The worldwide student movement of occupying university centers after the war in Gaza continues to spread in the US. Two weeks after a student occupation at the University of Rochester, students at NYU have taken the Kimmel Center for University Life. The "Take Back NYU!" coalition is currently occupying the third floor of the student center. Here is a live webcam and chatroom (the students have been taking the camera offline during some meetings):
Take Back NYU! is a broad coalition of over 20 students organizations with a broad array of demands ranging from tuition stabilization to financial transparency to university labor practices. The occupation represents the culmination of over two years of work. Among the coalition demands is the establishment of a student elected Socially Responsible Finance Committee that would investigate "all investments in war and genocide profiteers, as well as companies profiting from the occupation of Palestinian territories." In addition, the coalition is also demanding annual scholarships for 13 Palestinians students and that "the university donate all excess supplies and materials in an effort to rebuild the University of Gaza."
While their demands reflect a wide range of needs in the NYU community, its clear the students see themselves as part of the growing worldwide student movement. They explain in a solidarity statement:
We, the students of Take Back NYU! declare our solidarity with the student occupations in Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom, as well as those of the University of Rochester, the New School for Social Research, and with future occupations to come in the name of democracy and student power. We stand in solidarity with the University of Gaza, and with the people of Palestine.
Take Back NYU! describes itself as a "student-run coalition united by the dream for transparency, accountability, and democracy at NYU." Today in the US its clear the call for accountability and democracy has to include justice for Palestinians. (Adam Horowitz)
Very courageous, students at NYU are occupying the student center.
They should show some guts and take over administration.
They will have a great story to tell their children how they took over the students lounge.
Phil, Adam, NPR has a report on the U.S. Congressional delegation's visit to Gaza; I had no clue any trip was planned. Ellison was on it too, but of course they blamed hamas for inviting israel's wrath (though there is no quote in the story to back up the characterization high up in the story.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100862303
NYT too… same crap
As much as I despise Israel and its supporters, I believe it's a shame that the Israel-Palestine conflict has been brought to our shores in this way. With all of the problems that need to be solved in this nation, we have "students" taking over student lounges in a show of solidarity with Gazans. Many thanks to whatever group of people is responsible for making the Middle East America's business!
I've got my afternoon planned. First I'm going to randomly beat a "student" and then I'm going to the local mall to overturn the Dead Sea Cosmetics stand and chase the attendants out of the building. Hosanna!
They are out of uniform. Don't they know they are supposed to be wearing brown shirts when they try to intimidate Jews?
Thom, you got less out of the videos than I did!
Don't these ZioBots have any response other than:
ANTISEMITISM!!11one
NAZIS!!11
HITLER!!!!
Go fuck yourself Thom. You fantastic moron.
Students at NYU are occupying the student center?
And who is supposed to occupying the student center?
This is what is being done to show solidarity with Palestinians?
I'm going to occupy my bathroom to show my solidarity with Palestinians.
"Don't these ZioBots have any response other than:
ANTISEMITISM!!11one
NAZIS!!11
HITLER!!!!"
You are being unkind to them, LD. They can also say:
HAMAS CHARTER!!!!
In case anybody in this flamewar is interested, Norman Finkelstein has a piece at CounterPunch.org:
'Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of war.” The report is based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.” Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is funded by the American Jewish Committee.'
The rest of it is here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/
You forgot:
IRAN!!!!
Where's Rowan and his meltdown? Definitely more entertaining than this takeover of the student lounge.
BLOOD FUCKING LIBEL!!!11!1
Thank god everyone posting here is protected here by goy soldiers overseas, or by goy soldiers where they reside.
Let's hope for continual bad USA economy so those troops keep going back to the face protective music, wherever they are sent, like the ragmen at the battle of the Bulge.
All hail democracy and its usual cannon fodder. Let's go to the mall and aid economic stimulus. BTW, look at the nature of those Obama's package will help, and look at who is ignored. Gives you the straight scoop domestically, and for foreign policy, look what he's doing, his appointees, and what he omits when plays the good guys-bad guys at the pulpit.
Feel good?
Let me get this straight. Did Citizen of shitland just intimate that there are no Jews in the US Army, Marines, Airforce, and Navy?
Did our racist Citizen just make that inference?
Todd,
when $3 billion a year and more of U.S. taxpayers' dollars go to Israel, and more to Egypt, Jordan and god knows where to keep a lid on the mess in the Middle East, it is all tied to the economy… and protesting what's happening there has a direct link to the mess we're in here when we can beg and borrow to funnel money to the iraq and afghan wars and buy acquiescence in as much of the rest of the region as possible.
Iraq and Afghanistan, wars started by the US for the US, costs well over $200 Billion to date. Far more then has gone to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt for the last 30 years.
Chris, how many Jews serve in Iraq, a war crafted in large part by the Jewish Neocons?
There are no Jews serving in any wars crafted by jewish neocons.
However, my nephew, a doctor, serves in a medical unit and a great neice who serves riding shot gun on caravans. So that is two in Iraq.
