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Dozens of professors among those arrested in campus protests | CNN

As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones.

Annelise Orleck was knocked to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs at a protest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She later complained of whiplash.

Steve Tamari was tackled by officers and taken into custody at a demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis, an attack he said resulted in multiple broken ribs and a broken hand.

Orleck and Tamari are among at least 50 professors arrested at campus protests across the country, according to a CNN review of police records, court filings, and news reports. (Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.) In some cases, professors said they were actively participating in protests based on their own beliefs. Others said they attended to show support for their students.

MHSJenkins ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

This whole thing is starting to develop a real 1968 feels–and of course the DNC convention is in Chicago this year . . .

badbytes ,

We need to find a way to send those responsible, a message. One they might remember.

S_204 ,

These schools should probably stop hiring terrorist supporters, it’s not a good look. We’ve seen professors openly supporting Hamas and chanting for an intifada. None of that is acceptable so it makes perfect sense that those same people would be involved in the very unpeaceful encampments that have taken over some of these campuses.

KAYDUBELL ,

No we haven’t

TammyTobacco ,

The lizard people have taken over too!

supersquirrel ,

We’ve seen professors openly supporting Hamas and chanting for an intifada.

This is misinformation and is being used to purposefully deceive people.

This narrative purposefully conflates being against the genocide of innocent Palestinians with supporting Hamas.

S_204 ,

That’s not misinformation. It’s widely distributed on the internet. It’s easily available.

You can’t gaslight people when there’s dozens of video clips out there proving reality.

acetanilide ,

Oh, so you acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide then?

S_204 ,

The Palestinian population will be greater than 2025 than it was in 2023. Their culture is alive and strong within Israel itself with 2 million Arabs living pretty darn well.

It’s the worst genocide man has ever seen if it is one.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,
S_204 ,

Balls so huge they cause problems? I can empathize.

Siegfried ,

That’s the same argument I used to hear from holocaust deniers, just saying

S_204 ,

That’s an absurd statement. Jewish population still has not recovered from the Holocaust. That’s an undisputed fact.

There’s no comparison to be made by any logical or sane person on this. However, much of a tragedy we are seeing on folding Gaza. We are not seeing people packed into cattle cars and sent into gas Chambers.

Stop stop at the Holocaust abuse. Comparing these two is absolutely abusing the tragedy of the Holocaust for a political purposes.

Siegfried ,

Missinformation is ‘widely distributed on the internet’ aswell

S_204 ,

The internet is the perfect distribution vehicle for misinformation .

We’ve seen the world swallow Hamas propaganda for months as it relates to the death toll. This week. We’re seeing the UN itself, revising its numbers and reducing the number of children dead by nearly half.

This is a war of information as much as it’s a bloody one. Iran, Qatar and its proxies are working overtime to make sure that the white Western saviors among Us gobble it all up.

boyi ,

Welcome aboard Hasbara agent 204.

S_204 ,

They might have lost my paperwork, I still haven’t got this money the morons claim I’m getting.

goferking0 ,

Bold to think hasbara gets you paid

S_204 ,

But that’s what you people keep saying!

goferking0 ,

what do you mean you people?

S_204 ,

Useful idiots… like the ones stupidly displaying their ignorance here.

goferking0 ,

Yeah you should stop that

S_204 ,

I’m trying, but people are too captured by their social algo to get it thru their thick skulls LMFAO. Now we’re seeing even the UN coming around to reality, revising their figures but I won’t hold my breath that it’ll get picked up as we’ve clearly seen the bias has a chokehold on the ignorant.

goferking0 ,

The numbers are them just going through the remains and marking who’s been identified not changing how many have been killed.

So maybe actually educate yourself?

S_204 ,

They have cut the number of dead children in half. They’ve reduced the number of women by a significant factor .

It appears you’re the one that’s uneducated or possibly unfamiliar with what’s happening as these are recent developments but there 's zero question that the claims being made by Hamas are not true and even their biggest supporters at the UN have been forced to admit that now.

With the revision of the numbers, what we now have is further proof that Israel has approached urban war with more care and concern for civilians than in any other conflict in modern history. West point Military academy as well as the Royal commission in the UK are both on record stating that to already be the case for these revised numbers.

goferking0 ,

reuters.com/…/un-says-gaza-death-toll-still-over-…

U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq said the ministry’s figures - cited regularly by the U.N. its reporting on the seven-month-long conflict - now reflected a breakdown of the 24,686 deaths of “people who have been fully identified.” “There’s about another 10,000 plus bodies who still have to be fully identified, and so then the details of those - which of those are children, which of those are women - that will be re-established once the full identification process is complete,” Haq told reporters in New York./

S_204 ,

Yes, they’ve cut the number of women and children by 50%. They were previously parroting a terrorist organizations talking points.

