Palestine Tet – 134 – Keep It Up Joe B!

December 3, 2023. Jewish youth with Jewish Voice for Peace and three alter kocker supporters close down Speer Blvd and Champa St. calling for an immediate cease fire that five months later still has not happened.

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Last night, in what can only be described as carefully planned, coordinated, state-directed attacks on two of the country’s most prominent campuses – Columbia University in NYC and UCLA in Los Angeles – and perhaps others that will be reported as the day proceeds, the two encampments were stormed in an effort to destroy these peace oases in a sea of military-industrial-academic deserts.

In NYC it was none other than the NYC police, egged on and directed by the city’s mayor, a man who, as the article below details, has gone to Israel three times to study Israeli police “crowd control” tactics used against Palestinians. In Los Angeles it was a crowd of Zionists who attacked UCLA’s peace encampment in the middle of the night with  violence while local police authorities looked on and did nothing to intervene. In both cases the campus authorities were complicit, intimitately involved in planning and executing the repression which just has ratcheted up several notches.

How many other campuses were attacked last night, how many more will be targeted today, May Day, and in the days to come.

And so “the rules of engagement” – if there ever were any rules – just changed. The violence unleashed by the state against its own youth – the flower of its youth – is just the opening salvo of what is to come.

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Keep it up Joe B …

Whatever thin support you retained among the country’s student youth, among broad sectors of the working class, people of color, among the country’s Palestinian, Arab and Muslim constituencies, you lost last night at Columbia University, at UCLA – and perhaps other campuses across the country. At UCLA it was can accurately described as Zioinist thugs who attacked a peaceful encampment; at Columbia NYC’s (not so) finest.

New York, California – two of what are considered the most liberal states in the country now take the lead in bashing students’ heads, youg folk just adjutating for peace and a more humane U.S. foreign policy – and not just in the Middle East.

I’ve never known a president more skilled at digging the hole he’s made for the country that much deeper into chaos and repression, nailing his own political coffin.

And by the way, you’ve just polarized the country more than the Trumper could ever wish; you and those around you will inherit the whirlwind, maybe not today but in the months and years to come. It was wise of you to cancel today’s State Department briefing. What would your rep there have to say? We are deeply content that the NYC police are kicking the shit out of Columbia University students (and faculty) for opposing the Gaza genocide and calling for a ceasefire? Or, how heartwarming it is to see – what amount to a gang of state-inspired Zionist thugs attacking UCLA’s peaceful encampment in the middle of the night seriously injuring many, while the L.A. Police Department – one of the most corrupt and brutal in the country – stood by and did nothing?

Who are you going to blame it on this time? Putin? That’s a good one! What the heck! Has worked liked a charm up until now! Xi Jingping? Don’t think it will work or that it’s a good idea. The few Marxist profs left in an already intellectually castrated Academia? Jewish Voice for Peace?

As we used to say “back in the day” – Lutta Continua! And it will.

Keep it up Joe B – you creep! See you in early November!

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New York Mayor Vows to Bring What He’s Learned From Israel Police Back to the NYPD

Police in riot gear storm into building held by pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia: Updates

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