be clear: they are preventing some of these students from graduating.
Harvard suspends students for participating in anti-genocide encampment.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
“The students don’t even know why they are protesting.”
Students (at U of T encampment):
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Here is the gift link version of the original NYT Columbia story: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?
The university calls it a “restorative practice”; the students call it a coerced confession.
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Meanwhile, at UNC, interim Chancellor Lee Roberts intends to pursue legal and institutional action against anti-genocide protesters he already subjected to police brutality. So that’s where things are in 2024.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS.
But now it is just straight to the cops.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
Meanwhile, at UNC, interim Chancellor Lee Roberts intends to pursue legal and institutional action against anti-genocide protesters he already subjected to police brutality. So that’s where things are in 2024.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
this is the kind of energy I want to see from college administrators
Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS.
But now it is just straight to the cops.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS.
But now it is just straight to the cops.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
“Why I no longer conduct my research at the University of New Brunswick”
Presented without comment.
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The plutonium connection: Why I no longer conduct my research at the University of New Brunswick
On Thursday this week, two very different emails landed in my inbox minutes apart. The juxtaposition jolted me, and I
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Yet another example, this time from my own institution, of the literal police showing more restraint than universities and their campus ‘security.’
These schools are wilding out.
It is also notable that the predominantly working class students at CCNY were subjected to more extreme police violence, including tasering, pepper spray, smashed teeth, and a broken ankle.
CCNY student encampment anti-genocide protesters arrested on the same night as their comrades at Columbia received significantly more serious felony charges that carry max sentences of up to SEVEN years vs. max 90 days facing Columbia students.
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Like, we know this, but it should still absolutely be a huge scandal in Canada.
Former CBC producer documents consistent pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in coverage, including being told she was “crossing the line” in pitching an interview with two genocide scholars debating whether Israel’s actions fit the legal definition.
breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewas...
It’s also fairly stunning to see what CBC considered not appropriate to report prior to October 7: the Sheikh Jarrah evictions and the assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, for instance.
Former CBC producer documents consistent pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in coverage, including being told she was “crossing the line” in pitching an interview with two genocide scholars debating whether Israel’s actions fit the legal definition.
breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewas...
Great, scathing stuff here from @blbalthaser.bsky.social on why the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” which would require the Dept of Education to adopt the IHRA conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, is itself profoundly antisemitic.
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University of Toronto students and faculty say that the university—which has refused to disclose investments citing a contract they signed with investment firm—has investments tied to at least 55 companies that support the IDF and Israeli occupation of Palestine.
OMG. Sonoma State of the CSU system President Mike Lee has been placed on administrative leave for “insubordination” because he agreed to meet the divestment demands of anti-genocide protesters.
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