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4 years

My University is pausing phd admissions for a year. I have a modest counter-proposal: let’s pause the Penn Police for a year.

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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.

Ro Khanna

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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."

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Taking the liberalism out of “liberal democracy”

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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

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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

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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.

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How an Ivy League School Turned Against a Student via @NewYorker There is far more Wrong doing by Penn than even this covers! More to come!

How an Ivy League School Turned Against a Student

Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying.

www.newyorker.com

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@EbrahimMoosa @Shanfaraa A second Nakba. US complicity is indefensible

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2 years

She knew. I emailed her. Twice.

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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

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With debts to al Farabi and Ibn Khaldun. Democracy is no western gift.

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@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.

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3 years

@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.

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6 months

Often “heckling” is the only chance ordinary people have of speaking to the powerful and being heard by others.

Jeff Melnick

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6 months

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.

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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

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@MollyJongFast Well, Chief Justice Roberts, who exactly is undermining confidence in the Court?

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4 years

@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.

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Penn administrators turning back to threats and bullying. Not this time! We will not be silenced. #MackenzieFierceton #ShameonPenn

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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.

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2 years

Thanks to all who helped! We are not done. But it’s a start.

Following public outcry, Penn lifts hold on former Rhodes Scholar Mackenzie Fierceton’s master’s...

Fierceton told the DP she believes the decision was a result of nationwide media coverage and activism by Penn students, faculty members, and other advocates.

www.thedp.com

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1 year

Forget genuflecting to the Rule of Law. First ask “What law?” Whose law?” -and “Is it just?” Wild democrats rule the law.

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11 months

Calling Gaza a “humanitarian disaster” likens it to a natural disaster with no one responsible. It’s a war crime, people. Many war crimes.

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4 years

@Dan02974785 @SenMastriano It’s my vote you are trying to set aside. Mine and millions more. How do you justify that?

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5 months

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.

Andrew Fox

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5 months

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.

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3 years

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.

Bonnie Honig

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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.

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Against the law. For justice. Wild democracy.

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10 months

BREAKING: Large anti-Israel protest in Berlin this evening.

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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.

Eyal Yakoby

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13 days

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.

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4 years

@Mimchen @PhillyMayor Don’t be silly. People with Italian ancestry (like me) should despise him all the more.

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4 months

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.

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10 months

I am Anne Norton and I approve this message. And the placement. I grieve all the dead in Israel and Palestine.

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3 years

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

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@LailaAlarian These people are beneath contempt.

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Come, Penn people! Stand for the right! It’s important.

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@KeeangaYamahtta God I love it when people rise for justice against unjust laws

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#ShameonPenn for complicity in abuse. Shame on senior administrators for dishonesty and harassment.

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10 months

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?

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2 months

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.

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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.

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9 months

@EliMeye The day that a doxxing truck comes to my house I will be out to share champagne with the poor driver. Where am I failing?

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2 years

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?

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4 years

@BuzzPatterson @AVindman You clearly do not understand either oaths or the chain of command.

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@Liverpolitans @Ibrahimsmum This is democracy: when leaders must listen to their people.

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3 years

@RashySzn @periuspb You are missing the unkindness of individuals and the injustice of the distribution of wealth.

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3 years

We say: Penn's Treatment of Mackenzie Fierceton Has Been Shameful

Penn’s Treatment of Mackenzie Fierceton Has Been Shameful

The university’s failures are the true moral failures in this disheartening story.

www.chronicle.com

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3 years

@jacasiegel On one occasion a young guy came up to me smoked and handed me his phone number. I thought Am I a cougar?

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2 years

@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.

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9 months

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.

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9 months

@annenortonnow OMFG, you absolute bedpan of a woman

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3 years

@nataliebaviles There’s also Emile Dogheim.

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10 months

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.

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4 years

@obbalkan They encourage applications, not hiring.

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10 months

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.

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4 years

@Little_nb_Ghost @ryanaboyd Of course he can. We have seen it.

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@ZahiraJaser @Shanfaraa @AnnelleSheline This is what honor looks like.

