Josh Shapiro played a critical role in advocating a violent politics response to nonviolent students (yes, including many Jews) protesting the genocide in Palestine. He has also advocated laws restricting free speech on Palestine. You should know this.
This kind of thinking has no place in America.
@JoshShapiroPA
is enormously well respected by people of all faiths in suburban, rural, and metropolitan America & can absolutely win on a national ticket. "It always seems impossible until it is done."
In light of Rachel Aviv’s devastating expose of administrative malfeasance at Penn: time for the Trustees to get some questions. Scott Bok, Chair of the Penn Trustees, will meet with SEC April 20. Send questions to Mr. Bok senate
@pobox
.upenn.edu.
#MackenzieFierceton
A couple of weeks ago a student came up to me and thanked me for defending Mackenzie. She said she too was a FGLI student and many of them felt that way but were silent because Penn could take everything away.
#ShameonPenn
#MackenzieFierceton
Our camp has been dismantled by police in riot gear, in the rain, beginning before dawn. 33 arrests, at least 3 students sent to the hospital. Penn has revealed the hollowness of its commitments to free speech, rights of assembly, open expression, and due process.
I have learned that whatever I post will be met with accusations that I am an antisemite. That is a shameful term. But I cannot live with myself if I do not speak for Palestinians now. Free Palestine!
#ceasefire
@yumna_patel
I have been protesting the occupation for more than 50 years and I have never seen anything like this recognition of the right of Palestinians to rule themselves. Hope in dark times.
@SDuncovered
That’s good, but the greater lesson seems to be our need to ensure that people can live decent lives: have shelter, find jobs, get the news.
When I watch videos of young people standing up to interrupt events with their protests I am struck both by their courage in speaking and by the utter contempt they are met with by the older people sitting near them.
It's just one more sign of what a sick culture we are.
Beth Winkelstein (now Interim Provost) has still not corrected or retracted the errors and outright lies in her letter to Rhodes. Wendell Pritchett (now Interim President) has tried to deny us access to grievance procedures.
#ShameonPenn
#MackenzieFierceton
@SpecCoffeeHouse
This critique is intellectually and aesthetically lazy. Failure to recognise not only the genre but complex sound patterns and code-switching. I don’t know who this MM is but her analysis fails on all counts.
Civility is the liberal value, courage is the democratic one. Speaking truth to power, standing before tanks and SWAT teams, acting without hope in dark times: courage is the democratic virtue.
It means that from the Jordan to the Mediterranean everyone on that land will be free. Jew, Muslim, Christian, atheist, all free, all consenting, equal. Tel Aviv is not that place.
What does “From the river to the sea,
Palestine shall be free” really mean?
This is Tel Aviv. A city of 4.4 million Israelis. Vibrant, bustling, populous.
This is part of what that chant calls to purge. It’s why it is nothing more than a performative call for ethnic cleansing.
I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state’s apartheid this is integral to both my moral view and my scholarship. Pass it on.
I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.
Let me save Mr. Yakoby the time. I still oppose the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. I support the rights of Palestinians to live under a government made by their own consent. I do this in the company of Jews and people of many faiths and none.
As we head into this upcoming semester, it's important to call out UPenn who hasn't held any member of the community accountable.
4 students were suspended, but after the spring semester, & they are being reinstated this upcoming fall.
The faculty? Well, look below.
The dead of Gaza are uncountable. Education has been destroyed in Gaza. Gazans are starving. Palestinians are under attack by settlers and soldiers. Thousands are imprisoned. Long past time we stood for justice. Divest.
I’ve just gotten notice that Penn is surveilling my email in order to further their persecution of their student Mackenzie Fierceton. No surprise.
#ShameonPenn
#BelieveMackenzie
We held a vigil last night for the dead of Gaza asking “Will you mourn with us?” I sent an invitation to President Magill myself. She was not there. She has appeared at vigils for the Israeli dead. Could she speak more clearly than through this silence?
This seems like a very good day to remind the country that nothing in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the final word on Constitutional interpretation. Nothing.
This is the one thing I take joy in. I have been doing events for Palestine since the 1970s. I have never seen anything remotely close to this. Maybe we can change the world. Maybe the people are awakening.
Correct! Beth Winkelstein is now Interim Provost. Wendell Pritchett who backs her and has tried to block our grievance is Interim President. Interim. President. Wendy White still there.
#ShameonPenn
#MackenzieFierceton
Where are the Trustees?
@JeanneMorefiel1
Yes, and that racism sullies Origins of Totalitarianism too. Look at the section on Africa. Still important to read her -and to look hard at all the canon and its environs.
I agree that the last sentence of this post which I liked is offensive and I apologize for not protesting against it. My attention went to and remains with the three students shot for wearing kuffiyehs. These and the Gazan dead command my attention.
The Palestine Writes Literary Festival was not antisemitic. I was there. It was a celebration -and sometimes a critique- of Palestinian writing. It was held under what I can only call circumstances of persecution. Persecution.
