Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The US East Coast
An article in 14 sections: 1. George Washington University (GWU), Washington D.C.; 2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; 3. Rutgers University, New Jersey; 4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 5. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; 6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, Massachusetts; 7. University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst; 8. Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; 9. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; 10. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 11. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 12. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; 13. University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill; 14. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Part 4 of a mini-series. For related earlier work, see my articles “US Censorship and Suppression of Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 Genocide of Palestinians”, “Global Protests Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians,” “The Ziofascist Israeli Network in the USA and Its Nefarios Activities at US Universities” (part 1), “The Ziofascist Israeli Network Reacts to US Students Protesting the 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians” (part 2) and “Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The State of New York” (part 3).
1. George Washington University, Washington D.C.
April 25
April 29
May 8
2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
April 22
April 24
Ziofascist victimhood theater from known Ziofascist propagandist Sahar Tartak:
A comparison to help put things into perspective:
April 30
May 4
May 23
“Harvard Funds Genocide”
Female Antizionist Harvard student: “In the fall, my name and identity, alongside other black and brown students at Harvard, was publicly targetted. [supportive applause and cheers] For many of us students of color, doxxing left our jobs uncertain, our safety uncertain. This semester, our freedom of speech and our expressions of solidarity became punishable. [supportive applause and cheers] […]”
May 25
How the Ziofascist Israeli ADL, Jonathan Greenblat and other professional hasbara propagandists which are part of the Ziofascist network spun it:
3. Rutgers University, New Jersey
May 7
4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 24
April 25
April 30
May 7
Palestinian Harvard student: “Over the last six months, more than 124 members of my family have been brutally killed by the Israeli occupation forces. [audience shouts “Shame!”] For the last six months, I’ve had to wake up to messages of my cousin being shot on his bike, of my aunt going blind because she can’t get medication for her blood pressure, of my entire uncle’s house falling down on them. […]”
5. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
April 27–28
It turns out that Ziofascists were shouting antisemitic remarks as black propaganda and in order to discredit the student protests against genocide and for human rights:
Footage taken late Friday night of a tense confrontation between pro-Palestine demonstrators and pro-Israel counter-protesters at the encampment revealed it was a pro-Israel student demonstrator who said “Kill the Jews,” asking the pro-Palestine demonstrators “anybody on board; anybody on board?”
Hours later, the utterance of the statement was used by Northeastern as a part of the reason for clearing out the “Gaza solidarity encampment” in Centennial Common, which resulted in the detainment of roughly 100 individuals.
“The use of virulent antisemitic slurs, including ‘Kill the Jews,’ crossed the line,” the university’s statement said. “We cannot tolerate this kind of hate on our campus.”
“Earlier this morning the Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) — in cooperation with local law enforcement partners — began clearing an unauthorized encampment on the university’s Boston campus,” the rest of the statement reads. “What began as a student demonstration two days ago, was infiltrated by professional organizers with no affiliation to Northeastern.
Multiple media personnel, including two Huntington News editors, were present during the verbal altercation and confirmed they heard someone say “Kill the Jews,” but could not confirm who. Huntington News reporters, who covered nearly the entire duration of the encampment, did not hear the statement repeated at any other point during the demonstration.
Soon after the university published its response, HFP posted in a statement on Instagram saying “counter protestors expressing Zionist and hate speech sentiments tried to instigate people to engage in confrontation and spread further hate speech.”
The video footage, originally posted on X by Working Mass, a Democratic Socialists of America media outlet covering Massachusetts, reveals two Jewish students holding an Israeli flag shouted the “Kill the Jews” after pro-Palestine demonstrators conducted a “mic check” — a call and response technique used to focus attention on an organizer.
The two pro-Israel counter protesters then asked the pro-Palestinian demonstrators if they agreed, saying “anybody on board; anybody for that?” The crowd of pro-Palestine protesters immediately started shouting and booing over them.
“You just chanted for it,” the pro-Israel counter protesters can be heard saying.
Pro-Palestine protesters then conducted a call and response, encouraging demonstrators not to engage with the counter protesters.
