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The House Education and Workforce Committee threatened on Monday to subpoena #BowdoinCollege, accusing the school of failing to comply with the committee’s requests for information regarding #antisemitism on campus.

A letter from Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), the committee chair, and Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), a subcommittee chair, states that the Maine liberal arts college failed to comply with the committee’s repeated requests for documentation regarding disciplinary action taken against those involved with an encampment on the school’s campus earlier this year, as well as all students disciplined for antisemitic incidents since Oct. 7, 2023.

The committee leaders provided a June 16 deadline for the documentation requested, and stated they would pursue subpoenas if the deadline is not met.

The letter states that “Bowdoin provided a narrative response that briefly summarized the administration’s conversations with the encampment participants, but it did not provide documents related to any disciplinary action, documents related to any understanding it reached to disband the encampment, or a list of student disciplinary or conduct cases relating to alleged antisemitic incidents or encampments.”

After being pressed further, the school provided a “a brief summary of Bowdoin’s actions addressing the encampment and noted that the College revoked the charter of Students for Justice in Palestine for the remainder of the 2024-2025 academic year and the next academic year.”

The school subsequently provided 225 pages of documents, including summaries of the school’s actions regarding the encampment, “a generalized summary of disciplinary measures taken against 66 students, and a summary of actions taken against #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine.”

According to the committee, the vast majority of the documents included were “publicly available policies and procedures, none of which are directly responsive to the Committee’s requests,” lacked the “individualized detail requested” or were public emails from administrators to the campus community about the encampment.

After Ben-Givr Visit, Yale Bans Pro-Palestine Group
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/25/after-ben-givr-visit-yale-bans-pro-palestine-group/
The university’s reprisal against Yalies4Palestine followed campus protests against the visit to New Haven by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s extremist police minister, Sharon Zhang reports. By Sharon Zhang Truthout Yale University has revoked the registration status of a pro-Palestine student group…
#Politics #Israel #Palestine #Protests #U.s. #ItamarBenGvir #SharonZhang #StudentActivism #StudentEncampments #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine(sjp) #YaleUniversity #Yalies4Palestine

@blogoklahoma Thank you for adding the statement from #UniversityofOklahoma #studentsforjusticeinpalestine

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/02/israeli-lawsuits-target-americans/
The wave of litigation against pro-Palestine Americans could help the “non-profit killer bill” passed by Congress target opposition to Israeli policies, writes Robert Inlakesh. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian American…
#Politics #CivilRights #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #AmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee(aipac) #AmericanMuslimsForPalestine(amp) #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #Hamas #JewishVoiceForPeace #MahmoudKhalil #NationalJewishAdvocacyCenter #NonprofitKillerBill #PalestineChronicle #PalestinianIslamicJihad #RobertInlakesh #ShlomiZiv #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine(sjp) #U.s.ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ice) #U.s.TreasuryDepartment #WithinOurLifetime

Chris Hedges: Annexation & Genocide
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/24/chris-hedges-annexation-genocide/
Zionist extremists and Christian fascists, who are united and now hold senior positions throughout the Trump administration, embody a global movement to the extreme right. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for President Donald Trump…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #Israel #Palestine #RightWing #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #AmericanChristianLeadersForIsrael #ChrisHedges #ChristianFascism #ChristianZionism #ColumbiaUniversity #ConservativePoliticalActionConference #EliseStefanik #Fascism #FriendsOfJudeaAndSamariaCaucus #Hamas #JewishFascism #JewishVoiceForPeace #JohnRatcliffe #MahmoudKhalil #MarioBramnick #MikeHuckabee #NationalReligiousBroadcasters(nrb) #PaulaWhiteCain #PeteHegseth #RalphReed #Rep.ClaudiaTenney #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine #TonyPerkins #WhiteHouseFaithOffice #Zionism

The Lobby, Mahmoud Khalil & the First Amendment
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/14/the-lobby-mahmoud-khalil-the-first-amendment/
A multi-pronged assault on free speech — built on baseless accusations — is being used to justify the deportation of a permanent U.S. resident, writes Robert Inlakesh. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Immigration #Israel #Legal #Palestine #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s.StateDepartment #AmericanMuslimsForPalestine(amp) #AntiDefamationLeague(adl) #AtlanticCouncil #CanaryMission #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #FoundationForDefenseOfDemocracies(fdd) #Hamas #MahmoudKhalil #RobertInlakesh #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine(sjp) #TheHolyLandFoundation. #U.s.SecretaryOfStateMarcoRubio

The Lobby, Mahmoud Khalil & the First Amendment
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/14/the-lobby-mahmoud-khalil-the-first-amendment/
A multi-pronged assault on free speech — built on baseless accusations — is being used to justify the deportation of a permanent U.S. resident, writes Robert Inlakesh. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Immigration #Israel #Legal #Palestine #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s.StateDepartment #AmericanMuslimsForPalestine(amp) #AntiDefamationLeague(adl) #AtlanticCouncil #CanaryMission #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #FoundationForDefenseOfDemocracies(fdd) #Hamas #MahmoudKhalil #RobertInlakesh #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine(sjp) #TheHolyLandFoundation. #U.s.SecretaryOfStateMarcoRubio

#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding

Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.

by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

"The crackdown was just getting started.

Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.

"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.

"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'

"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech

TODAY! In #BrunswickMaine!

Panel: #Israel’s War Against the #UN and #Palestinian #Refugees

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Kresge Auditorium
239 Maine Street
Brunswick, ME, 04011
United States

"In October, the Israeli Knesset voted to ban any activity by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – a lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza. This move is part of a larger war against not only Palestinians, but also the United Nations itself. Israel has refused to comply with UN General Assembly or Security Council resolutions, derided decisions and advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice, and rejected UN human rights envoys and commissions of inquiry.

- What is UNRWA, and why is Israel so obsessed with destroying it?
- Why is Israel waging war on the United Nations?
- What does this mean for Palestinians?

"Please join Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (#SJP) & Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (#FSJP) for a free public panel featuring:

- Nasser Abourahme - Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College

- Fateh Azzam - Former Middle East Representative for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

- Lee O'Brien - Former Head of Research for the UNRWA West Bank and Gaza; Former Head of the Middle East Team, Department of Political Affairs for the UN Secretariat.

https://www.mvprights.org/events/unrwa-teach-in

#UNRWA #WestBank #Gaza #FreePalestine #IsraelHumanRightsViolations #IsraeliWarCrimes #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #GazaSoupKitchen #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #MaineVoicesForPeace #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine #FacultyForJusticeInPalestine #BowdoinCollege

Police Raid #ProPalestine Students’ Home in #FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation

George Mason University suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

by Akela Lacy
December 3 2024,

"In the early morning hours of November 7, more than 12 police officers showed up outside at an address in Springfield, Virginia, knocked, broke down the door, and raided the family home of two Palestinian American students at George Mason University.

"University and Fairfax County police refused to show the family the warrant. One Fairfax County detective with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — cross-designated as a local and federal agent — was also present. The family and Mason faculty supporting them, however, believe they know what the FBI-led investigation was about: the young family members’ pro-Palestine activism.

"Two of the Palestinian American family’s daughters attend George Mason. One is an undergraduate student and the co-president of Mason’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The other is in a master’s program at Mason and a former president of the school’s SJP chapter.

"The authorities told the family the raid was related to a spray-paint vandalism incident at George Mason’s campus in August — part of the widespread campus protests related to Israel’s war on Gaza. In September, the university police department put out flyers offering a $2,000 reward for information about the incident.

"In short order, the school’s SJP chapter was suspended. Soon after, George Mason Police Chief Carl Rowan Jr. served the sisters with criminal trespass notices barring them from campus for four years — meaning that they can no longer continue their education.

"'I’m worried for our students and I’m concerned for our schools,' said Mason professor Ben Manski, the SJP chapter’s faculty adviser. 'There are still no allegations and no charges that I’m aware of. Without those, we can’t have due process, we don’t know what is behind these actions, and we can’t know whether the public interest is being served or harmed.' "

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/03/george-mason-fbi-gaza-palestine-israel/

#SilencingDissent #FreePalestine #MasonUniversity #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine

Police Raid Pro-#Palestine Students’ Home in #FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation

#GeorgeMasonUniversity suspended its #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

from #TheIntercept
Akela Lacy
December 3 2024, 7:33 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/03/george-mason-fbi-gaza-palestine-israel/

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#Gaza #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Emboldened, the ugly reality of these protestors who hide behind the cause of Palestinian liberation to hide their hatred for Jews becomes more blatant.

Now they're openly attacking Jewish institutions on campuses directly, demanding de-funding Jewish religious institutions, disallowing Jews who have taken trips to Israel, and even going after Jewish dining halls.

The situation at Columbia is just an example, as it's happening at many US and Canadian institutions, and has been going on for years before October 7th and the war. I remember calls at Rutgers to defund Hillel in 2021 (link below to that as well).

https://jewishinsider.com/2024/11/anti-israel-activists-hillel-columbia-university-barak-ravid-kraft-robert-kraft/
https://archive.is/UiyYP

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/07/30/jewish-groups-slam-outrageous-activist-statement-delegitimizing-rutgers-hillel/

#antisemitism #JewHatred #ProPalestinianProtestss #CampusProtests #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine

Democrats Must Do Everything They Can to Block the Dangerous #NonProfit Bill -- #HR9495

The House passed a bill aimed at giving the government sweeping powers to crush non-profits and attack supporters of #Palestine. Democrats need to stand firmly in its way.

Opinion by Darryl Li
November 23, 2024

"While President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t return to office until January 20, Congress is already advancing the most sweeping and dangerous terrorism legislation in a generation, which would give him the power to shut down legitimate civil society groups doing important charitable, community organizing, human rights, and humanitarian work.