Chris:
This is a constant theme among some of the Phillipinas here. The best argument to counter their "joooos is cowards fer not servin" nonsense is to point out that among members of their class and education level Jews are OVERrepresented in Iraq and throughout the military. Now watch them change the subject.
a great neice who serves riding shot gun on caravans
We were talking about Iraq, Chris. Sounds like you're talking about the motherfuckin Oregon Trail. "Riding shotgun on caravans"? Did she have to shoot any Shoshone?
Christ, snap out of it, hasbaraman–now more than ever the Jewish Nazi state needs your superhero powers!
From NYU occupation to Jews serving in Iraq? Yeah, I am making that connection. Way to steer clear off the topic (thanks Citizen). I don't even know where the "Jews are cowards" nonsense came from (usually Steve R, nonsense embodied) and that's just pathetic since Israel conscripts. Even Druze and Arabs serve in their army. Wait, what's the point of this again? Fuck.
I applaud NYU. It's a step. Anything helps. It's better than nothing. Hey, even Chris, Richard, Suzanne and Steve are commenting on it, negatively but it's better than nothing.
Joshua:
Pay attention! NOTHING is happening at NYU. Nothing will happen. A couple of campus radicals sat down at the french fry bar at the student union and refused to leave until Palestine Be Free. But then the French fry stand closed and they went back to their dorm.
even the Hampshire thing turned out to be bullshit. Hampshire Apologized to Dershowitz and is considering sanctioning the students
MM, Nice to see you are ignorant about more things then just the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Are you really that stupid?
BEst solution is to send these wanna be protester to Gaza and they can study there. Then they will have their transparency, then they can help rebuild the University and they will get to war cool outfits and learn how to blow themselves up. Friken morons, how the hell did they get into NYU, may be they should request stringent rules of acceptance, so they filter out garbage.
"There are no Jews serving in any wars crafted by jewish neocons."
The captain of the USS Harry S. Truman, himself Jewish, has said there are 12 to 15 Jewish sailors/airmen/pilots about his ship, which works out to about three-tenths of one percent. The percentage for the marine corps would probably be an order of magnitude less.
NYU is a wealthy university, heavily funded by Elders of Zion — the Tisch family being the most prominent among many.
In any university with an endowment and an urban real estate empire, there's always a question of balance — as to whether stiff tuition charges should keep rising to swell the endowment. How much is enough? And are those high tuitions subsidizing the endowment's investments in Israel? Thus the demands for 'financial transparency.'
Calls for 13 scholarships for Palestinians echo demands made by protesting students at Manchester University in the UK. Seems the Israelis' cavalier bombing of American and UN schools in Gaza seriously pissed off the academic community. GOOD!
Moreover, the academic community is aware that some Fulbright scholars from Palestine have been unable to study abroad because Israel refused to let them leave. It is time for Israel's 'bantu education' policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians to be outed and isolated.
As an NYU alumnus who was dismayed at the lack of activism when I was there, I was delighted to see the video footage on Channel 4 this morning of howling mobs of students pushing back against the police barricades in Washington Square.
The sudden, surprising upsurge of student activism is a warning to creaky establishment structures, ranging from the Zionist state to Usgov itself. A near-depression economy coupled with manifest social injustice is a recipe for street violence this summer. Some of Cheney's moles in the three-letter agencies will be assigning agents provocateurs to help it along, if indeed they aren't already. It's gon' be a long, hot summer …
I'm going to guess that by mid-March we're going to be talking about how the divestment movement was a no-starter.
It's starting to look that way…
Nothing to see here, nothing to see. The people LOVE Israel. Polls demonstrate that most Americans would give up their firstborn son to make sure that "the Jews" can have a larger state.
These kids with the dreadlocks and the laptops are a bunch of dead-enders. The real future of this country are rabid 70 year-old Zionist ideologues posing as socially conscious liberals.
If the U.S. obliged its citizens to vote under penalty of fine or revocation of drivers license, and there were more than two parties invited on television, and there were federal funding for elections and equal or proportion-based advertisement time for all candidates, the American people would vote for more War for Israel.
But luckily our ruling class Zionist handlers spare us the bore of carrying out democracy–voting, creating new political parties, etc–and just do what we all would've chosen anyway. Just ask Joe the Plumber!
Isee that your candidate, Kucinich, did well.
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chris berel
"Let me get this straight. Did Citizen of shitland just intimate that there are no Jews in the US Army, Marines, Airforce, and Navy?
Did our racist Citizen just make that inference?"
There are more muslims in the US Military than jews. Phil covered the stats awhile back on this blog, and Phil's article, and the attendant comments' data revealed the number of Jews in the US military in proportion to their
numerical demographic has gone down very significantly ever since WW2, when jews had a direct interest the world over in defeating the Hitler regime.
In contrast, the neocon chickenhawks for war with Iraq and (they still hope) Iran have been very significantly represented by jews. You can start by googling PNAC. BTW, also check out the proportion of jews in the key slots of the Fed Reserve, the MSM media & its ownership, the Ivory towers, Wall St,
etc. In those areas, jewish numbers are as proportionately high as they are proportionately low in the ranks of those who have to carry the actual burden of American policy.
