"Momodou Taal, who fled the country in March 2025 after his visa was revoked for participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said that he was detained by British police at Heathrow Airport for six hours on Friday"
#PolicingTheCampus #uspol #UKpol #SpecialRelationship #GazaProtests #Cornell
"Momodou Taal, who fled the country in March 2025 after his visa was revoked for participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said that he was detained by British police at Heathrow Airport for six hours on Friday"
#PolicingTheCampus #uspol #UKpol #SpecialRelationship #GazaProtests #Cornell
"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)
"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)
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)
Chilling and important read. "American universities are rapidly becoming test beds for the kind of repressive technology we associate with authoritarian states abroad"