"Earlier this week, the House passed HR 9495, an amendment to the tax code that would empower the Treasury Department to unilaterally brand non-profit groups as 'terrorist supporting organizations' and suspend their charitable tax exemption, without giving the groups any due process or access to the evidence against them. The resulting stigma of such a designation would almost certainly be enough to scare off banks, likely depriving these groups of the ability to function altogether.

"The drive to kill non-profits is dangerous no matter who is president, and, in the past few weeks, most House Democrats appear to have woken up to the risks of the legislation. 52 Democrats voted to support the bill as recently as last week, but by the time a subsequent vote came around on Thursday, only 15 voted in favor. But that was still enough to give Republicans the votes they needed to pass the bill. Going forward, the demand from everyone watching this process should be clear: even one Democratic vote is one too many, and Senate Democrats should promise that they will not support the legislation.

"It’s not hard to see the reason behind this sudden attack on non-profits. The bill’s sponsors have made no secret of their desire to smear certain non-profits as instigators of campus protests against Israel as working at the behest of Hamas – a claim for which there is no evidence. Israel’s supporters in Congress and elsewhere have been equally clear about their agenda to crush Palestine human rights advocacy in the United States. Just last month, the Heritage Foundation unveiled 'Project Esther,' a policy blueprint to attack supporters of Palestinian rights in the higher education and profit sectors – essentially an anti-Palestinian Project 2025.

"But the dangers extend far beyond any one issue. Two Republican House committee chairs earlier this year sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding information on 20 groups, from Students for Justice in Palestine (which isn’t even a registered non-profit) to liberal behemoths like the Open Society Foundations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/democrats-must-do-everything-they-can-to-block-the-dangerous-non-profit-bill/ar-AA1uzVRi

#StopHR9495 #SilencingDissent #ProjectEsther #Project2025 #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #HeritageFoundation #Trump #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine #CivilSociety #HumanRights

(Left) Pranav Jani addresses the crowd during a Sept. 10 vigil, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine. Credit: Reilly Ackermann | Asst. Campus Editor (Right) Attendees listen to speakers at the vigil hosted by OSU Hillel Sep. 3. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor

Tal Shutkin, a second-year in the Department of Geography’s doctoral program, and Alex Kempler, a sixth-year in the Department of Sociology’s doctoral program, are members of Jews for Justice in Palestine, an Ohio State student organization on behalf of whom this letter was written.

We, Jews for Justice in Palestine, write this letter in response to the Sept. 4 Lantern article on the vigil organized by OSU Hillel and JewishColumbus on the Oval. As Jewish, Palestinian and allied Ohio State students, we share in the broader Jewish community’s grief for the hostages who were killed two weeks ago. Like our peers mentioned on the Sept. 4 vigil, some of us share connections to Hersh Goldberg-Polin. At the same time, we have relatives in Gaza and the West Bank who are also weathering “the worst possible hell.”

As The Lantern accurately reports, the Israeli campaign in Gaza, which is now spreading across the occupied territories, has murdered over 40,000 innocents. These 40,000 are people, too — children even — and like Hersh, each had their own dreams and “a whole life ahead” of them. 

But this is not about counting the dead. Our Jewish tradition teaches that in every life, there exists an entire universe, and to end a life is to extinguish a world. We must be able to see a world in every life lost. It is people’s ability to put themselves in an Israeli’s shoes, but not in a Palestinian’s that makes so many deaths possible.

While this harms Palestinians most acutely, in the end, it hurts us all. The devaluation some Jewish students have reported in their grief over the loss of Israeli lives is real. As Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel wrote in the aftermath of Oct. 7, “that devaluation [of Jewish grief] is itself a hallmark of the cycle of the diminishing value of human life.”

Under the reality of occupation and apartheid, all humanity suffers.

As the first-century sage Rabbi Hillel — yes, the same Hillel who the organizing student group is named for — teaches, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I?” Jews have repeated this lesson about solidarity and community care for 2,000 years, yet it seems to be missing when needed most in the rhetoric of our most vocal institutions. We don’t need to close ourselves off because “non-Jews don’t understand.” This sort of self-isolation can only feed the dehumanization we see today in Gaza.

Instead, we urge readers to practice seeing humanity in others. After all, for the world to recognize its full humanity, including the human right to self-determination, is all the Palestinian movement has been asking for.

A week after the vigil organized by OSU Hillel and JewishColumbus, Ohio State’s Students for Justice in Palestine, also known as SJP, held its own vigil on the Oval Wednesday. The community gathered in remembrance of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Medo Halimy and Mohammad Zeubeidi, along with the countless martyrs throughout all of Palestine.

Though the Ohio State Office of Student Life granted OSU Hillel permission to hold its Sept. 4 event on short notice, SJP’s event was met with a police surveillance tower erected on the Oval, reflecting the general hostility of university administrators toward Palestinian students. 

Two days later on Friday, the community returned for a National Day of Action, marching to demand the university’s divestment from companies aiding in this genocidal campaign. While the horror continues, the hunger for Palestinian liberation and the end to the normalization of Palestinian blood grows.

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