Anyone who has wanted to see the overwhelming socio-economic and ethnic nature of the majority of dead and wounded cannonfodder in the eight year Iraq war will have noted the pics and hometown of
our heroes in the local newspapers across the land. Also note their names.
Now you have it straight, chris berel.
Isee that your candidate, Kucinich, did well.
Posted by: chris berel | February 20, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Wasn't my candidate but he shoulda known that you can't be a serious candidate if you don't kiss the the Democratic Party mascot, the Zio-ass.
Don't let Duscany do your taxes! by his accounting 1/3 of one percent of sailors and 100 percent of US Navy Captains are Jews. . .
Statistics, anyone.
We all know that jews don't pull their demographic weight in the grunt war on "Terror." But they do
pull much more than their such weight in high government and think tanks, and in the MSM in being chicken hawks. So, what's new bubbie? History should change its cycles of who's in, who's out?
What I have straight is that Citizen of Shitland is a racist. That's about it.
Those other residents of Shitlandia care to comment about your leading citizen? Alice, you're a native of Shitland, what's your racist opinion?
More eloquence from the bottom of the berel. Thanks for your efforts, Chris. You're a real hasbara hero, you know that?
I would like to point that out that most Jews did NOT support the invasion of Iraq, although their opposition was somewhat muted.
Although most influential neocons are Jews, most Jews are not neocons.
The Jewish public receives the same MSM narrative that the rest of the country gets. I do not get the impression that Jews in general are much better informed about Middle Eastern policy than other Americans in their social class.
A major goal for realists on both the right and the left should be to improve the knowlege of the public on this issue.
Focusing on Jews is a dead end that plays into the hands of both the hasbara propagandists AND anti-semites, both of whom profit from exacerbating hostility between Jews and Gentiles.
David
Have you ever been to a Jewish community center? The American Jewish community is very well informed and very actively interested in Israel.
You seem to think there's some disconnect.
"Don't let Duscany do your taxes! by his accounting 1/3 of one percent of sailors and 100 percent of US Navy Captains are Jews. . .
Statistics, anyone."
By the (Jewish) captain's account there were 16 Jews aboard his ship (himself included). He knows because he used to invite them to seder. The ship itself (nuclear powered aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman) had a compliment with the air wings of 5,700 people. Do the math–three tenths of one percent.
"The Jewish public receives the same MSM narrative that the rest of the country gets. I do not get the impression that Jews in general are much better informed about Middle Eastern policy than other Americans in their social class."
David, you're saying that MM get's the same information that Jews living in trailer parks get?
How interesting.
Suzanne: "You seem to think there's some disconnect."
Yes, I certainly do! What I hear from the organized Jewish community is simply Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs hasbarah. I read Haaretz, and yes, there is quite a disconnect.
David
Do you only get your news from one US source too?
If you want to approach it like a true journalist (i.e. objectively) you need to read A LOT of newspapers, not just the left wing one.
Here ya go–even the Arab pov thrown in:
* Akhbar-Al-Naqab (Rahat)
* Arena
* Ariga
* Arutz Sheva [In English]
* Assennara (Nazareth)
* Aurora Israel
* Chareidio Global Jewish News [In English]
* Debkafile
* Emet News Service [In English]
* The Epoch Times
* Fax 4×4
* Gamla
* Globes
* Globes [In English]
* Ha'Aretz
* Ha'Aretz [In English]
* Halon Le'Arav
* Ha-Ir (Eilat)
* Ice
* International Herald Tribune [In English]
* Israel E News [In English]
* Israel Faxx (By Subscription)
* Israel Insider [In English]
* Israel National News [In English]
* Israel-News.org (Tel Aviv) [In English]
* Iton Tel-Aviv
* Jerusalem Newswire [In English]
* Jerusalem Post [In English]
* The Jerusalem Report [In English]
* Kabbalah Leam
* Kan naim (Netanya)
* Kol Hakfar (Kefar Sava)
* Kol Hasharon (Netanya & Sharon)
* Maariv [In English]
* Mahsom
* Makor Rishon
* New
* News Israel
* Our Jerusalem [In English]
* Panorama
* Pnai Plus
* The Poverty World Times [In English]
* Raanana Now (Raanana) [In English]
* Raanana Shelanu
* Raanana Now (Raanana) [In English]
* Rotter
* Sikurmemukad
* Siha Mekomit
* Tsahov
* Walla
* Ye'diot Achronot
* Yedioth Ahronoth [In English]
* Yedioth Haifa
* Ynet News [In English]
Suzanne,
Thank you. I will not make the mistake of taking a question from you seriously again.
Dayem…what are you so pissy about? I didn't say read ALL of them.
Choose 3-4 and try to aim for different slants.
David F please respond to Suzanne. She says the American jews are very much aware of what is going on
in the middle east, and of usa foreign policy there. She thus makes me think, from her constant comments in the last nearly two months, that jewish americans are as fanatical as any common NAZI back in the day.
It's pointless to argue with anybody who has minimal understanding of ME history. It's the same as arguing with a creationist about evolution.