Here is the video:
May 4
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, Massachusetts
May 6
7. University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst
May 10
8. Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
April 24
Morehouse College has announced that President Joe Biden will be the school’s commencement speaker this year. This announcement comes seven months into Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza. More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children. More than 77,000 have been injured. Every hospital and university in Gaza has been destroyed. None of this would have been possible without the support and sponsorship of the Biden Administration. Any college or university that gives its commencement stage to President Biden in this moment is endorsing genocide.
As faculty members at academic institutions in and around Atlanta — including Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta — we did not see this coming. This is not the Morehouse College that history has known and that we have come to treasure. Over the years, Morehouse commencement speakers have amplified the school’s powerful moral legacy, often doing so by quoting the school’s former president, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays: “it will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates,” but rather honest graduates “who are sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society and who are willing to accept responsibility for correcting the ills.” President Biden has not demonstrated sensitivity to wrongs, sufferings, and injustices. And as the one person on the planet who has the power to stop an active genocide, he has not accepted responsibility for correcting the ills.
We understand that the decision to platform Biden was made solely by the Morehouse administration and that students and faculty members were not consulted. College and university administrators have an obligation to include students and faculty members in decisions that will affect them. This decision will do lasting harm to everyone associated with the College. It will do serious reputational damage to Morehouse and other schools in the Atlanta University Center consortium. It will alienate donors. It will discourage new applications from a youth generation that overwhelmingly supports a ceasefire. It will prompt significant protest among current students and faculty, subjecting them to discipline and, potentially, dangerous confrontations with the police.
It is not too late to correct the course. There is no reason why Morehouse cannot rescind this invitation. Indeed, the College must do so.
In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr, Morehouse’s most revered alumnus, once again put himself on the right side of history by cancelling a scheduled trip to Israel following the Six Day War in which Israel killed thousands and seized control of Gaza and the West Bank. Following that brutal siege, King rightly but unsuccessfully urged Israel to “give up the conquered territory.” Whatever motivations prompted the Morehouse administration to invite President Biden — an invitation, we understand, that was extended back in early September — Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, underwritten by the Biden Administration, has brought forth a new reality that needs to be reckoned with. As King changed course in 1967, Morehouse must do the same in 2024.
The time is now for Morehouse College to get on the right side of history, rescind the invitation to President Biden, and use its moral authority to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
April 25
Student: “[…] our platform as Morehouse men — why are we using it to support someone who hasn’t been supporting Palestine and Gaza?”
Student: “Children are dying, innocent people being blown up. You can see the videos and you can’t deny the videos. […] we see it as ‘that’s being complicit.’ [asking audicence] You don’t see that as complicit?”
Audience [resoundingly]: “Yes!”
Student: “That’s complicit. That’s complicity in genocide. [stands up] Do you think it’s a genocide or not? Let me just ask the question everybody wants to hear: Do you think it’s a genocide, or do you not think it’s a genocide what’s happening in Gaza? Simple yes or no. […]”
Morehouse President [after plenty of deliberation and hesitation]: “Aaahm, I’m not gonna answer that question.”
9. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
April 25
Patrick Quinn: “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. Is there anything I can do for you right now?”
Noelle McAfee: “Yes, you can call the philosophy department office and tell them I’ve been arrested.”
Patrick Quinn: “Philosophy department?”
Noelle McAfee: “Yes, call the philosophy department office…
Patrick Quinn: “I will, I will. What’s your…”
Noelle McAfee: “I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m chair of the philosophy department.”
Patrick Quinn: “I got you, I got you.”
April 26
10. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Oh look, it’s another Ziofascist chemical weapon attack at a US university, and it is cheered on by a Ziofascist girly fanclub:
11. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Someone with short white hair — most likely Annelise Orleck herself — goes down on the lawn. Annelise Orleck then verbally confronts the police who (again) bring her to the ground, manhandle and arrest her:
Annelise Orleck: “I was mad cause they’d taken my phone, and I was mad cause they’d just body slammed me and it hurt. Ahm, and so I went and said ‘Give me back my phone.’ Then I’m trying to get my phone back and I did. And at that moment, ahm, three police lifted me up in the air, slammed me down onto the ground, and threw me down onto the ground on my bad shoulder. They said I was resisting arrest.” […]
“It’s really shameful, in a sleepy little campus, you know, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this, this ridiculous… show of arms and strength and violence.”
