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Uncle Joe

(62,942 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:09 AM Aug 4

Rashid Khalidi: U.S. Complicity in Gaza Genocide

Democracy Now! speaks with Rashid Khalidi, author of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine,", who has family in the West Bank. "I think it's time for this idealized vision of Israel to shatter and for people to come to terms with the fact that we are funding and financing this ethnic cleansing, this genocide, this theft, day by day by day, of people's land in the West Bank," says Khalidi.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

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This is seriously chilling. vanessa_ca Aug 7 #1

vanessa_ca

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1. This is seriously chilling.

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Thu Aug 7, 2025, 10:53 PM

Aug 7

Here's his excellent letter:

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump

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Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

Columbia as an institution has fallen and is just a punchline now. My brother did his doctoral studies there and is beyond livid.
Any school that willingly capitulated like that to the schoolyard bully is not worth applying to anymore.

I fear for us.

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