"the familiar pattern—the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors"

Ufff. (please no one ask why young people aren't on the front lines of US politics protests right now*) (*there are other reasons too)

https://jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-a-campus-in-crisis

#PolicingTheCampus #uspol #UCLA #JewishCurrents

"the familiar pattern—the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors"

Ufff. (please no one ask why young people aren't on the front lines of US politics protests right now*) (*there are other reasons too)

https://jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-a-campus-in-crisis

#PolicingTheCampus #uspol #UCLA #JewishCurrents

This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can't take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it

(via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky)

#uspol #HigherEd #UCLA #academia #PolicingTheCampus

Chilling and important read. "American universities are rapidly becoming test beds for the kind of repressive technology we associate with authoritarian states abroad"

https://truthout.org/articles/us-campuses-have-become-the-newest-laboratories-for-surveillance-technology/

#PolicingTheCampus #policing