I’m not going to hold my breath. Waiting for news agencies to share this news. But all the people hand waving about women and children being targeted. Can rightfully shut the fuck up about it right now? Because even the UN who are quite clearly hand in glove with Hamas at this point can’t backup the claims being made by the useful idiots on campus.

goferking0 ,

So cite where the deaths have been halfed because I already put in where it wasn’t the case.

Oh cool you are denying Israel has been killing women and children

S_204 ,

Where did I say they cut the number of deaths in half? I said they cut the number of children dead in half. Check the un stats on May 7th then check the un stats on May 12th. If you need help reading, ask your mom to step in…

goferking0 ,

So you don’t have any sources.

And lack reading compression as it’s only changed categories not totals

www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/middleeast/…/index.html

report reduced the number of women and children believed to have been killed in the war by nearly half.

The number was reduced because the UN says it is now relying on the number of deceased women and children whose names and other identifying details have been fully documented, rather than the total number of women and children kille

S_204 ,

The source is literally the UN reporting itself. Look at May 6th. Look at May 8th. The UN is now saying that they don’t have data to support The claims that are being made. That you are trying to twist this into anything other than what they’re saying is just another example of the icj ruling where people ignorantly ran around claiming the ruled. It was plausibly a genocide. Even the president of the icj had to come out to correct the stupidity. This is exactly the same thing all over. Just like when Hamas bombed the hospital and everyone around saying it was Israel too. The ignorance being displayed by the people who desperately want to believe everything bad they hear about Israel is astonishing LMFAO.

goferking0 ,

So again not reading and only have insults and ignoring facts.

npr.org/…/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-s…

S_204 ,

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o

It seems one of us is aware of the facts and the other is not. The president of the panel that handed down the ruling is on record as saying opinions like the one that you’re putting forward are incorrect. They did not rule there is a plausible genocide. She made that exceptionally clear.

That she even had to come out and correct the record because of people like you demonstrates just how deeply the propaganda has spread.

Not to mention the panel didn’t intervene. If it was a genocide wouldn’t they have done something? they intervened in Russia, Ukraine, It’s absolutely within their purview to do so, yet they chose not to.

goferking0 ,

they need protection from genocide as we continue to review evidence

Yeah really great look for Israel. who continue to do the genocide

bender223 ,

Yus, the proper way to deal with peaceful protestors is violence /s

ParabolicMotion ,

Alright Lemmy users with grad degrees, now is your chance to snag that job you’ve always wanted\s.

Brace yourselves, job openings are coming.

Son_of_dad ,

I wonder if a general strike with teachers and students is incoming. If there’s one place where protesting any issue is born and should always be allowed, is a college or university. If you’re not allowed to protest there, no way you’ll ever be allowed to in a public space. Trying to break their spirits before they get to be full adults.

rayyy ,

Wouldn’t it be great if people actually knew what they were talking about? Maybe instead of inadvertently aiding a fascist they would find out what the fuck is actually going down?

stembolts , (edited )

mortemtyrannis ,

I watched it.

He was claiming that the US has offered Bibi specific intelligence to make targeted strikes on Hamas leadership in the hopes that he will take this option rather than full scale invasion.

The guy in the video claims that by doing this the US has set a kind of trap for Bibi as he will be in breach of international law and able to be charged as a war criminal if he doesn’t act on the US offer.

There are no sources cited for this information and this channel seems of dubious journalism quality.

Personally I put this video in the pile of conspiracy/bupkis. Yes I want a refund of the 3.5mins of my life (thankfully I watch everything 2x speed).

mortemtyrannis ,

Who is this guy?

What are his sources?

How reliable is his information? Can any of it be corroborated?

It just seems like some rando ad-libbing in front of a camera and calling themselves a journalist.

givesomefucks ,

more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.

So…

About twice as many as 1/6?

abcnews.go.com/Politics/…/story?id=106140326

Peacefully protesting Biden’s pet genocide is getting treated twice as strict as trump trying to prevent Biden from taking office. And a hell of a lot faster.

Negotiating with “moderate” Dems doesn’t work, they’ve spent too long cozzi g up to republicans, they think k like them now. Why listen to protestors when you can just use violence? What are they going to do, not vote Biden?

