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<description><![CDATA[AP reports: "Hamas accepts Gaza cease-fire; Israel says it will continue talks but presses on with Rafah attacks." AFP reports: "Israel Hostage Families Urge Foreign Pressure for Gaza Truce." Common Dreams reports: "Cutting Off Lifeline for Starving Gazans, Israel Seizes Control of Rafah Crossing" Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor just released the statement: "Gaza: With its potential military operation in Rafah, Israel threatens to execute over 1.2 million Palestinians." Norwegian Refugee Council released: "Rafah: An Israeli military offensive will lead to mass atrocities."
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MICHAEL LYNK, mslynk@uwo.ca 
Lynk served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory from 2016 to 2022. He is a non-resident fellow at <a href="https://dawnmena.org/">Democracy for the Arab World Now</a>. See his interview with the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/genocide-case-against-israel-opens-world-court">Electronic Intifada</a>.
MOUIN RABBANI, mouinrabbani@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani">@MouinRabbani</a> 
Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs and the contemporary Middle East. He is co-editor of <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jadaliyya.com&source=gmail&ust=1715172372349000&usg=AOvVaw2ztNnfRS2aKKPAMVjd113p">Jadaliyya</a>. See a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfwAw8qWxc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DRsfwAw8qWxc&source=gmail&ust=1715172372349000&usg=AOvVaw3B01uml8SF-KInNGUGl8Ys">recent commentary</a> and <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Author/4114" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Author/4114&source=gmail&ust=1715172372349000&usg=AOvVaw3ducKGVYij1sIqM1jxE0mf">his past articles</a> including “<a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45583/The-Problem-of-Karim-Khan" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45583/The-Problem-of-Karim-Khan&source=gmail&ust=1715172372349000&usg=AOvVaw3HsXqYd9KbVViL-yMZ6HgV">The Problem of Karim Khan</a>” about the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Rabbani just posted a widely distributed <a href="https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1787629996892196940">thread on X</a>: “On Tuesday evening it appeared the end was finally in sight. Hamas formally accepted the ceasefire proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar, and spontaneous celebrations erupted in the streets of Rafah and other Palestinian towns in the Gaza Strip.
“Given that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other US officials have repeatedly insisted that Hamas forms the sole obstacle to a ceasefire agreement, Palestinians could be forgiven for believing that day 213 of this genocidal ordeal would be the last.
“The euphoria however proved short-lived. Several hours later the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that Israel’s war cabinet had unanimously agreed that the proposal ‘is far from Israel’s necessary requirements,’ and that its latest offensive on the southern town of Rafah abutting the Palestinian-Egyptian border would continue as planned. Indeed, Israel’s Western-supplied and supported military launched intensive air and artillery strikes to support an incursion into Rafah that commenced shortly after Netanyahu’s announcement. …
“So long as Blinken takes center stage in U.S. Middle East diplomacy it can safely be ignored. … [See “<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/leaked-state-department-memo">Leaked State Department Memo: Israeli Assurances ‘Neither Credible Nor Reliable.’</a>“]
“Among the key sticking points in the negotiations is that Hamas demanded an end to Israel’s war while Israel insisted on continuing it. …
“For the record, U.S. assurances to the Palestinians over the years have been honoured mainly in the breach. This was most prominently the case in 1982, when the Reagan administration guaranteed the protection of civilians remaining in Beirut after the PLO withdrawal from the Lebanese capital, but did nothing to stop the Sabra-Shatila massacres.”
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<description><![CDATA[In states where the school choice movement has been successful, voucher programs have led to huge shortfalls in education budgets. 
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Schneider is director of the Center for Education Policy and the Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His new book, coauthored with Jennifer Berkshire, <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/education-wars">The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual</a>, will be published in July.
Schneider spoke to the Institute for Public Accuracy about the evolution of the “school choice” debate since his first book with Berkshire, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, was published in 2020.