Narrator: “Orlack […] says part of her bail condition is being banned from Dartmouth’s campus. She says her emails to the institution have gone unanswered.”
Annelise Orleck: “I’ve been employed here for 34 years, long before the current senior administration came here. And, you know, I’m told I’m not welcome on that, on that property. My message is: Stop weaponizing antisemitism, talk to your students, talk to your staff, don’t assault 65-year-old women in the name of keeping the campus safe.”
12. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
May 12
13. University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill
May 12
Student: “This university is trying to silence us by barring us from our own graduation, by barring us from campus, but we’re not gonna have it. We built our own community, we built our own institutions, we built our own graduation. We’re not gonna let them silence us. In fact, the more they try, the louder we’re gonna be. […] This was our way of celebrating our accomplishments, of celebrating our own graduation. As far as I am concerned, I graduated when I was arrested by this university for protesting genocide.”
14. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
That May 14 article in full:
A Providence judge has issued a not guilty filing for 41 Brown University pro-Palestinian protestors who were arrested for trespassing last semester.
Judge Nicholas Parrillo said he was going against the objections of the city of Providence and Brown University in issuing the not guilty filing to the protestors because none of them had a criminal record, and because he said he thinks they held a respectful protest.
“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like,” he said.
A not guilty filing means that the students will have to stay out of legal trouble for the next six months. If they do that, the charges against them will be completely cleared after that period of time. An attorney for the students told them it was significant.
The university did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.
University president Christina Paxson previously declined to seek to have the trespassing charges dropped, despite a formal recommendation from a university advisory body and pleas from faculty members. In her letter to the advisory body, she said it would be a “mistake” to drop the charges.
“The practice of civil disobedience means accepting the consequences of decisions on matters of conscience,” said Paxson.
The 41 students were arrested while protesting after hours in University Hall, an administrative building on December 11. The students had been asking for their university to divest from companies they say facilitate human rights abuses in Palestine.
Kate Kuli is a junior at Brown University, and was among those in court Tuesday. She was relieved the charges will not show up on her record in background checks, provided she is not re-arrested in the next six months. However, because she plans to apply to law school, she said she still will have to write on her application that she was once arrested. She also said she continued to be disappointed in the university.
“For Brown to want to escalate things on the criminal, legal side, I feel is kind of unnecessary and sets a dangerous precedent for the future,” said Kuli.
In November, 20 Jewish students were arrested on the same charge for protesting the same topic in the same building, also after hours. However, the school asked for those charges to be dropped after a Palestinian junior from the university was shot in Burlington, Vermont, in what police were investigating as a hate crime.
Historically the school has dismissed some charges for some students in similar protests. The Providence Journal reported in 1992 that the school struck a deal with 76 student protesters who were protesting what they saw as discriminatory financial aid practices.
From the Ziofascist Christina Paxson’s Wikipedia:
In 2019, she told the University that she would not honor a student-sponsored referendum calling for Brown to divest from companies that engage in human rights abuses in Palestine, and said that it would not be possible to make the details of the University’s investments available to the public.[15][16] She has been a member of the Kol Emet congregation, a Jewish Reconstructionist synagogue, committed to the growth of a spiritually and intellectually engaging Judaism.[17][18][19]
A Fall 2021 poll conducted by The Brown Daily Herald found that 47.1% of surveyed students “strongly” or “somewhat” disapproved of Paxson’s leadership while 32.8% “strongly” or “somewhat” approved.[20] The publication’s Fall 2017 poll placed Paxson’s approval rating at 61.9%.
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a member of the Council on Foreign Relations […]. [In 2016], she became a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. After serving as its deputy chair, she became the chair of its board of directors in 2021.
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Paxson is married to Ari Gabinet and has two children, Nicholas and Benjamin.[7] Raised a Quaker, she converted to her husband’s Jewish [or perhaps rather Ziofascist] faith.