FenrirIII ,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

Love how you foreign agents immediately make it all about Biden. Is he the King of Israel or King of America? Pretty sure it’s neither. Shut up already with the propaganda

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

👏👏👏

givesomefucks spews the same narrative on every post, regardless of relevance. They wrote a wall of text about Biden and Israel on a post about the NYPD manipulating disciplinary records. Just unrelated nonsense.

Further down, I commented the identical response I made the last time they compared Biden’s criticism of disorderly conduct to Trump’s criticism of BLM protests. Just the same baseless claims over and over.

Tryptaminev ,

Well is he the President? Is he the leader of the government? Is he the one that continues to pledge weapons and money to Israel and continue to block Palestine at the UN? Is he the one that held back the state department report on Israeli war crimes committed with US weapons and now had it toned down to “yeah we think they did, but we aren’t entirely sure.” Is he the one whose ambassador recently assured the Israeli government that he is a fully convinced Zionist? Is he the one that made bogus claims about antisemitism and violent protests?

Or is he just some poor slop that has nothing to do with all of this?

supersquirrel ,

Hi, foreign agent here.

I am part of a secret plot to manipulate the US in a devious plan to…. check notes… get Biden to stop directly enabling genocide by continuously bringing up and forcing him to deal with it politically instead of just sweeping 50,000+ innocent Palestinians lives under the rug.

It is the perfect evil plan.

bl_r ,

Bad take

Acting like biden is powerless in this when he has gone around congress to fund israel is willfully ignoring the truth.

Calling people foreign agents is also just shit brained. Rather than arguing a point, it just says “hey, u are (maybe) not American, we can ignore you”. Or just saying “Hey, ignore this guy, because I said he’s not American.” Plus, it holds less water when america has constantly interfered in so many other countries. Imagine saying a palestinian shouldn’t have a say in american politics when america has stances on Palestinian politics.

billiam0202 ,

Ah yes, local police forces who have their own jurisdiction arresting protesters on the spot is exactly the same as Trump hampering the federal response necessary to deal with the Jan 6th traitors who were allowed to disperse.

We get it, you want Trump to win. You are indeed very smart.

givesomefucks ,

Biden is saying the same shit trump said about BLM…

Calling peaceful protestors violent and making shit up.

And yes, during BLM Biden and everyone else made multiple comments about how important protesting in, and how they’d protect our rights to peaceful protests.

But that hasn’t been addressed either.

And yes, the federal government is supposed to have over site of local police.

Like, Ahmad Abrey is a pretty famous example, but it’s pretty common.

disguy_ovahea ,

“Dissent is essential to democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education.”

“Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?”

Yup. Practically indistinguishable.

Tryptaminev ,

We don’t want Trump to win. We want an end to the genocide and justice for the Palestinian people. Why do the Dems and you prefer Trump to win over ending a fucking genocide?

The administration had every chance and still has every chance to end this genocide and work towards justice. They choose every day to let it continue, giving token pledges at best.

blazera ,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

We’re already in the authoritarian regime everyone is worried is coming.

Uranium3006 ,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

We have to fight back matter who wins

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Goddamn feels good to have someone else say it. I mean it feels bad, too. Mostly bad

FenrirIII ,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

The rich donors pull the strings at universities and government. Lots of Zionists among them

S_204 ,

There is quite certainly a Group of wealthy people purchasing influence in American academics.

disguy_ovahea ,

The question is, how fast do you want it to get worse?

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

If you believe the premise, the answer to that question is moot, friend.

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

I’ve been watching it unfold live for my entire life. Republicans, especially Trump, push capitalism into overdrive at the cost of the environment, workers wages and safety, and support of the most vulnerable members of society. Democrats will never fix everything, but they absolutely moderate and slow the progression of inequality.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2169

www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Im not gonna consider a Whitehouse.gov page as an…unbiased source, my brother in christ.

Why would you attempt a liberal outreach program in response to a comment like mine?

disguy_ovahea ,

I’m sorry to say, Fox News doesn’t report on the accomplishments of Democrats.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Hm? Is this an attempt to paint me as a FOX watching bobblehead? Oh dear we are going to have a problem if you are gonna play stupid games. Address the meat of the comment you initally responded to or put on your big shoes and honk your goofy ass out the door

disguy_ovahea ,

Where else would you like me to find a comprehensive list of Biden’s support for low and middle class Americans? Pick a point on the massive list of goals and accomplishments, and cross reference it for validity. They’re legislative action, so you’ll find plenty of news corroboration from center and left leaning media.

Passerby6497 ,

Lol it can always get worse, especially when one of only two options tells you how much they’re going to make it worse for everyone.

This is just more bOtH sIdEs bullshit…

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