The “school choice” movement has “changed pretty significantly,” Schneider said. “Not in the aims of those who are seeking to drive families out of traditional public schools and into private schools via vouchers, but rather in the scope and ambition of the movement. When [Berkshire] and I wrote that [2020] book, we were very much thinking that the present that we currently inhabit was a decade away. We saw Betsy DeVos’s secretaryship as the sign of a coming-out party among those who spent the previous several decades hatching plans, laying the groundwork, building coalitions, and lobbying legislators.
“We thought that the time between DeVos’s use of the bully pulpit as the secretary of education and a nationwide movement would be longer, particularly given that it wasn’t the first time a conservative leader had voiced support for vouchers at the federal level. [If you] go back to the Reagan presidency, you [see] a popular sitting president expressing support for school vouchers and getting massive pushback––so much so that Reagan moved onto other issues.
“One of the things that we didn’t understand we were right about [in the first book] was DeVos’s effectiveness. A lot of people framed her secretaryship as ineffective, especially in relation to Arne Duncan, [Secretary of Education from 2009 to 2015]… Duncan was very active with the president in passing major legislation. You didn’t see that with DeVos and Trump. But [DeVos] was clearly using her secretaryship to take advantage of one of the chief affordances of that office: the chance to create new kinds of national narratives. She did a lot to normalize extreme thinking about school choice.
“For ideologically committed conservatives, this so-called school choice movement was always about vouchers and was never about charter schools. The charter schools were always a way station, a means to an end. Democrats who had partnered with their colleagues across the aisle––folks like Cory Booker, who [had been a] major supporter of charter schools––had been naive. What they had seen as a compromise and lasting peace on the question of school choice was actually a step toward the long-term ideological commitment among free-market-oriented conservatives, especially those with religious convictions and a desire to have religious schooling supported by taxpayer dollars. That was always their actual end goal.
“More people are willing to support [charter schools]. But with the clarity of hindsight, we can see that people who were ideologically committed to the idea of private school vouchers had decided that the American people needed more time to get used to the idea of school choice. [They spent] a quarter of a century [focused on] rhetoric about freeing students from local public schools and empowering parents with the ability to choose and repositioning families not as members of a school community but as consumers shopping for a commodity. They had made zero progress between the time that Milton Friedman hatched the idea [of vouchers] and the Reagan administration, except for the explicitly-racist use of using school vouchers in the South, which didn’t help the reputation of vouchers in the seventies and eighties.”
In a recent <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/school-vouchers-red-state-budgets/">piece</a> for The Atlantic, Schneider and Berkshire wrote that in states where the school choice movement has been successful, voucher programs have led to huge budget shortfalls in education. In Arizona, the shortfall has already come to $400 million. Voucher advocates claimed the program would cost taxpayers only $65 million per year.
Schneider said: “A lot of people are treating the expense issue as a bug rather than a feature. But it’s a feature, because one of the things that voucher advocates have been explicit about is the need to undermine the stability of the public education system in order to drive people out of it. Any way to damage it, either reputationally or fiscally, is a strategic victory for voucher supporters. Look no further than Arizona, which introduced what they call the ‘education debit card.’ Last I checked, the taxpayer dollars that are loaded onto these debit cards, ostensibly for the purpose of education, can’t be traced. There’s no disincentive for people to abuse the system.” School choice advocates know that “the maximum number of people will be trying to get that debit card. Even if they’re not planning to send their kids to private school, [they’re] pulling dollars out of the public school system.
“The budgetary excesses of voucher movements are by design. Voucher proponents have an incentive to underestimate what the cost of programs will be to get them through the legislature. Creating a fiscal crisis in education at the state level [enables them] to say ‘we have a model that will be less expensive than traditional public education.’ That’s part of the long-term ideological play here, which is not just to undermine public schools––something that many voucher advocates view as tantamount to socialism––or to get students a religious education, but also the ideological commitment to cost cutting.”