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4 months

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.

Eyal Yakoby

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4 months

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.

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@mpgpresident This statement offers no evidence. It is merely defamatory.

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2 years

@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?

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@_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

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@janiskf @tbvaleska The right to assemble peacefully is not contingent on having a permit. We need to unlearn our subservience

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There’s more to this gripping story. More incompetence and cruelty at Penn, more courage from Mackenzie. More for you and other reporters!

Tim Onion

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2 years

Can't remember the last time I was this gripped — and furious — while reading a story.

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3 years

@CBSNews You are still employing this man with his distinction between civilized Europeans and others?

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4 years

@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.

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2 years

Rally! Tomorrow at 11 at the caster Building on Penn’s campus. Come! Please. We need to show our strength

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I think I speak for them and allied faculty: we will not be silenced. We will continue to fight for Palestine.

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Mourning Tracy Strong, perhaps the least mournful man I have ever known. He made political theory dance.

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The students made a space for Palestine and in doing so made a space for freedom, justice, and education in a University that scorns these things.

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These men are truly swine.

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Hamas wouldn’t even rape these cows.

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Seems like a good time to declare my longstanding respect for Sami al Arian and his family -including in laws.

John Podhoretz

@jpodhoretz

4 months

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 .

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“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.

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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.

Laila Al-Arian

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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.

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@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.

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I have endless respect for the courage and open heart of Judith Butler.

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@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?

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2 years

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

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2 years

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

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We need to remake APSA -and the discipline. Not news I think it needs to be said by all of us now.

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@carterhambley I on the other hand have been to an orgy but I would NEVER let my class try on my glasses. Too much trust!

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A school. Another school.

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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike has hit a school in central Gaza, killing at least 30, Palestinian health officials say.

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@JonathanACBrown I think every woman should “manifest separatism” from men who command her to show her body as they choose.

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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.

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@TeamCorgiBrand Sunny sends love

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@JonathanACBrown He did great but her family has failed

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11 months

Proud of our grad students in so many ways!

GETUP-UAW

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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!

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@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.

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9 months

Over 18,000 dead in Gaza. We in the US are enabling this.

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@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.

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Or, if you prefer: From the river to the sea, everybody will be free. Same.

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Our cat Omar, also known as The Martian, has died. A cat of small size and legendary power he brought adventure, laughter and love.

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@amcerni @_ReaalAmerican_ @GOPLeader Why? To leave my country to traitors? No.

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3 years

One of the most brilliant and fun people I have ever known. 🎉💥

Isabela Mares

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3 years

Celebrating the retirement of our legendary colleague, Professor Jim Scott. Thank you for all your insights! @Yale

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@DavidRArmitage @onur_ulas_ince @NYDailyNews The Constitution is written in the name of the people and in the present tense. We are the founders. The text is being misread.

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We have confirmed that General Counsel Wendy White contacted Mackenzie’s biological mother. The University has been notified. There has been no response.

Simon J. Rabinovitch

@sjrabinov

2 years

@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.

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NYT recommends Rachel Aviv’s article on #MackenzieFierceton #ShameonPenn . Because it is important to call out injustice

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The indifference she and Interim President Wendell Pritchett have shown to student welfare, evidence, and basic human decency has been profoundly disheartening.

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@arimn @normfinkelstein The UN not the IDF

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Because speaking, writing, and voting are all I can do against this great wrong.

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Contemptible, as Tom Paine wrote, to evade paying taxes one owes. “Taxes are how we pay for the work we do together”. D. Harrold in

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@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.

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Join them. I have. It is a lovely honorable place standing for justice.

Sukaina Hirji

@hirjisukaina

4 months

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

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There, in the street, there is humanity.

Sulaiman Ahmed

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BREAKING: SPONTANEOUS GATHERING IN PARIS AGAINST THE GAZA GENOCIDE People can’t sleep they have come to the streets. There is humanity

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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.

Robert P. George

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@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

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@joarhu10 @SenSanders You’d be mistaken.

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