I am deeply disturbed by the constant invitations to say that I am afraid when my tweets are posted all over campus or I’m placed on some other list like Canary mission. These things do not make me fearful. They make me angry.
As a direct result of Mr Yakoby’s activities, we are not safe. My Yakoby has led campaigns against myself and my colleagues that have called for our deaths, rapes, and firing, along with more mundane abuse. Every day. Still, we speak.
To every American, as a college student, I am telling you that we are not safe. Not just Jews, but every student on campus. These encampments are increasingly getting more violent and displaying more imagery and support of terrorist organizations.
I say none of this lightly.
@made2engineer
@POTUS
The lack of generosity, magnanimity, and a sense of the common good in contemporary conservatives never ceases to astonish me. Have you no pride?
@_Floodlight
I think there are many people like me who are disgusted by gender reveal parties but can’t decide whether the disgust is political (so many reasons for that!) or aesthetic
@WaywardWinifred
This is the result of a relentless campaign for media dominance that has indeed captured people’s minds and imaginations. They have no health care and they think M4all would be worse. They are also told they don’t deserve it.
This guy attacking
@shaidavidai
is the son-in-law of Sami Al-Arian, who was deported from the United States because he raised funds for Palestine Islamic Jihad, which he pled guilty to. So you can just go find a terrorist's toe to suck,
@JonathanACBrown
.
“Abolish the police” brings up a libertarian spectre of “private security” -that is the security of colonizers, owners against labor and the Klan. A crushing history. Abolish policing, yes. Defund, redirect, redistribute. Not a void for capital to fill.
This is the dark heart: that Palestinians are not seen as human, not seen at all. Those who see them, for example Jews who oppose genocide, are also made invisible. If we cannot see Palestinian humanity we lose our own, we set ourselves against justice.
Israel won’t stop killing Palestinians 10 months later. I’ve lost count of videos I’ve seen like this, utter heartbreak from the soul. “I waited for you for 60 years,” he tells his dead son. If we lived in a world that saw Palestinians as humans this senseless killing would stop.
@marcusjdl
@LalehKhalili
I remember my realization that while I knew no one who had died I had friends with no friends left. The isolations of that and my insulation from it still grieves me.
@BrankoMilan
I have always been careful to negotiate only when I would be willing to go to that university. But outside offers are the only evidence many universities accept of your « market value ». If you are underpaid and This ethic weighs heaviest on first generation scholars. Ethical?
Exactly. White never met Mackenzie. Winkelstein met her only once: to interrogate and re-traumatize her in violation of policy. Never given the right to defend herself. And her recommenders? Never asked. The admins just lied about us.
#MackenzieFierceton
In the
#MackenzieFierceton
article, what stood out to me is that it was her teachers and professors who believed her. It was her doctors. And there was only one party who was heavily invested in destroying Mackenzie's life: her mother and her proxies. 3/4
Last night the camp sang “we shall not be be moved”. Over and over, adding verses as people do. The camp has doubled. They speak for the steadfast people of Palestine. They call out the genocide in Gaza. They show us justice still lives in the people.
Big news: a strong majority of Penn graduate student workers have signed union authorization cards!
We're rallying next Wednesday, October 4 at 12pm to ask that Penn admin stay neutral and agree to a fair and efficient union election process. Join us!
@tlarson1957
@SergioJSiano
@DressBecky
Clearly many people like him. And he’s already changed several Congressional seats and above all the range of policies on the table.
@nazirafzal
@PaoloSandro2
This is shocking. This is the time to go outside the plexiglass, find out what the man needs, and get it. Yes it’s just one. One life. Infinite value. And he has a duty.
We have confirmed that General Counsel Wendy White contacted Mackenzie’s biological mother. The University has been notified. There has been no response.
@annenortonnow
@MFierceton
Winkelstein’s contact with the biological parent about any aspect of the record of a student who is over 18 without her consent would violate any university’s rules. I suggest finding those rules for Penn in advance of this session.
The indifference she and Interim President Wendell Pritchett have shown to student welfare, evidence, and basic human decency has been profoundly disheartening.
@thisishannahkim
@jbf1755
@katrinagulliver
I have never encountered a female student this entitled but I meet at least one male student like this every year. Although admittedly this guy is high on the entitlement scale.
if you are a professor at a university where there is currently an encampment, I am begging you to actually spend some time there, talk to student organizers, get to know their community guidelines etc, before forming an opinion of what is happening
We don’t agree often, but all the more important when we do. The suspension of Jodi Dean from teaching is unwarranted and a violation of her academic freedom and right to free expression.
@SohrabAhmari
Thank you, Sohrab. I've reviewed President Gearan's letter, which makes clear that his suspension of Prof. Dean from classroom teaching is viewpoint-based, and thus a violation of academic freedom principles embodied in the classic AAUP statements that have been adopted by Hobart