Schneider noted that the public is still in the dark about some aspects of these programs. “Schools don’t scale up and down like a lot of private businesses do. At Starbucks, if you go from an average of 500 customers to an average of 300, you grind less beans, you have one fewer barista working, you buy less milk. In a school, you can’t suddenly turn on only two-thirds of the heat. If you had an average of 22 students per class, and you lose an average of seven students per class, in some cases the numbers may work out—but in other cases, you can’t get rid of a third of a teacher. You can’t say to people who are undercompensated relative to their training that they’ll have to be paid a third less. Then you won’t be able to maintain professional educators. For voucher supporters, that’s a feature, not a bug.
“Somewhat related and under-discussed is that competition is not as easy to foster in education as it might be in other industries. It’s not that easy to just set up lots of different schools in a geographic area and say ‘people can go wherever they want’… What is competition going to [look like] in a rural community that only has one school? There isn’t going to be any competition. If there is, it’s not going to be an amazing school that challenges the local public school to bring its A-game… It’s far more likely that the real option is a fly-by-night school that just opened in a strip mall, where the teachers are folks who were quickly hired by whatever religious organization has decided to set up shop there… [In other cases,] students are likely getting siphoned off and doing something online, or having a tutor, or parents are taking the [voucher] money and homeschooling—which only hurts the existing public school and the students that remain there.
“What happens to a rural community when you take its school away? [That school] is often not only the largest employer in the community but is oftentimes the community space for sports, art, for polling places, for the general gathering places where people come together. Over the past several decades we’ve seen a decline in public life. How many other places do we have besides public schools do we know that everyone is welcome and that serve so many functions?”
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<description><![CDATA[The number of states that are enacting “school choice” legislation is increasing. Last year, 17 states set up new programs or expanded existing ones. 
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 Berkshire is a journalist and a lecturer in education journalism and education studies at Yale University. 
Berkshire told the Institute for Public Accuracy: The number of states that are enacting “school choice” legislation is “going up fast. Last year, 17 states set up new programs or expanded existing ones, and eight of those states adopted universal programs. Other states are now in the debating stage, so we’re going to be looking at a dozen states by the end of this year. Only Idaho has succeeded in stopping [this legislation]. Once [the legislation] is on the docket, it gets pushed through.”
One important set of bills – moving state to state – outlines expansive programs called Education Savings Accounts. “Vouchers are historically really unpopular; people don’t like the idea of using taxpayer money to fund religious schools. So they’ve come up with a new name for it. These bills are now much more expansive. They’re a world away from the programs we saw emerge in the nineties, which were for low-income and minority students. [By contrast] these are universal programs. Any family, no matter how wealthy, can have their tuition paid for by the state. That isn’t limited to private school tuition. You can use the money in your education savings account for any education-related expense. Say you decided you wanted to take your kids to Sea World––that would be an education-related expense… The idea is that you should be able to purchase anything and have it qualify as an education expense.”
These bills “help wealthy families, because they remove all of the income eligibility rules that were [included in school choice] programs in the past. The original voucher programs in places like Milwaukee or Cleveland were strictly limited to poor kids and minority kids who were attending struggling urban schools. Now those limits have been removed. If you’re a wealthy family in a state like New Hampshire or Iowa or West Virginia, suddenly the state is picking up the tab for your private school tuition. That is why these programs have ended up being so expensive. It’s not because kids are leaving public schools and going to private religious schools. It’s because suddenly the state is picking up your tuition. What I find so concerning is that because these programs are so expensive, they quickly blow a hole in state budgets. You have handed money to your wealthiest families. You suddenly have this lobby group with power and influence, and they will do whatever they can to hold onto that.
“To the extent that this movement is able to get sweeping legislation enacted, they are having a lot of success. But none of [these] places have let their citizens vote on whether they want these programs. [In some states,] they’ve kept people from testifying, because [these programs] remain really unpopular in rural areas… and are going to end up paying the price for the fact that states are redirecting funding to private religious schools. Historically, rural areas have been disproportionately affected.
“Republicans have made this a litmus test, along the lines of abortion. If you’re a rural legislator, you have to buck your own constituents or you’re going to be primaried by someone who is backed by school choice money.”
These groups are “single-issue,” Berkshire said, in the sense that they care most about this issue, “but multi-issue because they understand that the culture wars present them with the best opportunity they have ever had to expand school choice. They ally with anti-trans folks; the next phase is anti-immigrant. We have a Supreme Court case that says that undocumented kids have to be able to go to school. [The Heritage Foundation] is out with a new policy statement that says they want to charge [undocumented students]. The school choice people rally behind that. Anything having to do with immigration right now is so polarizing and partisan. That works in their favor. Your rural lawmakers may not like school choice, but they’re really worked up about the border.”
Berkshire argues that media coverage, especially by journalists who live in blue states, does not reflect how “rapidly and radically [this issue] is reshaping the rest of the country. That’s a big deal. Because the free market jargon is the water we swim in and the air we breathe, it’s hard for them to discern how radical this stuff is… [that this is] the same policy that people were excited about in the South after Brown v. Board, because it was a way to get out from under the Constitution––and gee, they’re doing the same thing today. Why is this the single top issue of so many billionaires?”
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<description><![CDATA["There is only one cause for the violence taking place. It is law enforcement and the officials who have chosen to resort to state violence when faced with peaceful protests. There is no justification for police violence against peaceful protests. And there is no excuse for the college administrators who willfully chose to call the police on their own students in order to suppress their expressive conduct. ...
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CHIP GIBBONS, via Cody Bloomfield, <a href="mailto:cody@rightsanddissent.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cody@rightsanddissent.org</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RightsDissent">@RightsDissent</a> 
Gibbons is policy director at <a href="https://www.rightsanddissent.org/">Defending Rights & Dissent</a>, national civil liberties organization dedicated to protecting the right of political expression. The group just put out a <a href="https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/free-speech-palestine-campus-crackdowns/">statement condemning</a> “the crackdown taking place across campuses in the United States. Across the country, we have seen protests calling for a ceasefire and end to Israel’s brutal war in Gaza. …
“These violent attacks on protesters have been accompanied by the spread of false information designed to demonize the protesters and facilitate the crackdown against them. …
“There is only one cause for the violence taking place. It is law enforcement and the officials who have chosen to resort to state violence when faced with peaceful protests. There is no justification for police violence against peaceful protests. And there is no excuse for the college administrators who willfully chose to call the police on their own students in order to suppress their expressive conduct. …
“It is true that the Supreme Court has not extended the First Amendment’s protections to overnight encampments. But as free speech advocates, we know the federal judiciary’s interpretation of the First Amendment sets the floor for free expression rights, not the ceiling. …
“Police violence has by no means been exclusively limited to occupations or tents. When students at the University of Texas, Austin held a protest that was clearly protected by the First Amendment, police were called. Police illegally arrested students, protesters, and a photojournalist. The false charges brought by the arresting officers were dropped the next day due to a lack of probable cause. This should make it all the more clear what the crackdown is about–suppressing speech of anti-war and pro-Palestine protesters. …
“There is obviously no equivalent between a Palestine solidarity protester setting up a tent on a campus quad and a police officer firing teargas at them. …
“As civil liberties advocates, we frequently hold minority positions. But it is impossible, when assessing the current crisis, not to note that while a majority of Americans support a ceasefire, a majority of elected officials in both parties remain firmly committed to sustaining Israel’s war. The disconnect between the people and the government helps to explain the degree of national panic about these peaceful student protests that is fueling a nationwide spree of police violence.”
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<title>“The Conflation of Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism is Absurd”</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/the-conflation-of-anti-zionism-with-anti-semitism-is-absurd/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 19:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is absurd. All the arguments of Palestinians against Jewish nationalist domination of Palestine were first raised by American Jewish leaders, before the 'Zionizing' of American Jewish organizations. Donor pressure by Zionist donors and evangelical Christian Zionists are forcing this historically illiterate declaration, independent of facts, and of the diverse positions of American Jews."
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ABBA SOLOMON, abbasolomon@gmail.com, <a href="http://www.threads.net/@abba.a.solomon">www.threads.net/@abba.a.solomon</a> 
<a href="http://abbasolomon.com/">Solomon</a> is author of two books on Zionism, The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel and The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein’s Speech “The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews.”
He said today: “Christian Nationalists in the House of Representatives, aligning with advocates for the State of Israel, are comically posing as protectors of Jewish Americans, many of whom are protesting for the right of Gazans and non-Jews in the Occupied Territories to live without suppression and genocidal violence.
“The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is absurd. All the arguments of Palestinians against Jewish nationalist domination of Palestine were first raised by American Jewish leaders, before the ‘Zionizing’ of American Jewish organizations. Donor pressure by Zionist donors and evangelical Christian Zionists are forcing this historically illiterate declaration, independent of facts, and of the diverse positions of American Jews.”
See from <a href="https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/no-to-aaa">Jewish Voice for Peace</a> and the <a href="https://twitter.com/jdakwar/status/1785700262591463792">ACLU</a>.
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<title>Attacks on Students</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Greene is a graduate student at Indiana University. He states that peaceful protesters in a tent were met with snipers on the roof, dozens of arrests, violence by state troopers with military equipment, helicopters and drones. He said: "The real reason they repress us is that we are supporting a movement that is against genocide. The reason students are so passionate is that this is nothing compared to what is going on in Gaza. At least we have universities. Israel has blown up university after university in Gaza." He has been suspended for five years. He was just interviewed by Katie Halper. See Instagram account for the local chapter of Palestine Solidarity Committee.
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SEBASTIAN BALDERAS, sebastianhbalderas@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/cybersebb">@cybersebb</a> 
Balderas is a senior at Columbia University. He was one of the students profiled in <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62469/1/pro-palestine-protests-usa-universities-columbia-harvard-yale-carolina">Daze Digital</a>.
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1785482665103065200">states</a>: “TO BE CLEAR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS CALLED THE COPS ONTO ITS OWN STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, ON THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THEY LAST CALLED THE POLICE ONTO CAMPUS TO ARREST OVER 700 PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR & HARLEM GENTRIFICATION ON APRIL 30TH, 1968”
<a href="https://cuapartheiddivest.org/">Columbia University Apartheid Divest</a> calls upon the University to divest its endowment from companies that profit from Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. See the group’s <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1785192140999377376">statement</a> on the student takeover of “Hind Hall,” renaming Hamilton Hall for Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza killed by the Israeli military with her family and the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/13/gaza-israel-congress-aid-hind-rajab/">medics who tried to help</a>. The same hall was taken over in 1985 by students and <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/eye/2016/04/12/mandela-hall/">named Mandela Hall</a>.
BRYCE GREENE, greenebj@iu.edu, @<a href="https://twitter.com/TheGreeneBJ">TheGreeneBJ</a> 
Greene is a graduate student at Indiana University. He states that peaceful protesters in a tent were met with snipers on the roof, dozens of arrests, violence by state troopers with military equipment, helicopters and drones. He said: “The real reason they repress us is that we are supporting a movement that is against genocide. The reason students are so passionate is that this is nothing compared to what is going on in Gaza. At least we have universities. Israel has blown up <a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108/Israel-kills-dozens-of-academics,-destroys-every-university-in-the-Gaza-Strip">university after university in Gaza</a>.” He has been suspended for five years. He was just interviewed by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnfeiw3UmlA">Katie Halper</a>. See <a href="https://www.instagram.com/psc_iu/">Instagram account</a> for the local chapter of Palestine Solidarity Committee.
The Los Angeles Times reports <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful">that at UCLA</a>: “Just before midnight, a large group of counter-demonstrators, wearing black outfits and white masks, arrived on campus and tried to tear down the barricades surrounding the encampment.” See student <a href="https://twitter.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785623560742207882">statement</a>.
MOATAZ SALIM, moatazs97@gmail.com, Instagram: <a href="http://tazsdc">@tazsdc</a> 
Salim is a Palestinian graduate student at George Washington University with family in Gaza. He has lost over 100 members of his extended family. He has gone to Capitol Hill to question members of Congress with the peace group CodePink. See a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAkCePZTxIg">recent interview</a>.
RAFI EL-HABASHI, georgetownsjp@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/dmvsjp">@dmvsjp</a> 
El-Habashi is a media liaison for Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dmvsjp/">DMV SJP Coalition</a>. Students from Georgetown and several other colleges and universities are now encamped at George Washington University.
Journalist Talia Jane <a href="https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1785521594695106633">commented</a>: “I have covered tons of protests over the years and the cop response to Columbia University tonight was more than I’ve ever seen. It felt like they were using these student protestors as an excuse to play with their military toys.”
See Jewish Voice for Peace resource on Israeli training of U.S. police at <a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/">Deadly Exchange</a>.
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<title>Deceits Keep Israeli Attacks Going</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/deceits-keep-israeli-attacks-going/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[See Jewish Voice for Peace statement on university and other protests: "We’re fighting to stop a genocide. Slanders against our movements are a distraction." The Daily Beast reports on Northeastern University going after anit-genocide protesters: "Pro-Israel Agitator Shouts ‘Kill the Jews,’ Gets Everyone Else Arrested." 
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See Jewish Voice for Peace statement on university and other protests: “<a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/04/25/slanders-against-our-movements-are-a-distraction/">We’re fighting to stop a genocide. Slanders against our movements are a distraction</a>.” The Daily Beast reports on Northeastern University going after anti-genocide protesters: “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-israel-agitator-shouts-kill-the-jews-gets-everyone-else-arrested">Pro-Israel Agitator Shouts ‘Kill the Jews,’ Gets Everyone Else Arrested</a>.”
See recent stories from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/">Common Dreams</a>: “Leaked State Department Memo: Israeli Assurances ‘Neither Credible Nor Reliable,'” and “Disgust Greets White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Israel Kills Journalists in Gaza.”
The Electronic Intifada reports: “<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-murders-daughter-and-grandson-refaat-alareer">Israel murders daughter and grandson of Refaat Alareer</a>.”
HUWAIDA ARRAF, huwaida.arraf@gmail.com, media@usboatstogaza.org, <a href="https://twitter.com/gazafflotilla">@gazafflotilla</a> 
Arraf is with the Gaza <a href="https://freedomflotilla.org/">Freedom Flotilla</a>. She was on “<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy Now</a>” this morning. The group just released a statement: “<a href="https://freedomflotilla.org/2024/04/27/press-conference-under-israeli-pressure-guinea-bissau-moves-to-withdraw-flotilla-flags/">Under Israeli Pressure, Guinea Bissau Moves to Withdraw Flotilla Flags</a>.” See prior IPA news release: “<a href="https://accuracy.org/release/international-civilian-aid-flotilla-to-break-the-siege-of-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://accuracy.org/release/international-civilian-aid-flotilla-to-break-the-siege-of-gaza/&source=gmail&ust=1714485208766000&usg=AOvVaw2NAntHpM5i-Ex0IOXHo3iM">International Civilian Aid Flotilla to ‘Break the Siege of Gaza.’</a>”
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN, richards1052@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/richards1052">@richards1052</a> 
Silverstein writes at Tikun Olam and just published the piece “<a href="https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2024/04/28/israel-offers-rafah-humanitarian-aid-plan-as-prelude-to-invasion/">Israel Offers Refugee Aid Plan to Precede Rafah Invasion</a>,” which reports on Israel’s “sham plan” and its claims that the U.S. government has approved what Silverstein describes as the “ethnic cleansing plans for one million” Palestinians in Gaza.
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<title>Homeless Targeted as Billions Go to War</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/homeless-targeted-as-billions-go-to-war/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[McHenry said today: "HUD claims they can end homelessness for $20 billion and we just sent" billions for war to Ukraine and Israel. "This while 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. We in California defeated SB 1011, the statewide ban on sleeping outside on public land. The Supreme Court will decide whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when there is a lack of shelter space is deemed cruel and unusual punishment." 
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KEITH McHENRY, keith@foodnotbombs.net, <a href="https://twitter.com/keith_mchenry">@keith_mchenry</a> 
McHenry is co-founder of the global <a href="http://foodnotbombs.net/">Food Not Bombs</a> movement, which provides free meals to anyone who needs them. He is also a regular contributor to the ongoing series “Food Fight” on “<a href="https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/">Flashpoints</a>.”
McHenry said today: “HUD claims they can end homelessness for $20 billion and we just sent” billions for war to Ukraine and Israel.
“This while 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
“We in California defeated SB 1011, the statewide ban on sleeping outside on public land.
“The Supreme Court will decide whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when there is a lack of shelter space is deemed cruel and unusual punishment.”
While many depict these anti-homeless moves as funding driven, the group Food Not Bombs has been prevented by local governments from feeding the homeless at no expense to them, often engaging in prolonged battles against such efforts. See past IPA <a href="https://accuracy.org/release/food-not-bombs-wins-against-city-gov-trying-to-stop-free-meals-other-battles-continue/">news</a> <a href="https://accuracy.org/release/cities-targeting-homeless/">releases</a>.
McHenry notes: “Kentucky Passed HB 5, the ‘Safer Kentucky Act’ which decriminalizes the use of deadly force against individuals engaging in ‘unlawful camping.’ Under this law, if a property owner believes an unhoused trespasser is attempting to commit a felony or attempting to ‘dispossess’ them, they can shoot the homeless person.”
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<title>University Protests</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["During the hearing, you were asked about the political views of specific professors and encouraged to take disciplinary action, including termination, against them. Such clear retaliation for First-Amendment protected speech would be prohibited at a state institution. Although Columbia University is a private institution not governed by the First Amendment, the role of state actors -- in this case members of Congress -- in instigating the action would raise serious First Amendment concerns. Even if the First Amendment could not be found to apply, it would still be a serious breach of norms of academic freedom."
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Faccuracy.org%2Frelease%2Funiversity-protests%2F&linkname=University%20Protests" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Faccuracy.org%2Frelease%2Funiversity-protests%2F&linkname=University%20Protests" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Faccuracy.org%2Frelease%2Funiversity-protests%2F&title=University%20Protests" data-a2a-url="https://accuracy.org/release/university-protests/" data-a2a-title="University Protests"><img src="https://static.addtoany.com/buttons/favicon.png" alt="Share"></a>Common Dreams reports: “<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ut-austin-police">Texas State Troopers in Riot Gear Crack Down on UT Students’ Gaza Protest</a>.” Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote: “These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.” Steven Monacelli of the Texas Observer <a href="https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1783309618027897145">responded</a>: “I’ve seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I’ve reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.”
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, which works in conjunction with the university chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, released a <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1782241294858719676">statement</a> challenging the media depictions of the protests and demanding that their voice be heard against the “mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza” The Electronic Intifada <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZpG2Phr0DY">livestream</a> on Wednesday included Nora Barrows-Friedman’s summary of news from Gaza, an interview with a journalist in Gaza and a Columbia University visiting professor, Mohamed Abdou, author of Islam and Anarchism, who was smeared at the recent Congressional hearings.
CHIP GIBBONS, Chip@RightsAndDissent.org, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChipGibbons89">@ChipGibbons89</a> 
Gibbons is policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, national civil liberties organization dedicated to protecting the right of political expression. The group recently wrote a <a href="https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/president-minouche-shafik-free-speech-concerns-on-campus-palestine/">letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik</a>, stating: “Our organization traces its founding back to the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Two of our founders were jailed for their refusal to testify before HUAC. While the McCarthy-era had heroes who defended the First Amendment by defying the HUAC inquisition, there were also many cowards who conformed with HUAC’s dictates.
“It was impossible not to recall the legacy of HUAC during the April 17, 2024, hearing of the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee. The committee clearly aimed to punish individuals for their exercise of First Amendment-speech and purge America’s universities of political perspectives the committee members disfavored. Disturbingly, this was presented as an inquiry into rising anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a deplorable form of bigotry responsible for some of history’s greatest crimes. Yet, the hearing was not rooted in good faith concern with anti-Semitism. It was a transparent attempt to target pro-Palestine speech.
“During the hearing, you were asked about the political views of specific professors and encouraged to take disciplinary action, including termination, against them. Such clear retaliation for First-Amendment protected speech would be prohibited at a state institution. Although Columbia University is a private institution not governed by the First Amendment, the role of state actors — in this case members of Congress — in instigating the action would raise serious First Amendment concerns. Even if the First Amendment could not be found to apply, it would still be a serious breach of norms of academic freedom.
“Such a flagrant attack on academic freedom requires a firm rebuttal. Yet, instead you appeared to appease the committee.
“During your testimony, you told the Committee no less than four times about how you reported a student event to the FBI. … The FBI has a long history of illegally surveilling and seeking to silence political speech. We would know, as our organization was subjected to illegal FBI surveillance and harassment. The FBI not only has a history of harassment of social movements, it has a particularly vicious history of targeting pro-Palestine speech. This makes your actions all the more dangerous.
“Finally, as you are aware, student protesters calling on the university to divest from companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights have been holding a peaceful protest. These students have been the subject of a massive onslaught of demonization, with local and national politicians, and even a foreign government, falsely equating their actions with terrorism and calling for state repression. On April 18, you invited the NYPD onto your private campus to arrest your own students engaged in nonviolent protest. The NYPD has a reputation for use of excessive force against peaceful protests, as evidenced by its conduct during the Occupy Wall Street and George Floyd protests. Given the purely peaceful nature of the encampment, it is a dramatic escalation to invite the NYPD to arrest the students.”
In response to a report about bus drivers refusing to transport protesters, UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1783258020270727349">wrote</a>: “This is inspiring. Let us now appeal as well to all police & national guard troops to refuse to carry out unlawful orders to arrest or intimidate peaceful protesters exercising rights to free expression & assembly to protest #genocide in #Palestine. The whole world is watching.”
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<title>UAW Launching Union Wave?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["In two prior union elections in Chattanooga, the UAW was unable to move the needle enough to win, losing the first time, 626-712, and on a second try in 2019, 776-833. The U.S. remained the only country in the world where Volkswagen workers were non-union. Things began to change in 2022, when Volkswagen expanded the plant to produce the all-electric ID.4. In the process, the company hired over 2,000 new workers. With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there. While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new."
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With Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga recently voting to join the United Auto Workers, Elk, senior labor reporter for <a href="http://paydayreport.com/">PaydayReport.com</a> is available for interviews. He is the only labor reporter in the country who covered all three UAW elections at Volkswagen in Chattanooga in 2014, 2019, and 2024.
Labor was previously defeated in the last two UAW elections; Elk says that workers at Volkswagen, following national trends, were much more receptive to the union.
Writing in the <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-04-19-ten-year-battle-younger-generation-leads-volkswagen/">American Prospect</a>, Elk explains, “In two prior union elections in Chattanooga, the UAW was unable to move the needle enough to win, losing the first time, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/14/united-auto-workers-lose-historic-election-at-chattanooga-volkswagen-plant/">626-712</a>, and on a second try in 2019, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/">776-833. The U.S. remained the only country in the world where Volkswagen workers were non-union</a>. Things began to change in 2022, when Volkswagen expanded the plant to produce the all-electric ID.4. In the process, the company hired over 2,000 new workers. With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there. While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new.”
He said today: “Following a wave of pandemic-inspired strikes that changed attitudes about unions, UAW may be launching a historical unprecedented union wave across the country.”
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